[mysonis55]

I will start this off by saying, I know what it is like to get beaten in the big one and even how it feels to get beaten in the big one in a big way. It really stinks. But I have seen the comment about the ball being moved on us at will and the only way it was stopped was by a big penalty or fumble. So, I went back and watched the film again. Somehow my camera man missed Fairview's 13th drive so I cant tell you how that one ended and it is possible that this was another one we stopped them cold on. What I did see is we stopped them cold on the second, fifth, seventh, tenth, eleventh and twelfth drives. That is unless you want to slice things so close that you say a 5 yard false start was enough to stop one of those drives and the interception in the end zone was enough to stop the other. The thing about the int though, was that it was a 4 and forever and it was a desperation throw. The hopes are the best thing that happens is a t.d., the next best is that we intercept and therefore get the ball at the 20 and the worst being we knock it down and get it where the play was run from. So I would not necessarily count that one as a mistake stopping the drive. By the way, we didn't get stopped 6 times all together. Now you could say what if you scored on all the other ones. The answer is, the score would have been more like 62-28. It may sound better but it is still a loss. Your boys have alot to be proud of, this should be viewed as a great season for them and a huge stepping stone for the future. The thing is, they don't need to make excuses just use this and get better. Some obvious things that I would say they need to use this game to improve upon are, the need to have a better passing game, the need to work on a defensive scheme to stop the run first but still be able to cover the spread. The last thing I will leave you to ponder is develope a much tougher schedule, against teams that resemble what you saw here.