[laker20]

If you watch the game Pulaski FORCED every one of those turnovers. Hard hitting, rallying to the football, pressure on the QB & being disciplined on defense is what caused those turnovers. Yes, PC stopped Russell County. Russell is a very good team ,they just ran into a much better team last night.
I was impressed with the arm on Ellis, when he had time to throw it. That is an area of the game RC can improve on as the season progresses.

No doubt that the physical play from PC helped create the turnovers, but the Lakers have been too loose with the ball all season.

The problem with Ellis at QB is even though he's capable of delivering the ball, he is a much more potent receiver and we don't seem to have another stepping up. So, it's not so much that the Lakers are one dimensional, it's that with Ellis at QB and Fletcher in the backfield the defense can still load the box and and bring the heat because all of our real threats are in the backfield.....we don't really have another go to receiver. We really need Smiddy to step up at QB which will free Ellis to move around on the field and make keep the defense on its heels a bit more.

What we're doing now will work against the weaker teams because of Ellis' and Fletcher's talent, but it's not going to work against the better teams. The sad thing is we'll probably keep on keeping on and possibly win out on the regular season, but as soon as we face a descent team in the playoffs we'll have the same result as last night.