[Hoot Gibson]

This is what i was talking about last week when in the over/under pass attempt thread.

If your down 36 points, and you only throw the ball twice for an entire game, your never going to be able to compete with teams like BG.

If you are down by 36 points to BG and you start passing on every offensive play, what do you think your chances of winning that game are? When the running clock rule kicked in, HC had zero chances of coming back.

If you fall behind to a team that passes better than you do, then there is a good chance that they also defend passes better than you do. If you are going to run a predictable offense against a better team, then you better be able to execute it to perfection.

Johnson Central is not going to come back from a large deficit to beat Highlands, nor is HC going to overcome a large deficit to beat BG. Their best strategy is to stay in the lead or within striking distance by dominating the time of possession and running their bread and butter offense as close to perfection as possible. When it is working right, I have seen Matney's offense totally exhaust the inside linebackers of opposing teams - even good teams that platoon, and when that happens, long touchdown runs usually follow in short order.