[baseball1974]

You have to remember that the backup Ben Dressman led CCH to a 28-7 win over the tigers last year and QB'd the Colonels for about 8 games last year while wagner was hurt. CCH moved the ball but Beechwood was able to stop them in the red zone.

Adam Wagner is very good player but I don't think CCH is a one man team.

You may be right? All I know is there were several plays that may have been different if Wagner would've been back there, the interception and big sack are two I can think of. I don't think their a one-man show on offense, but when you take over half of somebody offense away and then they have to figure out a way to make up for that on the fly, it makes good teams look pretty mediocre. If he'd been out a whole week and they had time to prepare with another quarterback then I'd say it may not make that huge of a difference? However, this put a dagger in their whole team on the first drive they had. Covington Catholic is much better than the score indicates and I think with Wagner they are probably better than Beechwood, but Beechwood hit them in the mouth out of the gate in this one and there wasn't any way to recover. Regardless of who was at QB, Covington Catholic still didn't stop them on defense.