[#55PirateFan]

Back to this year. Belfry experimented briefly with some changes along the defensive front last week, and it will be interesting to see with the possibility of all the defensive bodies available this week, will they continue to throw some of the big boys to the D line? I think they probably will, but I also believe they need to get their best 11 on the field regardless of who it is.

I've been saying this all year. IMO, against teams like Lex.Cath, Boyle, and Corbin, play that massive and very skilled O-Line both ways. Their teenagers, they can handle it. And I know what some are going to say, "Oh what if they get hurt"! Oh well it's part of the game and they could just as easily get hurt playing offense. It's not like some of these guys haven't had any experiance and success playing defense. Rash and Lawson have already seen limited action on defense this year and Wolford played iron man football in the 8th grade and his freshman year as the starting center and nose guard. Actually I think Ethan is a better NG than he is a center. It's the playoffs, lose and its over! So if it were me, from here on out, Wolford would play NG and Rash and Lawson would play beside him at the DT spots, play both sides of the line. I guarantee you that the QB, any QB in 3A, would be getting pressured and that inside rush would damn near be obsolete. What do we have to lose? I know Coach likes to put small, speedy guys on the defensive front. It works against teams in our district but I promise you it's not going to work against the Boyle and Corbins in 3A. If we do this it will free up our LB's to roam the middle of the field in passing situations. Just makes to much sense not to do this, atleast to me it does.