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Bell's players were looking at this truly as a scrimmage.....as it was at Bell last year. They found a near "game" attitude and atmosphere from players and fans. Not bad, just unexpected. With Bell only having less than thirty minutes to warmup after their arrival...they were really flat. They also were sitting out some key injured players to rest for next week. It's all about the regular season....and then the playoffs with Dudley. It was definitely only a scrimmage...and JC only "won" by a touchdown anyway.

I'm not sitting there making excuses or saying why who won or who lost. I'm just saying that if anything JC should be ranked a little higher but what they proved was in a scrimmage which didn't count anyway. Besides if you want to look at it as one touchdown, Bell Co. scored twice when they really probably shouldn't have (from the big kickoff return that set up a 2yd score and then from a blown coverage that actually could've/should've been picked off) and the same can go for JC. But what you can't deny is the 394 yards JC gained from the ground in only 3 quaters. Dudley does a super job year in and year out at Bell and I really look for you all do do big things this season. Your QB is a heck of an athlete and a solid football player to add to the weapons you already have.

It was a good scrimmage and exposed weaknesses that will make these two fine programs better.