[Russelldad]

[quote=Beetle01] The guards may be a little weaker than last year but I don't see much of a difference, Foster was good but he was no world beater. In the wing T if your not running alot of sweep and toss plays, which we are not, the G just basically has to get inbetween the kickout guy and the ball carrier.QUOTE]

I don't know that I would totally agree with that statement. If you look at the rushing stats for the two years he started at guard (He didn't even play guard until the summer of his junior year) the numbers aren't too bad
(These stats are courtesy of the Russell High Football Site)

2006

Beekman = 520
Wells - 375
Lewis = 242
Total = 1137 (This excludes Casey's 1610 yards which were mostly ran behind another pretty decent guard in Mr. Wills)

2007

Abrams = 1273
Bates = 674
Rice = 83
Total = 2030 (This excludes Tylers and Baileys yards which were mostly ran behind E. Boyd)

Plus that out of 106 passing attempts Tyler was only sacked 6 times during the year.

So your right, he may not have been a "World Beater"(not many of those to be found) but he did a pretty good job of "Guarding" the tradition of the Wing-T.

On a side note, I think given time, that K. Smith will do pretty well there too.

On another side note, I think that with the right attitude on Friday night, that RHS can take care of SK and get the revenge for them ending the winning streak on our turf.