[Bleed Black&Gold]

That was a great response.

However, according to stats, JC only lost 2 fumbles out of all they put on the ground.

http://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/kh...30165_7304

They had some punt problems if I remember correctly.

But I have a problem drawing the correlation between giving up 400 yards on Defense and losing the ball in bad field positions. The Defense has nothing to do with the turnovers made. Plus, considering Boyle's short fields, the Rebels had fewer yards to "rack up" on the stat sheet.

As I see JC's three biggest losses last year, each one showed the Eagles giving up significant passing yards. (Boyle, Bell, Highlands) Has their defense fixed that?

I would once again add that Boyle's defense may be even better this year with all the starters they return and Lamar Dawson back for his Senior Year. :Thumbs:

Fumbles lost 2 but we put the ball on the ground many more than that resulting in many long yardage situations. That equaled to Boyle having the ball all night long which racks up yards on a very tired and demoralized defense. Most of the yards were not hard fought starting in the middle of the 2nd. We were shellshocked and Boyle never let up. Yes we lost all three of those football games but yards in the air hurt us no worse than yards we lost on fumbles. You are right in the fact that if we are not improved on pass defense we will struggle at times again. But i feel that we are greatly improved. Same can be said though about offensive fumbles, O-line play, pressuring the QB, and mental mistakes. Thats why i love high school football so much. Same kids can play completely different as they mature and hopefully the freshman and sophomores we depended on last year are developed and ready to go.
To be honest i am not that concerned about moving the ball. If we keep hold of the rock i am fully confident we can run on anybody. Once again though it is greatly dependent upon our o-line coming together as a unit and playing like they did at the end of last year.