[Bibbs]

If anything the '82 team had more physical lineman. This team has more talented skilled players. If we can get a good line together we could be just as good I think. The only skill player we can't match is Duncan Jacobs,but this team has on the whole more skilled players. This team isn't that far away from a good line. We only lose two and surely we can fill those places. I think the key is to get the linemen we have more mentally and physically tough. I think we had alot of minor injuries that people sat out for that should not have been. I also know me saying that is gonna get some people riled up but it is true. Me and some of the old Dragon's were talking about it a few weeks back and we all came to that conclusion. My senior year I played with a broken arm for which I had a rubber cast made for games and against Lynn camp that year I had several injuries for which I could have stayed out and healed but I played through it and never missed a game. The other old guy's said that the kid's today just aren't as tough. I don't believe that. I think They just need to learn you can play through it. Only trouble is I don't know how you teach that.

I've read all these comments and tried to stay quiet. However you guys keep switching up blame, first the kids didn't want it enough, then its injuries, then the kids aren't as tough as before, now you are on the line, and that is where I can't stay quiet. No doubt, we need better line play and the ones we have need to work harder in the weight room, but just like the "skilled kids" (that term drives me crazy), the talent level goes way down real quick once you get past the original starters from early in the year pre-injury. You have some big guys who have the body but not the mind, you have some undersized guys trying to block like they are 260 when they are 190. You have some really young kids who are making freshman mistakes. I happen to think its multiple reasons. You guys have left out one group that shoulders some blame and they aren't kids. It takes everybody from the waterboy up to win and it takes everyone from the head coach down to lose. We haven't been right since Middlesboro even in the wins. We haven't thrown as well, caught as well, blocked as well, tackled as well, kicked as well, run as well, or anything since then. Williamsburg peaked this past Friday, we peaked at Middlesboro. Injuries, coaching, toughness, classroom work, EGOs!, believing the press, off season work, you name it. You can't blame it on any one thing or group. They all need work and may need some key changes in the program. If you keep getting this far year after year with different levels of talent, should you look for the constant for at least part of an explanation? I'm not pretending to know, but switching blame from group to group is silly.