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Absolutely. Jake has really impressed me this year. He makes really good decisions, and I can probably count on one hand the times he has either forced a throw or thrown a ball that I felt like it was a risky one, kid is a gamer and a really good manager of the offense to be a young, first year starter. Like you said, he isnt a blazing fast runner, but he cuts well and really gets behind his pads well at the point if contact. As good as our offense has been, the trust that Mike has in Jake and Cox now having a few games under his belt with the varsity, I expect us to be even more explosive as we go later into the regular season and into the playoffs. Myself and you, RD, have been very critical of Raceland teams in the past few years, this is a team that seems to have the pieces and the mindset to be different. At the start of the season, I felt like Pikeville was likely 2 or maybe even 3 scores better than us. But the way the season has gone, I really like our chances at getting back to Lexington. As for now, I really like our chances at winning a district title Friday night.

There is one thing I thought before the season and that was all 4 teams such as Hazard, Pikeville, Raceland and Paintsville would all be very close and each game would be won because of the turnovers battle.

So far Pikeville won the battles between both Pikeville and Hazard, Paintsville won the battle with hazard and now we get to see how this one turns out.

It’s going to be very exciting come playoff time.