[SmashMouth17]

Rock football will be much improved this year that’s the obvious. The big question is how much improved and that will depend on how big of a jump our lineman make. They are working hard in the weight room and are showing big improvements in strength and conditioning that will determine if Rock can contend for district title this year. The battle in the trenches will have to be better this year than it was last season if Rock wants to beat Bell,Knox and Clay county. Rock has a lot coming back and added a few new additions. Rock has added a great line backer who should lead the team on that side of the ball. Very physical and great tackler. Also on defense Rock has a defensive end who will be doing great things this season. As good as the defense should be the offense has the potential to be the highlight of team and our biggest strength. Rock hired a new offensive coordinator who landed us a great mobile threat of a QB. Having a talent like that playing QB makes matchup nightmares for the defense. With the new QB that gives us another WR as Caleb should be helping out Jackson at that position along with some younger guys. Let’s not forget we still have Christian back for his senior year just an overall true athlete. Look for him to be primary RB again this year but can also catch out of the back field. Also look for Jackson to see snaps at the RB position this year as well. Those 3 players have good overall speed as well. Jackson,Caleb and Christian all ran track this year and competed well at the state levels. Yes the schedule isn’t stacked with stiff competition but that will allow time to get a good balanced passing game and running game developed that should help us scheme and keep defenses honest preventing the loading of the box and just making us one dimensional like last year. Those 1A teams all won more games than Rock did last year and should be great matchups to get Rock ready for what really matters and that is district games. Let’s all be honest the RPI isn’t set up to reward losses and favors wins against teams that win themselves and from a scheduling point those teams all should winning seasons with a minor exception here or there. If that happens and Rock can beat those teams that will help the RPI. We have almost made it to the start of another season and let’s be honest Rock hasn’t had this much talk or hype or anything really good or bad in a long time so let’s just embrace it and let the chips land where they fall.

As always Go Rock!