[The Blue Blur]

I believe Pugh may experience some of the problems the Tigers had after their 2001 region championship season. They lost their offensive line of 3 years and left Simpkins under center with a bunch of freshman, I believe the Tigers will be just fine and see them going no less than the second round of the playoffs this season.

You may be right, but he's not stuck with a bunch of freshman. While some of those kids are young and inexperience, they have played varsity football at the high school level just not an extensive amount. That offensive that they lost in 2001, was a very experienced, strong and a deep line. If I'm not mistaken the line that replaced them, was the line that graduated from this past season. After four years of starting experience, I still can't say I was real impressed with them. You can go back and watch some of them films from last year to see that they weren't the greatest blockers. The Tigers will be fortunate to have a line like the 2001 team had, ever again. I hope an pray that the difficulties upfront during the last scrimmage was unknown assignments and inexperience showing through.