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Some real positive things I saw tonight that I haven’t seen in a Raceland practice in a long time. Really chippy competition. Not bad chippy though. Nothing cheap or anything like that. Just kids getting after it. The last few years, at this point in the preseason, positions were pretty well locked in. Knew who our skill guys were, knew what we had upfront. There just wasn’t a whole lot of competition in practice to be honest. A lot of that comes with the territory of what we continued to bring back each year due to holdbacks, covid extras, etc. but we are really young now, and it seems like everyone realizes there are spots all over the place up for grabs and they are busting their asses for it.

Other positives. Jackson Rister wants to catch every single ball and not let a single one catch him. Kid has really good hands and seems to be doing well in recovering from the ACL injury last year and the tweak a few weeks ago.

Dont sleep on Ayden Cooper. He may not get the QB1 job, but the kid seems to be starved to get on the field in some way. He is a lot faster than I had originally thought as well. He will be on the field somewhere.

Bloss, Marushi, Dinger, Kenny Litteral, and Murrell are all competing for that F spot and it shows.

The kids are hungry. After 7v7 season was seemingly a work in progress, I’m excited to see this competition pick up when they get pads on this week.

Good thing i noticed about Cooper is he also played defense too for Lewis County. But definitely good hearing the competitiveness.