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Saw both Waller and Ison tonight in about the same amount of snaps. Tbh, neither one looked better than the other. Highlands just matched us step for step in the passing game and while I felt both QBs made the right reads, neither one of them had a chance to set their feet and throw the ball. 3 really bad misses on those reads could have potentially made the game 7-0 and then 14-0 Rams in the first half. Highlands isn’t as good as they were last year by any stretch. They were huge upfront, but really didn’t dominate the LOS like I thought they would. It was a slow bleed. Officials were horrid. They didn’t affect the over all outcome but definitely kept us as behind the chains as we could possibly be on 1st and 2nd down.

The positive…
For 2 1/2 quarters Highlands needed penalty help to slow down our offense. It wasn’t flashy, but was effective and in the first quarter the LOS was really all Raceland. Our defense is championship caliber, imo. We just gotta find a damn way to score some points. He’ll, Maybe give Cooper a shot. Idk. The passing game is just lacking in a major way. I did like seeing Ison back at WR though, if he isn’t at QB he is too good of a WR and blocker to be on the sideline. Stiltner and Marushi ran hard as hell. But FTH just had too many bodies at the end of the night.

We were down a starting OT and his back up tonight. Still yet to see Rowsey back on the field. Saw some guys a little banged up tonight post game. Hopefully it’s just hurt and not injured. The schedule gets a little more manageable moving forward until we see LCA to wrap up the regular season. But NCC, Hazard, and maybe even Paris…won’t be grantees. Gotta clean up a hell of a lot. But I was proud of our fight tonight.

Cooper is a gamer may not always look the best in practice but shows up on game day