Chad Spence
Chad Spence
adversity beat came fallen game huge kids maybe miss practice preaching remember senior seniors stood team teammate together ton week
It's a huge game to beat Benton. It's a big rivalry. I get up for the Benton week. I think our kids do, maybe we do even more than the kids because we remember how it was years ago. I think it's still a big rivalry. We had a ton of adversity this week and our seniors really came together. We had a teammate (FCHS senior Wes Miller) who was in a coma in St. Louis. I had no idea how we were going to show up. We had some kids miss practice to go up there, and that's fantastic. They really stood by their fallen teammate. We've been preaching all week to come together as a team and I think we did tonight.
acted football game played run total yards
In my opinion, it was just total self-destruction. We acted like we had never played a game of football before. How many times is Herrin going to run the mid-line? They're going to run it 20 to 25 times a game and we let the first one go for 70 yards and a touchdown.
key pass
I thought we had it after that score. But we made key mistakes, particularly on pass plays.
challenge consistent defense defensive guys line stop
We just have to get more consistent defensively. Our defense as a whole can come out and stop people. We do have a very big defensive line and we challenge those guys every week.
four good halves might played putting quarters second seems slow talked together year
We talked about putting four quarters together. I don't know if we have all year. We might put together a half. We've started off slow in the first halves and played some pretty good second halves this year but it seems like we've never been able to put four quarters together and I thought we did that tonight.
allowed bit couple effort fall few guys late lined maybe played plays work wrong
We shouldn't fall off like that and we did a little bit. Maybe we weren't prepared. We have to work with those guys a little bit more on our part. The effort was there, they played hard, we just lined up wrong a couple of times and allowed them to have a few big plays late in the game.
definitely game running throw
We're going to throw the ball, but we definitely want to get the running game back up.
bad job penalties six
We had 12 penalties and six bad snaps. Mentally, we have to do a better job of executing.
ball mix run
We want to run the ball but we want to mix it with the pass.