James Blankenship
James Blankenship
beginning bit city couple drives finally good great improved obviously quite second stepping
Tell City has obviously improved quite a bit from the beginning of the season, ... They are going to be pretty good in the 2A sectional. In the first couple of drives of the second half, they did a great job. But we just finally started stepping it up.
ball bring capable kids obviously putting running secondary tough
We have some kids capable of running the ball, ... Tonight, Sammy was obviously running very, very well. We were just going to keep putting the ball in his hands. He did have some holes, and once he got in the secondary he was pretty tough to bring down.
clock control limit run second tried
We'd run a play, and our tailback would get a cramp. So we'd put another tailback in, and he'd get a cramp. We just had to limit what we did in the second half, and we tried to use the clock and control the ball.
resort second win
We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.
gave mental played protect quarter second short turn
We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we didn't protect on that punt in the second quarter and gave them a short field, that really started to turn things. And then, when we got tired, we started making mental mistakes.
backs bit came cross fact quarter second split wore
Jasper is a little bit more multidimensional this year. That came from the fact that they got the fullback involved, having split backs and being able to cross things up a little bit. And I thought they really wore us down from the second quarter on.
behind breaks free goes guy hanging kept playing return running second sudden
Gribble's return was huge. But even that was weird, because he had a guy hanging on his leg, and then all of a sudden he breaks free and he goes running down the sideline. But that kept us from playing from behind in the second half.
came effort gave great kids positives proud second themselves
These kids gave a great effort tonight. We were proud of them in the second half. And I think the kids feel a lot better about themselves after the way they came out in the second half. We have some positives to take away from this.
ball bells coming fancy football last line offensive played quarter rid whistles
We just got rid of the bells and whistles and just played football. Our offensive line really started coming off the ball and making holes. There was nothing fancy in what we did for the last quarter and a half.
coming defense excited happy kids playing
We were real happy with our play early. The kids were really coming off the ball, playing excited on defense and offense.
city clock control felt game line potential tight
As tight as the game was for a while there, we felt we could control the clock and control the line of scrimmage, ... We didn't want to do anything that would give Tell City a potential big play going the other way.
expanding felt game open ourselves simple start
We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.
compete halftime hang kids
We told the kids at halftime that the first thing we wanted to see was for them to compete in this kind of situation. We didn't want to hang our heads. We wanted to go out and play as a team.
box close committing daring eight gibson kids offensive running southern stop
Gibson Southern was committing eight in the box to try to stop our running game, kind of daring us to pass. We had some kids make some big plays, but I still don't think we are even close to where we should be on the offensive line.