It's a real tough loss. This one hurts as much as any of them do, because it was a game where we had our chances to take it. We're going to have to regroup and get ready for next week.
He knows the offense and just has matured and physically gotten bigger and stronger this year.
I think we did as much to beat ourselves as Shady Side did to beat us. We made a lot of mistakes and kept shooting ourselves in the foot. You can't do that in a game against anybody.
The two big plays in the first half put us in a hole, but once we adjusted we got our first score and got our confidence back.
He's just gotten somewhat healthy this week. He gave us a spark when he went in there, and he came out of it healthy. That's good news, because he can take it the distance any time he gets his hands on it.
It was tough. We needed to at least protect the ball there and punt it away. At that point you're looking at overtime.
