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Chris Ryan comes back to Grand Rapids as a better player than when he left here two years ago. He brings an added punch to our red zone offense - with Ryan alongside Chris Avery we have the fiercest FB/LB corps in the AFL.

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I felt good tonight. I got in a good rhythm early and the strike zone felt comfortable. I was more relaxed tonight and it felt like a normal start.

I felt like I was right around the zone the whole night.

I felt like I was in a zone and every time I got the ball, it was going in. My team was feeding off me and I felt the energy.

I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't show a lot of patience and poise, didn't get it set up, didn't pass the ball around and make their zone work.

I felt comfortable the last couple of weeks, ... I thought I made some good decisions, threw some good balls. I'd obviously like to get it in the end zone this week.

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I didn't have good command of my pitches. I wanted to pound the strike zone and I go 2-0 to the first guy. But it doesn't mean anything. Physically, no pain no problem. That was the biggest thing.

Getting in the zone doesn't happen nearly as often as people like to think it does. But whether you're really in it and for how long you're in it doesn't matter much, because you'll be coming closer to reaching your zone and being your best.

Frank laid off some tough pitches and the bat was coming through the zone well. I was very pleased with what he did.

Foul trouble killed us. We didn't get to do what we wanted to do. We wanted to pressure them, but that was taken out by the foul trouble. We settled into a zone defense and they shot the ball over us. You have to give Morton credit. They got the good looks and knocked down the shots.

For some reason teams don't think we can execute against the zone. Rich Central came out in a zone right away and we can score on that.

From what we came from to what we've seen here ... it's like we left a war zone and came to a place that's safe and secure.

From watching film, they're basically going to play a 2-3 zone (on defense). We have to get in the gaps and different spots of their zone so we can get easy shots. We're going to try to play inside-out and try to exploit their weaknesses.

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.

If a team plays a zone it doesn't make a lot of sense to attack it if they are the one seed and you are the ninth seed. We just wanted to keep the game close as long as possible. If they played man we would have attacked it. But I wouldn't be doing my job if I let my team attack the best team in the state.

If a team is committed to running the ball then his strong suit is run blocking. We moved him around in a lot of zone schemes here. He is more for power football and needs to excel at passing. He will pin his ears back and go after people.

I expect them to crash the boards a lot. They play a mix of man-to-man and zone on defense.

For us to get in the red zone and not capitalize, it's disheartening. That's our job. This week, we want to give our offense the opportunity to score points.

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I give our kids a lot of credit for coming up with that third quarter. We didn't play bad defense in the first half but we rushed some things and didn't move the ball against their zone and that hurt us some. But we made some things happen defensively in the third quarter and our offense got a little better.

I give my guys credit. They cranked it up. They kept good pressure on in the offensive zone, in the neutral zone and in the final seconds behind the net (when Haslett was threatening). That was huge.

If we were zoning from scratch, we would not zone for six-story buildings surrounding a neighborhood.

He's had some big games. We felt like the zone might give us the opportunity to contain him. For the most part, it did a decent job.

He was dominating, pounding the strike zone with velocity over 90. But it wasn't so much the velocity but the command, velocity and the delivery.

He was up in the zone a little too much.

He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.

He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.

He tends to be a zone buster. If he hits a shot or two, people have to start paying attention to him and that opens things up for everyone else.

He had us in a hole all night. He found the strike zone and he said, 'hit it,' and we didn't.

He had a pretty angle to all his pitches, although his command within the strike zone wasn't very good,

He has a pretty clear-cut mental approach in terms of attacking the pitch. We've told him, 'Hey, they're going to try to extend the strike zone and get you out on off-speed pitches.' He's done a fine job with that.

He did a good job tonight. He gave up his first earned run this season tonight, so his been consistent. He filled up the strike zone and allowed his defense to play behind him.

He hit some shots that he probably wouldn't normally make. Those type of shots you hit only when you're in a zone. He was in a zone tonight.

He is a guy that is capable of carrying his team with his bat. He kind of gets hidden in our lineup. He is in a zone right now, and when you get that way, you want to keep on playing.

He got off work early one day and I said to him, 'They're going to need to mow that field or else there will be a lot of weeds growing up there.' After work, he brings his push mower over and started to push-mow the football field. He had already had the end zone mowed up to the 20 yard line done by himself. He worked his butt off, and he never took praise about anything.

He got loose against the zone and made a couple of shots. He got off to a real good start and I thought that was the key.

He does a great job with them. I know that they?re going to be tough defensively. They?re going to run different defensive looks. They?re going to throw some man and some zone at you. We just got to be prepared to go over there and face different defenses. I know offensively they?re going to be fundamentally sound and shoot the ball well." ()

Henne was in the end zone. I'm sure they'll say it wasn't. He was in the end zone and I think they just did not do a good job in the booth, because it's the kind of play that should have been reviewed.

He'll do his fair share of damage when it's all said and done. For him to change his approach and expand his strike zone would be wrong. It would do him no good.

He came out and got in a zone early and got in a nice groove. We just couldn't pressure him enough early on to make a difference.

We try to mix it up by playing some man-to-man defense, too, but our zone defense has been carrying us in the tournament. The big thing is we can't give up penetration. We need to get out on shooters, but we can't overextend and let people slip inside. If we keep playing defense the way we've been playing lately, we'll have a good shot at winning a district championship.

We're pretty explosive. That was a great catch by Payne in the end zone and a great run by Acker.

We talked at halftime that if our defense could buckle down and keep them out of the end zone that we would win the game. That was the key.

When he's good, he's pounding the strike zone and picking.

When he's down in the zone he's really tough to hit. He went through a tough time but he was tough enough to keep himself on the mound and really battle.

He really worked the strike zone and mixed up speeds well. He struck out six in the first three innings and four of them were looking. Anytime a pitcher can do that he's doing good things.

have stretched out beyond the comfort zone to make this (upgrading) happen.

Hats off to them. We are lucky to get out of here with a win. They (Riverdale) earned my respect. Mainly, I am very disappointed in our rebounding effort tonight. Plus, we let their zone get to us in the fourth quarter, throwing the ball away on long skip passes. There's no excuse for that.

He's a big target, which is the biggest thing for me. We have a lot of little speed guys, so when he comes across the middle, as big as he is, all I can say is, 'Whoa!' I like it. We had problems scoring in the red zone last year and a little bit this year, so he's going to help out a lot with that.

He's a guy that knows the strike zone well. We'll be giving him more opportunities.

He's a guy that had arm trouble early in his career, but he's recovered from that nicely. He throws 89-92 mph with downhill sink, attacks the zone and gets groundballs. He has a slider and changeup that he throws for a change of pace, but it's that fastball with the downhill plane that makes him successful.

He's a great player and has been on a really hot streak. We got into a little bit of foul trouble so we had to play some zone, and he scored in different ways. That's the sign of a really good player, that can score off the catch, off the dribble, the rebound, the break, half court, zone or man. He had a really good night. But he's been doing that so you know that going in.

Going into the games, people know what we're going to do; the Packers do what they do and have been successful doing it. It's one of those things if you can zone into a couple things during the week and run that until you're comfortable with it, that's when you take a lot of the thinking out of it, the mental errors in terms of plays and penalties because you're focused.

He's got a strong leg. Hopefully he can kick some in the end zone and make opponents start at the 20.

He's kind of in the zone right now.

He's just not in any kind of rhythm right now. It's all location. He was too much in the middle of the strike zone against an aggressive hitting team.

He's got the legs (to be a power hitter). We know he can hit the ball to right field, he's got a good eye for the strike zone and he can run and he's making fine progress for a young man who came out of Double-A.

He's a team player. When he's not doing the job, he wants to do what's best for the club. In good situations sometimes you want to be the hero, you (can) expand the zone. He stays within his own zone and that's a good thing.

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Hopefully this is a good slap in the face for our players. We turned the puck over in the neutral zone 30 times. When you lose execution its hard to get it back. I'm disappointed in the way our top players played and execution. It's just one game and we have to move on.

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There is a multiplicity of reasons why the ECB has eased again and by so much, ... Critically the euro zone fundamentals have been crying out for lower rates for quite some time, with growth momentum slowing in the EMU area, Germany close to a double dip recession and inflation set to slow dramatically next year.

When they made their run, and to their credit they made a great run, we went to zone for a little bit to change it up a little bit.

We may have settled for the 3-point shot a little too much, but they did a good job in their zone of recognizing where our shooter were.

We made the change to man-to-man because they kept hitting the (3-pointers) from outside and we had to do something. We weren't rotating the zone and on the skip pass we kept getting beat. We had to go to man so we could get closer to the shooters.

We made some great adjustments against the zone in the second half. We had a little more penetration and movement.

We made some adjustments to them attacking the zone and we had two opportunities to take the lead and we didn't get over the hump and they came back with that late run.

He was in the zone with three pitches. Even the one ball that was hit really shouldn't have been swung at. That was as good as I have seen him pitch.

He was in the zone and became unstoppable in the second half.

He was fine. He was up in the zone early and pitched from behind more than I'd like, but he had good stuff.

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

He was good. He mixed his pitches up. We kind of handicapped ourselves by giving him all that run support. That gives him the chance to pound the zone even more. They just put us away, plain and simple.

He's played a lot at both positions. He played a year at guard. He played a year at center. Now, he's going back and forth. It's not like one of those positions is a new position for him. And I think his intelligence helps him. Of course, playing next to each other, you're doing a lot of things with that guard, you know, zone blocking with him and so forth. I think that makes it a little easier.

He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 fastball with a good slider. He's an outstanding strike thrower, missing bats down in the zone with a low, three-quarters delivery. He has presence, confidence and instincts on the mound with a history of success.

He just threw it when he came here. Anywhere around the zone was good for him. At this level, with the experienced hitters, you can't just throw it right down the pipe.

He kept us in the game. He didn't walk anyone, he wasn't overpowering, but he kept the ball in the strike zone and did an overall good job.

He keeps giving you a chance to win when he fills up the zone with three different pitches for strikes.

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

He just didn't make enough pitches today. He was all around the zone but he just missed. He was barely missing, but when you get behind these guys, those types of hitters, that's what happens.

Guzman was up in the strike zone the first two innings way too much and paid for it. He settled down after the second inning and really pitched well, the way he needs to, keeping the ball down consistently.

Hartley always has a strong zone defense. They are one of the few high-school teams that plays zone defense well. The key is to figure out how to counter their zone.

Kobe, he has really strong will. When he's in the zone like that, he's definitely on an island by himself.

Kittanning is big, they're 5-10, 5-10, and 5-11 across the front. They just sit in a 1-3-1 zone and make it tough to get the ball inside.

James goes after hitters, he really challenges them in the zones. He missed the zone and walked a few guys but he has confidence in his stuff and came back to get out of a jam.

Jake had a great game for us. He was in the zone out there and gave us a tremendous effort. We're going to be hard to beat any time he pitches like that.

Jack's teams will always be prepared. They came out ready and we came out sluggish. I take the blame for this loss. I never should have kept us in that zone defense. We've got to be able to play our style of ball. I'm going to learn from this game.

I would say this for Montserrat ? one of its credit weaknesses is that it's in a zone that depends greatly on external savings.

Kelsey isn't a big girl, just a well-coordinated player who gets everything out of her swing. She's patient, knows the strike zone and awaits her pitch - then drills it.

Just looking at them, they really like to mix up their defenses a lot. They play a lot of zone but will switch it up. We will have to try to recognize that.

Jones put such a good defense with that 3-2 zone and our guards just weren't patient.

John (Beck) floated the ball into the end zone and I tried to run underneath it. It was just out of reach. When I was coming down my left hand turned all the way around and my full weight on my thumb pushed it the opposite way. It was broken pretty bad; I have screws and a plate in it right now.

I think I threw more strikes than I got credit for. I was around the zone a lot. I definitely got my work in.

I think it's gone pretty well. We're very fortunate to have a very balanced basketball club. Bobby has always made some strong contributions. At times he's been our leading scorer. He's also drawn a lot of attention. We've faced a lot of zone defenses because he is 6-8. Bobby recognizes when he gets the ball in the post when to get the ball back out to the perimeter.

I think it showed their pitcher was going to be around the zone and our guys took advantage of that. Nate just did a good job driving it out of the ball park.

It didn't go well for us. We had so many turnovers in the neutral zone and we didn't really have a lot of scoring chances.

I thought were weren't getting our people to the correct spots. In the second half, we got people within our zone offense to where they needed to be. We got some looks and knocked them down.

I thought when they made that little run there in the third quarter, we stood around. We weren't as active in our zone and we let (Rudy) catch it, where the first half we didn't let him catch it.