Jeff VandeGrift has been in control and has gotten most of the reps. He played a lot better last week. He's getting better and grasping what we're trying to do.

We've got to defend the run, defend the Wing-T and put them into long-yardage situations so they have to throw.

We need to build off what we've been doing and clean up our mistakes on offense. I feel we've sort of stopped ourselves in the two ballgames we have lost. The more times we have the ball, the better we can be.

We've got to play a lot better defense than we did in the first game. Obviously, we're facing a team with more speed than South Whidbey. We need to continue to improve, have everybody do their job on defense and keep them in the corral.

They have a lot of quickness. They have some very good backs. They're really explosive, much the same type of team as Sammamish. They run the Wing-T and get outside.

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.