We stress to our kids that who we are playing is irrelevant. In sports, you have to have an opponent to play against, so there will be another team out there, but we need to come out and do the same things regardless if it's Blair or the Oakland Raiders.

Their performance speaks for itself. We have realized the past two years that we need to instill a sense of urgency and a sense of intensity in getting to the ball. We're not happy unless 11 guys get to the ball. If it's a 20-yard incomplete pass, you still have to get there.

That's the strength of our team. Our progress will continue to be measured by running and our offensive line. That's where we'll hitch our success. After last week, against an opponent where the only challenge was having to play against them and we didn't get much work in, it was important for these youngsters to get this full-game test.

You try to stress the importance of this game for the kids. The kids knew what it meant in league standings and if you look at our conference now, Broomfield and us have a two game pad over the closest competitor. You can afford to stumble and still have a chance. So it was definitely an important game for us.

There was a lot of emotion and it was adding stress.

Sports keep kids really involved in a good place.