Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

If we got anything out of playing in the 7 on 7 camps this summer, it was finding a safety to take some heat off (quarterback) Alonzo Foster. We found that Kevin Marshall could play safety.

I think we were a lot sharper in the second half. We came out flat in the beginning. At halftime we knew we had to get physical. Barrow played a game tonight.

Against BTW last year, we committed numerous turnovers and really we an immature football team.

It's a big game for us. Nobody wants to start out behind in our region. I feel like Neal will be one of the top four teams in our region. If we want to be one of the top three, we need to win this game.

It wasn't a fake - he saw the defense coming and knew he couldn't get the kick off. We forgot to tackle him. We had 'em dead in the water and the fish got away.

We wanted to get him tired. We didn't want to give up the big play. The game plan was to control the ball and not turn it over, and not give up the easy score.

I hope our players have learned how to deal with some success.

He was enormous on both sides of the ball. He ran hard, ran powerfully on offense. Defensively, he made a lot of good stops.