These guys signing with Division I schools shows that good things are happening with the Raider football program. It is great when these guys can go to the next level.

Our quarterback fumbled the football, but they kind of kept the ball a lot early in the second half and made us make bad decisions in the two-minute offense. They did some good things. The...

They have a tremendously talented defense, if defense wins championships, then this defense would be the one to do it, they’ve been the 3A State runners-up the past two seasons.

We are lacking experience, but our kids feel pretty positive about the season.

The Bulldogs are very big up front defensively and offensively, and it’s their great size that worries me the most.

We are young and we are still making mistakes. Overall, I think we are doing all right.

If we can run the ball well and not make any mental mistakes, we’ll have as good a shot as any to win the game.

Losing Joe is not what you want to have happen heading into such a huge league game.

Ryan and Randy are very important pieces in our defensive scheme, any time you lose key starters, you have to hope that their replacements can come in and fill the void.

It’s a defense that ranks first in our area, and amongst the best in the entire state, allowing only about 92 total yards a game.

He’s the one we have to watch, last year he did us in.

It shows that we have the program where we want it to go. So far we have been able to get kids the opportunity to play beyond high school and that is the big picture.

All we ask for is the opportunity to compete, and come Friday evening, we hope we can do just that.