Jenkins is one of the fastest and most athletic players I’ve ever seen. I’m sure Marion has done their homework and will dedicate 2-3 players to him all night. Hopefully Brady Edwards will be back on defense. It really hurt GC when he got hurt. I hear Marion has improved so I’m looking forward to the matchup.
Heck of a game. Credit Gate City for about winning the game. They got the best of us up front They did an incredible job of neutralizing our speed. I hope our kids learn a valuable lesson that you can't just show up and win. Gate City threw some vicious licks on us. As for the Jenkins kid, he is all that is advertised. Actually, that's not true. He's far, far more than advertised. There is no way in one can tell me and make me believe this kid can not play MAJOR, FBS level slot WR with that speed and those hands. We have some guys on our team that have track speed. There were a few times when we were in perfect position defensively on some of those sweeps with Jenkins and our very fast defenders had the perfect angle, and the Jenkins kid would just "outrun" the angle. He has absolutely BLAZING speed. If this kid isn't offered higher than William and Mary, I will be surprised
My take away from this game is not necessarily that Radford is "not as good" as thought. I think we actually are pretty good. I don't think it's necessarily that Gate City is far, far better than what we thought. My take away is.......Richlands is the real deal. They handled Gate City up front and we didn't. Gate City, slightly got the better of us up front. For a team (Richlands) that we blew completely out of the stadium about 6 months ago, they in my opinion have completely turned it around and are going to cause problems, major problems up front for Graham and Union in my opinion. I just can't see Graham or Union beating Richlands by more than 10 points. Time will tell. Lastly, this game speaks to the strength of Region D. Gate City isn't likely a top 6 team, arguably the 7th best team in 2D and they nearly won the game over the team in 2C that is right there with Glenvar and Gretna as the second best team in our Region. Region D is very, very strong and has some great football teams.
Jenkins is truly special, that’s for sure. Radford did a good job against him and his speed.
I think Richlands is going to play right with Union and that's no disrespect to the Bears who I think can and will play with Appo this year. But I'm not sold on the idea that the Blues are the 5th best team in 2D. I think Richlands has its best team in many years.
I think this one is decided by 7 points either way. Richlands from 4 on D is stout. I look for Union to come up big in the passing game. The Bears have a passing game compared to what they have had in the air in the past many years. The Bears QB seems accurate and he has guys on the outside that can run by the defenders with speed.
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Ridgeview is solid. I’m glad to see them doing well.