26 Quotes by Mike Owens

Our game plan for this game, we have as much stuff in right now as we do in midseason. We are going to load it up and open it up on offense. We may try and take some chances we normally don't take because we are going to try and put some points on the board.

You look across (their front) and they are 250, 270, 270, 290, and they love to run it with counter lead, isolation stuff, so it's going to be a test for us.

We just didn't play like the way we are capable of playing. Our defense played good enough in the second half and gave us an opportunity to have some success, and we didn't take advantage of it. They are a good football team, they are as good as anyone we've played.

We didn't play real well on offense (at Colerain), especially in the second half. We'd make a play and pick up seven yards, and then we'd lose five yards, or get a penalty. I am not going to make excuses, we just didn't play well enough to win, and we had opportunities to try and win the game and we didn't take advantage of them.

We are trying to guard against being too laid back. I don't think they are going to be. We are fixing to play a real good football team. It's going to be tough for us, I can tell you that.

Preston started five games as a sophomore, so I don't expect him to be nervous. I know we've scrimmaged, but that is not a game. I was real pleased in our scrimmage that we actually did better when the coaches went to the sidelines.

Colerain made us look bad. That is what happens when you don't come out and play from the get go. A great program is a great program wherever you're from.

They've got 20 starters coming back and are going to be real good. They had tentatively scheduled Brenham, but Brenham dropped them. We had talked earlier and said if we couldn't find a game, we'd play them because it's been a good series between us.

They are both great cover guys. Our receivers are big, so we have a height advantage. What we are going to have to make sure we do is outmuscle them for the ball.