FWIW, if Central Catholic faces the same Folsom team from Thursday night, I like Central Catholic’s chances. CC has a very balanced offense and their line play on offense and defense will be able to do just fine vs Thursday night’s Folsom. Likewise, a DLS rematch against Thursday’s Folsom would have different results. Folsom’s offense (non-Thursday’s version) does not play as sloppy as they did last night. Credit Rocklin’s defense. But, all of those penalties and dropped passes were not Rocklin’s defense’s fault. Confident Folsom will bring their A game into the playoffs and they will be tough to beat for any team, including St. Mary’s. St. Mary’s will need to bring their A game, similar to how they played vs Central Catholic. The Rams defense cannot afford to give up TDs early on like they have been during the entire season, even against Central Catholic. They will need 4 quarters of shutdown football, not 3 quarters and not 2 quarters like against Tracy. I’ve said from the start that this is a young Rams team and they will need time to mature and play consistent discipline football. The question is are they mature enough. We will have to stay tuned to find out. They still have 3 more teams, including Lincoln-Stockton tonight, before they get a chance to face Folsom, in order to mature.
The difference between St. Mary’s team this year vs last year, the offense is better, but the defense is way better. Mack will not get that much time to throw the ball and he’s not mobile enough. St. Mary’s defense struggles early on against teams with a mobile QB. Not worried about the Rams defense vs Folsom’s offense. I’m more curious how the Rams offense will do against the Folsom defense. The Rams offense has not been stopped by any team except itself. But, they haven’t faced a defense like Folsom’s whose strength is their secondary. Thursday night Folsom secondary got beat a lot. Robert’s just couldn’t get the ball to his WR’s. Both SM QB’s are much more accurate, I’m curious to see how much YAC the Rams WRs and TE are able to muster vs Folsoms secondary. It will be speed vs speed. I just think the Rams have a little more speed. Again, we will have to stay tuned. Still a few games in between for both teams to get thru. I would not be surprised if either team trips along the way like Grant AND St. Mary’s both did in 2009. Don’t change the channel. We’ve got some really good football to watch, and for the teams, themselves, some really good football to be played. GO RAMS!!! 😎