Also, to reiterate horses comments, (those weak teams, we're not so weak afterall) teams like milan, Mckenzie, camden, lexington, etc went deep into play offs that we absolutely destroyed by half time, running that one play to the right and to the left. You take two of the top Escalon player's off any team playing for state championship this Fri and odds are they would be spectators not participating. For example, Ncs, take #12 and bituli off their squad they would be different team. You take them off late in the season, week 8 and 9 with no time to revamp entire backfield and you are almost asking for the impossible. Just bad luck and we can only guess/speculate on what might of been. I'll say this you have to have good line and good backs. Example, we avg 350+ yd per game before 2 backs injured over 8 game stretch, and literally could have been 700 yds per game if they played 4 qtrs, after the backs injured we didn't rush but avg like 150 over 4 games with same line. That is no jab at a awesome senior line, that is just stating the facts, that you need a complete team: line and backs to beat other good teams. The line and backs feed off each other and trust each other. Also it's no jab at the back up backs, bailey is a awesome athlete, but to expect him to step in be as good as injured players that had 1000 reps since summer camp would be unreasonable and unfair. Those back-up qb million dollar stud athletes NFL don't quite look so hot when they get a chance as they don't have the work or reps.