East Ridge has some athletes and speed. Many of the chattanooga teams do. They do not have the coaching, established programs and buy in the upper east Tennessee teams do. That's the difference. There's probably some recruitment down there too that sucks up talent.
The QB for east ridge was a player. That long run he had in the first half was all effort on his part. He was seemingly just inches away from being sacked a dozen times. Short yardage throws, counters, sweeps and ball control long drives that eat clock was the game plan for ER. They wanted to keep our offense off the field. With a couple well timed penalties that gave then a first down they had a 7 minute non scoring drive in the 3rd qtr after us scoring in under 2. Repeat, rinse. Good game plan.
AC mixed it up running and passing but scored on all but 2 drives I think. One turnover first half and one punt in the second half.