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Proud of our Lumberton 22-5A brethren!!! 

Have to say both teams offenses are incredible. PNG finally played with the ability I knew they had the whole game. We had to. Giblin and Sullivan are just awesome. Cropper ran hard.  Dayton's offense is just incredible. PNG defense did a good job tonight. I thought we might have another goal line stance. Almost. Good job Dayton. 

Have to say both teams offenses are incredible. PNG finally played with the ability I knew they had the whole game. We had to. Giblin and Sullivan are just awesome. Cropper ran hard.  Dayton's offense is just incredible. PNG defense did a good job tonight. I thought we might have another goal line stance. Almost. Good job Dayton. 

Great game PNG it was a dog fight to the end and good luck in the next round a lot of Dayton fans will be pulling for you !
It was a joy watching all of my Bronco Seniors  this year you made us proud !!! GO BRONCOS -

Congrats to Png, my heart rate is up smh sheesh

All I can say is great game PNG. To all the seniors for Dayton thanks for the effort and I sure will miss watching a lot of  y'all play. Good luck next round PNG.

The only good thing about tonight win or lose at least purple and white is moving on to play. Hope it is the Indians though.

The only good thing about tonight win or lose at least purple and white is moving on to play. Hope it is the Indians though.

The only good thing about tonight win or lose at least purple and white is moving on to play. Hope it is the Indians though.

Don't act as if you wasn't scared and cussing but good game King

Keep it up jags!!!!

Come on Jags!!!!

Don't put em in Black and Gold or CPS might get called!

I know this, Central's didn't get poison to kill ant beds at the Babe....

Both teams have the potential to win. Who ever comes in and does shoot themselves in the foot will win. Dayton has probably been more consistent in not giving up the ball or penalties this year. PNG, not so much. PNG, if they play mistake free, will move the ball as they want. We have had mental break downs this year that has hurt us. Our defense is playing good physical football coming into this game and we are pretty good in the red zone against offenses. I'm with Strattax, no gimmick plays unless absolutely necessary.

IMO I do not think that defense will be the issue.. Even in our losses this year we did not give up a ton of points. The matchup issue will be on the other side of the ball. When our offense struggles it is against a physical defense.. A good analogy would be a Baylor offense vs a Alabama defense.. Usually the finesse offense struggles unless it can jump out on top and stay in rhythm. Offense off the field equates to defense on the field.. Note that in our 2 losses, we played physical defenses that knock you around.. Usually what happens is that the offense sputters and cannot get going until the latter part of the game when the defense finally wears down a little.. I can promise all of you one thing... I have watched Dayton and Crosby.. LIVE... They are playing at a different speed.. It will take our best effort to beat Dayton.. I am in no way saying we cant do it, however, we will need our best performance of the year.. We will also need to stay balanced.. Pound the rock to open up the passing game, and play sound defensively... Keep the penalties down, stay away from gimmick plays, make good snaps, and play Indian football........ Dayton is beatable, but we need our "A" game.. If we bring our "A" game, we WIN, if we come with anything but that, we lose... Its simple... Dayton will be geared up to stop the pass.... Its all about Xs and Os.... Should be a interesting game... Comparing stats are useless at this point of the season.. Our Co- DC has played both and we know the outcome.... But if anyone can get out of the first round, PN-G can.... We have the team to do it... We just need to have that "A" game..........

Are you sure it's because the offenses are worse over here. Are you really sure? Don't forget we led Dayton last year and made some mistakes ourselves.

we will not all of a sudden become relevant. It's something that will take time. But what if this is the beginning of us getting there. Should we just be happy with one more year to the playoffs and then not expect anything next year? We are being who we are, but also trying to change the culture in this town to a winning attitude. I see nothing wrong with it.

Could you guys do us a favor and run the spread? jkng.....

I disagree with you about this. You need to play your starters and tune up for Dayton. You don't need to go into the playoffs with a loss. I'm hoping the Pirates play with heart and get something to build on for next year.

Being underdogs to a good Dayton team would be believeable to me. They have my respect and deservedly so

Well, I'll agree against Nederland and WOS we screwed the pooch so to speak. But your analysis doesn't take in account the mental break down in those particular games. Had we played mentally tough it would be a lot different.  We pretty much moved the ball against WOS when we wanted to but with turnovers and penalties our stats dropped. Same way with Nederland. The first half of that game was horrible. Second half we easily caught up and with more time could have won. But we didn't. Now I know what your gonna say, that is part of the game and you would be right. But, if we play mistake free ball, we'll score every time. We respect Dayton and know they score a lot. I do believe we'll go in as underdogs and that's ok, but to discount the talent we have based on past games could allow us to sneak by Dayton. We just have to go in mentally tough. Although there is nothing we can do about play calling. Dayton probably has the edge there.

I too want to say good luck to these 4 teams.  
Nederland -  I give you a hard time, but you're team is a consistant class act.  I know you'll be prepared.
PN-G - You guess execute so well on both sides of the ball and your qb is soo accurate, you'll give any oposine defense fits...
Lumberton - so glad you're back in the postseason.  You made a statement early with the new coach. Go knock em dead 
Central - you haven't reached your full potential yet, but what better time to do it than in the postseason?  You've gradually gotten better, and look to see you peaking in 2 weeks.

whats a defense?