all find our gaps, and ….

all find our gaps, and do our job. If the guy is there, we’re going to tackle him or the other guy is going to tackle him.”

“It’s kind of weird but we don’t tackle live,” Krizan said. “We don’t. Four years of high school football I’ve never practiced live tackling. We just wrap up a lot. We flow hard. So if one misses, we have three more to back him up. That’s a big deal.”

Gilman looks to keep rolling this Friday when it visits Alma Center Lincoln, a young team that is driven by its shortpassing game directed by freshman quarterback Jace Paul. It also will be a rare occasion where the Pirates will play on an 80-yard field.

“We have to change gears a little bit, going from facing all run to all pass,” Rosemeyer said. “It’s a short, quick passing game. A lot of spread. They’ll run the ball a little bit but not a lot. We got a lot of pressure on the quarterback last year with our d-line. We need to do that again. They’ll have their quarterback in the shotgun and he wants to get rid of it right away. We have to be able to play tight on the line but not give them anything deep at the same time. We need to be able to tackle. They want to throw the 3-yarder. We still have to make the tackle at 3 yards and make sure we’re disrupting their pass routes and things like that.”