There are few stats in football as ultimately meaningless as time of possession.
Ask Red Bank High School coach Chad Grabowski.
“Yeah, that’s us. We want to be the ones making the big plays,” Grabowski said as the mist fell on a jubilant huddle Friday night at Tom Weathers Field. “We know our offense can drive the ball, but we also know we can make those explosive plays.
“We feed on that, and tonight it worked out for us.”
The Lions held the ball half as long, ran roughly half as many offensive plays and were almost doubled in first downs by visiting Signal Mountain in the first half. But quick strikes on each side of the ball – the Lions had two touchdowns after two offensive plays – jumpstarted them, and they never looked back.