Down off Morrison Springs Road, close to where the Hardee's slings biscuits and the shadows of Signal Mountain linger, the Red Bank defense has a new term.
When you see blue and silver, especially when your team has the ball, know that this Red Bank bunch views it as the "Lions of Scrimmage."
"Yeah, we know what we have up there," Red Bank coach Chris Brown said of his game-changing defensive line. "But I really thought our back end played great, and when your secondary plays like that and we can play our front four that loose, we can be pretty good."
A quick-strike 61-yard pass-and-catch touchdown from Joseph Blackmon to Devon Benn gave Red Bank an early lead that would prove to be more than enough in a 31-7 win over visiting Ooltewah.
In fact, the only thing that slowed Red Bank's first-half parade into the Ooltewah backfield Thursday night was a 30-minute lightning delay.
Red Bank (2-0) - anchored by defensive tackle Delmontae Gustus on the interior and jumpstarted by the athleticism of Cameron Bell off the edge - made 13 tackles at or behind the line of scrimmage in the first half. Yes, 13. In the first half alone.
Gutsy Ooltewah quarterback Fisher Perry - who avoided more athletic cats than Siegfried or Roy - managed to work the Owls (1-1) into Red Bank territory multiple times in the first half, but the Lions ultimately held them scoreless.
Perry's big 29-yard completion to Raymos McGee on the first play ended with a missed field-goal try. Perry's tackle-breaking 11-yard scramble on third-and-12 became a turnover on downs. Perry's dynamic recovery of a bad snap that turned into a Fran Tarkenton-like scramble and throw was dropped.
Every time the Owls moved into position while the game was still in doubt, the Lions' front seven answered. Emphatically.
"We talk a lot about that," said Gustus, who had half a sack and three tackles for loss, including stops behind the line on third-and-1 and fourth-and-inches in the decisive first half against the Owls. "The coaches emphasize us in the game plan, and we don't want to let the team down.
"I'm just trying to come out here and play as best I can because you never know when the next (game) will be your last one."
As the defense was grabbing control, the Red Bank offense struggled to find its footing. A large part of that was because of an Owls defense that was equally dynamic other than the two big plays.
The Owls' back seven - anchored by do-it-all linebacker Justice Cruz and sophomore strong safety Rocko Jennings - held the Lions to close to 4 yards a play, absent the big passing score early and the 80-yard touchdown run by Lumiere Strickland, who topped the 100-yard rushing mark for the second consecutive week.
Red Bank speedster Reco Trimble dropped the exclamation point on the Lions' line dance with two second-half touchdown runs to cap the scoring.
"We gave up two plays, and after that ..." Ooltewah coach Scott Chandler told his team before his voice trailed off and he looked to the future. "We need to decide what kind of team we want to be."
In the end, the Owls' defensive effort was not enough compared to the Lions' defensive dominance and the opportunities that came with it.
The Lions grabbed control Thursday night at the line of scrimmage.
Or is it the Lions of scrimmage?
"They've got two Division I players up there," Chandler said of the Lions' dynamic front. "We couldn't get on Noah's Ark - I'm not sure we have two of anything right now."
Contact Jay Greeson at jgreeson@timesfreepress.com.