We’ve only been outright beaten by the competition twice this year. Those instances came against the lions and chiefs. All of our other losses have easily identifiable moments of self inflicted wounds in key moments that had significant impact on the outcome. There are still fluctuations of good and mediocre performances from all phases of the team, but this team is obviously trending up and still getting better.

I don’t have a score prediction, but I think we either win big, win a close one or lose a close one. I don’t believe the bolts will come in and win by 2 scores. If you made me choose one of those, I’d say we win big this weekend. Bolts are coming cross country on a short week and also played a road game in week 18. We also match up well. It’s just a tough match up and bad series of events for them. Too much for them to overcome, even with the amount of talent they have.

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