Davis coach Jody Weber has seen the tape — Passes traveling half a football field in the air, 42-yard field goals splitting the uprights, 205-pounders playing defensive line.
He’s watched John Marshall so many times he says he can’t look at the screen anymore.
By all indications, the Bears mean business.
“They’re as explosive a team we’ve played in a long time,” Weber said. “They can beat you a lot of different ways.”
The 10th-ranked Bears (8-2) will travel to play No. 1 Davis (11-0) on Friday with a roster that can match the Wolves athlete for athlete. Despite utilizing a run-first spread offense that likes to get to the perimeter, the Bears can drop back and throw the deep ball as well. They have scored 42 points in back-to-back weeks since beating Heritage Hall 12-7 in week 9, paced by Division I linebacker prospect Ken Berry (6-foot-1, 215 pounds) and quarterback Brendon Jordan, who listed at 6-3, 225.
Weber described Jordan as a “Vince Young clone” with a “rocket arm,” which was on display on his 56-yard TD pass last week against Little Axe that traveled the entire way in the air.
Weber probably had enough of the tape when he saw Jordan hit a 42-yard field goal in the Bears’ 42-7 first-round win.
“Everything starts with him,” Weber said of Jordan. “They want to run first but their big play is the deep ball.”
The Bears finished third in District 2A-1 behind Heritage Hall and Kingfisher, and enter Friday on a four-game winning streak. Their only losses this season have been by a combined 13 points to Newkirk (19-13) and Kingfisher (21-14).
That’s 13 points from an unbeaten regular season — a small margin that won’t bother Davis, which thrives on winning the little battles on the field.
Last week in a 55-14 win over Hobart, the Wolves’ defense scored two touchdowns on fumble returns by Cole Weber and Dylon Teeter, and special teams added scores on consecutive kickoff returns by Matt Burba and Deaundre’ Carr.
Those fumble returns both came in the first half. In contrast, Davis has only lost two fumbles all season.
“We want to make it a completely different game when we throw all that in,” Weber said of his defense’s and special teams’ scoring. “We want to be on the receiving end of some of those big plays.”
They were last week, as defense and special teams matched the offense for touchdowns and totalled exactly 200 yards on those four big plays.
