 Stevenson drops the season opener today to Salisbury Glen Clark with Shannon Snyder. Shannon I want to talk to you obviously today didn't go the way that you guys wanted it to but you're making an interesting transition obviously this year moving from attack to defense and in the early going to this one we saw you really like stepping out trying to make some like free safety types of plays trying to be a ball hawk can you take me through making this transition this year and and sort of getting that first sort of taste of a real gameplay to be out there on the other side of the field yeah I mean I've always been defensive minded and I think Kathy saw that when I first came in and everything so she definitely used that to her advantage she always says like we have a very athletic defense and a very fast defense and we recognize that so when we have those opportunities she wants us to get hands-on she wants us to take those chances and she always says like our defense even always says we got your back we want you taking those chances and the more we can do that the more we will frazzle them and I mean it will result in some turnovers eventually so obviously today it even in the early going you were able to make a couple legs get the ball free and that was a good thing clearly this is not the story of your team what happened here today that's not gonna be what you're all about what do you take from a day like today knowing you were up against one of the toughest teams in the country and how do you guys get better moving forward I mean she does this every every season for a reason like we did it last year started out with Salisbury fell to them obviously next week we have Gettysburg we felt a Gettysburg last year not saying we're expecting to but these this film is gonna be great like Kathy said she said she's gonna go back look at the film figure out what we need to do I mean it showed pretty obviously what we needed to work on defensively like attacking wise definitely we need to work on pressure on the ball and getting comfortable with that but it's definitely gonna help us like it helped our last season we went a no in the conference so these two games are definitely going to help us in the conference play so what's the what's the message from from the leaders of this team like what's the message to everybody after a day like today where it just wasn't your day obviously like we have a lot of sophomores obviously returning sophomores last year they were freshmen so these two games last year as freshmen we're a little bit of a shock but this is their second year around so they definitely know what they have to do they know how to step it up we got to keep our heads up we have to keep our freshman heads up the younger players really need to understand like this is a very good team that we're playing so not that we're expecting to fall to them but we need to up our game we need to play to their level so I think it will definitely help us all right well we're looking forward to seeing that we still have high expectations around here and there's still a lot of talent on this team Shannon was cool to see out there being aggressive and making players I know you're cold we're gonna let you run out of here she's saying Shannon Snyder I'm Glenn Clark for GoMustangSports.com