 Well the countdown to kickoff is getting closer just three days away now until the Lumberjacks take the field for the first time and after taking a step back in 2016, the Jacks are ready for a fresh start. Coming off a 1-8 season in 2016, but Midgie is hoping for a fresh start. With that, a new motto, trust the process. Trust your teammates, trust the process. We're going to have some adversity along the way. Could happen on the first play, could happen in the first quarter of the first half. Doesn't matter. With a bunch of new faces and the makeup of this roster being mostly young players, it's easy to wipe the slate clean. I think the biggest thing is to realize that we're a new team. We don't have very many returning players. It's not like we need to just get over the last season and we have a new team here. That includes a new man orchestrating the offense replacing Jonah Moller and they're hoping junior Jacob Bberg is ready to be the guy. He's the only guy that has any experience and he's an extremely athletic kid that we really like in our offense. He's had a great offseason. He's had a great two weeks. He will, he'll make plays for our offense. The Jacks philosophy dominate the line of scrimmage and run the ball effectively and they're hoping some new faces up front and balance in the backfield will help set the tone. We have a lot of running backs and we'll just play it by ear. You know we're gonna we're gonna obviously have some kind of a rotation by Thursday but right now we're going to get them reps and see who climbs at the top. On the other side of the ball it's simple go back to the basics. Working a lot at the fundamentals this year kind of went backwards. Decided that we needed to just look at all the simple aspects of everything hitting hard and hitting with her shoulder and not her face. Just making sure everybody knows how to tackle, where to tackle, when to tackle. So trusting the process and starting fresh will ultimately lead them to their goals. To take it one game at a time make sure that we understand that we don't need to have a winning season. We just need to have a successful season within ourselves. We need to win one game at a time focus each week on everything that we're doing. They'll open up hosting Rogers Thursday night at BSU at 7 p.m. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.