Chaffey touting its receivers for a change
It's not last year's 2-8 season that has Chaffey contemplating changes to its historically grounded offense, but two additions to the team head coach Chris Brown can't help but put to use. If receivers Felix Edwards and Jamal Logan, who are returning from military school and Colony, respectively, are talented enough to convince Brown to make significant changes, they must be good.
"Jamal Logan is probably the best athlete at the school," Brown said. "Edwards is a big, fast tall kid. Today in practice we spread it out and threw it around and I can tell you those guys had a good practice. If we have those weapons, we have to use them."
Logan is a basketball star and Edwards stands 6-foot-3. There is a quarterback competiton between two juniors involving the more mobile, powerful Jacob De La Rosa and the rocket-armed Samisoni Seluini, whose mobility is severly limited.
The biggest deficiency for the perennial playoff team that had a hiccup last season was team speed, something Brown said has been vastly improved by a crop of young players. The Tigers return 10 starters, five on offense and five on a defense that allowed 34 points per game last season. The returning starters, according to Brown, may not have their jobs long if the youth develop quickly.
"Everything that could have gone wrong last season went wrong," Brown said. "I think our staff and our kids are excited to get back and fix it. Our team speed is better and when you have speed you can make up for a lot of deficiencies."
About Clay
Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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