THE TIME IS FINALLY HERE!

The time has finally come. Football games are finally here. All of the Sunday practices, all of the conditioning all of the sweat and in some cases blood will now finally pay-off. The Xpress take on the Texas Knights on Saturday Jan. 31st. for our first test of this pre-season, the numbers have been moderate at best but we have been able to accomplish a lot, the QB'S RB'S and WR'S have finally stepped their game up and I am feeling very confident with this group. We have gotten younger and faster at the WR and RB position and it will help us more this year then it did last year, we have 2 great QB'S in Tre Fields and Kevin Nelson and both are going to make the offense better then it was a year ago. Young fast and shifty RB Rocky Frank, A much improved all around player in James Roberts and throw in rookie sensation WR Demarcus Taylor the Xpress offense should move the ball up and down the field against 2009 opponents. Now lets look at the Defense which will be better at every position that it was weak in last season. At Defensive End the Xpress got extremely faster off the ball with the addition of Strong side DE Jeremy Rutherford whom the Xpress feel will set a new team record in sacks, the bar has been set high with his skills the Xpress see at least 15 sacks, that would shatter the team record of 11 set in 2007. Defensive Tackle the upgrade is moving Derrick Blount to tackle from defensive end because last year Diondre Shamlin was not dedicated to make practice he only wanted to play on Saturday, and with the signing of free agent DT Jeff Baker and Rookie Jay Baker the front four will be looking and playing like Monsters of the Midway. Lets look at LB, the Xpress got faster stronger and taller with the addition of Sam Crawford, Quentin Sarpy and moving last years strong safety Gabriel Langley to outside LB and picking up Free Agent LB Kirk Gillespie, the team front seven is going to create Havoc on opposing teams QB'S and RB's. Now the secondary, at the CB position Carnell Livingston locks down one corner spot, and who takes care of the other corner spot is between Chris Hicks, and Keddrick Ford. Hicks has the advantage right now due to his excessive amount of time he has spent in training camp while Ford was having to deal with personal issues. The Safety spot looks like the Xpress upgraded in that position to, we went out and re-signed veteran free safety Phillip Givens,and at strong safety rookie Demarcus Nixon in with both of these additions the Xpress got smarter and faster then last year. Now with 2 pre-season games coming up and the season only a few weeks away it's just a matter of putting it together and doing it on the field.