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I don't think that's entirely true. Most of these kids on here for offense were very good defensively as well.

west33 wrote:That is a good list! One player I felt should be on the top 25 is Barnes qb somerset.

Barnes is good, if the list was 25 he may have made it.

hornets69 wrote:a good list for mostly offense, however, I would increase the number to 30 or 40 to include all positions.

Some of these players would get destroyed going up against a few lineman one on one. it's all relative. without a half decent player or two on the line. none of these guys would have the offensive stats that they do.

No questions about it, but wouldn't some linemen get burnt going up against speed, again like you said, it's all relative. I've always done the 20 player list (actually it's been 16 in the past) so again, I have explained leading up to the list, and at the bottom of the list it isn't a true all area team list with position by position, rather I'm highlighting who I think were the best players. I mean, nobody is up in arms about the all-state list, but they have 12 skilled players recognized, and only 4 offensive linemen. 140 some A teams, and only 4 offensive linemen were recognized. Trust me, it isn't easy to put an offensive linemen on these types of lists, because many of them don't even make highlight tapes. I literally had no way of making it fair by putting one OLinemen in over the other. I had nothing to work with.

NYG718 wrote:I don't think the defense was well represented someone needs to look at stats especially skilled players

Yeah, but 14 of the 20 were great defensive players on top of their offensive prowess. Actually 4 guys made the list for their defensive accomplishments first.

PLDragons24 wrote:I don't think that's entirely true. Most of these kids on here for offense were very good defensively as well.

You are right, some players were selected because they were good defensive players in addition to being a good offensive player.