Muskets making room for improvements

By DAVID MERRILL Sports Editor
Northwest Nodaway’s Korbin Koch asks head coach Terry Clark a question Monday during the Muskets’ practice.

Starting a new football season is always a process.

For Northwest Nodaway coach Terry Clark, it’s a process that has to evolve as the opening game of the season gets closer.

“We had a huge improvement from the first day to the second day,” Clark said. “A lot of that, I think, has to do with the fact that we had camp this year. We were able to have our O-line coaches work with the guys and that made a huge difference.”

In seasons past, the Muskets have had primarily a passing attack, but that is changing this year, and the team will have a run-heavy playbook with plenty of wrinkles.

The run game dominated the offensive part of the practice on Wednesday.

Each practice session will begin with individual work. For the rest of the week, before the team splits into smaller groups, they will finish each practice with drills as an entire team. This gives the offensive and defensive players looks that will come as close as possible to simulating a real game, while still being able to give instruction.