Can De Queen avoid an offensive shootout with top-ranked Nashville for the second straight year?

“I don’t think it’s possible to shut Nashville out,” De Queen coach Chris Vereen said. “We definitely don’t want to get is a scoring battle. They might put points on the scoreboard against the Cowboys. We’ve got to limit their possessions to as few as we can, and somewhere we’ve got to force a turnover, and get a punt or two.”

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