With the high school football season starting this week, Oakdale High football coach Kurt Stein is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast

Stein chats with host Greg Swatek about the keys to the season for his team, which returns most of its top players after falling to Damascus in the Class 3A championship game last season. What will it take for the Bears to get over the hump and win the title this season? How will they manage their extremely challenging schedule? In what ways might they be even better this season?

Prior to that conversation, FNP sports writers Alexander Dacy and John Cannon join Greg to comprehensively preview the high school football season and share their thoughts on the first varsity girls flag football games to be played in the county.

The guys offer a team-by-team breakdown of the 10 public school and two private school teams that play football in Frederick County. They also share their initial impressions of girls flag football and where they feel that sport is headed after the historic first night of games.

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