Northwestern is back in the District 11 football playoffs - and while it might be tempting for the defending district champions to look ahead to playing for another title, don't expect that to be a problem for the Tigers.

Northwestern is in its usual one-game-at-a-time mode and is solely focused on this week's opponents - the Salisbury Falcons."We've been here before and we know it's a new season. It's win or go home and we're taking that mentality," said Northwestern coach Josh Snyder. "I know that our senior group is not ready to be done yet"We're pretty amped up, because we know we didn't play our best game against Salisbury the first time. We want to get back to that championship game and Salisbury stands in our way of that game."Salisbury and Northwestern met just over a month ago and Northwestern grabbed a come from behind 30-21 win over the Falcons at Tiger Stadium. That win provided the difference in the seedings of the two teams, forcing Salisbury travel to "The Jungle" to face the Tigers Friday night.In the first meeting, Northwestern looked to run the ball a lot, mainly because of a sore shoulder that was bothering quarterback Dylan Snyder. Harry Hall gave a typical performance, carrying the ball 32 times for 191 yards. Snyder is healthy now and the Northwestern passing game could be a bigger part of the Tigers' offense."Harry's going to get his carries and we're going to have to use screens and plays off of our run game," said Snyder. "We've worked very hard this week to prepare and we just have to play responsibility football and be ready for what they're going to do."While Hall had a big week on the ground against Salisbury, Falcons' quarterback Tevon Weber threw for 246 yards on 26 attempts against Northwestern. Both coaches are well aware of the weapons that the other team has and simply look to keep Hall and Weber from taking over the game."You can't plan on just shutting down their back [Hall]," said Salisbury coach Andy Cerco. "You have to come to grips with the fact that he's going to get yards, the question is how many? The first key is getting him wrapped up and not relying on one guy to stop him. He had a big game against us the first time, so it's a matter of limiting that as best we can."Meanwhile, the Tigers are preparing for an air assault."We've game planned against him so it's a matter of limiting that as best we can."Meanwhile, the Tigers are preparing for an air assault."We've game-planned against him [Weber] and used that film to our advantage to change what we're doing and keep their players in check," said Snyder. "We've also developed some drills to lock onto those receivers."Our objective is to eliminate the big play and make them earn it. Hopefully, if we can make them go 12 or 13 plays, they'll make a mistake and we can capitalize on that. They're going to get some yards with the pass, but we just have to look to limit that."While the first meeting will give both teams a sense of familiarity with each other, Snyder believes that his team is facing a challenge that Salisbury won't be facing in the rematch."One negative is that it's just really tough to beat a team two times in the same season, it's not easy to beat a high-caliber team like Salisbury once, so we've got our work cut out for us," said Snyder. "They've got that - I don't want to call it revenge - wanting to get back at us for dropping that game to us, so it's some give and take."The winner advances to the District 11 championship, which for Northwestern would result in a rematch of some sort. Either they would have to travel to Notre Dame, the top seed, for a rematch of the week one game that saw the Crusaders knock off Northwestern 31-19 or they would have the district championship on their turf against North Schuylkill, who the Tigers beat in last year's district title game.