Niceville, FL — NICEVILLE — Like clockwork every week, Eagles head coach Grant Thompson will get frustrated with his offense's inability to move the ball. Not on Friday mind you. We're talking about practice. "Once a week I'll come back after practice and call the offensive coaches and kind of rip into everybody. 'We can't move the ball on 'em,' I'll tell them," Thompson said. 'Em = Niceville's defense, the catalyst behind a 3-0 start and the welcomed kryptonite for an Eagles offense averaging 31 points per game come Friday nights. Iron sharpens iron? How about talons sharpen talons. It's that next-man-up defensive crew that shut out Fort Walton 35-0 Friday night at Eagle Stadium, a dominant effort in every phase of the game. Here's the Cliffsnotes version: - Fort Walton didn't have a single passing yard. - Fort Walton rushed for 47 yards on 21 carries. - Fort Walton had just one first down. Yep, not a typo. Not only did Fort Walton's offense not have a single offensive play past midfield. The Vikings didn't snap a ball past the 40. "We're priding ourselves on our defense around here. Coach Martin, coach Moore, coach Williams, coach Finley, coach Brechtel ... they all do a great job," Thompson said. "Look it's miserable in practice, it's miserable to go up against them." Deangelo Shorts especially shined, garnering a sack, getting multiple quarterback hurries and racking up double-digit sacks for a defense missing multiple playmakers. "He's looking better and better," Thompson said. "He's a playmaker." A playmaker who once struggled with his confidence and weight, but has since put on around 20 pounds of muscle to his current 170-pound frame. "These last couple of weeks I really just snapped, my mindset changed and I'm locked in," he said. "Every day we're battling with our offense. They're good, our defense is good. When you play against good people every day, it's going to show up on Friday." Nodding his head is Orr, who completed 11-of-14 passes for 177 yards — including a 61-yard TD to Maddax Fayard, who had a team-best 159 receiving yards on nine catches — and ran for a 37-yard touchdown as part of a team-high 52 rushing yards. "We have a really good defense that makes everything slower and easier in games. When you practice against really good defenses, you go into games and everything feels smooth and easy to handle," Orr said. In the offseason, Orr filled out his 6-foot-2 frame to tip the scales at 200 pounds, But not at the sacrifice of his speed that lent for an all-state campaign last season at defensive back. "He can run. He can really run," Thompson said. "He's doing that against teams that are really fast too. He can be really special if he wants to be." De'Mon Allen added two rushing touchdowns and Micah Turner scored his seventh touchdown of the early season, all in the first half that ended 35-0. Now Niceville is one win closer to yet another Okaloosa County title. "Growing up in Okaloosa County, these games mean a lot," said Thompson, whose Eagles host 0-3 Chiles next. "I was on the other end of some of these, you know, so these games mean a lot to me as an Okaloosa guy for our whole team, our town, our program. There's still a lot of people that this is a big deal, these in-county games. So I'm happy for everybody."