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« Thread Started on Sept 26, 2009, 5:33pm » | |
So we're into week three now. It has already been an odd year.
Week one we pounded our opponents by 50. Could have put up 100 easy on them. Mass subs started well before the half. JVs played the entire second half. Maintained the shutout and kept scoring. Our opponent will go ~5-5 for the year and have the best year in their program's history. No first downs by the opponents until the 4th quarter when our 6th string nose tackle got beat by their starting center and they ran his gap for a touchdown.
We sent our sophomores up to play the exact same team (minus like 3 players (QB/RB/C) three days later and smoked them 48-6.
Week two we played a team who was #12 in the state in one poll and #15 in another. They were supposed to smoke us . Minus two plays (that turned into 14 points) they had under 50 yards of total offense. Our feature back & best DB messed up his leg and was out for the game. While we had two backs rush for 75 yards each the reality was that they stopped us a ton for no gain. QB put the team on his back and our defensive line absolutely slaughtered their OL not letting this big name QB that all the local papers did features do anything. We had two young Safeties playing by the end of the game and they each messed up once for TDs (Slant for 70 & a TD and Seam for 60 & a TD) further in the last drive to seal the game both of those kids made 1 on 1 open field tackles to save the game. Easily the biggest upset this year in the state and while we won by 7 the reality is that we beat them a lot harder than that.
Week three we had our opponent fold their team so we get a win & playoff points and have scheduled two JV games for the week instead. Anyone ever had a team fold their team into the season?
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« Reply #1 on Oct 4, 2009, 9:01am » | |
Week zero JV: We sent our JV (+1 senior, +1 junior starter) to play another team's varsity. They were bad. W 48-0. Everyone on the roster played including 3 freshmen we dressed.
Week two JV: The team we beat a few days before on the varsity level dressed four senior starters at alternate positions and all junior starters. Their best players didn't play but they definitely had us out manned. L 28-14.
Week three JV: We have two JV games week three and both are against other team's varsity squads. The first was against a team that our week zero JV opponent schooled in week two. Apparently they didn't know they were playing against our JVs until they asked why our varsity linemen were holding the chains and not playing... Kinda felt bad for them not knowing who they were playing... W 42-6. We did dress one varsity player at his second position and he played the first quarter. Everyone played including the 12 freshmen we dressed. My "dang that kid works hard but sucks" kids played the entire second half. My defensive starters got pulled in Q2.
Game two: We're going to play another varsity team with our JV on monday. I'm not bringing any Varsity players. We have no idea what they run as they apparently are not running the same stuff as in week one. We shall see! =)
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« Reply #2 on Oct 10, 2009, 4:16pm » | |
So after playing two days before we played the craziest JV game in history. We're playing another team's varsity with our JV. Before the game starts our HC has our kids (varsity and JV) run conditioning (40-40s). It was a bad call. HC still says it didn't make any difference in the outcome but it clearly did kids were sluggish. It woulda been ok if there hadnt been such a long layoff between them running and the game but there was... Only the second time in the last four years that I REALLY disagreed with our HC.
We are up by a score late in the 4th (they return a fumble for a TD, get a long TD run on a sweep where the DE sucked, and a HB pass suckers our corner for the third). Outside of those two plays they didn't get a first down till the very end. So they drive down get a 40+ yard run and another two first downs then our defense (now with our weakest defense possible) holds and we get the ball back. Our HC tells our JV OC that he can just take knees to end the game. I'm yelling they have two time outs. Tell the JV OC that he needs to check how many time outs they have with the ref. Apparently the ref on our sideline tells him they have one although the kids said he told them there was one minute remaining. First play: Victory Formation. Timeout. Second Play Victory Formation Timeout. Third play now he realizes he needs a first down and runs right up the gut for four yards or so. We have to snap the ball. The JV OC calls a rollout pass play. QB loses twelve yards and they get the ball on the one inch line with one second to go and they win.
HC made comments to both the JV OC and myself about being "fired" and whatever when it was entirely his fault. I don't really care about losing a JV game (even if we were playing another team's varsity) but the HC needed to take responsibility and instead pushed it off on us. I wasn't happy.
Simple fact is if you don't know how many time outs for {censored} sure the other team has you don't tell your assistant to take a knee, you don't do conditioning before any type of game. I'm still not happy about it. All week the kids talked about the game both varsity players (who came over to watch after their practice was over) and the JVs. The JV OC got the blame but since he won't be with us next year I let him take it instead of correcting the kids and putting the blame where it belonged on the HC. Still only the second time I've questioned him in the last four years so nothing wrong with that....
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« Reply #3 on Oct 10, 2009, 4:20pm » | |
Week Four:
We're up by 50 at the start of Q2. We didn't play like five starters who could have dressed and played but due to knowing it was going to be a blow out we didn't. JVs went in with like ten minutes left to go in Q2.
Our "Everyone who hasn't played yet" defense lets up two TDs in the 4th quarter but thats what happens when you have DL playing cornerback....
No JV game this week but they played most of the varsity game so no need anyway.
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« Reply #4 on Oct 17, 2009, 5:31pm » | |
Week Five: Varsity game was tight for a long while. We were tied as late as two minutes left in the second quarter. That said the calls from a single side judge in that first twenty two minutes was the worst I've ever seen a ref work. We had three holding calls (called by the side judge mind you) none of which was anything more than ticky-tack called on us while hits ten seconds after the play on the other team's part is ignored repeatedly. I'm all fired up. Asked the ref to watch him on the next play and he told me to "mind my business." The very next play he flagged us on the sideline for being too close to the field. Mind you every single player was two yards behind the start of the old "coaches box" while we were on the line... During that play the same guy I asked him to watch he threw a kid to the ground and then pushed two kids on the way to the huddle (no flag).
We won the game and did so by like 30 and in the long run I guess it doesn't matter. Our line dominated theirs on both sides of the ball. on defense double team them and they don't move. Pull backside and their backs got chased down from behind. On offense they devastated the inside linebackers and defensive tackles they went up against. Picked up every stunt, blocked two guys in pass coverage till help arrived time and time again, and really created openings inside. All of our backs did really well. Three backs were right around 100 yards. Another two picked up like 50 each. When they had to make a defender miss they did. Just about all of that yardage was B gap to B gap. We had six drives in a row with TDs after the opening two drives being held ransom by the side judge.
Our coverage needs work. We prepared so hard on defense this week for the run and the double wing attack that we neglected pass coverage. They had 4 ten yard passes and a fifth that went for 50. They did an excellent job beating cover 0, cover 2, and cover 3. Play calling on their part was great.
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« Reply #5 on Oct 24, 2009, 12:42pm » | |
Week Six: We had a very good team this week. It was close into the 3rd quarter. The other team played the best I've ever seen them play. They were healthy for the first time this season. They had three kids who may be all state this year who were just insane. They threw a ton of stuff at us from full house to empty sets. Shifts and motions galore. Traps and powers, options, trick plays, etc all over the place. They played tough smart football. That said we still won by a couple of scores.
6-0 on the year. Ranked by the local paper in the area for the first time ever. The kids still have a chip on their shoulder and don't think they have earn ed anything yet. They are hungry still. We've got our biggest rival next week. Georgia and Georgia Tech call their game "Clean, Old Fashioned Hate" and I think this sums up next weeks game pretty well.
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« Reply #6 on Oct 31, 2009, 6:18pm » | |
Week Seven: We had our biggest rivals. They are having a down year but have incredible speed. We almost had our game canceled because like 40% of our school has the flu...
We ended up winning despite our QB having the worst game hes ever had. Five picks. Every drive was either a TD or a pick. We had four hundred yards rushing split among three backs.
We were down our top defensive player. He could barely stand up. Two of our other players stepped up. They got double teamed EVERY play the entire game yet each had 15 tackles 5 sacks.
Had two sophomore JV players in the secondary because of illness and they tried to take advantage. They threw just about every down. Each of them had a pick and played very well.
They scored all their points and had 90% of their yards on three plays. A ridiculous trick play, a ridiculous catch, and a well timed screen pass. Each went for 60+.
7-0 on the year so far and no one outside of the program had a clue it was going to happen. Love it.
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« Reply #7 on Nov 7, 2009, 6:33pm » | |
Week Eight.
We came out soft and we were down three scores within five minutes. They are under 500 and we were undefeated and down 21 right from the get go. Their big gun had 100+ rushing and 100+ receiving within those five minutes. They did a great job anticipating our defensive line's technique and was reading our two gap players and making them wrong even when they did the right thing according to the read they got from the OL.
We changed defensive formations to eliminate the two gap players and by the time we came back to it we had it figured out and changed how we were reading them.
On offense they made us punt... a lot. More than we have the entire season combined. We traded punts all night but while we stopped their big plays and every drive teetered out eventually their blitzes turned our 4 yard runs into 70 yard runs.
They would go 2 yards 2 yards incomplete punt while we were going -1 -1 70 TD.
After two weeks of having to deal with swine flu and having half of our starters miss a large part of the last two weeks we survived both games and are still undefeated on the year with a very good team next week and a top ten team in the state the following week.
Need to probably go 9-1 at least on the year to make the playoffs so a win next week is vital.
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« Reply #8 on Nov 13, 2009, 11:41pm » | |
Week 8 JV: Completely dominated them. I stopped keeping score early and everyone played. Kids had a blast and our kids who were on a short fuse for their entire lives upto that point ignored ridiculous personal fouls by the opponent. My defensive end "isn't right" and when the offensive tackle for the other team punched him in the face three times (mind you he is wearing a helmet) he laughed at him turned to the ref and asked for a flag. If the kid had done that two years ago to him he would have murdered him on the spot. Real progress in attitude. Every run we had was for 20 every pass caught. QB had four touchdowns throwing the same route to the same kid on the same play in consecutive drives... Gotta love that. JV Record: 8-2
Week 9 Varsity: We played a very good team. They DEMOLISHED us last year. Easily our worst loss of the season last year. Outstanding skill position kids. Undersized but quick linemen. Their scores came on ridiculous big plays which seems to be a common theme with us. Opening kickoff returned for a TD, a 70+ run and a 70+ pass were essentially the only positive yards they had all night. Blown assignments by a sophomore on the kickoff unit, a sophomore defensive back and a junior linebacker were three shots across our bow. We ground the ball out at like 10 yards a carry and were 1 for 1 passing for 50 yards. We should have put up more points. It was silly that we didn't. End result is a win.
9-0. Clinched a share of the conference title and a playoff spot. Both are firsts for the school.
Next week we have the undefeated returning state champions. We win we have sole position of the conference title and the #1 playoff ranking and a homegame in the semis.
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