Pine Drive has trailed in SEVERAL ball games going into the 2nd or halftime. I've told our fans several times, Our kids never come out extremely motivated (too high energy) because WE know we are in for a FOUR QUARTER BALL GAME. And our physicality & our depth will take effect come quarters 3 & 4.
Our motto is: Let's just keep it close until the 3rd, because then our rotation of 5 RB's, 2 QB's, 3 DB's, 2 OL's, & SEVERAL receivers will take effect and of course our sub-pattern on defense as well.
I believe I told this to Coach Davis at SA TownEast:
We are a VERY DEEP team and we rotate alot of kids (alot of YOUNG KIDS).
We play anywhere from 11-15 kids.
Heck I even got bashed at our all district meeting by a coach who said I should'nt have a 1st team or 2nd rb because I play 5 different backs and their stats are not GOOD ENOUGH as the other backs in the district...
Box Dad,
We had a simple game plan going into this ball game.
LET 51 catch as many passes as possible, because we felt he would not out run us, we can tackle him and 51 himself will wear himself out for the 2nd half.
We were to bring 3 hard at #8 (like I learned for Vance Jones of Garden City ISD) because I didn't want #8 having 24 hrs to find a receiver.
Then in the 2nd half, send 3 hard, but once contact is made by VLA's up-backs, that lone one hard rusher (FROM OUR LEFT SIDE, TO CHASE #8 TO HIS LEFT, SO HE HAD TO THROW ACROSS HIS BODY) and it worked to perfection... Threw several incompletions and a couple INT's...
In rushing 3 hard, you will always leave some one open shallow and 2 open deep..... #8 just didn't have enough time to see the deep receivers, except for the one time when PD's #12 fell off of him when he had #8 wrapped up for a 14 yard loss, #8 got away from the tackle and found the open receiver 30+ yards down the field...
But thanks for helping me out and thanks for coming out and supporting us yesterday.
And as ANY/ALL UIL sixman coach will tell you,
A win by 44 is the same as a win by 1 this late in the year.... Because a win is a win and you're moving on to the next round