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I don’t think there’s any issue, we just haven’t had the high end talent the past few years. We haven’t had those big X receivers like Netherly and Singleton. We haven’t had backs like Walter and Williams. We haven’t had anybody on the backend like Pickney and Perry recently. We haven’t had anybody on the o-line like Murphy and Tood since they left. We have a lot of that high end talent coming up though.

All teams that are relatively good have fans like that, including Aledo. You can look at the Friday Football app and see exactly what I’m talking about. Those teams like Aledo, Katy, SLC, North Shore, Highland Park, etc. have a lot more of those type fans than Crosby does. Probably over half the fans in the state cheer for y’all to lose, does it really matter to y’all though? Doesn’t matter who decides to cheer for us either.

The FBS kids still come in waves but Crosby has probably signed close to 60 kids in football alone over the last ten years. We have a recruiting coordinator who gets our kids’ film out. Everybody has Hudl accounts to help edit their film and have it sent out. They do ok across the other sports too, just signed 8 the other day including the top scorer in the state in basketball going to TCU and one of the top softball pitchers in the state going to Ole Miss. There’s probably something to the promotion part though. Looking at the film I’m completely floored how y’all’s qb has an offer to play anywhere, much less D1. He would be the 4th best qb in our district.

Not really. They had all those same kids last year when Crosby ran through them, plus they had a kid who was almost a 5-star in Clayton Smith coming off the other edge opposite of Brown. That entire defense was a non-factor. TH hasn’t played an offense as good as PNG’s since they lost to Crosby.

Call me crazy but the PNG team I saw beat #7 Montgomery Friday looks like they should beat #6 too? TH’s defense is solid but I think PNG can still get 40 on them, and their offense is similar to Montgomery’s but I don’t think it’s as good. A repeat performance of the area round probably gets you to December IMO.

Second half of Texas High vs Texas City:

First half of Texas High vs Texas City:

I think Rio gets a worse wrap than he should for some of those defenses. Our defense this year isn’t better than our ‘14 or ‘15 defense, statistically we aren’t better than ‘16 this year. We were solid on defense in ‘18 until Howard got hurt and the season fell apart. He was here seven years but ‘13 and ‘17 were the only true bad defenses. Coach Prieto hasn’t had the same elite level talent that Coach Riordan seemed to have his whole tenure here but he does have more overall team talent. I do t think there was ever a district game, blowout preventer not, where Rio could play 14 sophomores and freshmen? I do think the philosophy has changed though. Seems like the offense was more loaded up under Riordan and nobody went both ways, where as now it seems like if you can help on defense then that’s where you play first and you have to earn your way to the other side of the ball? I agree that it’s a significant improvement to not feel like you need 40 every night though.

I really wasn’t on the “Crosby should win big train” but watching the film from y’all’s game I feel a lot more confident. BH o-line put on a clinic against AMC. BH’s d-line was walking AMC’s o-line backward snap after snap. I see why BH was an epileptic team this year. The only reason they lost to AMC is because they don’t know how to win those games yet. I was throwing shade at y’all throughout the year regarding Abseck and ultimately when you’re then man you’re responsible. Watching the game though it was coached more than well enough for BH to win it by multiple scores. Players have to make the plays though, I see what BHFan was saying a few weeks ago.

Was looking through some stats and saw Crosby has three players with exactly 16 scrimmage tds after yesterday. Myles has a 30/2 TD-INT ratio. It’s a testament to the coaching staff that Crosby is able to put up similar offensive number that we did under Riordan without near the “flash”.

Quincy Jones had 22 carries for 198 yards and 5tds against Marshall. If the offensive line is going to move furniture like that mixed with Myles level of decision making yesterday then yeah, you might be right? Coach P out here looking like Bill Snyder with a passing game.

That’s why I think those DFW districts are so good, they have to beat each other just to be relevant. Well, when the teams you have to beat to be relevant are winning titles/making deep runs then your program automatically has to improve or else. Look at what North Shore has done for 21-6A.

Y’all have an absolute murder’s row to get to the title game. The semis will be a relief if y’all make it. I think y’all’s toughest test until the title game is this week against SOC, I’m just not super high on Lovejoy this year. I’ve been talking about it in other posts above but the reason Aledo is so dominant in our class is because they are so dominant at the LOS. Of course y’all are the heavy favorite but SOC looks like they may have the big boys up front to allow their offense to be a factor? QB play is the best I’ve seen from them. Maybe their defense is just good enough this year to take advantage of an Aledo offense that maybe not as potent as last year? Y’all will probably still win by 30 but man SOC looks awful good this year.

Free link to re-watch the game. Quality isn’t as good as NFHS though:

#3, #9 and #88 are all legit. They just don’t have anybody to get them the ball. They look like Branch playing at GCM. #91 was the best DT I’ve seen Crosby line up against all year outside of that kid from Manvel committed to Purdue. They just had nothing else on either line of scrimmage though. I’ve been geeking out and watching all our district’s playoff games from this week. It’s amazing how good our entire district is in general at the LOS. TC is the worst of all our playoff teams in that regard and they’re the only team that got blown out. PNG is considered a finesse team in our district but boy, that’s the last thing I would call them against Montgomery. who was supposed to be the bigger and more physical team.

Well, Crosby is coming in riding a ten game winning streak for only the second time in school history. This will probably be the toughest matchup Crosby has had since Manvel so Code Red needs to be on point Black Friday. If Crosby can bring the defense down HWY 290 there’s a good chance we’re playing in December again.

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I thought there was a chance this game could go the route of the Ned game this year. You know the playoffs are about matchups and Marshall plays slow like Ned does which frustrates Crosby at times. We missed a couple easy tds on our first two drives that game and it made the game a lot closer than it should’ve been. That got compounded because of the limited possessions against against Ned’s slow play. We play like we did today though and we might get to run it back with those boys off the west side of Ft. Worth. Marshall would have the second worst offense in our district and probably be battling Dayton for 7th place though. Marshall being able to finish a clean second in that district is the reason I’m picking PNG over TH.

21-6A gets all 4 teams through to the regional semis. May have been the best 6A district in the state this year.

Lol, I sat at the game quiet the whole time tonight. #26 runs to the sideline while PNG was trying to run out the clock at the end of the game and I stand up and yell “Slide!”. Forgot where I was at for a second🤣

That’s a tough one for BH to lose. Little better clock management at the end the they may win that one.

Cropped made some great throws. Especially some of those rollout throws he made across his body back over the middle. Biggest reason PNG won the game tonight was Montgomery’s inability to check Prosperie. I thought he was PNG’s best player when we played y’all and he had an all-state level performance tonight. Crippen played a great game and his numbers will reflect that but a couple of those deep balls that looked like dimes were really because #18 is out there playing them perfectly. Kid was sick tonight, those are the type individual performance you need to push you through sometime. Now PNG gets about a favorable matchup as you can in the third round.

PNG swallows probably 30 carries for 225 yards and at least 4tds from Jalen Washington and still gets the win. Excellent offensive execution from PNG tonight, especially on those crucial third downs. Hopefully Trahan can go next week.

Think I’m going to come watch this one. Long ride to Cypress to back door and have to go to Lufkin tomorrow. Wouldn’t be surprised to see PNG win this one by double digits, something like 45-35. Good luck Indians