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NFHS is the worst thing that ever happened to high school football degenerate like me. I literally watch 10+ hours of games/film per week on there. Hopefully watch/re-watch Crosby’s football AND basketball team make a run to the title game.

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Just interesting y’all are going back and forth for 4th and 5th after starting 1-2 with one of those being a 46 point blowout? I’ll take your word for it though. We’ve been ranked in the top 5 a few times since ‘14 too, just makes for a target. Thanks for cheering for us but I’m sure half the state was cheering for the underdog to stop Aledo from winning their 10th title. Crosby fans were like this when we weren’t even good so nothing has gone to our heads, we just don’t thing Marshall is very good considering what we’ve lined up against on our schedule.

FBM got beat by the 4th seed from our district. TC held that team to 7 a couple weeks ago. You don’t get a bunch of easy stuff against TC’s defense but they probably have the worst offense of the four playoff teams from our district. That’s why I think this one will be relatively low scoring. If somebody made me pick a team if would probably be TH though.

I’m not at all saying FB Marshall wasn’t good. I still don’t think Marshall was right though, you don’t not play for a month and just hop back in there. Something just doesn’t seem right about that whole situation? You can look at my posts from the beginning of the year talking about the subject as to why I said they weren’t as good as last year though. Based on film I thought BH was better at the line of scrimmage than they were and BH dominated them there. You can watch Coach Williams podcast from today where he talks about it. What I’m saying is that advantage BH had at the line of scrimmage won’t be there this week. That’s probably going to make a huge difference with how BH has to operate. FB Marshall was a finesse team that wants to get in space to use their athletes, Consol. is going to try to run it straight at you with their big o-line. They have a better rb than you just faced with FBM and a receiver that’s probably the fastest I’ve seen on film all year. If their qb doesn’t get hurt they probably beat Montgomery and are ranked in the top 10 themselves. Playoffs games are about matchups and I think this is a tougher one for BH. That central Texas style of grind-you-down play mixed with the personnel they put on the field has been tough for our district to deal with in general though, only team I can remember Crosby beating is Brenham.

That’s crazy y’all won that many consecutive district games but only won three playoff games in that same span. Bodes well for us. Y’all weren’t top 5 in 2018 either, y’all lost in the third round to a team that didn’t even win the region. We can’t rest starters because a bunch of them only played a quarter and a half last week, they need to be sharp when we face a good team like Barbers Hill or Consol. Resting starters too much can come back to bite you like it did FB Marshall last week. Nobody said “no talent”, I said the lager Golden Triangle and East Texas schools have less talent than they did 15-20 years ago because of population shifts. Glad y’all had a great season but y’all will probably be shooting free throws next week.

FBM was ranked #2 but that wasn’t your typical #2 ranked FBM team, especially after the Chris Marshall issue which is why I thought BH could beat them. I think it’s going to feel much more like you’re playing a state ranked opponent this week though. Consol. is big, physical and has very good team speed. Fedora has a couple state titles so you know what’s on their sideline too. The Tigers don’t have what we would called a high-powered offense over here but it’s extremely consistent and their defense probably matches up better with BH than the TC squad that just held them to 7. BH gets a huge stroke of fortune in the fact that Consol.’s starting qb is out for the season and they’re rolling with a freshman who should be in over his head against the level of competition BH is capable of playing at. The issue I see is that BH basically put the blueprint of how they have to play Consol. on film last week. Given a week of preparation I don’t think Coach Fedora is going to allow BH’s o-line to dominate like it did last week. It’s going to be interesting to see what their second act is?

Y’all definitely won’t be making it to the title game. According to BigDog nobody in this district is making it past the third round. He was pretty spot on in his assessment last year when three consecutive weeks he predicted that Crosby wouldn’t make it out of the 2nd, 3rd or 4th rounds and that we were average.

Smh, I see I need to go get my waders. The fertilizer is getting deep in here. I’ve gone from carpool driver to having a CDL and a charter bus in 4 posts😑

Lol, you’re not really hurting so I would have to give you a special discount and charge you double.

Guys like this who do 10X more than what is required in their job description is one of the reasons why I love THSF so f’n much. If y’all have seen my posts over the last decade you’ll easily get the sense that I cheer for the underdog for reasons a lot of the people on this board take for granted. The kids that go to BH and PNG will be fine regardless of how football works out for the most part. Well, that’s not the case for the kids at Vidor, PAM, BU and to a good extent Crosby. Coach Bear(as we called him at Crosby) was our DC when I was in high school and the guy directly responsible for getting people in the right positions and ultimately allowing them to maximize their potential and play at the next level, regardless of our overall team performance. I’m biased but two of my classmates who played for him and were in these type “football got me out” situations were Johnathan Bradley who was the reason I transferred to Texas A&M-Commerce after getting kicked out of South Dakota State and my cousin Stephen LaSalle who’s now the head freshman coach at North Shore. They’re both doing very well because of those degrees football got them that they probably wouldn’t have had otherwise. We sucked my senior year but Coach Bear put together what was probably the nastiest defense in the district and got multiple guys to college despite the record. He’ll never know how he’s appreciated at our beer drinking sessions where we get together and lie about what we did in high school but I’m here to tell him he is.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

The larger East Texas schools have gone the route a bunch of the Golden Triangle teams have in the sense that they just don’t have the talent they did 15-20 years ago due to population shifts. One of our players’ mom is from Dangerfield. After the game she came up to me and said, “Dang, we might have to play Marshall now. They were always tough when I was in school.” I told her, “You’re 40 now, we’re good”.

Nah, I think I’m going to Cypress to do some scouting. Plus, I’m the one in the family my uncles call when they have “car trouble” because they know I’m going to the game. Their cars always seem to work when the game is less than an hour away though🤔

Man, it's taking everything in me not to agree with you and just come out and say this should be a 63-21 mauling. I mean, Marshall has put absolutely nothing on film this year to worry about. Their defense is decent but if their offense is going to give us extra possessions because they can't move the ball consistently then how long can that defense hold up against our offense, assuming we play like we're capable of? They're smaller and slower than the Texas High team we destroyed last year so unless we come out and lay an egg I think we should comfortably make it to Thanksgiving weekend.

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure 1-800-555-ROJO is disconnected right now. They're going to have to do something they usually only do once or twice a year and that's play above average defense. PNG should feel very comfortable in Stallworth, that's almost like a homefield advantage over Montgomery who I'm not sure has every played there?

Link to Rudder vs Marshall bi-district game:

What I've noticed about PNG lately is that whatever you see in quarter one is usually what you're going to see in quarter four? Good thing about that this week is PNG is probably going to move the ball on Montgomery with relative ease. It's going to be about playing clean, finishing drives and getting three or four crucial stops on defense. NDNation already pointed out that Lake Creek dropped 45 on them a couple of weeks ago and they just beat a mediocre Nac team by 14 where I think PNG would've blown them out. Oddly enough this may be one of the few times where BF loading up the offense with the athletes may be more beneficial to PNG's chances of winning than spreading them out since there's not much chance of them stopping Montgomery anyway.

Appreciate it. Whenever BH played Crosby a lot of BH posters wanted to point the big day Herndon had against us. Dropping back and throwing bombs isn't a sustainable offense against decent teams though, especially once it's on film. I was a lot more impressed with BH's o-line and their ability to create space for those 5 and 6 yards runs that were killing us from Holdren and Hagler and thought that would be repeatable against almost anybody on the schedule given BH's personnel this year. BH only scored 14 points in the second half but controlled the ball for most of it. Even when you don't score, making us stand there for extended periods of time is killer for offenses like FBM and Crosby who like to get out and run. It makes stuff like penalties and turnovers a heck of a lot more impactful than if we got into a shootout. On the film I had seen FBM didn't look as impressive as they did at the line of scrimmage as they usually do. Because of that I said "If I'm Abseck I run the ball a combined 40 times with Hagler and Holdren". Well, Abseck said "Hold my beer" and ran it FIFTY TIMES between the two. Herndon has one catch for 13 yards and BH plays their best game of the year, who would've thought? Good luck against Consol., BH will be looking in the mirror in this one. Hopefully y'all pull it out so we can re-match it.

If you have an NFHS subscription you can watch sever of their games on demand.

One issue I see with the A&M-C matchup with BH is that they’re big one the lines of scrimmage and they’ve got a few fast guys at the offensive skill positions. Good reference game for PNG and BH to watch is the Consol. vs Montgomery game, see those fast Consol. kids I’m talking about and you can see Jalen Washington do work against the Tiger defense. Lee Fedora has a couple state titles himself so you know they’re well coached. Lol, you may see this same game in the 5A-D1 playoffs next year.

I’ve been watching film of this Marshall offense and I tell you what, I’m not sure it’s better than Houston Madison’s? Their defense is probably close to Texas City level though. Marshall is the area round reward you get for winning district in split division. Hopefully Crosby comes out and handles business accordingly.

If PNG had any kind of defense you could almost pick them in this game. Montgomery wants to hand it off 40+ times on you but if PNG can get plus performance from their front seven they might be in business. IMO though, that scheme PNG runs isn’t conducive to their personnel. It sets up perfectly for Washington to have a 35 for 275+ and 5td day.

Yeah, but the guy you just lost to is 3-0 against it, including 2-0 at Crosby. He just beat you with a lot less talented team than he’ll have next year. Vidor has never put 60 on Crosby with that offense and has had four tries, what does that tell you in comparison to your talent level vs LH who’s had one opportunity? The blueprint is to get kids like Calallen or SA Wagner has at the line of scrimmage so you could at least lose in the semifinals. Otherwise, you revisit things like I said in my earlier post.

Key word there is “championship”. Even though your things they would PM me about calling you I do agree whole heartedly that LH would’ve played Aledo closer than we did with that style of offense. Crosby played exactly like Aledo hoped they would.