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Lol, PNG matches Crosby’s 72 point output. Just couldn’t bobble one more snap on the XP huh?

Their defense is only tough because they have great athletes, full stop. Sometimes the problem with coaching at a school with great offensive athletes though is that they turn mediocre offensive play calls into great ones because of their abilities. Now you don’t realize those play-calls mediocre until you face someone that can wash out their athletes. Seems like that’s plagued PAM for quite some time now. What is PAM’s playoff record since dropping down to 5A?

Tried to tell y’all

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Man those kids were fast! #6, #1 and #4 could go. #11 looked like Terrell Owens but probably only got two targets. Their skill players were legit but where most of those inner-city ISD schools struggle is at the line of scrimmage. When our freshmen linemen can come in and start moving furniture that kind of says all you need to know. It’s partly coaching but with the lower participation rates at those schools coaches only have so many big guys to choose from.

I don’t think they even need to go that far. I’ll hit up James Williams and tell him he can have the keys to the whole athletic department. If PAM can come up with about $125k they would probably have a shot at landing him. Harrison leaving an administrative position for a coordinator position tells me PAM wasn’t paying that well or that there were some other issues.

I think I'm going to bluetooth my noise cancelling headphones to my phone and listen to the BH game while I watch y'all play tonight. I refuse to voluntarily listen to Cherokee be played 47 times.

I'm going to make the 15 min drive to watch y'all play GP tonight but I'll be watching this one on the phone. I agree with you though, outside of their d-line against FBM's o-line they have the best personnel matchup wise outside of Crosby. Maybe put some red tinted glasses on Holdren tonight and see if he can turn into Superman like he did against us.

Yep, he's one of the two freshmen road graders I was talking about them moving up. Looks like the staff is going to have AJ clogging up the middle for the next three years though. Very rarely do you see a 330+ pound kid with that kind of agility, especially at 14. Kid just looks the part. #66 Herd was the other freshman road grader, I don't think the boy's jersey goes below his chest? He has to be every bit of 350lbs and is still athletic enough to pull from his right guard position. Kid looks like a solar eclipse coming down the line of scrimmage. The freshman linebacker #42 Windfont was all over the field last night. He's already 6-2/210lbs so I fully expect him to be wreaking havoc in backfields the next three years. His closing speed is ridiculous. All four of the freshmen looked awesome last night.

Half the twos were in on the TD they scored in the first half. All those points they scored in the second half were against twos, threes and fours, which I didn't even know we had. I believe every senior on the team got some clock in their last game in The Jungle. I would imagine 50 kids saw the field last night. FB Marshall had Madison by 42 at the half last week and Crosby had them by 45 at the half last night. At that point the game was over and we were trying to get out healthy, Eudy had already replaced Myles in the second quarter.

51-6 Crosby at the half

Man, one of these recruiting insiders would probably pay you a pretty penny for the answer to that. IDK but my theory is that if it was an injury you probably announce it? I think Coach Williams is like Coach Kay in the sense that he knows he’s dealing with a few more situations than most coaches so he would do a kid a solid and just keep it internal if it’s disciplinary. Remember Evans was suspended the first game or two of his senior year and unless you followed them you wouldn’t have really noticed. Problem was that one of those games was Katy and everybody noticed, especially when they lost. Never heard a word about the reason or anything from Coach Kay though, even when he suspended him again for the state championship game.

If I'm Abseck I run Holdren and Hagler at least 40 times combined to help shorten the game. I'm going to take a few shots to Herndon and Dixon but but outside of that I'm not throwing any of those slow developing deep routes against that pass rush and put myself behind the sticks nullifying the run game. Not to mention throwing incompletions that stop the clock and extend the game. They play man coverage and will never get out of it meaning they're very susceptible to getting beat back to the inside if you have personnel capable of doing so and a coach that calls it at optimal times. Them being so qb-centric this year is the reason I've been saying they aren't as dynamic as last year. BH has struggled on defense all year but I'm not sure that if you load up against Banks that he can beat you from the pocket, especially without Marshall making circus catches on poorly throw balls.

Look for Crosby to play 4 or possibly 5 freshmen tonight. We've played two the last two games but I know one of the road graders will be up playing on the nose tonight. I'm hoping we let the other one get some spin at probably one of the guard positions. Not real sure about the 5th freshman but I know he'll be suited out and ready to help end some dreams if called on. You're probably looking at a combination of 16+ freshman and sophomores getting some clock tonight.

Looks like only 4 started against Crosby. They had outscored their opponents 626-62 prior to playing Crosby so I would imagine those sophomore played a whole lot just like they did this year.

Y'all are 5-5 with the one of the highest paid coaches in the state and your most talented team in quite a while. The last two week y'all don't even look like you've been prepared to compete. If your coaches can't handle negative comments then y'all probably need some new ones. You don't need to have a horse in the race to understand what you're seeing isn't trending in the right direction. You're telling me after all the years of Crosby football I've watched and research I've done on the team that I can't comment if I don't have a son out there? Come on man. What is the difficult situation, the coach getting there late? We didn't really have a coach until May when we hired Prieto in '19 so we didn't have a true offsesaon outside of weights and conditioning. Same situation BH was in making a June hire since you can't practice until August anyway. Maybe you do know more about the kids psyche but if you think going out a throwing up a 7 point effort with everything on the line is "fighting their tails off" then you are probably biased in what you were looking at. Maybe your son catches more balls this week, I noticed you didn't comment until he brought up the drops by the receivers.

I only counted 11 sophomores on FB Marshall's entire roster last year and all of them didn't start. They also graduated 18 seniors and only returned 12 starters from last year's team. All the sophomores couldn't have started because they have multiple seniors on the team who started last year and have D1 offers. The best players on their team last year were the receiver Matthews who graduated, the linebacker Seymour who graduated and Chris Marshall who looks like he's off the team or injured. Preseason write-up from the Fort Bend Herald: [Hidden Content]

That means the east Texas district would go back to region two but we would pick up that Austin area district with Liberty Hill.

They probably won't score on our starters. I was watching that FBM vs Madison game from last week and it was 42-0 at the half. Unless you have Manvel-type personnel you're not going to run the ball effectively against us without being a threat to pass. I don't think they'll even rush for 100 total yards tonight.

Smh, I guess the Eagles said "To heck with the playoffs, if we're going to finish 4th we might as well lace the Jordan's up"? Y'all need to put the purse down because there's no doubt you'll get your arse whipped with that mentality. Y'all don't have any faith that Abseck and company can get y'all together for one night? Let's run through the football part of it though. I watched the FBM vs Madison game last night for my own research purposes and came away with the opinion that BH isn't near the underdog they look like on paper. For one, even though it's an away game BH will have more fans than FBM which helps mitigate some of the homefield advantage. Two, I noticed Chris Marshall didn't play and doesn't look like he registered a statistic since the FB Willowridge game. If he doesn't line up for them Friday that offense isn't nearly as dynamic. They do have another big receiver that's committed to ULL but he isn't the game-breaker Marshall is. Marshall killed Crosby last year but their offense got more efficient when he got ejected because of that Matthews kid who ended up with 14 catches against us. He's gone too. Three, defensively they can be scored on. One thing that always jumps out when you play the M-block is overwhelming speed, which is no different this year but outside of the d-line they're pretty small on that side of the ball. Dixon and Herndon should be able take advantage of the matchups on the outside if given opportunities. The FBM team from last year would've dump-trucked BH like they did Nederland but I could make a very good argument that BH is the best team on FBM's schedule to date. Unless BH comes out and lays completely down I'm not seeing a blowout in this one.

Our snapshot number was only 6 above the current cutoff which usually moves substantially every realignment. Throw in the opt-ups which will push the number even higher and I think there's very little chance Crosby moves up to D1.

I said Atascocita would beat them, not really poo-pooing them by sayin they would lose to another top 10 team. I said that before Gavin Sessions got hurt. 'Cita went into North Shore and did lose by 10 points but had the ball twice inside the NS 20 late in the game and got 0 points. Sessions is punching that in twice. When 'Cita's sophomore backup would actually stand there and deliver the ball they were striping NS. He threw for 268 and 2tds with 0 picks, Sessions probably throws for 350 yards and 4tds if he plays. They had no chance to cover Chase Sowell without Denver Harris on the field but the backup couldn't consistently put it on him unless he was wide open. As far as us sweeping 9-5A: Crosby vs Ball - blowout TC vs BU - blowout PAM vs PNG - shootout Friendswood vs BH - Friendswood didn't drop over 28 on anybody on their entire schedule besides GCM and Ball. I'll make the assumption BH plays well and wins that one. All they would need is 31 points. Not that it even really matters but IJS, we would have a lot better chance sweeping y'all than the inverse.

Lol, a 14 point loss in a very winnable game is getting the fool beat out of you now? Angleton made the playoffs and Crosby would ran though them like we toilet paper like we did the previous times we played them. They didn't stop our starters one time when we lined up earlier this year. I remember you saying similar crap about Crosby only being able to beat schools east of the Trinity. Now that we cleaned out the southern half of the state it's "y'all can't beat Manvel consistently and these other teams would probably beat you too", lol. In actuality Manvel is the only team currently in 5A in the entire Houston area that has a winning record against Crosby the last 20 years. Everything else you're saying is pure speculation and you've already been wrong about it multiple times.

Lol, so your whole argument is that Crosby can’t consistently beat Manvel? Only other team we’ve ever played from that district was Angleton who we donkey-stomped 38-15 and 34-0 in our two contest. Most of your district is already HISD caliber so I doubt y’all would be 15-1 against them. Y’all might get swept if you had to play out district too.