Cougar14.2

It’s time for the cream to start rising to the top of the coffee. We can be overly humble and talk about how every team needs to be respected, blah blah blah. If we’re being straight up though, a team with aspirations to get back to Arlington should dispatch this TC team with relative ease. Crosby has played better the first six games of the season this year than we did last year. Lot of talk about the 2pt try in the BH game but no mention that that’s probably a game we lose regardless had it been played a few weeks earlier. We’re manufacturing a bunch of points without huge offensive statistics, that’s a key performance indicator of a dangerous team. Crosby doesn’t have a bunch of usable depth yet this year but I think we played about eight sophomores in the second half at some point last Friday. From an int, to some great tackles, to a few pancake blocks, to both rushing and passing tds, I would say they all produced in their given reps. At some point we’re going to have to be able to give Kirkwood and Womack legitimate breaks. Crosby playing well enough against TC so that the youngsters can come in and show that, would benefit the Cougars a lot moving forward. Defensively we probably need to figure out what to do when Casey gets a bunch of attention and we can’t get pressure with 3 or 4? Feels like we give up too many passing yards when we can’t get to the QB consistently. This game will be a good test for the run defense though. It’s the point in the season where Crosby needs to start ending dreams.

We definitely do. I liked our chances until Cotton got hurt though. Abseck might have seen the writing on the wall at CP. He had lost all the long time assistants over the las two years with Quintero taking the Red Oak job and taking some guys with him, and the OC taking the San Antonio Peiper job earlier this Spring and taking guys with him. DC, who won the state titles, stayed with Quintero who just came back to be CP’s head coach and was also an assistant under Willis.

Give me Dayton at home 31-27 over Ned next week. Broncos playing to stay alive and Ned looking they might start treading water. That 35 they put up on PNG might have a little more gravitas considering BH just scored the same thing. I said last week that I wouldn’t be surprised to see Dayton ruin someone’s season. Ned might be ripe for the picking right now.

I think they’ve benefited from playing some offenses that weren’t very good. They also just got held to 14 points at home. I think they lose next week something like 52-21.

I said Huntsville would finish 5th a couple weeks ago. Might have given them too much credit? Without the Bobino’s to keep the score low that offense can’t put up enough points without Southern at qb.

If y’all put Fuselier at QB please wait until after the Crosby game like we did with Dunn. We need him touching it as few times as possible. On the flipside if Ned uses him like they did the Seay kid at QB he might be worn down by the time he makes it to us.

Crazy that Crosby has four games left and has to potentially play for the DC in three of them. Going to be a fun four game stretch to finish the season. I expect it to start with a statement win over TC next week.

You and TradenUp are the most reasonable BH fans on here. Y’all won’t say that stuff but others will. The reason you pay the money to hire Abseck is so you don’t do exactly BH has done the last two weeks. Absolutely no reason BH shouldn’t have finished at least 2nd in the district this year, first year coach or not. BH currently has their best backfield since Denny and O’Neal, they have their best receiving core in history maybe. Yet they might finish 5th?(I personally think y’all will beat Ned and get in). You can make a good argument for BH having the second most talent in the district this year. That almost never happens. The most wrong assumption you can make is that y’all will automatically be better in the coming years because two of your best skill players are sophomores though. I’ve made that mistake multiple times myself over the years. May be something to your DC comment as I posted a couple weeks ago. Luckily y’all get a bye week to regroup with Santa Fe coming to town.

They really didn’t choke. They just played like they did the first four games of the season. It’s easy to get up for one big game against Crosby when you’re playing with house money. It’s hard when you have to do it every week though. Good win by PNG, kind of felt like this would happen.

I said 10 years, as in ‘11-‘20 which is where he’s 2-4, officially 1-5. I think you have to classify both ‘13 and ‘20 as blowouts. His first two wins against Crosby his first two years as PNG’s coach were against Flannigan who was not a good coach at Crosby and was fired a year later. Flannigan missed the playoffs his first year and then went six straight but was still fired at the end of the ‘11 season. What he did just didn’t work here. That’s why we’ve looked different under the last two coaches. You can say the same for BH letting Gage go now. What I’m saying is BF doesn’t get RJ’s, that’s why I point to him as a singularity at PNG. Crosby coaches get the Walter-type kids. Riggs was good but he was not a better receiver than Rose, he just got the benefit of playing with RJ who made you keep 8 in the box to stop him from running. Again, he was a very good high school player. You talk about Walter’s game against y’all like it was better than Williams’ 300+ and 5td performance or Howard throwing for over 300 and 4tds the same game. You forgot that though because of the 10tds RJ put up. I didn’t go all the way back through the stats but Crosby has probably has close to nine 1,000 yards rushers since the Twins graduated. Our coaches get a lot of explosive players so the Twins weren’t an anomaly at Crosby. RJ was for BF and to his credit he took advantage. They were his three best years, we never made it out of the second round with the Twins though. Point I’m trying to make was theorized by Crosby in ‘11 and verified by both Crosby and BH with their recent play under their new coaches comparable to where it was. Undoubtedly BF is a great person and sometime that’s enough.

I just went back ten years like I mentioned in my OP. BF is 2-4 against Crosby and both wins were with RJ which was my point. Not just against Crosby but in general. One PNG win he accounted for all 10 tds and the other game in ‘18 was when he threw a td at the end after doing some type of Houdini scramble. If you look at BF’s playoff history over the last ten years is mostly just RJ. I think his only first round win without him in that period is the shootout y’all had with Dayton in ‘15. I think y’all won when Dayton went for two at the end of the game? I saw y’alls second round game that year when Angleton ran two different running plays and Billy Foster put up like 325 and 5tds as a sophomore in a blowout. I think BF is good coach but IDK if I would say he’s the best fit for PNG’s personnel. Seems like his style of coaching is still more geared to what he was working with at Odessa Permian vs what he has on an average basis now. First couple of years were solid but once everybody sees it and adjust he needs RJ.

Texas City isn't very good on either line of scrimmage. They have some decent skill pieces, especially on the defensive side, but if they can't run the ball effectively they're not going to score much. That may not mean anything because Nederland doesn't look at that great on the defensive line but if Ned can get to 31 points I think they probably win this one.

Right at 6', outstretched arm would put him over 8' though. Have to throw in some additional length for the ball too though as you can see it's past his fingertips. Again, you're talking about the knee from that angle when the ref made the call for the ball actually breaking the plane on the dive while he was in the air. From where he was on the pic I posted to where he was from the angle you're using he would have to had been running forward, dove forward, BH player pushed him forward but would've somehow had to have gone backwards? The ball didn't barely hit the pylon either, the whole ball was over by the time his knee hit which means the plane was broken earlier.

The ball was on the two yardline for the conversion, why would the sideline cameraman be 50 yards away on the other side of the coaches and players who could ruin their shot? The other pic is closer to 50 yards away though. Notice in the pic I posted that you don't even see the cameraman who took the shot you're talking about. That person was the goalposts cameraman in the back of the endzone in the middle of the field, meaning at the bare minimum they're 37 yards away, that's why that shot looks blurry and the one I posted looks like it's in HD. Ref didn't make the call off the pylon/knee, he made it because the ball crossed the goal line prior to that. Y'all have a great game too though. The whole district will be watching to see what level y'all play at when you're not lined up across from those red and white jerseys.

Lol, half second too soon? The nose of the ball is already across the goal line in the pic I posted. Conversion is good right there, knee can land wherever he pleases. You can zoom in see the shadow of the ball. Idk why y’all continue to use the shot from the back of the end zone by the goalpost?

BH is very capable of coming in a BH’ing the game up considering they’ve collapsed in 40% of their games this year. I’ve watched a couple PNG games this year though and they just aren’t very good right now. I know they got 42 on Dayton but this is one of the weaker PNG offenses I’ve seen. Again, as has been demonstrated multiple times the past couple of years BH isn’t very good at closing teams out but if they can keep that same energy from last week I don’t think PNG can stay within 14+ points of the Eagles. In a general sense I think BH is a little better than last year and PNG is a little worse which is the main reason I think BH wins comfortably.

Considering our schedule, that was the first game Crosby had given up over 28 offensive points. I wouldn’t take me game like that as gospel. Otherwise I would be on here talking about how Santa Fe held Nederland to less than y’all did.

For our “bad call” BH brethren from last week. Wasn’t even questionable. Try not to collapse anymore this year and y’all might get another chance the first week of December after we clean out our side of the bracket.

That's an odd statement considering PNG hasn't shown anything all year. The defensive statement is even more odd considering PNG just gave up 35 to Dayton who scored 0 on Crosby's defensive starters the week before. Plus, you can look back at the last decade under BF and see that he really can't do anything with PNG's personnel unless he has RJ to cover up the warts so IDK about "anything" really being possible?

Lol, I know you don’t think PAM was their measuring stick? In all actuality the team that has won or tied for the DC six of the last eight years IS the measuring stick in a normal year. What else would they use before the playoffs? I know that L was painful but don’t worry, we’ll probably in the same district soon and will be handing y’all a lot more of them. Lol, y’all are just Beaumont Ozen with better athletes. Congrats to PAM on a great 9-2 year though. As far as the statement about them being able to reach the 3rd or 4th round, I agree and I actually have insight because I watched us beat most of the teams it will take to get there this year.

To be fair you can do a lot on 43 acres in Barrett Station. Nothing like drinking cold beer and sighting in the AR during the kid’s birthday party.

True, but the combined scores in their last four games are 168-10 meaning they've dispatched lesser competition the way you would expect from a good team. Clear Brook has better personnel than what they'll see from most of our district and TC was able to squeak by them. I know PNG likes tradition, TC has the most recent state championship tradition with their titles in 1997 and 1999.

Couldn't have been, Nederland wasn't ranked #7 at the midway point in the season last year.

Yep, we could but hopefully Kingwood Park and Santa Fe take it easy on us.

The 4th place team in our district has been getting in at 4-3 in recent years. They better win this on and I’ll give them KP in the season finale. That would leave them needed to go 2-1 against a combination of Nederland, TC and BH. Losing to PNG this week means that’s not probable but it’s more than doable. Good luck, last couple years Dayton has already been out of it by now.