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Tatum 38 Rusk 21 Final

So far Tatum is 4-1 with their only loss coming to Henderson 45-13. Defense has been pretty solid outside of the Henderson game. Offense started off slow till tonight against Pittsburg. Tatum 24 Arp 14 Henderson 45 Tatum 13 Tatum 20 Chapel Hill 7 Tatum 28 Wills Point 9 Tatum 49 Pittsburg 21

So hows everybody looking so far?

Well....if your gettin stomped, ya gotta try something new I guess lol

Congrats Jasper on the win, I picked our district to sweep this week and our boys and ya'll are the only ones that didn't let me down.

Week 1 district scores Tatum 24 Arp 14 Jasper 25 LCM 13 Madisonville 11 Diboll 8 Center 27 Rusk 21 Warren 12 Huntington 0

Gilmer couldn't stop the run, LE couldn't stop the pass. Official stats from Gilmer QB "Poppy" Brown in his varsity debut. 35 out of 45 for 569 yards and 6 TDs, also rushed for another. Set single game passing yards school record previously held by G.J. Kinne. Poppy spread it around too, had 11 different players catch a pass. Basic summary.....Poppy is gonna make many many many secondaries look stupid this year, and he's gonna have to. Gilmer's defense is under-sized and just flat out can't stop the run, may not be able to stop a decent passing attack either. LE's QB play was horrible so even though they had 3 INTs, it really aint saying too terribly much. I'm sure it'll get better as they progress but that passing game ought to buy them plenty of time to get it figured out. Gilmer was raining passes, though LE's secondary covered their assignments about as well as toddler's rain jacket on Shaq in a monsoon.

Well, there was 11 guys out there kinda standing in the way. Gilmer couldn't stop the run, LE couldn't stop the pass. Official Stats from Gilmer QB "Poppy" Brown in his varsity debut. 35 out of 45 for 569 yards and 6 TDs, also rushed for another. Set single game passing yards school record previously held by G.J. Kinne. Poppy spread it around too, had 11 different players catch a pass.

Also Gilmer over Liberty Eylau 61-55, Gilmer sophomore QB threw for 576 yards and 6 TDs while running in another 1. Guy from Gilmer says that breaks single game passing record for Gilmer.

Changed my mind, going with the sweep.

Agreed, just a glorified practice, but I'd expect a competitive team to make some kinda showing in it. We'll know when all the dust clears late friday night, thats for sure. Good luck to you guys.

I'ma use stupid terms here to come up with my prediction. But only because there was pure domination in all of these scrimmages. Yes, i said scrimmages, lol. I'm using scrimmages as a meter stick lol. Newton 6 Jasper 0 Center 5 Kirbyville 0 Tatum 5 Center 0 So Newton dominated a team 3 times their size. Center dominated Kirbyville letting them only have one first down. Then we, Tatum, scrimmaged Center which i saw first hand. We allowed them only 3 first downs the whole scrimmage and did anything and every thing we wanted on offense. They just weren't impressive to me, we got a new coach that has our boys fired up and hitting on all cylinders but Center just didn't look like Center of the past 2 years. I hope it was us making them look like that to be honest but in any account. Giving all of this, my prediction from scrimmages is, lol Newton 42 Kirbyville 7

I picked Center over Rusk but to be honest, I'm on the fence about them. Scrimmage #1 Center held Kirbyville to 1 first down for the day and ran ramped scoring at will on them, like 5 TDs. Then the next week against us the complete opposite. We outscored Center 5-0 holding them to one first down with the 1st strings and just 2 first downs with the 2nd strings. I know they are just scrimmages but this has me baffled on what kinda team they'll have.

Arp @ Tatum L.C. Mauriceville @ Jasper Madisonville @ Diboll Warren @ Huntington Rusk @ Center

8-4A DII Week 1 Games - Who you got? Arp @ Tatum L.C. Mauriceville @ Jasper Madisonville @ Diboll Warren @ Huntington Rusk @ Center

KLTV News Segment on the scrimmage and Barker taking over [Hidden Content]

Think they said something about 3 guys missing on defense on another site. A quote from a Center poster on another site - "Hats off too Tatum eagles you guy looked great!! Ricky Meeks was our offense coordinator last year and made center have an explosive offense and he will do the same in Tatum this year, there's no doubt Tatum will go deep if they will stay healthy! The fact three starters didn't play on D yesterday for center, it still wouldn't have help because you guys were clicking all the way around and played lights out!! Good luck to ya'll down the rode!!" From what I gather they lost some big key players up front to graduation on both sides of the ball. The big DI recruit WR Octavius Evans played the whole scrimmage on both sides of the ball and the 3 years starter at QB Kyle Parks played. Parks didn't have time to really even look at option number 1 though. We sacked him a lot. We have gotten much better in a weeks time. No sloppy play this week for the most part. Line is blocking as good as it ever has. 3 TDs on the ground, 2 through the air.(4 TDs with the 1s, 1 TD with the 2s) Sophomore QB OB Jones is running the offense quite well and we have 3 really talented RBs. One is 6' 205 lbs, the others are scat backs. 6'3 and 6'2 out wide at WR and several speedy slot receivers. Defense really did play pretty much lights out. 1st string only gave up 1 first down. 2nd string gave up just 2 first downs. Defense is anchored by two big DEs, 6'3 226 lb D'Torian Smith(Air Force) and 6'4 230 lb Shay Rogers. A lot of speed on defense. If we can stay healthy, could be a heck of a break out year for coach Barker.

No word on the Lumberjacks?

Tatum had a three way scrimmage with Daingerfield and Jefferson this morning. Tatum's nerves under the new regime gave up a 75 yard run on the first play for a TD and a 75 yard pass for a TD on the 2nd play of the scrimmage both to Daingerfield. Then settled down and didnt give up another TD all day as far as first string. Scored on each team once and scored on the final play of the scrimmage as well but a flag at the 5 yard line called it back and we didn't replay it. I guess the best part about the whole scrimmage was we didn't have any turnovers. We had 2 fumble recoveries and picked off a pass in the end zone. We were more disciplined in this first scrimmage than we've been in years. Offensive line looked great....protected the QB well and opened up massive holes in the run game. Wasn't great by any means but definitely headed in the right direction fast.

Gilmer, Pittsburg, Atlanta, Gladewater, and Pleasant Grove all battling for the 4 spots...then Spring Hill dragging up there rear....very tough district.

Sorry chief, we'll spice it up for you next time. We went 0-10 last year remember, we are only saying what everyone is thinking.

Supposed to be rather solid from what folks are saying...we play them middle of the schedule.

Whatchoo talkin bout Willis? Them boys aint runnin at all...no conditioning.

Yeah...6.8 is about right. Takes us forever to snap the ball too. And we aint got no discipline, just awful.

Really excited about this new offense Barker brought in. The wishbone and Maryland I, gonna be a fun year.