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If you had asked me in the 3rd quarter yesterday, I would have guessed Huntsville by 3 scores. It’s a toss up for me now. I think Huntsville is better on defense than LC. It goes without saying our defense needs to be better. Huntsville has a good qb, but not as good as Eli Marcos. Huntsville has two stellar RBs, including one freshman who might be the fastest kid in the district. 

1 hour ago, PNG4LIFE91 said:

NO DOUBT we have some work to do on defense but keeping things in perspective…LC probably has the best QB, RB, and O-Line in Region 2!  They were IMPRESSIVE!’  So if you take away the 21 points we pretty much handed them in the first half off our mistakes…the score probably wouldn’t have been that close because we came out and held them to 2 scores in the 2nd half!  
I’m also betting their Coach might have a different opinion of the “environment” at The Reservation now…lol!  

I think our O-line is better than LCs. I had to remind myself in all my “what is going on with the defense” panic : Our o-line played at a crazy high level last night. It’s crazy how they simply deleted the d-line and LBs from the game. 

6 minutes ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

I've seen SOC several times i think they too have taken a step back this year Texas High Richmond Randle and the teams from 4-5A Division 2 all look better than PNG at this point but things can change 

I’d confidently put Melissa and Emerson ahead of us right now, along with Texas High and SoC. Not Anna or Lovejoy, at least not right now. Maybe Argyle. But, honestly, I’d be ok with dropping out of the rankings entirely. We’re at best a reasonable top 12 team, and focus on the rankings is a dumb distraction. This team needs to just play the season in front of them. I don’t care about what number is next to our name, or the win streak. I want us entirely focused on just the one game in front of us. That’s the only thing that matters. 

A W is a W. I hope we’re able to take something from this to improve on defense. A bright spot is we got experience against a better-than-average offense and still got a win. If there are things that can be improved with coaching, LC is a heck of a team to have to discover them against.
 

it certainly doesn’t look like we’re the top team in the division. I’d put Randle and SoC ahead of us right now. 
 

Henry without a doubt needs to be the go-to RB. 
 

Hunstville is going to be a monster of an opponent, but we can talk about that next week. 

Just now, PhatMack19 said:

68 yard TD run #27. I need to learn his name.  He’s legit 

 

35-35 with 7:53 left in half 

Tyson Henry . A sophomore, I think. 

Our defense isn’t what it used to be. No speed 

PNG 21-14, 11:24 in 2nd 

PNG better find someone who can make an open field tackle against big runner

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1. Barbers Hill 

2. PA Memorial

3. Angleton 

4. La Porte

5. Port Neches Groves

6. Nederland

7. Bridge City 

8. Huffman 

9. Little Cypress-Mauriceville

10. Hardin-Jefferson

11. Carthage

12. Hitchcock

13. Anahuac

14. East Chambers

15. Orangefield

16. McGregor

17. Bullard

18. Newton

19. New Waverly

20. Woodville

21. Corrigan Camden

22. Colmesneil 

23. Hull-Daisetta 

24. Deweyville

25. Apple Springs 

Score’s lopsided, but West Fork has been impressive, all things considered. 

21 minutes ago, png9mon said:

PNG needs to:

Run The Football,

Then Run The Football,

Then Run The Football & For a Change

Run The Football at a Different Hole in The Line, 

Eat Clock, Make 1st Downs & when they put 8 in the box to stop the run, a little quick pass to keep them honest on LC defense.

Wear that Defensive Line down & frustrate the LC offense sitting on the sideline. 

No turnovers & the Indians take this game.

THIS

8 hours ago, Separation Scientist said:

Holdren was probably my all time favorite Eagle. I just loved the way that kid played. One of the few QB's who left more bruises on an opponents defense than they left on him, lol.  

Holdren was really good. He was unstoppable against PNG in 2021, if I’m thinking of the right kid. 

1 minute ago, BBfan061 said:

And he hasn’t really had crazy numbers… He is averaging like 60 yards rushing a game and has 6 TDs I believe 

Yeah - have you seen his film? It’s almost eery how he just glides through the defense, only juking a tiny bit. 

11 minutes ago, 1970 said:

The LC QB scrambled quite a bit, with more than several times just barely getting away, including once in the end zone that probably was an un-called touchback or maybe grounding. There was also some blown coverage.  PNG's LBs will need to be quicker than they've been so far, and hopefully they will be.   But what turned out to be the difference was the blocked field goal. 

I'm curious why LC isn't ranked ahead of some of the other top 10 teams; did they lose a lot of starters from last season? 

I’ve wondered the same thing. I’d say it’s twofold. First, LC might be seen as unproven. For the last two seasons they’ve run up the score throughout the regular season only to lose in the third round. The voters might simply not trust LC until convinced otherwise. Second, and related to my first point, the loss to Magnolia paired with them only having played a couple of private schools makes LC a question mark. We know they lost handily to a good team, but their big wins over private schools don’t tell us much about how good they are. 

Rigdon has been crazy to watch. I don’t know if anyone will slow him down this season. 

2 hours ago, spidersal said:

Hopefully they can beat Dayton and Montgomery 

The question marks are is Nederland’s secondary going to improve and is the passing game going to improve The OL is just not good enough to only have a running game The other question would be is the punter going to be able to catch a snap and IMO Dayton and Montgomery will both be better than Silsbee

I’ve watched all three Nederland games. They’re definitely still finding an identity. I think the O-line is the biggest problem, and blocking in general. A lot of that can be improved with reps. So far there seem to be only Tezino and Thomas who are real playmakers on offense, but running Thomas to the edge every play isn’t going to be that hard for defenses to diagnose. Qb strikes me as a great overall athlete and a good leader. Also, his decision making has improved under the new coach and this staff is better about calling pass plays that work for him.  Anything can happen - especially in Mid-County Madness - and I like Nederland’s chances against Dayton and Montgomery. Dayton seems about as good as Ned right now, and Montgomery’s opponents were 1-9 through three weeks. I haven’t checked if any of that changed in week 4. So, if the season goes how it looks right now with the top three being the top three in whatever order, and Nederland gets at least those four wins they’ll be in the playoffs. Rooting for ya’ll, except on October 25. 

I had us at 1-2. I figured Klein Oak and La Porte would give us a lot more trouble. As it is, happy to be 3-0. Hopefully it will be 4-0 come Saturday. 

I can’t find any full-game film on Lake Creek from this season. They return a lot of big names from last year, as does PNG. Like last year, it’s going to be two well-coached evenly matched teams. 

Three things I think we’ll need to win:

(1) Defensive improvements. The defense has been good, and our performance against La Porte had a lot of bright spots. LP showed our weaknesses, and we got good reps against a violent, tough offensive line blocking for fast RBs who don’t go down without sure tackling. LC will be a more balanced offense, and I’d argue more talented than La Porte. We need to get better at outside containment and bringing the runner down at first contact. A single missed tackle is a touchdown for LC. 

(2) Avoid turnovers. That’s important for any game, but last year, two of Lake Creek’s four touchdowns came off PNG fumbles.

(3) PNG must dominate time of possession. This was the most important part of us beating them last year. I went back through every play of last year’s game. Here’s some rough numbers: 
PNG held the ball 10-ish minutes longer than LC. (28 min vs 18 min). That’s nearly a full quarter more than LC. It gets more interesting: For every 2.5 minutes LC held the ball in a normal “true” drive, they scored one touchdown. [I didn’t count their scoop and score on a PNG fumble because it doesn’t tell us anything about how their offense moved the ball against our defense.]

So, that ten minutes extra we held the ball was HUGE for PNG’s win. It might have been the main reason we won.

In fact, our good defense actually didn’t stop them enough to slow their usual scoring rate much. They averaged around 56 points a game before they played us. If those ten extra minutes we held the ball had gone to LC, their offense was on a pace to score between three and four more TDs - or, between 48 and 55 points total.

Obviously, this is based only on one game, but neither team has changed much since then. 

What does this tell us? With equal T.O.P., PNG likely loses. Our best defense is LC not touching the ball. They have the advantage in a shootout - frankly, their receivers are faster than ours, their RB is better than ours, and their QB is more than good enough. If we have to win by matching them score for score, we lose control. Our defense is good, but not good enough for our offense to gift LC extra possessions. 

 

Titans by 50+

1 hour ago, Coach85 said:

Not taking anything from Silsbee because they are a good football team. But, Westbrook should be totally embarrassed. With all the talent that is in Beaumont they should be blowing lower classifications out. But because they can't hire the right coaches the talent moves on to other schools.  Westbrook needs to bring back the old New Orleans bag heads. The administration is a joke. Their AD could not even run a Junior League organization. Supposedly when they hire a new coach they are not allowed  to bring in their own people. They are told they keep the same staff that is already there.This should open some eyes as to how bad the BISD has become. They need to drain the swamp and get people in that can turn the whole thing around from academic level to the extracurricular activities. 

If it makes you feel any better, the superintendent just spent $76,000 on a motivational speaker.  

I think BH wins this one. 

Tt

46 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

What’s the name? So I can keep a eye on him and watch him

Landen Williams-Callis. If he isn’t already, I expect a five star rating before it’s all over. I think he already has offers from pretty much everyone.