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PNG gets the ball on a fumble. 

These officials need to get their stuff together. This game is being so poorly officiated. 

This PNG defense is an embarrassment. 

PNG got to 3rd and 22, Bost with a huge completion down to the Nederland 40. 

21-16 Bulldogs. 

Arm tackling ...

5:27 left in 3rd, pending kickoff to Nederland. 

16-14 PNG on top. 

Touchdown PNG. 

PNG offense is waking up 

13 minutes ago, outanup said:

Ankle 

Sorry to hear that 

5 minutes ago, dme1111 said:

What happened to

Cunningham???

It looked like he took a bad tackle. But there’s been no word. 

Win or lose tonight, PNG isn’t going to even make the playoffs tackling this poorly. I can’t understand it. 

15 minutes ago, grayhair777 said:

We have buckets of mud on it way 

That’s a relief 

Nederland players confused by not-soaking-wet field; ask coach to explain the mystery of the dry, not-brown surface. 

4 hours ago, D.C.BULLDOGS said:

Hold on did Al Pacino just show up in this thread? Yep found it... I knew I heard this quote before without team names in it 😂
You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!

 

 

That's a good quote. I think I've miscommunicated my point: I didn't say PNG got any moral victory out of its loss. My point is that when we try to evaluate the strength of a team, the WAY a team loses can be indicative of future wins. For example: Nederland has often started out the season 0-3, only to go on to go undefeated in district. Their losses were still losses, but they don't tell the whole story. Nederland was playing good competition and at a point in its timeline where the X's and O's weren't working right, but used that to put things together down the stretch. See also: Silsbee the last two years. So while football wins are determined based on inches, per Mr. Pacino, I'd argue that PREDICTING future wins is based on a whole lot more. 

West Orange has to play Carthage eventually. THAT will be a game, one I’m sure people have wanted to see for years. But I don’t see West Orange’s [name redacted] Defense holding Carthage out of the end zone enough to win. 

The weirdest part of 2020 is no one has been on to complain about purple chalk yet. 

Any word as to what Texan live is doing to make sure the website can handle the increased traffic they are going to get this week? I bet they set a record this week. No one has ever tried to stream PNG v NED before. There could be a LOT. Or, is anyone aware of anyone else who will be streaming, say, on YouTube? 

2 hours ago, Bigdog said:

It’s not Nederland’s fault that other games were cancelled.  We will see what United will be. PNG is  not exactly setting the world on fire. Transitive games don’t work well when comparing unless both teams have played the same opponent.  If PNG come in cocky they might get a nasty surprise Friday night.

I think we agree, then. I’m not trying to insinuate that Nederland has AVOIDED having a tough preseason. I’m also not saying PNG is clearly better (I may be guilty of ragging the most on PNG’s defense, of all the PNG fans). My point is only that there is no evidence, based on the sample of games that both teams have played, to assume Nederland has the upper hand, or vice verse. 

36 minutes ago, Bigdog said:

Keep thinking that... 😂

Do you argue that Nederland has been tested this season? By having exactly one game against a team that it turns out isn’t even that good? And one game against a team that barely qualifies as a team? Even if we assume Nederland is a good team, it’s hard to argue they’ve had to prove it yet. 

PNG has been in every single game. The more I think about it, Nederland is the untested one -- the Bulldogs have played a struggling Lufkin team (Nederland is their sole win) and a horrible Jacksonville team. PNG is the one coming into this game having proved it can play in tough situations -- One fumble away from beating PAM, one pass break up away from beating Tomball. Beaumont United is also showing itself not be a scrub. If Nederland comes in cocky they are in for a wake up call, because PNG is battle tested, and Nederland is barely tested at all. 

4 hours ago, Blockdownandkickout! said:

So is it better to schedule two tough games like BH did and be 0-2 heading into district (but ideally they learned and grew from these close games) or is it better to schedule two easy games and be 2-0 headed into district (but realistically haven’t been challenged, but you have momentum) ? ??? I can see both sides. 

My attitude is that scheduling tough pre-district games helps a lot if your team is fundamentally strong. In such case, you get a taste of really good competition, you get sort of a playoff atmosphere, and the team gets a sense of what it takes to play against better teams, and you end up being more prepared for district. I don't think this strategy helps much if you're just not a good team. In other words, I don't think a tough preseason makes a bad team good, but it can make a good team better. So for BH, Crosby, and PNG (and Nederland to a lesser extent, since they were able to have only one really tough preseason opponent in Lufkin), the preseason seems to have been the right kind of preseason. 12-5a II is a true toss-up. 

For an example of using a preseason right, Silsbee has done a good job the last several seasons -- They schedule teams that are much better than them, and everyone writes them off when they start the season at 1-5, but then it turns out they picked up a lot of good experience and end up making a deep playoff run.

I don't expect BH to have any trouble with Kingwood Park. 

15 hours ago, Stangfan#1 said:

This is going to be a real good game but I'm going to have to go with Nederland they have a pretty Good squad this year it's going to be a low scoring game 

Nederland 17

PNG 14

I think the game MIGHT start out slow, but it's hard to see this game not getting above thirty for both teams.