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On 5/12/2021 at 11:19 AM, Pot Stirrer said:

I've seen plenty of old film, and I hate to break it to you Uncle Rico's living in 1985 (1975 for PNG fans), but tackling wasn't that great back in the day. Some down right atrocious at times. Offense didn't use space like the offensives of today. More space = advantage offense. Offensive athletes are starting in that at the position because guess what, they can make the big play. Good offensive players are going to make people miss. Bad offensive players don’t get the ball. Every school at every level has guys that can run through tackles or make people miss.  

Tackling against Stephenville was absolute garbage in PNG’s 1999 state game. 

Do PNG and Barbers Hill meet in the 4th round if they both make it past the 3rd? 

Congratulations, Indians! 

Who is next opponent?

On 4/27/2021 at 2:23 PM, prepballfan said:

 The year of 2015 top defense in the district, 

PN-G’s defense allowed a league-low 262.3 yards and 14.4 points per game through the regular season. After giving up 30 to Nederland in the Bum Phillips Bowl, the Indians defense gave up 27 total points in its last three 22-5A games.

His defense has ranked first in district 3 times and his total defense for the entire history of our school all 96 football seasons rank in at number 14, 29, 31, 34, and 35th all time in our history. Those are his best five defenses vs the other 96 Indians teams. Just some real actual stats and not feelings presented. 

I agree the defense wasn't always as bad as its reputation (excluding last year, which was painful), and your numbers back it up. But if we added just a little more physicality in practice wouldn't we be that much better? I'm not saying we need to be killing each other in practice, but there is no reason PNG shouldn't have a touch, gritty defense like West Orange's, and from what I hear, West Orange has pretty aggressive, physical defensive practices. I'd also like to know about other schools -- Nederland had a tough defense last year (except for when it played Lufkin and PNG) and Crosby's defense was rock solid (except for against Aledo and Liberty Hill). Do they do live tackling in practice? What about Barbers Hill? 

On 4/25/2021 at 4:21 PM, NHSBulldogFan said:

Meanwhile across the tracks were losing many of our skill players but bring back the biggest name of 2020 Kyndon Fuselier...much of the defense is back led by 2nd team All State LB Jaice Beck

Fuselier is a stud. Does he have any college offers yet? In 2018 when he was playing as a freshman on varsity against PNG I would have bet he was the fastest player on the field not named Roschon Johnson. 

On 3/27/2021 at 6:28 PM, Cougar14.2 said:

PNG players look like they need a better strength and condition program. The vast majority of PNG’s players look like BH’s used to before TW got there. Santa Fe has an excuse as they have the smallest enrollment in the district so you expect some personnel deficiencies, same can’t be said for PNG though. Other than a few linemen PNG’s players look like they’ve gotten smaller over the last 6 or 7 years, but that may just be optics as other team’s enrollments have grown? 

I agree -- Generally PNG players need to be much more athletic. We need at least some tweaks to the strength and conditioning program. It really showed against BH. 

15 hours ago, AshlyKBMT said:

King was the secondary coach this year at PNG. Before he was head coach at Liberty-Elyau he was defensive coordinator at Richland High School in North Richland Hills. 

Someone can correct me, but it seems to me the secondary was "ok" last year. Our biggest problems were in first-level tackling. 

9 hours ago, PdaddyBball said:

Looks like from that same site they scored 152 and gave up 480 on the season. 

Welp...

4 hours ago, TurtleMan said:

Confirmed. Coach Klint King, most recently the HC of Texarkana Liberty-Eylau. 

Do we know anything about his previous success on defense? Any salary info? 

18 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

I hear you... I mean, the system is what the system is.  But you have to realize it's a little bit flawed at its core.  

The fifteen cents you paid in taxes on that Sprite doesn't compare to the amount paid on other items by other people.  FOR INSTANCE, you have a ton of voters in PA who pay little to no ad valorem property taxes because they live in subsidized housing deciding which projects "we" want, when the refineries and high income voters will be the ones paying for those projects.  Does that sound fair?

That's why the mantra of the left has been that OTHER people need to pay "their fair share" when our share doesn't really exist.... 

I guess the question is "If I have no means of income, receive a gift from the Treasury in the form of EIC each spring instead of paying income taxes, and my housing literally is exempt from proerty taxation because it's a government-owned housing project, should buying a sprite with my EBT card and paying sales tax with other people's money give me a voice in how other people's tax dollars should be spent?"

Like I said... the system is what it is, but you have to admit that it's flawed.  I feel the same way about huge corporations like Amazon that have a $0 tax liability, but are currently in talks to buy the Washington Football Team in spite of the fact that the US taxpayers (through the USPS) lose money on every Amazon package that is delivered by the US Mule.  The whole system is just stupid. 

I know we aren't really talking about taxes here, but just to throw off a misperception: Amazon doesn't have a $0 tax liability. Amazon pays millions and millions and millions of dollars in taxes. In particular, Amazon pays property taxes across the states it is located in in (including Texas), as well as turning over billions of sales taxes in every state that has sales taxes (and those taxes have only gone up over the past couple years due to a recent Supreme Court decision). Amazon, due to credits and incentives from the federal government, has had a relatively low federal tax payment, but that doesn't mean Amazon isn't contributing to federal and state revenues. Not to mention the fact that the money is taxed when it is paid out to Amazon's employees, meaning Amazon's people are contributing millions of dollars in federal income taxes. The real question isn't whether Amazon pays taxes, or whether Amazon should pay more. It's whether it's worthwhile and beneficial (to individuals and to the economy) for the government to incentivize investment by offering credits and incentives to companies who have the option of going elsewhere. Every community where Amazon sets up a distribution center instantly gets thousands of jobs, with all of the money and investment in the local economy that brings with it. It's not Amazon's job to choose to pay more taxes, it's Amazon's job to follow the law. So if Amazon can pay fewer taxes in one state as opposed to another state, it's the fault of the high-tax state for driving away jobs, not Amazon's fault for choosing a place where it can keep more of its profits and pay its employees more (money which will be spent, and taxed, anyway). 

40 minutes ago, SmashMouth said:

No they don’t. They just pay you or take your money. Then they choose a small sample to audit based in certain risk criteria. If you’re telling me that our voting should be based on the integrity of how people file their taxes, then we are in big trouble. 
Their are lots of things that identify you: employer’s records, financial records, property records, business records, so in & so forth. You’re comparing apples to oranges. 

SmashMouth has a point. The IRS doesn't look that closely at tax returns as they come in, at least in the few weeks after they are sent in. The IRS has the resources to catch about 3% of tax evasion/fraud. Sometimes a discrepancy, error, or lie on taxes won't get caught for years, and many don't get caught at all. The IRS is even required to send out refund checks so quickly that they will send out the checks without doing a deep look to make sure the refund isn't fraudulent, and then follow up after the fact and come after the fraudsters they sent the checks to (that kind of fraud doesn't work every time, but I have seen it work in big enough numbers to get people in a lot of trouble). 

I'm sorry for the old DC. I hope he finds another assignment and is able to keep his young coaching career going, if that's what he wants. That being said, I hope the new DC can bring PNG's defense to the right place this season. 

Condolences to all. 

Defense has to improve. We probably played the best defense in the state the night we played Fort Bend Marshall (and easily our best defense of the last 15 years against anyone) but the rest of the season was among the worst defense of our last 15 years. We've played plenty of bad defense, but this season was something else. 

5 hours ago, Cougtalk said:

Thinking back on it tho, was that like the 3rd botched handoff all night? That offense never seemed to mess up a handoff except there and when #4 came out of the game. #4 while not making all the plays or getting all the yards was the reason that offense ran so well. 

I don't know the precise numbers, but it definitely seemed like they executed that offense nearly perfectly. It came down to three crucial moments on defense for Crosby: (1) holding LH to a field goal on one drive near the end of the first half, (2) getting that fumble in the second half when LH was driving, and (3) LH fumbling the last snap. If LH had scored a touchdown instead of having the field goal, they win. And, the way they were moving the ball you almost have to think they would have been guaranteed a touchdown if they hadn't fumbled in the second half. And number (3) goes without saying. So there were three moments where if LH had just done one of them differently they would have won the game. Crosby went 3-0 on those three plays. It makes the win all that much more impressive to me. 

Any ticket info? 

That was an awesome game. 

Wow! Hate that for LH, to lose on a botched handoff, but Crosby earned it. A good game. Someone had to lose. Congratulations Crosby. Now go slay the Aledo dragon. 

Dunn didn't get enough credit during district play. He is delivering strikes. 

Crosby is looking good. And I've never seen a Slot T offense run this well. Great game. 

2 hours ago, CCRed said:

No. The game has been sold out for days. 

I'll be cheering via Texan Live then ! Go win it! 

I'm going to ask a dumb question: Are there tickets at the gate? I live close-ish to Bryan. If I showed up at the game, could I get in? 

If you make it to the 5th round, there's no reason to think you can't beat anyone in the state. You're a top 4, you may as well be the top 1. Go get it. 

Good work!!!