Rez

TC has a good run defense, but can’t defend the pass. Bost should have a field day picking apart the secondary as long as the weather isn’t too bad. I don’t think TC can score enough points to win this one even against a suspect PNG defense.

Crosby went to the semifinals in ‘14. The ‘13 team lost in the second round to Elgin by like 30. Great offense but that team’s defense was borderline awful. In the bi-district game you’re taking about I want to say Crosby was up 42-14 after Walter scored early in the 4th quarter and was pulled. In ‘14 Crosby had probably had the best defense in the entire region, gave up 19ppg with 10 playoff teams on the schedule. Offense was very average for a Crosby team. Kind of negates your whole post. 
 
To one of your points though, you’re right about Crosby still rebuilding. Have to give credit to the second year coach who is in prime position to win his first undefeated district championship and run off 10 consecutive victories for only the 2nd time in school history. Not to mention he’s winning this year’s district games by an average of 30+

Don’t forget to mention to who that stephenville coach was to really start a conversation who out coached Burnett.  No other than Art Briles.  That star qb was Kendall Briles which is the OC at Arkansas.   PNG also that year had one of the greatest defensive player in their history at S in the late Derek Gohlke,  which basically won the game with that hit against Lamarque.  He put fear into those cougars.  I’d take that penalty every time if one these current players did that

Yes you’re right.  After you said something I thought about it.   Wasn’t Derek that was the safety that year.   It was Chris,  the older brother.   Sadly passed away a few years ago.  Derek I think was a pretty good rb if I remember right

I'll say this. IMO the Jimmy's and Joe's aren't there on the Defensive front for the Injuns. Add to that a green DC and well you know the rest. Just an observation. Faircloth has had lots of turnover through the yrs staff wise. Is it that he's tough to work with or his assistants are that sought after. Tough job as a DC when you only get the Jimmy's and Joe's the OC culls...
 

Since I'm thinking about it again, I think last week's game requires some perspective. In 2013, PNG had an "ok" team that I think finished 2nd in a particularly weak district. That year, Crosby went to the semifinals. PNG played Crosby in the first round of the playoffs and, though we were a mostly normal team and Crosby had its best team ever, PNG still managed to keep the score at 28-49.
This year PNG was "supposed" to have one of the best teams in the state, and Crosby is technically still rebuilding from the financial implosion of two years ago and is only in its second year with the coach, and PNG barely managed 14 points and got embarrassed on defense, with what is supposedly the best offense in the district, with what is actually the best QB in the area. The point in making the comparison: even Crosby's best team ever didn't blow us out the way we got blown out last week (Leaving aside the unanswered question as to where this year's Crosby team will rank -- If Crosby goes on to win state, I'll feel a lot better about this).
Something is not being done right. I'll avoid saying what should be done, because I don't know exactly what must be done to make a defense good. But will say that whatever should be done isn't being done, whatever that is. 

Note: Time change for kickoff of PNG at Texas City from 7:30pm to 2pm, on Friday.
The way PNG defense is playing, anything is possible.    We will have to see which PNG Indian Team shows up.

Yessir you’re exactly right. It looks to me like PNG is really soft and play a very passive, finesse type of football. At the end of the day you’ve got to  have some guys that will get after it and aggressively block and tackle the opponent if you’re to be successful. JMO

As much as I would’ve loved Crosby to hold PNG under the 7.5ppg we were giving up since the start of district play, PNG did actually score another td albeit against mostly twos. Does someone mind changing the score to 54-14? Crosby only won by 40, not 47. Plus that receiver needs credit for his td, kid was one of the few PNG players I can point out that I would say played hard all night. 

*offense

Crosby had one player going both ways on occasion. There was a couple of starters that were not even on the sideline. I am assuming they are sick. 

Who would have thought that from the Nederland scrimmage lmao that's why you cant tell much from a scrimmage 

Ned definitely deserved this win. Good job bulldogs. Heck BH even picked the ball like 4 times

One Trick Pony 21 BH 35

Nederland 41-35

BH 2nd Nederland 3rd and PNG 4th. Point system

If you noticed the one kid Crosby had going both ways was cramping and came up a little gimpy several times.

lol is right

I blame coaching. I'm a massive Faircloth fan, but this is a complete breakdown of fundamental football. PNG has got to start playing the best players both ways, and get back to a tough style of aggressive, disciplined football. There is no reason we can't be excellent at offense and at least competent on defense. 

Crosby 54 
Png 7
 
Crosby kicked off to PNG and they fumbled it and recovered in the end zone for a TD lol

Ugly.....

I think it's safe to say PNG coaching staff don't even care about defense. Not even a little bit. 

I think it's safe to say PNG coaching staff don't even care about defense. Not even a little bit. 

It wasn’t lost on me haha 

Figure I'll drop a prediction. I HATE to say this, but in the spirit of objectivity, it doesn't look good for PNG. I honestly know nothing about Crosby, other than watching them against Barbers Hill, and that game is a bad sample since BH played like eagles with clipped wings or some other bad trouble that eagles can get themselves into. I don't know a lot about eagles, so I'm already regretting that joke. In any case, you don't need to know anything at all about Crosby to predict this game. PNG has been the most consistent team in the area in one aspect: An absolutely mortifying inability to make plays at the line or make open field tackles. This weakness has been particularly clear against running QBs. Every team we've played, no matter how good or bad, has been able to take advantage of it. So if Crosby is AT ALL competent at running faster than a dead snail on the bottom of a broken wheelchair, PNG is going to struggle all night. I HATE predicting a PNG loss against the Mecca. I'm hoping Faircloth got the ipad I placed in the mail this week because we are going to need all the help we can get. 
That being said, I in no way think Crosby is unbeatable. Crosby is solid. I think (again, based solely on what I observed against BH) they are a third-round team with a high seed, 2nd round with a low seed. PNG can win this game. I don't look at PNG as a bad team at all. They have played well in every game, and the only truly bad performance, even with the bad defense, was the implosion against BH. PNG has shown flashes of real potential and talent all season, and there is nothing to say it won't come together tonight. Remember the 2010 season, when Central marched into the Reservation for the last game of the season, one game away from an undefeated district championship -- In that season PNG had an awful defense and an incredible offense (that was a year, I should add, PNG dominated Crosby in the pre-season). PNG crushed Central and went to the third round, only to lose by 10 points against Manvel. So we could surprise people tonight, is my only point. We still have the best QB in the area, and a full stable of dangerous runningbacks and receivers. GO Indians.