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Pretty sure I said that Thomas should get it and there was no panhandling to have Moshier take home a pity trophy; I was just disagreeing with your take about him being a liability. I counted them up, and he had 3 pick sixes in a two game stretch. Not ideal, but no more than the number of touchdowns he was responsible for in both games either. It was a rough stretch for the Tigers, no doubt, but that aint because they had 6 back there. But it comes with the territory of being a quarterback - you get more praise and blame than you probably should. Stating that a team is young and that key players were banged up is the farthest thing from saying that the rest of the team sucked, as you so colorfully put it. Everyone knew that Silsbee would be young and would take its licks. But they sure as hell did more with what they had than the other teams in their district who were clearly more talented than they were this year. I'm guessing that using big words like "implosion" are meant to hurt my feelings that Silsbee lost to a bigger and better team in the third (not 4th) round, but I'm not sure there's a bigger implosion than WOS losing to a team they beat during the regular season. Again. And while I've certainly had my fair share of exchanges with many disagreeable Silsbee fans over the years, I ain't them. I believe that with an award like this one, you have to take a player's whole body of work into account - wins, big plays, production/stats, leadership/importance to the team, grit (to the extent it shows), post-season performance, etc. So yeah not that anyone cares, but I wouldn't have had any issues with a state championship winning quarterback from WOS taking it home.

This is a refreshingly bad take. Moshier was working behind 5 underclassmen 1st year starters (3 soph), and his best 2 players (WR Miller, RB Farr) were banged up for good chunks of the season. Ask those teammates, coaches (hell - ask opposing coaches) if they felt that he was a liability back there. Anyone can read box scores and stat lines - I'd encourage you to go back and watch the tape. Then go back and watch how many high percentage pop passes, slips, tunnels and bubble screens HF made use of in racking up the yards. And last time I checked, Moshier led Silsbee deeper into the playoffs than any other team from District 9 4A-II made it last fall. With all of that said - Thomas on offense. Morris or Hunter on defense.