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You heard it here first guys. Lee is going to beat PAM 20-19. Falcons are going to beat the Rangers 48-34. PAM will be watching from home this year after beating North Shore.

Three things: 1) Sterling has good athletes, so whoever said that about their offense not having athletes is out of his/her mind.  Sterling has speed to burn, and they should be ashamed that they have not put together at least a halfway decent team the last few years.  Last year's team used a miracle second half against Lee to edge into the playoffs. 2) North Shore is no where near the NS of old.  If Lee's coaches were not so darn inept, Lee actually had a chance to hang with NS last Friday as crazy as it may sound.  You had to be there to see how it all unfolded.  An interecption return for a td on a play that should have never been called, a fake punt for a td on a play that I could see coming from three miles away, a fumble return down inside the ten by a running back that should have never been carrying the ball at that point in time.... Middle second quarter, Lee had stopped NS's offense 4 straight times. Lee couldn't have dreamed of stopping NS even once last year, and Lee's defense was much better last year. 3)  Let's not get overzealous about PNG having their way with Lee or Sterling.  Beat Barbers Hill and LCM a little more convincingly, then we can talk about what you may or may not do to Lee and Sterling.  Granted, Lee is down, but PNG would not walk all over Lee. 

Makes things a bit more interesting next week in Baytown

I left with 5 minutes to go in the first half as my anger was making a dull ache in the pit of my stomach turn into a stabbing knife piercing my kidney. There is no way that NS is 40+ points better than Lee. I didn't see the WB game, but I'm certain that WB is better than NS. NS is there for the taking this year. It was mind boggling to see Lee stop NS's offense 4 straight times to start the game, as horrible as Lee's defense is.

North Shore was going to win this game either way, but the Ganders just gift wrapped it for them. It should have been 7-0 North Shore at the half. A horrible pass by Lee's qb gave NS a gift6 interception return for a td. Lee stopped NS the first four times the Mustangs had the ball in the first half. On NS'sfirst punt, you could see the way they were lined up, with their three gunners on one side of the field, they had all of Lee's speed on the punt return over there inexplicably lining up across from these guys.  NS should have faked that first time, and it would have been an easy run for Denby around the corner where Lee had their slow footed middle linebacker as the contain.  NS had mercy on us that time, but of course the second punt for NS comes and Lee's coaches failed to see the flaw in their punt return scheme.  So, this time NS took the easy fake punt that Lee's coaches handed to them and Denby ran around right end for a 50 yard touchdown. Lee's best running back is running second string.  #21 is a pure running back.  #1, while he is serviceable, is more of a safety type.  He plays a lot at safety, but he plays at running back too, which limits him in both areas.  He should be strictly a safety and #21 should be the full time running back.  Lee is driving on a possession early in the game....moving the ball pretty well. The coaches decide to put in #19 and then...of course,...they put him in motion, everyone on NS's defense starts running towards where he is motioning to for his patented receiver sweep that thhey give him every time he comes in the game.  Me...I'm holding out hopebecause the whol eNS defense is over there waiting on him, and a Pop Warner coach would have the forethought to realize NS would be coached to know that he is going to get the ball on a receiver sweep when he goes in motion, so I just KNEW that the quarterback was going to keep it and do some misdirection off of it.  But, nope...5 NS defenders were over there waiting on him 7 yards deep in the backfield.  That made it 2nd and 17 and stopped all hopes for that drive. Next time around they let #35 go for the receiver sweep.  well, it's not #19, so what do you know, the NS defense doesn't believe the fake...they fake it to #35 and give it instead to the running back. IOt goes no where of course, because the NS defenders have been taught already that if it's not #19 it's not going to be the receiver sweep. The tendencies are just TOO, TOO easy to figure out with Lee. It's like thir playbook is the original Tecmo Bowl playbook.  Except that Tecmo Bowl playbook had four plays, which is twice as many as Lee has. I'm not saying that Lee had a prayer of winning this game, but the coaches just aren't contributing right now. The third NS score was after #1 came in at running back and fumbled the first play after Lee had recovered a NS fumble on the Mustangs' side of the field.  I just knew they were going to try and get a quick strike to #14, who is leaps and bounds better than any other offensive player Lee has...but no, they run the ball with #1, who fumbles and NS takes it back about 60 yards to the Lee 10, setting up an easy td. The 4th NS td was the first legitimate drive they had in the first half and that was with about 5 minutes to go in the half.  At that point Lee had mailed it in.  Can't say I blame them.  they are a decent group of players that have no guidance.

Not to be too picky, but when a team is going in to score, it's not called their own end of the field.  That's the opponent's end of the field. Channelview has a super receiver.  He just didn't get the ball enough against Lee. He is one of the best in the area for sure.

Nice player, probably runs about a 4.6 though, which is still nothing to sneeze at.

Sad for whom? lol It's happy for me. The sad part is that Lee actually has enough players on the team to be able to play much better. The coaching staff just doesn't know where to put them. We have a district winning 400 relay team playing the 4 defensive back positions, yet the other team only passes 8-10 times a game. We have a bunch of 5.2 40 guys playing receiver, while the 4.4 40 guys rot away at defensive back making maybe 2 or 3 plays a game back there. It is so frustrating to KNOW that Jaevon Richardson needs to be at receiver, yet he wastes away at cornerback against a team that only threw to his man once all game. Then they FINALLY throw him the ball a few times on offense in the 4th quarter and he of course catches the first one for what would have been 35 yards had the qb not throw it out of bounds, then catches a quick slant a few plays later and takes it 50 yards down inside the Falcon 5 yard line.  That would be the norm if they actually left him on offense full time and threw him the ball 4 or 5 times a quarter like an intelligent coach would do. It's games like these that remind you this is high school football. If a coach has any sort of imagination and ability, he wouldn't be on this level.  He'd be over at UH or Texas or LSU. Sorry to all the coaches, but it is what it is. And seeing simple decisions not being made reminds you of this fact in a frustrating way.

North Shore. I don't feel too good going into this one lol

Talk about a battle of ineptitude. Man this was a tough game to watch. CV missed an xp and two field goals. Lee didn't get anything going all night until the coach finally came to his senses and threw it to Richardson who turned a quick slant into about a 55 yard gain down to the 5 with 4 minutes in the game.  Lee punched it in a few plays later. CV missed a field goal with less than a minute to go from about 27 yards.

The Lee quarterback can't really pass the ball that well. He's not very fast either. He has a nice arm, but he can only throw it to a pre-determined spot on the field that they have worked on in practice all week. He can't actually make any reads or pick another receiver or anything along those lines. I think coach is slow on reversing his decisions sometimes. He'd be better off to just go with the freshman and let him make his mistakes and learn from them, because the freshman is immensely more naturally gifted.

This reminds me of Olin's first year. Lee does have some talent this year(3 seniors going D1), just not enough of it.

my bad...67

45-0 now I will have to eat my words about the shut out. Man, Lee must have really just not showed up or WBV has greatly improved since WF put 70 on them.

Let's you know how bad Sterling is. Lee just doesn't have a quarterback to run the offense they are trying to run. #17 is not a running threat at ALL. So, basically the offense boils down to handing off up the middle to #1 or #21 and then throwing an occasional hail mary to #14. I personally think they should just go with the freshman qb. At least he provides a running threat.

Cmon wosgrad... Can't your internet go out for a minute or something. This is making my head hurt even thinking about how bad they are getting whomped. Wish I could have gotten out of work to see it.

I didn't promise anything. I predicted a score, a far fetched one, that had a bit of tongue in cheek in it. Now, I didn't believe that Lee would get shut out. If they do, it will be quite surprising to me.

Ouch... Man.... Just hope coach can hold it together til we get to 4A and all these sophomores and freshmen grow up.

Cmon Ganders. Gotta represent Baytown better than this.

All I'm saying is that a field with mud and rutted up isn't a homefield advantage any more. It's considered unplayable and should be moved. Don't matter two craps that PAM wants to keep their homefield advantage. Just like you can't pour concrete for a baseball infield then call it homefield advantage. It's a surface unsuitable for playing on at that point. If the field has level grass then we don't need to have this discussion.

If it's in great shape then fine, if it's anything like Clear Creek field, then it's a shame. They should have thought about giving up homefield advantage when they didn't put enough time into making the field playable or playing too many games on it or whatever the cause was.

Keep an eye on #14 for Lee

Baytown Lee ;D

What ever happened to that other board they used to have? FNE or something

Do they just count up the attendance or something? Wouldn't it be better if they took 10-15 snapshots over the course of the year and averaged them out? This seems a bit inexact to pick one day. No wonder Highland Park always stays 4A. Just tell a certain number of kids not to show up today.