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blackflag79

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  1. Oh, believe me, I have noticed the difference with Coach Edwards running the show. There's an obvious difference. Our defense is better than it has been for many years. I never was a fan of the previous DC (I won't mention any names), except for early in his tenure. I do believe if our defense would've been just a few ticks better than average over the years we would've had at least a couple more titles. Now...., not to get ahead of myself...., we just need to figure out how to stop those red Dawgs..., and not play scared on offense....
  2. Oh, my! I thought I was on the Friday Night app for a few moments... For what it's worth, PG runs an offense that our defense has traditionally had trouble with. One reason is you can't emulate it in practice. You have to play gap control, seal the edges, and hope everybody does their job and makes sure tackles. Discipline is tantemount for sure. Easier said than done for sure. I do think Gilmer will win by a couple of scores, and could be a little more if they play sound defense, avoid turnovers and costly penalties, and find an offensive rhythm early. Otherwise, it could be a lot closer than it should be, in my humble opinion. I know PG will be UP for this game, just like the Buckeyes should be. The first goal is at hand. What are we going to do?
  3. I haven't seen a pitch picked off like that before, a straight line to the backfield without even as much as a bobble. He timed that about as perfect as you can get. That was definitely a poorly designed play. I have seen an option pitch picked off before and ran in for a TD, and a quick pass outside picked off and ran in for a TD, just not one like this.
  4. The Buckeyes played really sloppy against Pitt. Some of that had to do with Pitt being a little better than their record indicates, but penalties, turnovers, and lack of focus were major contributors. I expect the Buckeyes to play much better this week. Liberty-Eylau has played us some close games in the past even when we were much better on paper. I expect nothing less than the Leopards best effort. I hope we regain our focus and cut the mistakes, or this game could be closer than it should be.
  5. I think Pitt could win out and get the third spot in district. They will definitely get their first win this coming Friday night.
  6. I highly doubt it. They are nearing 1,000 students in their high school according to their superintendent.
  7. It appears likely that the numbers for 4A go up, meaning going from the bottom at 515 last realignment to around 550. Even at the numbers Gilmer has, they will remain 4A-D2. If I remember correctly, they raised the top of D2 to 880 at last realignment, which means you're right. I was thinking of the numbers from a couple of alignments ago. One thing I can say for sure, we are dealing with the UIL, meaning we have no real idea how things will play out. They should add another classification, but I don't think they will anytime soon.
  8. The good news is Carthage might stay in D2..... Some other perennial powers might move up to 5A, too. Argyle is very close, as are several others. Celina will definitely move up to D1.
  9. Gilmer will likely move up to 4AD1 unless the UIL changes the numbers significantly. Gilmer High had a record number of students at the beginning of September, 794, I believe.
  10. There have been a few years where we played flat against Spring Hill and the score was closer than it should've been. I don't expect anything other than the best effort that the Panthers can muster. They would love nothing more than to beat the Buckeyes. Honestly, I just don't see the Buckeyes playing flat. If they do, they will struggle..., still win, but struggle. I just think this year's team will try to put Spring Hill away early, then sub players in freely for experience. I look for the score to be about 35 to nothing before halftime. The Buckeye offense has to put some work in and find their rhythm early. I think they will. I also look for the Buckeye defense to wreak havoc in the trenches, too. SH's QB will have to be able to move a LOT just to get passes off. I think the Black Flag Defense will be in the Panther backfield on a regular basis. JMHO.
  11. I believe the only game Gilmer won was the JV game.
  12. Ain't that the truth? If they both decided today to leave would be fine with me!
  13. I would have to say 4 more years after this one, Scott will take a job in the college ranks. Sooner or later, he has to think about how big that retirement check will be. I also think Coach Preston will get an offer that he can't resist somewhere along the line. Enjoy it while you can.
  14. Well..., they are homers for sure. Heck, if you want the real truth, you could call "holding" on nearly every play on either team. Some are just more obvious than others, and sometimes those get missed. Officials are human. They will make mistakes. No excuses here. Carthage is a just a better team...again. We will have to make leaps and bounds and have a little luck if/when we meet y'all again this year. Our coaches have a whole lot of figuring out to do to have any chance against Surratt, Preston, and company.
  15. Okay...., the "what if" game again. I do agree that Carthage will beat us worse when/if we meet again, unless something major happens. Dropped balls early didn't help us either. Our offensive line has to play better for sure. Etc., etc.
  16. I believe the gap did shrink "some", but not nearly enough. You can always go back and say "if" so and so hadn't have done this, or wouldn't have done that, we would've beaten them worse. Hindsight is 20/20. We could say that as well. I do agree with the last sentence. It will probably be worse when/if we meet again.
  17. All big games start out with both teams being somewhat "nervous", but that changes after a few plays for the better teams. Unfortunately, it didn't look like we settled down early enough, especially on offense. Coach Metzel was just agreeing with Jeff the interviewer when it was said, and I believe he was right to an extent. That's about it.
  18. That was the interviewer that said that. These teams are NOT equally coached. You have win 8 state championships in 13 years, probably 9 in 14 after this year to be "equal". That's just a silly statement no matter who made it.
  19. Taken totally out of context. Here's the video of the coach's show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3twMOA_egM
  20. Notice, I didn't say we "would". I said we would have to. Big difference.
  21. Man, it looked like the Dawg defense knew our offensive plays better that we did. Of course, it certainly didn't hurt that Surratt, Preston, and company had three weeks to prepare, and for the players to get healthy. I felt like Carthage would win in a low scoring game, but I didn't think they would keep making us go three and out so often, and hold us to 7 points. We never found a rhythm on offense at all. One thing I was disappointed in was that we "let" Carthage set the pace of the game. When you play a team as good as Carthage is, you absolutely have to set the pace, maintain it, and preferably early in the game. That's extremely hard to do when you can't get any offensive rhythm going at all. I thought our defense played their butts off and kept us in the game, especially considering they were on the field for almost the entire game. It's not unusual for us to not win the time of possession stats, but I seriously doubt we had the ball for 12 minutes the whole game. It's extremely hard to beat anybody if the other team's offense is on the field for 3 out of 4 quarters. If / when we meet again, we will have to score at least 35 to 40 points to have any chance at beating Carthage, because I know their offense will only get better, and their defense is good enough already. Like somebody else said, it looked like we played "scared". You can't be that way against good teams. You have to have confidence in what you do, and play like it.
  22. Carthage will likely be able to name that score against PG, who is only a shell of the teams from the past 3 or 4 years.
  23. Nope. Try again. Wrong player for one thing, and I wouldn't single out a player's number, because that's like using a minor's name on a public forum. I will only say that almost every unsportsmanlike penalty we've gotten, and there has been at least 1 to 3 in each game if memory serves, has been by 3 players. They know who they are, and it needs to be nipped in the bud. I say bench them, if it's blatant, for at least a series for first offense, at least a quarter for a second offense, a half for three, and so on. That's called discipline. Not to mention that a lot of starters were "benched" after the game was well in hand. Last week's game was one of those games. If the one you mentioned was "benched" I didn't even notice. If the ref admitted he was wrong to throw a flag on a player and later apologized, that's an official doing the right thing. That doesn't happen often at all, and good for him.
  24. For the first time ALL YEAR Coach Metzel benched a starter for unsportsmanlike conduct in the Lindale game. That's something that should have been done in the first three games to all THREE of the players that can't play with discipline. I don't care if we win or lose. If a player can't play with class, he doesn't need to be on the field. I don't have a problem if it just from being overly aggressive in the midst of a play, but flagrantly taunting after the play should not be allowed, and isn't by officials. Yes, we "should've" beaten Lindale by a bunch more points, but we made critical mistakes at critical points in the game that kept Lindale in it longer than they should've been. Lindale is definitely no slouch of a team, and they play the game the right way. They are well coached for sure. If we make those kind of mistakes in the Carthage game..., let's just say it won't be pretty. I think if we play with focus and discipline we can give them a very good game, and may even upset them if we don't make mistakes and Carthage does. That being said, I would be tickled pink to see the Buckeyes play a complete game with focus and discipline, win or lose. Carthage has been better than us for a few years now. It's time we evened things up a bit. Whether this is the team that's going to step up and play a good game against Carthage and let the chips fall where they may is yet to be seen.
  25. I'm still not sure I'm going to be able to make it. It will have to be a last minute decision because of work.
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