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5A Div II Region III AREA: Marshall (8-3) Vs. Crosby (9-2) SATURDAY 2PM @ LUFKIN- Abe Martin Stadium


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Marshall Vs. Crosby  

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  1. 1. Who you got?

    • Crosby in a close one
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    • Marshall in a close one
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    • Crosby in a blowout
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    • Marshall in a blowout
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23 minutes ago, bordertown said:

Tough match up. Pulling for the Mavs.

Indeed it is.  Crosby is a defending state finalist....and one of the top teams in the state.  We will have our hands full defensively.  

This team has exceeded so many people's expectations.  We are REALLY young on offense this season...and we've had some growing pains.  But these guys just don't give up.  They have been down big a couple of times this season and they just keep fighting.

Seeing these young underclassmen QB's carry the team while Olvera was out..... watching a junior RB become one of the best rushers not only in 9-5A, but in the region.  Junior WR Jacory Smith just make crazy catch after crazy catch.  

It's been fun watching them come together this season and improve week after week.

No matter what happens this week..... it's hard to not be excited about the future.

But right now..... I wanna pull off the upset of the season!

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Crosby is a tough draw for sure.  If you are going to beat them, if they are anything like the team we faced last year, it will have to be a track meet style game and you have to jump out early.  Start slow like Texas High did last year and you wil just trade touchdowns and be behind the whole time.  Their defense isn’t great .  Good luck Mavs!  Pulling for ya here in Texarkana!

 

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Maverick Nation was unbelievable last night.  They showed up en masse. They made a TON of noise. They stayed even when we were down. 

The love affair this town has for their team is what makes it special.  And unless you have it , you don’t understand it. Win. Or. Lose. 
 

 

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As long as Marshall leaves their heart on the field for 4 quarters, I will be satisfied.  Come out swinging and make them earn every yard. Open up the offense and leave no secrets remaining in the playbook. 

Keys for a Marshall victory. 

1. Don't be intimidated, they have lost a couple games and nearly lost another. 

2. Be aggressive on D. Get in backfield and force mistakes. They may burn you a couple times but forcing a few turnovers could be the difference. May need a score on defense and special teams.

3. Use kicker to get all the points you can. He's a weapon. We seem to miss out on way too many points when in scoring range. 

4. Offensively, burn clock and shorten the game. Run the 🪨. Maybe get in power formation, working in occasional playaction.  Make them move the safeties up and get one on ones on the outside. Get TE involved when Lbs key on rb.

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Crosby comes in scoring 49.5 on the season and giving up 25.2 to date defensively. After back to back losses to Carthage and Manvel to start the season the Cougars are riding a nine game winning streak where they’re averaging 55.4ppg offensively. Very hard to just the defense off points per game allowed because the backups have given up about half of that 277 total on the year. 
 

We’re not the biggest team you’re going to line up against but we are one of the faster ones. Four of the players off last year’s squad combined to win the 5A 4X100 state title, I think that speed was part of the reason our game with Texas High was never even competitive. Looking at film of Marshall it seems like Crosby will definitely be the faster team Saturday too. 
 

Crosby is one of the better teams you’re going to see at the line of scrimmage in D2 and I think that’s going to show with our defensive line against the Marshall run game. I think the Mavericks will need to get more out of their passing game than what it looks like they usually have this season to move the ball consistently against Crosby’s defense. 

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9 hours ago, BigDaddyCool said:

Crosby is a tough draw for sure.  If you are going to beat them, if they are anything like the team we faced last year, it will have to be a track meet style game and you have to jump out early.  Start slow like Texas High did last year and you wil just trade touchdowns and be behind the whole time.  Their defense isn’t great .  Good luck Mavs!  Pulling for ya here in Texarkana!

 

Crosby’s defense is better than TH’s, we just play a tougher schedule. For instance, you would look at FB Marshall’s defense and say it was pretty good. Well Barbers Hill just finished 4th in our district and blew them out 42-21 in bi-district. They scored 43 on us which is the only game the entire season our starters have given up over 28 defensively. That’s pretty salty considering who we’ve lined up with. 

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2 minutes ago, cougar14 said:

Crosby’s defense is better than TH’s, we just play a tougher schedule. For instance, you would look at FB Marshall’s defense and say it was pretty good. Well Barbers Hill just finished 4th in our district and blew them out 42-21 in bi-district. They scored 43 on us which is the only game the entire season our starters have given up over 28 defensively. That’s pretty salty considering who we’ve lined up with. 

And it looks like they(BH) did most of that scoring by way of PA passing. I definitely don't think it's wise to get in a scoring track meet with them. We need to slow the game down and be physical. Working the passing game in off the run. Force turnovers and limit Crosbys possessions.

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Thinking Crosby in this one. Don’t really see a blowout happening though. I don’t see Marshall’s defense allowing that. With that being said, this will be one of the better offenses they have seen, and one of the few with more speed. Crosby has an athletic and physical front 7 that I think will cause some problems. Davis is a beast, but the Mavs had to dip into their bag of tricks just to get by Rudder. Thinking Crosby will be too much. 

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Crosby is the most talented team we’ve faced all year.   But Longview and Tx High we’re no slouches. 

I trust our defense to keep us in the game.

BUTTT…….

Our offense has been a liability at times this season.  Most  of the games we’ve been down in…. was because of offensive mistakes, not poor defense.  Turnovers and giving up poor field position.  

Our offense GAVE New Caney 14 points in a game that was 9-7 with less than 3 mins remaining. 

And that debacle in Texarkana was completely at the feet of our offense.  They gift wrapped several scores for the Tigers. 

Same thing with the Rudder game…. Defense gave up less than 200 yards.  But the offense surrendered a scoop and score. 

We just can’t do that against quality opponents. We will get run out of the stadium.  

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2 minutes ago, Mavchamp said:

Crosby is the most talented team we’ve faced all year.   But Longview and Tx High we’re no slouches. 

I trust our defense to keep us in the game.

BUTTT…….

Our offense has been a liability at times this season.  Most  of the games we’ve been down in…. was because of offensive mistakes, not poor defense.  Turnovers and giving up poor field position.  

Our offense GAVE New Caney 14 points in a game that was 9-7 with less than 3 mins remaining. 

And that debacle in Texarkana was completely at the feet of our offense.  They gift wrapped several scores for the Tigers. 

Same thing with the Rudder game…. Defense gave up less than 200 yards.  But the offense surrendered a scoop and score. 

We just can’t do that against quality opponents. We will get run out of the stadium.  

Are you saying Crosby is better than Longview and T High?

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On 11/13/2021 at 10:20 AM, Lions70 said:

Only team to give Carthage a game. Taking those guys to win.

Bad special teams coaching call lost that game for Crosby. Kicker was kicking out the back of the end zone all game and kicks a returnable ball one time with minutes left in the game and Noah Paddie takes it to the house.

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1 hour ago, Cougar239 said:

Bad special teams coaching call lost that game for Crosby. Kicker was kicking out the back of the end zone all game and kicks a returnable ball one time with minutes left in the game and Noah Paddie takes it to the house.

There were still minutes left. You’d probably still have lost whether Paddie returned it or not. 

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15 hours ago, Mavchamp said:

Confidence Vs Arrogance is a fine line to walk.

Online posts by some (not all) CHS fans on different forums online are definitely one over the other. You decide which. 

First time to dealing with Crosby fans then you’re definitely going to think their post lean more towards the arrogant side. If we think we should beat you convincingly then there’s not many of us that are going to say “this should be a good game”. 
 

Marshall is probably the 7th best team Crosby has played this year and we’ve blown out almost everybody the last couple of months. Those posts you’re alluding to probably reflect Crosby’s fans confidence that if they can handle 10-1 run-first and defense heavy TC then they don’t feel there should be much trouble with a similar team like Marshall. 

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