Post by davecisar on Nov 8, 2010 14:16:22 GMT -6
Game 12 Results
Played an extra “Bowl” game this weekend to wrap up the season at Kansas State University’s Bill Snyder Family Stadium. We won 28-24 in a very odd, but satisfying game. After losing our Super Bowl game last weekend after having a 26-14 lead with 6:00 left, our kids may have lost a little of their edge. We had 2 very light and short practices the week leading up to the game and most of the kids came down the night before and stayed in the hotel. There was a big party that night, kids up pretty late, goofing around all day etc. When I got up to do my workout at 7:30 am I saw about 10 kids outside climbing fences and throwing balls around. We didn’t play until 2:00, which was really 3:00 with DST. During pre-game when we went to full speed tackling drills, one of my starting LBs missed all 5 of his tackles. We looked pretty lethargic on defense for a good part of the game, like our kids feet were in cement and our CBs while not being very atheletic- were out of position several times.
The team we were playing was a 6th grade team, who had been together for 4 years, coached by a real sharp former KSU player. One of the teams in their org runs my stuff, so he had the book and film to work off of. We are a 5-6th grade team, more 5ths than 6ths so they had us on both size and age. We battled back and forth with us taking the first series down for a score, then trailed 14-12 at the half.
We had not allowed any counters our reverse plays to hurt us most of the season, but we got hurt on 1 counter for about 25 yards and 1 reverse for a 6 yard score. Our corners who are not very athletic at all got burned on about a 50 yard slant for a TD as well. After throwing an INT on our spinner pass (really ugly INT), they got the ball with 3:50 left and a 24-20 lead. They ran 1 play in the middle, then a sweep, both for no yardage. I called time after the 2nd and 3rd down right after the play. We got the ball back at our 37 with 2:45 left and 1 timeout. Of course we are no huddle, we put together an 8 play TD drive, scoring on a run pass option play from the 12 with 52 seconds left to play. I think we completed 4 passes on the drive. Our QB I think ended up at 10-16 with 2 TDs and 165 yards. Exciting game against pretty evenly matched teams. We were not flagged for a penalty. 4 different pass receivers caught at least 2 balls each.
These guys only play 8 minute quarters, MAN does that go by fast.
For the season:
We went 11-1
Did it with 10 kids brand new to football- our starting FB and BB had never touched the ball before in a real game
Scored 66 TDs
9 Different Boys scored TDs
Every non-striped player on the team carried the ball at least 2 times
We scored 18 TD passes- not a big deal for guys like Mike M- but more than we normally get and in our league we CAN NOT throw when up by 21- which we were in 8 of our games in the first half- really limits us throwing the ball. We threw 5 Ints for the season.
We fumbled 4 times- 2 times by RBs
We didn’t lose a single player and we fully expect each to re-up for next season
Played an extra “Bowl” game this weekend to wrap up the season at Kansas State University’s Bill Snyder Family Stadium. We won 28-24 in a very odd, but satisfying game. After losing our Super Bowl game last weekend after having a 26-14 lead with 6:00 left, our kids may have lost a little of their edge. We had 2 very light and short practices the week leading up to the game and most of the kids came down the night before and stayed in the hotel. There was a big party that night, kids up pretty late, goofing around all day etc. When I got up to do my workout at 7:30 am I saw about 10 kids outside climbing fences and throwing balls around. We didn’t play until 2:00, which was really 3:00 with DST. During pre-game when we went to full speed tackling drills, one of my starting LBs missed all 5 of his tackles. We looked pretty lethargic on defense for a good part of the game, like our kids feet were in cement and our CBs while not being very atheletic- were out of position several times.
The team we were playing was a 6th grade team, who had been together for 4 years, coached by a real sharp former KSU player. One of the teams in their org runs my stuff, so he had the book and film to work off of. We are a 5-6th grade team, more 5ths than 6ths so they had us on both size and age. We battled back and forth with us taking the first series down for a score, then trailed 14-12 at the half.
We had not allowed any counters our reverse plays to hurt us most of the season, but we got hurt on 1 counter for about 25 yards and 1 reverse for a 6 yard score. Our corners who are not very athletic at all got burned on about a 50 yard slant for a TD as well. After throwing an INT on our spinner pass (really ugly INT), they got the ball with 3:50 left and a 24-20 lead. They ran 1 play in the middle, then a sweep, both for no yardage. I called time after the 2nd and 3rd down right after the play. We got the ball back at our 37 with 2:45 left and 1 timeout. Of course we are no huddle, we put together an 8 play TD drive, scoring on a run pass option play from the 12 with 52 seconds left to play. I think we completed 4 passes on the drive. Our QB I think ended up at 10-16 with 2 TDs and 165 yards. Exciting game against pretty evenly matched teams. We were not flagged for a penalty. 4 different pass receivers caught at least 2 balls each.
These guys only play 8 minute quarters, MAN does that go by fast.
For the season:
We went 11-1
Did it with 10 kids brand new to football- our starting FB and BB had never touched the ball before in a real game
Scored 66 TDs
9 Different Boys scored TDs
Every non-striped player on the team carried the ball at least 2 times
We scored 18 TD passes- not a big deal for guys like Mike M- but more than we normally get and in our league we CAN NOT throw when up by 21- which we were in 8 of our games in the first half- really limits us throwing the ball. We threw 5 Ints for the season.
We fumbled 4 times- 2 times by RBs
We didn’t lose a single player and we fully expect each to re-up for next season
including your parents and players