Post by davecisar on Sept 13, 2011 14:41:30 GMT -6
Game 3 Results
These game results were a bit surprising. My 5-6 grade team, the weakest team I’ve probably fielded in about 15 years won 34-25 against an out of state team. We played a team from Rapid City South Dakota, a town of about 70,000 people. They traveled 9 hours to get here. This team was together for their 3rd year now and from the Air Force base there. They had not lost a game in that span and are in the largest and fastest growing league in the state. They had only been scored on 1 time in that time frame, according to their league commissioner and the scores published on their league web site. They had lots of speed and superior size as well. In our opening drive we started at our 28 and used up all but 2 minutes of the quarter to score, lots of 3rd downs and even 2 4th down conversions during the game. They got a bit frustrated on defense. I went max slowdown in the second half to try and limit possessions. Every score they had were on plays in excess of 40 yards.
We had just 2 penalties, but did turn it over 2 times and never punted. My rookie Center had a great game, but he snapped it to the wrong back on a play that led to a very costly score. The opposing team wasn’t used to getting scored on and ended up blitzing heavily in the second half and packing the box, it hurt them.
I had cliniced over 100 coaches from this league 2 years ago in Rapid City and the head coach had my book and DVDs. On offense they ran the DT Bone, some Flexbone and then went 5 wide empty, tough team to play in space. However we totally shut down their option game. We made some big adjustments at the half and shut them down pretty well in the second half.
My 7-8 grade team won easily 38-12. We were up 22-0 early in the second quarter and let off the gas. For the 3rd game in a row, we threw a pick, that was disappointing. They scored on a gimmie kickoff return and a long pass. This team was also from Rapid City and were the defending League Champs, but less athletic and smaller than our squad.
Game 4 Results
My 5-6th grade team beat a much larger team 31-0 after leading 18-0 in the first quarter. This is a very young and small team in both size and numbers with not a lot of athleticism. We have just 19 players but they are coming together well and executing the base offense and defense near potential. The offensive line comes off the ball well and we are averaging less than one turnover a game. We have little depth, so cross training players has been a big point of emphasis of late. Even our minimum play kids are doing a great job of getting on and off the field, aligning well and adding some value on every snap. We are 3-1 and will be playing an undefeated and unscored upon team who has been averaging over 50 points per game this weekend, it will be quite a challenge to put it mildly. We aren’t in the same solar system as that team and they will be favored to win this 40 team age grouping. My 7-8th grade team moved to 4-0 with a 14-12 win. We have a lot of work to do with this group as we had both a turnover and penalty that ended up costing us touchdowns. We also will be adding in some of the more advanced adjustments with this group this week. I’ve not been able to spend as much time as I would like with this veteran group, due to trying to shore up my younger weaker club. This weeks point of emphasis is consistent 100% effort.
These game results were a bit surprising. My 5-6 grade team, the weakest team I’ve probably fielded in about 15 years won 34-25 against an out of state team. We played a team from Rapid City South Dakota, a town of about 70,000 people. They traveled 9 hours to get here. This team was together for their 3rd year now and from the Air Force base there. They had not lost a game in that span and are in the largest and fastest growing league in the state. They had only been scored on 1 time in that time frame, according to their league commissioner and the scores published on their league web site. They had lots of speed and superior size as well. In our opening drive we started at our 28 and used up all but 2 minutes of the quarter to score, lots of 3rd downs and even 2 4th down conversions during the game. They got a bit frustrated on defense. I went max slowdown in the second half to try and limit possessions. Every score they had were on plays in excess of 40 yards.
We had just 2 penalties, but did turn it over 2 times and never punted. My rookie Center had a great game, but he snapped it to the wrong back on a play that led to a very costly score. The opposing team wasn’t used to getting scored on and ended up blitzing heavily in the second half and packing the box, it hurt them.
I had cliniced over 100 coaches from this league 2 years ago in Rapid City and the head coach had my book and DVDs. On offense they ran the DT Bone, some Flexbone and then went 5 wide empty, tough team to play in space. However we totally shut down their option game. We made some big adjustments at the half and shut them down pretty well in the second half.
My 7-8 grade team won easily 38-12. We were up 22-0 early in the second quarter and let off the gas. For the 3rd game in a row, we threw a pick, that was disappointing. They scored on a gimmie kickoff return and a long pass. This team was also from Rapid City and were the defending League Champs, but less athletic and smaller than our squad.
Game 4 Results
My 5-6th grade team beat a much larger team 31-0 after leading 18-0 in the first quarter. This is a very young and small team in both size and numbers with not a lot of athleticism. We have just 19 players but they are coming together well and executing the base offense and defense near potential. The offensive line comes off the ball well and we are averaging less than one turnover a game. We have little depth, so cross training players has been a big point of emphasis of late. Even our minimum play kids are doing a great job of getting on and off the field, aligning well and adding some value on every snap. We are 3-1 and will be playing an undefeated and unscored upon team who has been averaging over 50 points per game this weekend, it will be quite a challenge to put it mildly. We aren’t in the same solar system as that team and they will be favored to win this 40 team age grouping. My 7-8th grade team moved to 4-0 with a 14-12 win. We have a lot of work to do with this group as we had both a turnover and penalty that ended up costing us touchdowns. We also will be adding in some of the more advanced adjustments with this group this week. I’ve not been able to spend as much time as I would like with this veteran group, due to trying to shore up my younger weaker club. This weeks point of emphasis is consistent 100% effort.
