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Post by utchuckd on Nov 5, 2011 7:22:28 GMT -6
8-0 thru regular season, won our first playoff game last week. Playing for all the marbles this afternoon. We've already beaten this team twice, running clocks both times, but we are talking 11-12 year olds so they can come out with their head somewhere else at times. We've got a little better athletes (and coaches, imo), our schemes are sound, but there's always a little uncertainty til they get out there and start hitting, right? Plus we've missed a few guys at practice this week cause school basketball has started (which I don't have a problem with, we told them to go), so we're not doing anything different than we did the first 2 times we played them, it's just keeping polished up on technique mostly. If we play full speed on defense and my D-ends don't {censored} the bed I feel pretty good. We're in their kids' heads I know, and they're gonna have some wrinkles for us, just gotta have our formation adjustments down. Sorry for the ramble, burning some nervous energy I guess.
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Post by coachdoug on Nov 5, 2011 8:12:42 GMT -6
Good luck coach. Stick with what has worked for you so far and go get 'em!!
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Post by hindberg on Nov 5, 2011 17:51:08 GMT -6
Good luck coach.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 7, 2011 12:55:55 GMT -6
Well we won! This was my first championship in anything since we won it as players at this age (back then I was playing for my dad, this time I was coaching with him, extremely cool). Returned the opening kickoff for a TD, then got a fumble and scored so we were up early. They dug in and fought us hard, scored right before half and coming out of half and had us reeling a little. Called a timeout and gave 'em the old 'how are you gonna respond to adversity' bit and they responded well and marched downfield and scored. Broke a couple long ones after that to put it away, won 40-18.
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Post by coachdoug on Nov 7, 2011 13:12:49 GMT -6
Congratulations coach, good job!!
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