shawnm
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Post by shawnm on Oct 23, 2010 17:31:55 GMT -6
We won a hard fought semi final game today. We got down 13-0 in first quarter. Went into the half at 14-13 and won 26-13. We play in a small indoor stadium and crowd was so loud that we had 7 false start penalties. Refs called us for interlocking on wedge plays. I'm not sure about the interlocking deal they say we were grasping jersey of adjacent linemen. Seemed refs wanted us to lose definintely and didn't like our offense system. We are now 9-0 and heading to championship game next weekend.
Teams seem to score on us early then our defense wakes up. I think I'm going to have to do some tackling drills in pre-game. Also have to work on open hands on wedge and louder cadences.
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Post by cyflcoach on Oct 23, 2010 22:31:46 GMT -6
We came out very flat and proceeded to play the worst half of our season so far. Poor execution and lots of mistakes we don't typically make. We eventually win 26-0 against a 6-1 team, but hopefully we were able to get the message across to our kids that we cannot just "mail it in" whenever we feel like it and win simply on talent alone. We finish the regular season next week.
Fighting the complacency bug this week will include a Monday's practice where our kids are going to think we were the ones who got beat 26-0 on Saturday LOL! Easy to please, never satisfied... although I guess the easily pleased part did not exactly apply this week.
Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 24, 2010 6:52:33 GMT -6
Shawn & Dave
Congratulations great jobs!
We played the second best team in our league. Their coaches have been telling everyone who would listen that this game they were ready for us. They had scouted us, filmed us & had a great game plan. They made the game their homecoming & had smoke & a banner to run through. I guess every plan is great till you get smacked in the mouth. All the excitement lasted 14 seconds. We returned the Kick Off for an 80 yd td, & it was on. Our kids played very well, blocking & tackling with passion. We scored every time we touched the ball, by half time they wanted to quit. I actually felt bad for their kids. Their coaches went to the refs in the first qtr & demanded a running clock. We had 4 offensive possessions in the first half none in the second. Final score 37-0.
We finished the regular season 9-0 outscoring our opponents 430-6. We have a bye next week, start the State playoffs the following week. I am beginning to feel with work we can really be ready.
Joe
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Post by coachmsl on Oct 24, 2010 7:44:09 GMT -6
Nice job guys.
We played in our league championship yesterday. 2 undefeated teams. They had mostly 6th graders. We are all 5th graders. Their RB's are STUDS!!! Very mature for 6th grade. I knew it would be a smash mouth game. For the 1st time in 4 years, we were underdogs.
1st Half: Back and forth both defenses looking good. We have a bad snap on a punt and they take over on our 9. 3 plays later they get a TD & missed XP. We had 2 dropped td passes. Our OLine calls were not happening. Down by 6 at half but felt real good about things.
2nd Half: Run the KO back for 6. Totally shut them down on D. We throw a LONNNNGGGG pick at their 8 on 3rd down after holding penalty killed our drive. Great punt actually. 2 plays and we hit them in the endzone force a fumble, recover for a TD and were up 13 - 6. We give the ball to our roadgrader about 12 of the next 14 offensive plays, score one drive and take a knee in victory the next.
Final: 20 - 6
Proud of the way our boys fought. They earned their 4th straight championship!
Thx to you coaches here at Huey.
msl
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 24, 2010 8:04:13 GMT -6
Matt
Great job! sounds like the D was awesome. What's next?
Joe
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 24, 2010 8:05:04 GMT -6
We went down in our playoff game yesterday. Just a rough day all around. We lost discipline on a couple of plays and gave up some yards. They cut our DE's with running backs and scored early. We fumbled and recovered it late in the half, but they gave the other team the ball and they ran exactly what I told my Sam they were gonna run and he did the opposite and they scored. Seems like after our big rivalry game in week 5 we played a couple of very weak teams and our guys just went backwards. Gotta go back and figure out how we let that happen.
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 24, 2010 9:22:14 GMT -6
Chuck
Tough, sorry pal. It was still a very successful season, don't forget the big picture.
Joe
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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 24, 2010 10:41:03 GMT -6
Our OLine calls were not happening. By OLine calls, do you mean someone is supposed to recognize the whole front and signal it? Or do you mean adjustments signaled between just some players on the OL when they see one to be made (as when one is covered who usually isn't, have to call off a double team, etc.)? Or do you mean adjustments that were supposed to be signaled via tag on the play call? And by "not happening", do you mean the signals weren't being made, or the players who were supposed to respond didn't? |
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Post by coachmsl on Oct 24, 2010 17:15:19 GMT -6
Matt Great job! sounds like the D was awesome. What's next? Joe It was pretty darn good. thx for all your help. Next. Oh a couple of the boys are movin up to play in a year end tourney with the 6th graders. I will AC. Should be fun. Gona take a day off after that and then start studying again. msl Bob, We have some calls that the lineman make to communicate with each other what that half of the line does. One of our guards hasnt progressed as far as the other on the mental side and was getting himself and his partners into some trouble. Thats 5th grade for ya though. |
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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 24, 2010 21:03:54 GMT -6
We have some calls that the lineman make to communicate with each other what that half of the line does. One of our guards hasnt progressed as far as the other on the mental side and was getting himself and his partners into some trouble. Thats 5th grade for ya though. Well, I'm impressed 5th graders do that at all, even after Steve Calande has said he's done it with that age. |
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Post by coachdoug on Oct 24, 2010 22:05:03 GMT -6
We've done line calls with players as young as 9-10 - I guess that's about 4th & 5th grade. Simple stuff like a code to tell the adjacent linemen to cross block or double team. It's not rocket surgery.
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Post by gameface on Oct 24, 2010 22:35:44 GMT -6
I aged a few years with our game on Saturday. We have had an issue with kids not showing up and Saturday was no different. we have 20 on the team. had three out of town and two injured. game starts and at half we are tied 12-12 then the wheels came off. after a neck, ankle and wrist injury we were down to 12 kids that could play. we were plugging kids in left and right. the common phrase of the game was " coach I have never played that before" they hung in there. what saved us was our scouting of the team. we blocked a punt and returned it for a TD to seal the game. the kids battled. One more game, then we are off to the playoffs. hopefully we will have more than 12 available. We won 26-18. we are 6-2. with our rival up this week.
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Post by Coach JR on Oct 24, 2010 22:58:13 GMT -6
We got smoked 28-6. We either win big or lose big. This team just had more players. They didn't do anything fancy offensively...it was 14-0 at half, and 0-0 in to the second quarter. We couldn't move the ball. They played a something like a 4-7 defense....against us it looked a lot like a 4-10 defense. And we don't have the ability to throw the out of it. They literally had no defender deeper than 7 yards. We tried unbalanced all night, and our only scoring drive was off of one long pass play. The other pass we threw resulted in a pick.
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Post by davecisar on Oct 25, 2010 5:19:02 GMT -6
Game 10 Results
We won 43-8 over a 7-1 team to go to 10-0 in the season and play in the Super Bowl this Sunday. If we win- we will be the best of 40 teams at this age level. The team we are facing has given up just 3 touchdowns all season.
They won the toss and deferred which really surprised me. We scored on 2 plays, onside kicked and got it back ( love field turf stadiums- nice high hops) and scored again in 4 plays. Our quarterback had less than 60 yards rushing- they really tried taking him out of the equation. We had other options and led 24-0 at the end of the first quarter- our kicker hit all 3 of his PAT kicks and the rout was on.
We got 11 different kids the ball and my backup blocking back was the leading rusher. We got 4 picks- first team defense gave up just two first downs and no scores. Defense playing very well right now.
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 25, 2010 5:49:54 GMT -6
Gameface & Auburn
Sorry guys!
DC
Great Job! I guess having the video's & scouting wasn't as much help as they thought. It all looks good till someone gets hit.
Joe
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Post by coachmsl on Oct 25, 2010 7:21:00 GMT -6
We got smoked 28-6. We either win big or lose big. This team just had more players. They didn't do anything fancy offensively...it was 14-0 at half, and 0-0 in to the second quarter. We couldn't move the ball. They played a something like a 4-7 defense....against us it looked a lot like a 4-10 defense. And we don't have the ability to throw the out of it. They literally had no defender deeper than 7 yards. We tried unbalanced all night, and our only scoring drive was off of one long pass play. The other pass we threw resulted in a pick. Keep your head up coach. I know what you mean about that 4-10 defense. Makes your head spin! |
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Post by hindberg on Oct 25, 2010 13:28:11 GMT -6
We won our championship game 13-6. We jumped up early in the first quarter on a kickoff return and a reverse after that though they had two big boys on the ends that were very athletic and bear crawled 4 up the middle. We had a tough time moving the ball after that but our Defense was solid all game they had one play for a TD besides that they only had one first down.
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Post by cyflcoach on Oct 26, 2010 12:51:06 GMT -6
Congratulations hindberg on the win and the great season with your kids coach! We begin our playoffs next week after closing out the regular season this Saturday under the lights. I am taking my father to a college reunion and will miss my first game on the sidelines since I first became a Head Coach 10 years ago. It will be a great experience for the terrific group of guys coaching with me on my staff, but will certainly be a little strange for me not being there.
Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach
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Post by ampipebulldog on Oct 26, 2010 19:02:35 GMT -6
Down here in Texas we are 6-0 with 2 regular season games to go. We have scored 137 and gave up 18. That feared 4-6 defense has been amazing for us. If we win out, we go into the A bracket championship against 3 other teams that are as good or better than we are. Whoever wins it will deserve to be called champs, and we are just glad we have a date with destiny.
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