Pride cometh before the fall. Please One game at a time.
The ball takes some crazy bounces. Teenagers who knows what makes them tick week to week.
Dayton lost district opener to the Montgomery Bears 46 to 52. Dayton beat a Kingwood Park team (61-10). Kingwood Park beat the Montgomery Bears (47-41) in season opener. If I was a betting man I would be broke.
I’m with you. But, it’s not pride. It’s a healthy observation of our limits and what seems to be the competition
as of this point in the season. I’ve watched every Huntsville game twice, two of Dayton’s games, all but one Nederland game, one Montgomery game, and two West Fork games. The assumption we’ll win these games allows of course for the reality that there’s a lot of variables that are hard to predict, as well as teams playing above or below the baseline set by their past performances. That being said:
1. Huntsville is plainly not what they used to be (blocking is bad - though improving - passing is terrible, and the tackling has regressed from last season);
2. Nederland can’t score (the exception being against Splendora, which doesn’t count), the defense has only played one team that passes the ball well (to whom they lost). We’ll learn more about them against Dayton this week;
3. Dayton has a dynamite offense but isn’t playing good defense;
4. Montgomery is better than Dayton, but not by much;
5. West Fork is about 10% from being a real football team - until then, their run game is vanilla, their qb is awful (and WRs are worse). West Fork’s defense has been pretty good, but not great.
Huntsville and Montgomery are still the likely toughest games on the schedule. Dayton and Nederland might surprise us, and we of course have to go one game at a time. We’ll know a lot more this Friday. But with every team in the district, there are specific things we do well that they don’t seem to handle, and we’ve shown that we CAN handle what they do. No one in the district is passing the ball well right now, and no one but Huntsville and Montgomery have any kind of dangerous running game, and we’ve so far performed well against at least one very good running team. But, that’s just observation - I’m not counting any eggs. I agree with you 100% that we just have to take it one game at a time, and I hope the team is doing the same.
