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I agree with the comments about the coaching staff and how our kids look focused and prepared. That's all coaching and program building. I can't say enough about Coach Joseph and his staff. Coach McDaniel is the best DC to ever set foot on the Port Neches Groves sideline. Coach Logan Wilson and Coach Blake Austin are top notch DL coaches. They find kids to compete in the trenches and they coach them up to go 100 mph. They also create depth...look at how many kids rotate in and out on the DL. Those guys are future DCs and HCs. Coach Gizzi deserves a shout out. His growth from last year to this year has been amazing. His gameplans and creativity have been outstanding. No more pounding the rock 99% of time. He's throwing the ball all over the staidum, putting our kids in open space, and using formations for surprises. Just when you think the tush-push is coming, bam...he runs a toss sweep. He's got playmakers with #9, #27, #6, #2, #14, #8, #10, and he's using them all. Great job.

One game at a time. Huntsville, you're up. GO INDIANS.
 
IndianFan said:
The sign of a great coaching staff is they have the ability to teach, motivate, prepare and make their team believe in their capabilities and potential. And in that process, the players develop a deep belief not only in themselves but also in the coaches.

The team learns that they are a force to be reckoned with IF they work hard, practice hard, study the game, execute and trust their coaches. That's the same magic that happened in the 1970s. Ethridge and company made those undersized players believe. And as the wins kept coming, team confidence grew and the PN-G reputation grew with it.

Fast forward to 2023 and this group of players has seen and lived the possibility of reaching the top and winning it all. The mountain top is familiar and within site. Yes, it is possible in Port Neches-Groves. And they know that the greatest fan and student support in the state of Texas will follow them all the way. Indian Nation is strong.
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"The mountain top is familiar and within sight"

What a great quote inside and outside of football
 
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The Indians haven’t rushed for a ton of yards this year. Piecing together what we can, about 170 yards per game and about a 5-6 yard average with Henry and Diaz seeing the bulk of carries for 5 TDs each and about 6.5 ypc.

The improved defense and special teams play have shortened the field for a lot of drives, and the Indians haven’t needed to go the distance every drive. For example, the 10 or so possessions and 7 scores against LC totaled about 464 yards of offense. Less than 50 yards per drive.

The overall offense is so far very balanced this year as the Indians effectively use short to medium passes to gain key yards instead of pounding the rock every play. Gaining around 180 yards per game through the air in addition to 170 on the ground, this offense mixes it up. I’ll take a controlling offense that can average 350 and score consistently over offensive fireworks. And that’s with the starters getting a lot of rest. 4 quarters of offense would surely add another 100 yards per game on average.

That balanced attack with the improving ability to hit the big plays will keep opposing defenses on their heels this year. Those long passes to Jackson will loosen things up and minimize stacking the box. And when they begin completing more, and you know they eventually will, the scoreboard will light up more. But let’s not forget the value of just moving the chains consistently, running clock and just scoring. It leaves less time for the bad guys to do much.
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I knew the offense looked more balanced, but I hadn’t realized it was that balanced.

This is reminiscent of the 2009-2015 Alabama teams. Peak Saban, with Smart and McElwain/Kiffin under him, before Sarkisian/O’Brien and Golding/Steele and the slow descent began. Ball control, nearly perfectly balanced offense, domineering defense, and a lot of emphasis on technical perfection and penalty-free play. It’s what Smart still does at Georgia.

It won us a lot of championships.
 
bandkid said:
I knew the offense looked more balanced, but I hadn’t realized it was that balanced.

This is reminiscent of the 2009-2015 Alabama teams. Peak Saban, with Smart and McElwain/Kiffin under him, before Sarkisian/O’Brien and Golding/Steele and the slow descent began. Ball control, nearly perfectly balanced offense, domineering defense, and a lot of emphasis on technical perfection and penalty-free play. It’s what Smart still does at Georgia.

It won us a lot of championships.
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Very reminiscent of our offense in 99. I remember at one point at the end of the regular season the paper did a piece on how balanced our offense was - something like ~2,100 passing yards and ~2,000 rushing yards as we entered the playoffs. Crazy.
 
Indian99 said:
Very reminiscent of our offense in 99. I remember at one point at the end of the regular season the paper did a piece on how balanced our offense was - something like ~2,100 passing yards and ~2,000 rushing yards as we entered the playoffs. Crazy.
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Yes and the articel which I have in a box put up called us the Gulf Coast Offense. It also said we had two 1000 yard rushers in Worthim and Bergeron. That was back when we had very good coverage of the team. Now days we do not even get talked about just a printed score. When Gabe left the PA News we became nothing. Him and Ashley Elam were the last. Then ofcourse Tom and Bob wrote the 99 article you are referring ti. They also had the stats for every game in the area posted in the paper every week by district. They also kept a tally of who was the stats leaders in the area all season.
 
The good old days of area sports coverage... To be fair, beyond the agendas and bias that do exist, especially coming from the northern part of the county, we simply do not have these old school sports professionals around anymore. It seems a lot of them have found better employment and satisfaction by taking media related education jobs. Although Tom Halliburton is still contracted to cover PA and other teams, for what that’s worth.
Another factor is the web based, statewide sites and services that profit from data have taken over. The details and ‘good stuff’ like stats are all going behind pay walls these days, including many of the newspaper stories. The paradigm has shifted and won’t be going back unless private alternatives arise.

What I found particularly disappointing is the recent trend of channels 6 and 12 not having a game summary. Maybe they did show it on the tv broadcast, out of town fans can’t watch those, but nowhere to be found online as they always have been.
 
The key to this game is shutting down the run. Huntsville’s rushing attack with Trae’Shawn Brown and Adolphe is the engine of their offense. If we can contain them and force Huntsville to beat us through the air, our chances of coming out on top increase significantly.
 
pngfan316 said:
The key to this game is shutting down the run. Huntsville’s rushing attack with Trae’Shawn Brown and Adolphe is the engine of their offense. If we can contain them and force Huntsville to beat us through the air, our chances of coming out on top increase significantly.
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Other than the usual caveat of avoiding major mistakes I agree that this will be the most important key. Secondarily, we need a good pass rush and adequate protection for Bailey. The first point is based on the fact that West Fork was able to get a lot of pressure on the QB and it rendered their passing attack largely ineffective. The second point is based on the fact that Huntsville did look to have a pretty strong pass rush during that game, but we all know what Bailey can do if he has adequate time.
 
If we can force Huntsville to try to win through the air we’ll get a couple interceptions. The qb is not accurate, even without a pass rush.
 
With Bailey’s quick release, the impressive routes run by Gholke and Brisboe and a line that is almost always going to give him a few seconds for the play to develop, it will take an elite pass rush aided by tight pass coverage to reach him. The couple of times he was sacked was usually a blitzing LB that wasn’t picked up. A delayed blitz can work well which is why OL coaches used to say “keep your head on a swivel”.
 
IndianFan said:
With Bailey’s quick release, the impressive routes run by Gholke and Brisboe and a line that is almost always going to give him a few seconds for the play to develop, it will take an elite pass rush aided by tight pass coverage to reach him. The couple of times he was sacked was usually a blitzing LB that wasn’t picked up. A delayed blitz can work well which is why OL coaches used to say “keep your head on a swivel”.
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The blessing in disguise for past pass rush problems of the last few years (IMO) (quick release shorter routes)
 
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