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You were right about the receivers you mentioned at the beginning of the year, been a long time since I seen a pair like Mcquirter(spelling?) and the DeRouen kid line up for Dayton. At Crosby Gaines would be out there with them but I understand why he plays qb at Dayton, #4 just isn't ready yet. Good luck against BH, kids and community over there are going to be outside their mind next week.

Lol, I would never sit on Dayton's side in their home stadium. Probably should've sat on y'all side though, you had plenty of seats and the sewer smell was pretty intense when the wind shifted on the visitor's side. No way you watched Dayton execute at that jv level you love to speak of last night and can see them doing anything easily, including beating a good team. Luckily y'all have some studs to just make plays on offense otherwise I could easily see Dayton going 4-6. Win or lose, one thing that you'll see from Porter is that their coach didn't need a lot of time to turn the program around or have to be heard cursing in the opposing stands to do it.

Humble's win over Splendora either helped things or hurt things depending on what your perception of those two teams are at this point in the season. Humble and Splendora both have New Caney, Barbers Hill, Porter and Crosby left to play. IMO they'll be considered underdogs in all four games, as we know upsets happen though. I think Crosby and New Caney are in but BH still isn't out of the woods. HUGE game in Mont Belvieu next Friday against Dayton. Even though they look like two teams on different trajectories if Dayton can get the W on the road they basically swap places with BH for the 4th spot for the week and play Porter for their season the first week in October. Regardless of what "place" they're technically in Dayton has to win two of the next three with one needing to be Porter. BH, it's pretty simple assuming Humble and Splendora are what I think. Just win the next three games against Dayton, Splendora and Humble and you're back in the dance for the first time in four years. As it stands right now. Porter can lose to all of New Caney, Dayton and BH and still get into the playoffs with a 5-3 record. They would need wins over Caney Creek, Splendora and Humble without winning one of the previous three I mentioned.

The players looked healthy last night at the NC vs Dayton game, expect Crosby to look like they did the first three weeks of the season now that things are lined out. Our game with New Caney the last week of the season is most likely for the DC.

I'm not trying to dampen your forecast but it's halfway through the season and look how many things you just named? Your defense isn't good because you don't have the personnel but you can manage with it. Even with the quarterback situation, offensively I can't remember last time I saw Dayton with a set of athletes like they have now. That being said, I expect the Barbers Hill score to be similar next week after seeing Dayton in person.

Still too many moving parts with Humble beating Splendora tonight. Y'all don't have to win out but you have to beat Porter for sure and either Crosby or BH on the road.

New Caney doubles Dayton up yardage wise: [Hidden Content]

Trying to do scenarios now. Will post in the 21-5A playoff thread but need the Humble vs Splendora score

48-26 NC. 9 mins left in the game, probably all she wrote.

41-26 NC. Not sure why they went for two again.

35-26 New Caney, defense at a premium in this one.

35-19 Dayton off the fake punt turnover

35-14. Dayton scores again

35-7 New Caney. 11 mins left in second quarter. For whatever reason New Caney just chose to go for two.

Same thing would be happening in New Caney's stadium. Dayton just outmanned tonight.

27-7 New Caney. Little over 3 mins left in first.

20-7 New Caney. Still almost 8 mins in 1st

14-7 New Caney. New Caney two tds on two plays from scrimmage.

You're probably watching the JV film if you don't think New Caney looks good, and it looks easy. Tomball Memorial beat them but will probably compete for their district's title along with Brenham and Magnolia. I watched the Dayton vs Humble game Monday and I would be kind of surprised if Dayton stayed with two tds of New Caney. Good win against Humble but New Caney is a step execution, coaching and motivation wise. *PS - Nations called Porter Splendora's little brother. Besides the fact that Porter has 700 more kids than Splendora and a better coach it will be interesting to see what he says after the game.

Man, in D1 I think there's Manvel then there's everyone else. Foster is good but their a weird good like Angleton is, I don't think they could really hang with Manvel if they get by Angleton in a probable regional final matchup. Manvel is playing like this and their offense isn't even what it's going to be later, even though their qb is the coach's son he's still only making his first starts of his career. If their defense keeps playing the way it is by game 10 or 12 they'll dang near be unstoppable. Interested to see how well FB Marshall can play them in district.

I imagine the same rules to apply to punts as field goals and xps. The kicking team can recover a blocked fg or xp and advance it for a 2pt conversion, first down or a touchdown as long as it doesn't cross the line of scrimmage. Pretty general rule that would also cover forward passes in the direction of eligible receivers as long as the ball doesn't touch the ground.

You can't count Dayton out but I think my predictions on matchups right now would be: New Caney vs Nederland Porter vs PA Memorial Crosby vs Vidor/Png loser Barbers Hill vs Vidor/PNG winner

In the initial release of the FNF magazine they had us going D1 and losing to Manvel in the second round. Any predictions of us going to the D2 playoffs is great news for Crosby fans. In D2 judging from early contest I think the hardest game before a regional final would be the second round matchup with FB Marshall or Texas City even though I'm not sure Texas City can consistently score. Crosby getting the D2 #1 seed from 21-5A also puts us on the other side of the bracket from College Station and Brenham who both look nice this year but would have to play each other in the second round.

April, I know the specifics of football aren't your strong suit but I can almost promise you you're going to wish Crosby didn't lose that game at the end of the season.

They were 9th. Kids have something to fight back to now, instead of trying to crank up the intensity for a game or two before the playoffs start. Riordan didn't even make them practice today so I think this is his version of the calm before the storm