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Wait until you see them run though? I will admit that the relay team is a year away but the football team might be a year ahead, mainly because of the defense. New DC looks like the real deal, fully expect him to have a HC job if we have a couple “plus” seasons under him. On the coaching side another thing that doesn’t get mentioned for Crosby’s recent success: the last five years Crosby has had six current head coaches on their sideline. Jerry Prieto - current Jeff Riordan - Crosby/Chapel Hill Coach Mann - Lubbock Coronado Coach Tarr - La Porte Coach Garcia - Falfurias Coach Coker - Rains

Crosby already used to get backup caliber players from down the road in North Shore. We did lose a starting rb to CE King in ‘18 but for the most part Crosby is starting to get starters from King, Summer Creek, Channelview and of course our farm league in Baytown. Lol, might have something to do with your opinion of that picture. All bs aside, if you’re a parent moving into northeast Harris County right now with a male athlete and you don’t want to live in the city(North Shore), Crosby and Atascocita are probably your two options. I have a new boss at work that helped me validate this hypothesis.

Yes, I miss the hell out of y’all🥰 Please get better soon. In case you haven’t heard, these Crosby kids now think Barbers Hill is their rival? They don’t remember the feeling you got in your stomach two weeks before the Dayton/Crosby game was actually even on the schedule. I have a real worry that if Dayton doesn’t get better before Crosby moves to 5A-D1 the game might fall completely off the schedule. Hopefully we could keep it going like a Sherman/Dennison thing but if you look at the way Crosby has been scheduling in the non-district for the last while, I’m not sure?

Thank God. Means we might be able to stay within 20 this year.

Supposedly half of Carthage's football team has COVID and they just had another death of a young person in town. Looking more and more like this one might not be a go. I really hope we find another game if this is the case, may be time to ask Stepp to send a tweet out.

So you expect it to be a toss-up between Barbers Hill, PNG, Nederland, Crosby and Texas City for DC?

You don't sleep on an 8X state champion riding a 30 game winning steak. You evaluate your team and decide your confidence level. I'm very confident Crosby is going to play well against Carthage, covid or not.

I think we're gong to be a very convincing 2-1 headed into district play. If those running backs from Manvel can't combine for over 300 rushing yards on us then we might be looking at 3-0. Manvel is going to want to run it right down our throat but I think Casey and crew might be up to the task again this year.

I forgot to ask. Who do you think 12-5A-D2 will be a toss-up between?

Hopefully Carthage can notify Crosby early enough if they're going to have to cancel so Crosby can possibly find another opponent. I'm sure there's someone in the state in the same situation.

Game is going to be played in Randall Reed's New Caney ISD stadium No need for the long drawn out analysis in this one. It's Crosby coming off a state finals appearance versus Carthage coming off back to back 4A titles and riding a 30 game winning streak. It is what it is

Crosby needs this game. Feels like they're ready to come out and make a statement against Carthage.

I gave FB Marshall the nod in the region because I think their new QB Ja'Kobe Banks is going to be a star. After last night I'm going to change my opinion and say I don't think he'll be better than Cyrin Myles. He has the Jaiden Howard-level arm strength, Aston Walter running ability and last night he showed Tristen Cotton-level decision making ability. If that's the level o-line play we're going to get Myles might end up having a 2500/1000 season. It does help to have receivers who will catch the ball and finish like ours though. I said before the scrimmage that we need to show we could run the ball from the rb position and we certainly did that. One of the backs you saw, the one with the white pants, was actually a freshman. He's one of the freshman I mentioned possibly getting moved up in the district prediction thread. That defense is legit, definitely ahead of where they were last year at this time. Doesn't look like a dropoff at all in overall talent on that side of the ball. Once the staff gets the secondary together you can go ahead and send us FB Marshall.

Huntsville brings back two on defense and neither one of their names is Bobino. They do bring back 8 on offense but their offense really wasn’t that great. May be a lot better this year though? I’m almost more concerned with A&M Con. having a bounce back year or Montgomery finding a defense.

Rankings really mean nothing, especially in the preseason, but I’m interested to see how the 11 teams ranked ahead of Crosby look? Crosby’s average margin of victory in district play heading into the Nederland contest was 40ppg last year. Unless the the district has gotten a lot better I don’t expect anybody to stay within at least two or three scores of this year’s team either. It’s Crosby and FB Marshall for the region, somebody is going to have to show me something different.

14-7 Crosby in a little over a quarter of love action. Crosby gave up a td on a busted coverage. Twos in now.

Crosby probably had about 200 yards worth of deep balls and I think only one incompletion on passes over 20 yards in the controlled portion.

You’re correct. Casey is definitely playing in the center. Angleton has nothing for him so far.

3-1 Crosby with 1s in during controlled portion. Two fumble recoveries by Crosby defense.

Side note: Looks like Carthage has cancelled their scrimmage with Kilgore scheduled for tomorrow due to COVID issues. Maybe that's a good thing for Crosby with them getting less reps, maybe it's a bad thing because that's less film Crosby's staff would have?

Long as he's healthy I expect him to have another all-state year. I think we'll get a better feel tonight about how they're going to use him. In the scrimmage and practices I saw last week he looked to be playing more of a 5 technique. May have been a new alignment or some sort of experiment for the new defensive staff? It did look like we have at least one more solid piece to go with him up front though. I like what we have at the second level of the defense too. In general I agree with you though, as long as we get the secondary right we have a good shot at having a very good defense.

Unless Angelton's QB live I don't think we're going to be able to take a whole lot from this scrimmage. They're a run heavy offense and the QB is a big part of that. If he's no threat to run I think it's going to make the Wildcat passing game easier to defend, and he only had a 42% completion rate for the 7 games worth of stats I see from last year. Defensive backs should still be able to get some good work though. Angleton is always big and fast but they have a new head coach since last time we played them and run more of they standard spread style offense now. That counter toss they used to run was legendary so I'm glad Crosby won't have to defend it. I do think their newer style of offense is more beneficial for Crosby to scrimmage against though, pretty much the same offense we'll see from Carthage next week. On the personnel side of things per DC's they bring back five starters on offense and one on defense. I didn't see any notable prospects which is surprising for them. Tells me their prospects are just young, they're definitely there though. QB was playing receiver at some point last year, looks like in the final game against FB Kempner. Not sure if that was because of injuries, the Covid issues they had or poor play? I think they three biggest takeaways from this exhibition are going to be how we look at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, how well we play against the run and how our receivers look against their dbs? We also need to be able to run the ball from the running back position which seems like an oddity considering the long line of backs we've had at Crosby.

Lol, I most certainly will👍🏾

Working DFW 6A's right now. I would have to get back to you on that. I have decided I'm going with Duncanville over the Katy/Westlake winner in the D1 title game though.

This is the last year Crosby beat Dayton before Dayton decided Crosby would be their female dog for the next decade. Thankfully we should have the favor returned in '22. On another note, it's pretty amazing how we used to be able to play with our chin strap touching our shoulder pads.