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Tell me about it, led me to beating the velcro off my visor. . .

Yeah, and I feel like Crosby played very well on defense. Go figure? That happens when you keep coughing it up from getting the hat put on you.

Wow . . .

Crosby holds three consecutive times after five of up 21 and score 17 straight. Manvel feels a little pressure and goes for it on 4th and 8 close to midfield and converts to put Crosby back down by 11. Crosby would be winning or down by 1/4 if they hold that 4th consecutive time. Small things that win or lose games.

Going to be long night . . .

I really like Crosby’s chances in the actual game. I think it’s pretty straight forward for the Cougars. Manvel is anchored by an SEC commit on the o-line and a Big XII commit on the d-line. Can Crosby minimize Johnson and Owens gashing them in the run game, and can Crosby keep the chains moving enough in the run game to maximize the big play opportunities that will be few and far between? Crosby has to play clean on both sides of the ball but I think the defense will surprise some people in this one. The Manvel team we played a couple of years ago had more talent than this current one and I’m almost certain this version of Crosby is better than the ‘16 squad, Mavericks won that one by 14 at home. This year’s game is in Crosby with the Cougars having an opportunity to silence a lot of doubters. Hopefully this is the first of two matchups.

Don’t worry, I’m just here through Labor Day. Had a week off between T/A deliverables. Everything will be “ . . . a good game” again Tuesday.

The same amount of times as Manvel.

Listen, I wasn’t the valedictorian of my class and if you had more than two people in yours I’m sure you weren’t either. Crosby has 12 playoff wins in the last 10 years. Simple math tells you that equates to 1.2 playoff wins per season. That’s over quintuple what Vidor averages but that’s neither here nor there. First, I posted the wrong totals in my original post. My bad on that one, I used an 11 year period instead of 10. Secondly, for him to say we only averaged .7 playoff wins a season over a ten year period means he had to make the assumption that we went 10-0 every season which is idiotic. I realize that’s like quantum physics deep, but it’s a prime example of how things get blown out of proportion on this board when you can just take a couple minutes before you post and see that it isn’t correct.

Guy is from Barbers Hill. He wouldn’t know what a winning team looked like unless they were showing the film in technicolor.

Correction, that should be 08-17 and we averaged 9 wins per season. Who said anything about a dynasty other than the people doing those rankings? People on this board are so quick to jump on something, yet you can do no research to prove your point? I asked you a simple question, find another team in Houston that’s won more games over that period? Who has even had the opportunity in this area to play 23 playoff games in that span? According to you this information should be extremely simple to find. It’s not Crosby’s fault the district was weak because we had teams like Barbers Hill and Lee in it. You want to throw out a first round playoff loss last year, yet you don’t point out that’s was only Crosby’s 2nd first round loss in the last decade. Again, find me a Houston team that’s 8-2 in the bi-district round over that period besides Manvel? Don’t be the guy that gets caught up in the myopia. I know you don’t pay near the attention I do to this stuff but I’lI let you in a on little secret. Other than Manvel, Houston hasn’t had a consistent 5A heavyweight since La Marque dropped classes. Crosby, Dayton, La Marque, Manvel, Dawson and George Ranch are the only 5A teams to even win a regional 3 title in the last decade. Foster has won the last two titles cleaning out region 4. Houston has mediocre 5A football compared to Central Texas and the DFW/East Texas area so Crosby gets the nod by just being above average for a long time. Unlike you, I have numbers to back up my facts. I don’t just factualize my opinion like you did in your previous post. Throw something else out, I’ll wait . . .

I assume you’re a smart guy. It’s a real simple exercise. Go back a decade 07-17 in the Houston area and find a team that has 95 regular season wins plus 12 playoff wins. Crosby averaged 10.7 wins per season during that period. There’s nothing to stretch, I’ve just been gone so there’s an information void.

I’m reporting information someone else has compiled since the research I used to take my time and do on here for people was deemed useless: [Hidden Content] No matter how you feel about Crosby, the numbers are what they are. Y’all just keep paying that $350k a year to the Westeberg family to miss the playoffs. Don’t be surprised if BH receives a generational arse whipping from Crosby this year.

Jaiden Howard TD run highlighting some of the physicality that was on display by Crosby last night. In all fairness to the NC defender, I really don’t think he was looking for any smoke: [Hidden Content]

Manvel is coming off a woodshed beating of Clear Lake and Crosby is coming off a solid win against long time district foe New Caney. Can Crosby get a win in their home opener or is Manvel tired of hearing about how they should be falling off with Shadow Creek opening? DCTF has Manvel ranked preseason #2 in 5A-D2 and Crosby ranked #7 in the same poll. Manvel will definitely have the advantage in the trenches but can Crosby make up for it in other areas like qb play? Manvel and Crosby have been two of the top 5A teams in the Houston area for the last decade, Manvel is up 1-0 in the all-time series. The scene in Cougar Stadium Friday night should be unreal.

Little surprised by this one? Not really by the loss, but by the score and style in which they lost. Figured the level of athlete United could put on the field would give them a punchers chance, new school or not. Was looking forward to see what this school could do for the community but even if you give United wins over Nederland and Sterling it’s hard to see how they finish .500? As somebody who like to see schools like this do well, I really wish they would’ve gone down a different route in their coaching search instead of going Dayton-style. Bunch of young coaches out there hungry to get their hands on the type of athletes United has.

With Austin’s stud qb transferring to FB Marshall the only other potential loss I see for NC on the schedule is PA Memorial? If NC can tighten up some in the front seven against the run game y’all could be dangerous.

They usually make an adjustment by now but it’s the Chronicle, meaning the stats are probably just off. Crosby’s Maxpreps site will have the correct numbers posted sometime this weekend.

Box score: [Hidden Content]

Box Score: [Hidden Content]

Baytown Lee 55 Houston Westbury 6

Y’all lost by 30 though. Not saying Crosby won’t lose by 30 to Manvel next week but you pay the big money for wins. Everything you said makes a valid point but Westeberg is probably making more money than Gary Joseph, who the Chronicle just listed as the highest paid coach in the area north of $136k. I personally don’t think this game is any indication of how BH’s season will turn out but you can’t keep giving people passes for what someone did at another school. A school that just went 16-0 last year.

Kind of what I expected in this one. NC’s qb struggled to be consistently accurate, otherwise this is a completely different game. Crosby busted several coverages early in the game and Childress couldn’t put it on them, that was compounded by some untimely drops by his receivers. NC has about a legit a secondary as you’re going to find in the Houston area, where Crosby had an advantage was at the line of scrimmage and qb play. Shout out to the Code Red defense. NC had four drives in the first half that started at the 50 yardline or in Crosby territory and the Cougars held on three, including one that started inside our own 10 yard line. There are some thing to clean up on the back end but I’ll go ahead and say this is at no worse the second best defense Coach Riordan has had during his tenure at Crosby. As long as everybody can stay healthy the offense will probably average somewhere between 37ppg and 43ppg, Crosby missed a couple tonight but NC’s defense is also pretty good. All in all a pretty impressive win for Crosby considering the level of athlete NC put on the field.

I agree NC's strength will be their secondary but that's a huge hit losing McGlothern to CHTC. What's probably even more of an issue is having to play Childress at qb after losing Cooper, great athlete but is going to struggle to throw the ball consistently with any accuracy. I would say position group by position group that there might be some ties but I don't see NC with an advantage anywhere from the scrimmage film I've seen. I don't think Crosby will have much trouble with NC in the trenches either. NC is notorious for slow starts to the season and I think getting Crosby right out of the gate vs getting fired up to play a 9-0 Crosby at the end of the season is a disadvantage for NC. As far as the rb's, we just plug and play. We go three deep at the rb position but I think #24, Noel Wright, is going to be an FBS caliber back when its all said and done. He should easily hit the 1k yard mark barring injuries. Crosby is very capable of coming out like last year and trying to go through the motions and getting beat. This year's team plays for each other though, so I don't see that happening. I definitely don't see Crosby's starters giving up 38 on defense, nor do I see the offense being held to 28 by anyone on the current schedule. I think it's going to be a dogfight for at least a half but I think Crosby eventually pulls away by a couple of tds.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. Angleton is extremely physical and player for player probably the best team we would line up with even if we were to make a state championship run. Angleton moved it well on Crosby during the controlled portion of the scrimmage but I think one of the instances you’re talking about them moving it through the air was #11 catching that TD over the middle? QB was looking back of the end zone and most likely a pick but #11 jumped up underneath and caught it. QB made some good throws and looks a lot better since we played him as a freshman. Crosby is breaking in new rbs and o-linemen, it was going to be learning curve regardless. Y’all made it damn near impossible to run the ball, so scoring off screens when you’re caught in blitzes is what we do. I would argue Crosby missed two more scoring opportunities when the qb underthrew a wide open #10 down the sideline in the controlled potion and also in the live portion when he threw the screen into the dirt when Crosby had y’all caught blitzing again. You can put those on the board a couple weeks from now. Deep threat that wasn’t playing would’ve helped but oh well. Good scrimmage by both teams, most importantly nobody got hurt that I saw. I would say Angleton looked a little better than Crosby at his point in the season, still very optimistic about where I think Crosby can end up if we improve on couple of things.