Cougar14.2

You would think that but I’m not so sure about the conditioning this year? That’s usually our strong suit early in the season. Second week in a row we had crucial players cramping up at critical times. Never saw one player cramp up for NC last week. Don’t think I saw one for Manvel last night either. That being said, I do agree we somehow wore Manvel down. We started gashing their d-line in the run game in the second half.

Yes, in the regional final if we both won our districts.

They took kids from both Manvel and Alvin. Yes they took talent from Manvel, they still probably have 7 or 8 FBS signees on that roster though. Johnson and Owens are one of the best, if not the best running back tandems in Texas. Layden Robinson and Kori Roberson are A&M and OU commits in the trenches. I still don’t think anybody in 5A-D2 is more talented.

Guzman and Hernandez carry Galena Park to the win, rough night for Naill with 3 picks: [Hidden Content]

Dayton has missed the playoffs two years in a row in an average district and just started the current season 0-2 with a loss most recently to an inner-city soccer school. There’s more to it than giving the defense time to rest. For instance, Crosby schedule Dayton for homecoming.

Excellent coaching job by the Cougar staff. I think it’s safe to say they’re one of the upper tier units in the Houston area. After spotting Manvel 21 points adjustments were made on both sides of the ball and the clock was managed beautifully in a close game. Not going to lie, lost a fingernail over the decision to kick the field goal on 4th and a short 2 yards versus going for it deep in Manvel’s territory when points looked like they would come at a premium for Crosby. Those three points turned out to be the difference though. That’s the reason Coach Riordan is the all-time winningest coach in Crosby history and I work at a refinery.

I’m a recruiting degenerate, I’m more than aware of who he is. He’s one of the reasons I feel Dayton shouldn’t be any worse than 7-3 this year.

The RJ I’m talking about is Roschon Johnson who was carted off the field tonight.

It was, I’m sitting here telling Johnnie Walker all about it.

First off, good win by those kids at Galena Park. This is just flat out unacceptable for the Dayton Broncos though. Until the powers that be at The Horseshoe decide they’re tired of losing football games to soccer schools you can expect more of the same. With every fiber of my being I hope RJ is ok, but if he’s not there’s no reason Dayton shouldn’t be competing for the second spot in this district. Instead, they’re probably going to struggle to go .500? At least when Dayton owned Crosby we were still a playoff team.

Just glad we have a bye week before WOS. I think we would be ripe for the picking next Friday after that emotional win. Going to take a couple weeks to get the kids refocused after that one.

This win more than deserves a crow thread but we’re trying to turn over a new leaf. I’ve personally always hated the taste of crow of etoufee myself.

Crosby gives up 539 rushing yards but the defense turns Manvel over 4 times to make the difference: [Hidden Content]

4th place from 12-5A gets the Manvel vs FB Marshall winner in the bi-district round. 3rd place team gets the loser. See we shall.

Manvel won’t lose again until at least the 4th round, mark it down. Cowboy thought he could ride his horse through the jungle but ended up getting attacked by a cougar. It happens.

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.