VP77

For someone who doesn't like personal attacks on your husband, you sure don't mind giving them.  

Yeah, but you don't coach 10 year old soccer, so you don't have the right perspective.

 

I don’t know who you are and honestly do not care.  The great thing about a discussion forum is we are all equal.  I do suggest if you are the spouse of a member of the coaching staff, maybe the boards are not a place for you.  In my case, I’m a lifelong fan of over 40 years.  My Grandfather, Father, and I played defense for Vidor teams.  I personally have coached many teams, much younger than these kids, and they have always displayed discipline because I instilled it. 

 

My wife does don’t pretend to know whether are not I’m a “good” Nursing Administrator or not.  The fact that I often stay at work 12-14 hours a day does not make me proficient.  The fact I'm taking a break while arriving to work at 5:30 am on a Saturday does not make me a great or more devoted employee than others.  I work to serve my patients and my customer base.  If your husband is truly the DC, who is his customer base?  We the fans are.  When teams from all over Southeast Texas take notice of our defensive deficiencies when we returned eight starters from last year, it shows.  But worse, Pirate fans are noticing. 

 

In the lean years of our offense, it was the defense that rose to the occasion.  Look, I’m bias because I’m a fan that has witnessed more winless seasons or one win seasons than playoff appearances.  I had listened to my head coach, Jay Law, make some of the most ridiculous statements and offer a team that was unprepared at best.  I have watched every other local comparable team develop at least a few Divison One college recruits, usually by default, when we have almost none in over 15 years.  I witnessed one of the best quarterbacks in the state launch a bomb of the second play of week three and our defensive back not even expect it. 

 

I don’t know your husband.  Really don’t care too.  But if you are too thin skinned to accept criticism, then you should honestly avoid the boards.  Take a look and how the PNG and Nederland coaches are lambasted every Friday night.  But when all football fans start to notice obvious coaching problems with defensive fundamentals like who many kids should be on the field, you pop up out of nowhere.  Coaches come and go.  But lifelong fans cannot be so easily replaced.  I drive 2-3 hours just to watch a freaking game of football and I do not know I single kid on the field. 

 

I’m sure you are proud your husband is the coordinator.  But we should not have to score 83 points to secure a win.  We should have picked up some pass defensive schemes and tip-offs by playing several quality throwing teams.  Makes me sick you put the ENTIRE blame on the kids.  I can teach 10-year-olds where to be on a soccer field.  About time, our coordinators did with High School aged kids.  

 

I'll say this since I've seen Ozen play twice now: if you have trouble stopping the run and have tackling issues you will have trouble with Ozen in that aspect, BUT if you do not commit turnovers and can get yourself at least one defensive score plus limit the Ozen possessions while scoring points and controlling the clock you will be in position to beat em. 

And you think the status quo will get us wins against quality teams then?  What exactly do you suggest?  2 posts and you're some expert?

I know everyone drills me for this but when I talk about preparation I ain't talking about the kids. We have too much defensive talent to be allowing teams to score like they are. The TDs in the first half were pretty well off of big mistakes...perhaps the DC needs to watch some tape of East Chambers' defense to see how it's done. We never look prepared for a play. We need to be coaching the kids up when the defense is on the sideline, not watching the game. I mean, kids are running off and on the field at the wrong time, wrong defense being called and everything looks like a Keystone Cops drill. If we need to put Haylen or others on the offense to the defense, then so be it. What happens this Friday when we play against Boyd and the Ozen Panthers? We look totally unprepared for the start of the game; that's coaching. Our defensive line needs to stay in their lanes and seal those corners to have any chance of stopping Boyd and we need to stop blitzing so much....it ain't working. Four down linemen, two safeties and no more cutting the offensive line. Again, Jeff needs to take over the defense for the rest of the season...fire the kids up and instill some confidence in them. Best offense I've seen from the Pirates; worst defense. Work on it.

Not having Maverick Quirante this year playing free safety is killing us. The Lebaron kid is the best QB Ned has seen since 2011 and he had a great game tonight. Still, it was a very winable game for us and we should have. I'm a believer in playing good defense and we're not, especially early in the game.  Krautz (sp.) breaking a big run for a TD on the first play of the game and then we get burned on a bomb on their 3rd offensive play? Horrible. I think the worst play was when we had them 3rd and goal to go from the 15 and they run the same play New England  ran in the Superbowl. C'mon, Stevie Wonder could see that one coming. Call time out and change the defense. Half the time, we look like a keystone fire drill going into pass coverage. Same story the last three games; Jasper, Channelview and now Ned are carbon copies.I know I'm hard on the coaches but I expect more...especially preparation wise. 14 points in three offensive plays to start the game? Hats off to Larry Neuman having his team ready to play and taking advantage of our weaknesses as usual.