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Literally any offense. They don’t even run the slot T that well. And the belief that vidor kids “can’t” do a modern offense (a belief that Coach Matthews has shamelessly expressed in news interviews) is baseless. There is nothing different between the PNG / Nederland kids and the Vidor kids except that the Vidor kids’ coaches think the Vidor kids can’t learn how to throw a ball.

Why not look for an outside hire? Vidor could do a lot with a different offense (and defense). I’d love to see it.

SOC would have had about 50 people if the game had been in Houston. Number of fans doesn’t control the game outcome, but it certainly didn’t hurt they were able to have a decent crowd since the game was played in their backyard.

Aledo feels like kind of a given

I would take a tax increase to get Surratt. More than happy with coach Joseph at png, but if and when he leaves …

Game day! Let’s get it.

Good luck to Aledo this weekend!

The key will the play in the trenches, but we can’t ignore this will be the best secondary we’ve faced all season. It’s going to be TOUGH to get down the field. If PNG can match them physically, I have no doubt the coaches can make winning adjustments. Just hope the stage isn’t too big for us.

The only color worth bleeding

Haha Newton fans are specifically invited, by me.

I was thinking that last night- the last several years the semifinal for 5ad2 has been liberty hill vs our district (of course Crosby is no longer in our district, but I’m speaking loosely of our group)

Conditioning is 100% better. They’re more athletic this year. Whatever the off-season program was, it is one of the differences

Who honestly thought they would after the last 23 years?

What a defensive showing. The offense was great, and tonight made clear the difference it makes to have so many weapons and to be so well-conditioned - the o line made massive holes for Nguyen. But to hold Liberty hill scoreless in the second half - you could see in their player’s composure as the game wore on and the clock kept ticking - they were shocked. They didn’t expect to not be able to move the ball at will like they usually do, and after that first big run it looked like it could be a long night for png. But that defense stepped up again in a huge way. What a game, what a coaching performance. What a team. If you had told me after game 1 when PAM took us to the woodshed that we would be playing at AT&T I’d have thought you were on drugs.

Welcome

(1) First game with a new coach; (2) early mistakes threw off their whole game plan, and they weren’t able to respond mentally; (3) Port Arthur came in with a well-oiled machine under an established coach and a lot of returning starters that was ranked in the top ten in 5aD1, perfectly set for taking advantage of every single mistake and matchup problem (of which there were several). The loss looked better and better as the season went on and PAM beat a lot of really good teams. But for the misfortune of having to play Longview in their region, PAM might still be in the playoffs.

100%

Exactly - LH is unstoppable

How was that not a catch? How are these refs employed?

These are calling terribly on both sides.

This game is reminding me of game against Dayton in 2011. Dayton just kept nailing +40 field goals. I think they had 5 or 6 field goals.

Png needs to tease that play and throw to the flat. It would work.

Yeah they know it’s coming

What, Prosp-eee-err-eee isn’t how you say “Prosperie”?

That was a terrible call