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Josh Jones is an excellent runner. He's not scared of anyone from Central that's for sure. He had to play against Cunningham Middle School. If you can survive that, then Central is a walk in the park. lol Lee gained 100 more yards this year against Central, with a wet football, muddy field, on the road, after having made 3 different 2 hour bus trips within the last 18 hours. I like what Josh was able to do, in his first game back, in hostile conditions, in a weird setting, the day after Lee was supposed to play, no band, hardly any fans, just a strange setting for playing football.

One of Lee's slot receivers(Kevin Craft) runs the 3rd leg on the 400 relay team that finished in the top 5 in the region last year. Craft is plenty fast. Luna is more of a hands guy. Lee doesn't go deep a lot, and they certainly were not going to go deep a lot against Central's attacking defense. That's what they tried last year and it got Jeremy's leg broke in the process. Looking at the stats, it actually sounds like Mahan was playing. Now we just need to get our starting center back, and get the wrinkles ironed out and Lee will be ok. To those of you saying Lee doesn't deserve to be ranked here or there or predicted to win district, I understand some of that is a Golden Triangle bias towards PAM and WB... But did you see Lee last year against Central? I know some of these Jaguar fans had to have made the trip to Baytown to see that one. By all rights, Central should have beat Lee 42-7 last year. They dominated Lee from the first whistle through the last. They ran all up and down the field at will. Lee was sacked every other play. Lee couldn't get any positive yardage running the ball. The only play Lee got was a hail mary to Rashad Mohammed where the d-back kinda slipped and Mohammed took it to the house from about 65 yards out. That was probably half of Lee's yards for the game right there. It looked like USC playing against Rice last year, with Central being USc and Lee being Rice. Central tore into Lee, ran them over, bulldozed them, ate them for lunch. Guess what...Lee won district last year. Guess what, Lee played toe to toe with a top 10 team in the playoffs last year. Lee is so far ahead of last year's learning curve after the first game it's not even funny. Lee will improve dramatically. Much more than any run first offense will this year. As a Lee fan, I'm absolutely ecstatic to hear the news that I heard from the game. Lee's run defense shut down Central. Sounds great to me, particularly after Central ran for 300+ yards last year against Lee. Next up Strake Jesuit. We beat them last year, but struggled. I would like to see if we can stay ahead of last year's learning curve after the Strake game.

We'll see patitan I'm not at all concerned about Lee's offense. If there ever was a sure thing in high school football....it's Lee's offense. Don't have to believe me, don't expect you to. Lee's defense is the concern. We finished second in the area in offense last year I believe, and Central stopped us to about 150 yards in the first game, with better conditions. Just sit back and watch that learning curve now with Lee's offense.

Central gave us that same problem last year. Too much speed on defense. Blitzing, turning them loose, first game of the year. Wet, muddy. It's not a good situation for Lee's precision offense.

If you like the team, that's good enough for me drake. It made me sick at my stomach having to sit there at work and try to keep up instead of being in Beaumont to see the game. I'm just focusing on the defense. Nothing anyone can say to me will get me the least bit concerned about Lee's offense. It will come around.

I like what I see in the stats. Central had 255 yards on 46 plays, with 122 of that coming on 3 plays. I like those numbers for the Lee defense. Actually, I love those numbers against a running team like Central. I think Central had about 500 yards of offense on us last year. Lee had 254 yards on 55 plays. I think Lee had 150 yards last year against Central.

Well kg, it's a long time til district. Last year, Central ran roughshod over Lee and Lee won district, so let's not start counting those chickens yet. Lee was again without Michael Mahan, second team all district wide receiver it sounds like. Hopefully he comes back soon from his broken jaw. I have absolutely zero worry about Lee's offense. Once district rolls around, they will gel just like they always do. Backwhen Drew Tate was qb'n, Lee would start the year off 1-4 every year, then go two rounds deep into the playoffs. The precision offense takes a little while longer to get rolling on all cylinders, particularly tough in the wet, muddy field.

Thanks for the recap. Sounds like Central has a good squad again this year.

I'm actually looking forward to hearing it bmt soulja. Since I havent been able to see Lee play in 8 months, I will take any morsel I can get.

If we lost the qb then we're in a whole world of hurt. The running back going down isn't too good of a deal either. That's the two key players. That's pretty much the case with a lot of teams though on injuries. They should just sit Jarvis out til district if he's hurt.

Duid you see the Humble and Ike stats? Sometimes you have to look past the scoreboard in these meaningless games and see if maybe someone got lucky. Ike had about 500 yards of offense to Humble's 200. Humble was lucky to get the win from what I can gather. wbfan09. What are you trying to say about Central dominating?

I'll need to see the stats, but this is a much better showing than lee had last year against Central fronm the sounds of it. Central DOMINATED Lee last year. Something like 450 total yards to 160 total yards. Lee went on to tie for district. This is a game that I was concerned with, because Lee takes a few games to get the offense running smoothly. Central brings a lot of pressure on defense. Then, you factor in the rain. Then, you factor in that Lee had to go back on a Saturday. I'm not too concenred with how this one played out. I was afraid of a 42-7 showing like what it should have been last year.

Twenty points isn't actually that bad compared to last year, when Central really should have sacored about 45-50. I can't tell you wht the problem is from my office chair here in Houston lol I was more concerned with Central rolling through Lee like nobody's business. If Lee held them down to 3 scores, without the benefit of a bunch of turnovers, then I'm satisfied. The offense will be just fine.

Not the update I was looking for!

Man it's no fun having to watch the Internet and hope for a good score to pop up in the next message lol

I don't thinkt he band or drill teams went today, so there couldn't have been too long of a halftime.

thanks for the updates

bruins look tough

I'm all about the safety too. Trust me when I say I wouldn't want the kids to play in a dangerous situation. N

If you go back and read what I wrote, then realize that 85% of what I say on a messageboard, I say with a sarcastic tone, then it will all make more sense to you. The second thing you have to remember about me is that I'm stubborn and enjoy arguing. Did something fishy happen last night? Of course it did. Is it going to kill them to go back today and play? Nahhh

As I said on the other board that I frequent.... “When we have (lightning) hits between three to eight miles away on our static electricity meter, we have to postpone the game 30 minutes,†said Central High head trainer Jacob Pfaff, who along with Lee head trainer Amy Newell was the center of attention this night. So you have to suspend play for 30 minutes if the lightning is within 8 miles this states. Everyone agree that's what he's saying? “At the end, my lightning detector was going crazy, showing lightning zero to three miles away. Baytown Lee’s detector was going crazy, too, showing zero to three miles. So at the end the lightning was within 3 miles? We can all agree this is what's being said here? Now, here comes the juicy part... A quick search of google maps shows that Zaharias is less than 5 miles from Cardinal Stadium. How is it mathematically possible to be within 3 miles of Zaharias and not within 8 miles of Cardinal Stadium? I'll answer for you. It's not possible. Something fishy was going on. I don't know who was to blame, but the game could have been played last night. Maybe it was Lee that didn't want to play. Who knows? They will play today though, and I guess in the end that's all that matters.

I heard the game is going to be free today? That's not much of a source I got that from though. Beaumont certainly got my 6 dollars with their fake lightning. I'm going to send my ticket to them in the mail, with a SASE and see if they send me my money back. lol

You're not following my premise. They were able to predict when the (ALLEGED) "lightning" would quit because there was no lightning. The (MADE UP) "lightning" was all a ploy to keep Lee in that dressing room for an extended period of time and get them complacent and not interested in the game. Only to have the fake, made up lightning move out just in time for Central to come roaring out of the locker room. Drake, I wouldn't put ANYTHING past them over there. I'm being about 70% sarcastic when I claim they were trying to ice Lee, but there has to be a reason that the fake lightning ploy was being used. Trying to ice Lee is the best reason I could come up with.

Been counting the minutes for 8 months for Lee football to start, now this.... Gotta work the day of their first game. I'll be checking this site for some updates, don't let me down guys... gnite

lol It should be a good game. Central did look tough. Fortunately for them, they knew since 7:00 when the "lightning" would stop lol Lee had no idea when mother nature would decide to stop the lightning. Central though? They knew to be ready at the locker room door at precisely 8:58, because then and only then would the "lightning" have stopped. What do you know? The "lightning" had stopped right on cue. If they have near as much precision and timing on the field as they do with the "lightning" shenanigans, they are going to be tough.