Embarrassed

What do you think the CAUSE was?

ALSO:
#1 How deep do you have the OL off the ball?
#2 What are your OL splits?
#3 What protection SCHEME are you using (AND was EVERY rusher accounter for IN the scheme)?
#4 What protection TECHNIQUE are you using?
#5 How long was your QB taking to get the ball OUT?
#6 Was your QB watching the rush instead looking at the receivers & "feeling" or "sensing" the rush?
#7 What DEPTH was the BREAKING POINTS for the WR's on the 3 step game?

PS: Bobby Knight & Bill Parcells are both fond of saying: "IF THEY DON'T GET IT - YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T GO OVER IT ENOUGH"!!!!!!! Double & triple the time you spend on pass pro!

Coach Mountjoy,

#1 That was one problem. Our depth was to shallow. We were crowding the ball. So I am addressing that problem.
#2 Our splits on our 3 step stuff was to wide and we couldn't close down the middle. So that will be addressed.
#3 We use a middle slide protection on our three step. Everyone power steps to the center and gets hip to hip protecting their inside gap. the backs come up and pick up any leakaage outside. This was another problem is that the backs were not coming up far enough. So we are going to address that.

On our 5 step we BOB, the prblem here was that my tackles were quick setting the DE and not kick sliding. their weight was forward so the DE just push pulled and was on our QB. That was addressed in the game and will be addressed in practice from now on.

#5-7 The QB did a good job he stayed the course and did what he was supposed to do. Most of the time he was hit before he got to his third step. Now he did not vary the snap count, so we have to fix that as well. The braking points for our WR on 3 step drops are no deeper than 8 yds unless it is a fade.

So there are a great many things that are fixable, but we couldn't even base block. I had one kid grade out at 71 no one else on the OL graded out above 50. I had some in the 20s. This tells me that I am dong a pitiful job. So that has been addressed. I was letting to many of the "little things" go. I won't short change my kids anymore.


Coach Easton,

He did not panic. He did not get pissed off. He did not complain. In fact I wished he would have gotten in their rear end a little bit. I mean we had 300 yards of offense and didn't block anybody. I thought he did an outstanding job of not losing his cool. He is not vocal, he leads by example.

What I am disappointed in is I thoght we were prepared and we were not and I thought my kids laid down and that bothers me. I preach physicalness, we practice being physical and then in the game we were shell shocked.

Coach,

The report you just gave me on your QB is very encouraging! Things will get better under his leadership!
After 42 years on the field, I learned a long time ago that HS kids are just that, kids. I once had a team of big, tough country kids who I thought would not back down if they were playing an NFL team. We were a 2-AA school and our first nondistrict game was against a 4-AAAA school. We worked our butts off and I just knew we were ready for the big school boys and were going to hand them their jocks!

We get to the game with all 30 of our players and they took one look at the 60-65 kids the big school had
warming up and they froze like a popsicle! Now, these were not your ordinary HS level kids, most of them looked like grown men from having thrown calves around and hay bales all their lives! I could see it in their eyes, they were just plain scared!!! The first half ended 14-0 in favor of the big school. I was livid, I could not believe how timid they were playing and acting like whimps! At half time I really got fired up and went around grabbing the biggest guys on the team and shaking them like rag dolls! I slapped them on the helmets, I riduculed them, I got in their face and let them have it with both barrels! This was so out of character for me, it got their attention. All of a sudden our FB who was the stud of the team caught fire and started getting mad. By the time we went to the field for the second half, we were ready to play!!! I would love to be able to say we went on to win, but we didn't. We did win the second half, scoring 7 points while holding the opponent scoreless and game ended 14-7. I would never have guessed in a million years they would have went in the tank like they did in the first half, but they did. BUT, THEY DID RECOVER AND PLAY TO THEIR POTENTIAL. I would be willing to bet your kids will too! Remember coach, they may look like men physically today, but they are still just kids and kids have a way of doing funny things at times. I have total confidence in you to find the best way to get them back on track!

Coach Easton