[david5164]

I will say this even though Russell Pass Defense was horrible tonight Greenup County has been building this team the last 2 years. Sammons started half the season as a freshman and now he is a junior and has the experience and is an outstanding QB. GC has 3 or 4 WR's and Halstead at RB with a couple of other potential RB's. They have most of there OL back and most of there Defense. They are not just an average team as one fan mentioned above. Greenup has Raceland home and Ashland home so they could easily go 9-1 losing to JC on the road.
I believe TJ is an outstanding Head Coach and he did say he was taking over the offense this year making the calls. I just believe to be an outstanding Head Coach you need an outstanding Offense and Defense Coordinators. Just like tonight Russell takes the 1st drive right down the field and scores and goes up 7-0. Then Russell Int. Sammons on his 1st drive and takes back over and Russell was driving again but turned it over on downs. If Russell goes in for another TD after the Int. they could had 14-0 lead at end 1st quarter. After GC takes over on downs though Sammons throws a Deep pass to the 1 and takes it in for a 7-7 tie. Then Russell takes the next drive and goes 3 and out but TJ tries a Fake Punt on our own 35 and GC takes over again. Sammons throws another down to the 1 yard line and GC takes it in for 14-7 lead. Then Russell gets a nice Kick-off return to GC 48 but can't take advantage and trails at half 14-7. Russell when running the ball the offense was moving fine and we could have taken a 14-0 or 21-0 lead at the Half. If it wasn't for the Fake Punt and turning it over on downs GC scores there 2 TD's. Then the Pass Defense collapses at beginning of 2nd half Sammons throws 2 TD bombs and leads 27-7. The Pass Defense for Russell can not in the future give up 3 or 4 long TD bombs. The 2 TD drives for Russell in the 2nd half was once running the ball and running the Wing T. Russell does have 3 Soph. and 2 Junior Running backs from last year. Russell only lost Bates from last year at RB. so TJ needs to run the Wing T and the conventional run offense like tonight we scored on the 3 TD's either using Wing T or Run offense. Then fix the Pass Defense and this Russell team will not be as bad as they looked tonight. They have the talent at RB to fix that problem with the Wing T and run offense. The Pass Defense might take more work to play a lot better than they played tonight giving 3 or 4 long TD Passes from Sammons to Kelly. If TJ and Russell will play the Conventional Run Offense and Wing T offense and play better in the Pass Defense then this team will be a better football team and win.