[#55PirateFan]

I guess I'll give my two cents. First off, congratulations to the mighty Johnson Central Eagles! You guys are just what I expected, and more! Loved watching you play football last night and expect nothing less than a State Championship this year. Love me some Devin Johnson. Kid is all heart.

Speaking of HEART, Belfry better find some along with some toughness or we wont have to worry about Boyle or Corbin because we wont get past Lex.Cath!

Offensively I think we did ok. Just OK though. And just doing "OK" will not cut it against the better teams in 3A. Alot of how we played was because of that stout JC defense. I will not take away how great they played last night. JC's defense was lights out and I loved watching it. And that had a big part in us just looking "ok". But alot of it was how we played and executed as well. Everybody and every area has to improve. I'll start with the O-Line because that's where my boy plays. They looked sloppy! All of them. Stupid penalties that we usually dont make. Getting holding calls, false starts, and an unnecessary illegal block when the play was already down field that cost us a TD. That's undisciplined football that we shouldn't be playing this deep into the season. There is absolutely no leadership on this team! You other Belfry fans can get made at me if you want but the truth is the truth. We have to many good senior football players for a couple of them to not step up and take leadership of this team! As seniors, that's part of your job. We looked like a bunch of individuals last night instead of a team. I seen guys come out after halftime to warm up and was just walking around cutting up like we had a big lead, laughing and joking, not stretching with their position groups, or just standing looking off into space. This is uncalled for! Our RB's didnt run with purpose last night either like they usually do. Dont know what was up with that. A couple times our line missed an assignment that caused this but other times they had great blocking but just wouldn't turn up field. We've got to do better or it's an early exit for us this year in the playoffs and we've got a team that has the potential and talent to win it all if they want it but it just looks like, to me, that some just doesnt want it bad enough. So yeah, defense isn't the only area that needs some improvement!

Defensively, I'm not going to say much on this. We all know what we have to do better. All areas have to improve. JC did whatever they wanted to do offensively on us last night and there wasnt a damn thing that we could do about it. Again, alot of it had to do with that Eagle offensive machine. JC is a very good all around football team folks and the best in 4A and a Top 10 team in the state, IMO. But, again,alot had to do with our HEART! Missing assignments, completely unfocused, undisciplined, missing tackles and not wrapping up, and lack of motivation! Those kids are much better than this, I know it, I've seen it. We have some really good football players on defense. I just can't figure out what's going on. And I'm not talking about all of our players. We have a couple that give 110% every time they go out to play defense, and they play well. But we all know that you have to play as a team or you're not going to be successful. We've got to figure this out and we're running out of time!

Lastly, I'll say this, we have a team that CAN win the championship this year if they want it bad enough. But right now I just don't see it. Like COACHITALL said earlier in this thread, some injuries you just have to toughen up and play through. Some you just can't, I know this, but there is a difference between being hurt or injured! Two things we have to find before this Friday in order to make a run at state: HEART and TOUGHNESS! On both sides of the ball! We have all the other tools to win but without those two we have no chance!