[david5164]

Russell is not slow and both teams were affected by the Muddy and terrible field at West Carter tonight. Russell had a horrible 1st quarter with a fumble recovered by WC, then a Roughing the passer to start at Russell's 30 yard line, and a blocked punt out of the endzone for a West Carter 2-0 lead after the 1st quarter. Russell finally scored in the 2nd quarter to make it 7-2 at half. Then in 3rd quarter a weird play when West Carter attempted a pass and deflected off a Russell player into the hands of WC player and runs it in from 22 yards out to make it 8-7 after 3rd quarter. Then Russell scores 2 TD's to make 22-8 with minute to go in the game and WC QB throws a 50 yard TD Pass and a final score 22-14 Russell. Both Russell and WC had 2 or 3 opportunities to score when moving into the redzone and then was either held or a turnover. West Carter played a great game tonight and Russell's Defense was outstanding again except for the 22 TD pass when it was deflected off a Russell player into WC players hands for a 22 yard TD pass and the 50 yard TD Pass with a minute left in the game was the 14 points for WC. Russell was in the Red Zone 2 or 3 times and turned it over on downs or a turnover.

I thought Russell would try and throw more tonight to mix it up with the running game like WC did tonight. I liked it when Russell had a stretch of 3 or 4 games when they were throwing the ball 10-12 times and throwing it to the backs and TE's and mixing it well with the running game. Russell needs to do more of that in the playoffs mixing in some passing with the outstanding running game they have on offense.