[Old School Hound]

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Ok, I was going to upload another thread but its not there. The question was asked did anything stand out on the game film. I have a view of my own of what I see. Thats why I titled it looking at film. This isn't smack at a team. This is food for thought. We ran this defense primarily the entire season minus one D Lineman. This is what I saw. Corbin in a situation on the first drive of the game to get the ball back and set the tone for the night. Its 4th down and 2.5 or 3 yards to get the 1st down. This is a huge play. This could determine lots in this caliber of a ballgame. The JC blockers was getting to the linebackers making the block. I thought in this 4th down situation, it would have been better to blitz the gaps after it was determined what side the ball was going to. This pretty much is the summary of the entire night. The running back got about a 6-8 yard gain setting themselves up for a big night. 
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Johnson Central has a heck of a blocking team. I call it text book blocking. They are really good at what they do. Diciplined. I think Franklin County understood the concept of filling the gap. Wathing there film, they identified the side the ball was going to and crashed the line of scrimmage. I think if Corbin would have did this on the 4th and 2.5 or 3 play, it maybe of went a different way. Like I said, it was asked did film reveal anything, I think it did. If you go back to the Simon Kenton game for us, our defense was exposed with the goal being #41 getting double teams consistent and then taking out our linebackers with blockers and this kind of sums up what I saw and honestly other coaches saw it because I heard there fan bases saying the same things.

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Offense I saw the run was there for the taking. Not every single play but would have loved to seen it with all our guys in action.

Nothing wrong with the alignment. Looks like JC gap blocked from the PST down and the 3tech got destroyed and the 9 tech didn't squeeze and ran up the field and got kicked out. 9 tech not squeezing and running up the field not only made him an easy kickout but it also allowed the te to pretty much pick off the PSLB on the snap. PSWing turned out the force and there's 6 yards about everytime. BSLB is trying to get there. Not sure who is blocking the BSLB but looks like he never had a chance either because he has a hat on him and he is still at 5yards. That means another DL didn't do their job and squeeze the escape of an OL on his backside scoop. Most likely the backside 3 technique didn't get hands on and keep the BSG from scooping up to the BSLB. You can see in the second picture that both ILBS are being blocked at 5yards which means the guys in front of them (defensive lineman) aren't playing with very good technique. Definitely not an alignment issue because there are 11 humans within six yards of the LOS. Alignment is solid and this is more about execution.

Corbin either had  water boy for a defensive coordinator or needed one. Why weren't the defensive linemen playing with better technique? lack of talent or what?

Well, JC is proficient at what they do is a much more likely explanation. IMO it isn't a lack of talent or coaching. Corbin just wasn't as good on this night. Thats about the best I can give you. JC forces you to play more run technique and if you are going to box the run your interior defensive lineman had better be really physical, play flat down the LOS,  and squeeze the life out of down blocks and backside scoop. Thats the only chance the ILB's have. That's alot to teach and learn in a week because JC isn't something you see week in and week out. It also helps that JC has a really nice D1 offensive lineman in the stable. Those aren't common either.

There's no question how good Johnson Central is. I know we always say take it one game at a time, but didn't the Corbin staff have a pretty good idea of the teams they'd face in the playoffs? Maybe they just didn't have time to look at game film on these teams until a week before they played? is the Johnson Central offense a lot different than it was last year?

The coaches, if that's what you call them, had all season to prepare for this game and this opponent. Everyone on this board knew at season's beginning that this game was coming. Two or three very good football minds on here knew what was coming last Friday. As loyal Redhound fans and supporters of these kids, they put as positive a pre-game spin on the matchup as possible, but they knew what the inevitable ugly outcome was going to be.

Barring a dozen turnovers by JC, Corbin had no shot coming into this one because of the lack of due diligence on the part of the coaches from day one of practice to implement and perfect a game plan that would give the Corbin kids the best chance of winning. Corbin had the athletes and the talent to win this matchup but they didn't have the leadership. The prep for 11/19 should have begun the first day of practice and it should have been free of coaching egos , personal agendas, and political bullshittery.  Sadly,   Corbin was doomed to have their season end this way from day ONE.