[Belichick]

I agree defense keeps getting better and I always have thought they are well prepared on that side of the ball. But they aren’t going to be able to hand the ball off to Anthony 20-30 times without any production elsewhere and hope to win against good teams. Different year and different line and other teams have already shown they are going to try to take him away. Boyd is good enough this week to score a few TDs and beat the Panthers. Sayre, Campbellsville, Raceland also all good enough to score a few times. Pikeville isn’t pitching a shutout the entire playoffs. There will be a game when they have to score some points and they do at times but red zone calls and general play calling in the games when they have decided to be ultra conservative won’t cut it. Honestly, it’s just been bad and not like a Pikeville team and I’ll say it, it is not the players. That team has plenty of talent, more than anyone in 1A by a good margin. QB is good. Receivers are good. We know what Anthony is and they have 3 other backs who probably start for most other 1A teams. Their defense is stout. Each game has just looked different and not in a good way. No identity. No game plan. Pikeville teams are usually building and rolling by now. I honestly felt like Hazard was a running clock game after watching them. Raceland was a 3-4 TD game and it was trending that way until 2 turnovers in second half. LCA was winnable and they played it without Anthony, Stanley, and Hall. Ironton I did not feel was winnable but after the Pikeville start and effort, it was. I felt like Pikeville was better than Belfry. Scoring 7 points against Corbin’s defense was a lousy performance. Mind boggling offensive play calling against JC. All of those games had multiple blunders that weren’t player mistakes. It honestly looks like they aren’t prepared at times. It looks like there is no offensive strategy several games this season. Obvious weapons not used or used often enough. I’m just a little shocked in brutal honesty. I think injuries have hurt the growth and they still need all of them back but it still doesn’t account for the product on the field this year. Still time but not much.