Re: Steve K2's HS Football Predictions
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Stay in school kids
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Date: September 29, 2017 08:54AM
Distant Observer Wrote:
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> > What happened to Hayfield? I thought that game
> > was going to be close with hayfield a slight
> > favorite. That may be the most surprising
> outcome
> > so far this year?
>
>
> Well, to begin with, I do believe the Hayfield
> coach is an idiot.
>
> For starters, he apparently ran the team for quite
> a bit before they ever left Hayfield to go to the
> game. Something about some kids not having pants
> or something. I'm all in for maintaining
> discipline and expectations on a team, but when
> you're going to play a team who's game plan is
> going to be to wear you down, do you really want
> to give them a head start?
>
> Next, I can not understand his play calling/game
> plan. Robinson's biggest weakness is their right
> side pass defense (left side of the offense). It
> has been exposed several times this year.
> Hayfield's biggest weapon is the WR Cobb. Cobb
> lined up on the offensive right side every play.
> They didn't try to move him once to the left side
> and get a mismatch. In fact, I think they lined
> up with all receivers in the same positions every
> play. They never moved guys around to see what
> would work.
>
> I guess it really wouldn't matter if they moved
> their WR's around, because Hayfield spent most of
> the night trying to run the ball. So let's see,
> you're a pass oriented team, playing a team that
> is pretty good at stopping the run, but pretty bad
> at stopping the pass. So what is your game plan?
> I get trying to do something different to create
> some confusion, but it was clear early on Hayfield
> wasn't going to be able to run on the Rams.
>
> But the Rams could run on the Hawks. They
> executed their Wing-T to perfection. I believe
> they only called one pass all night, and the QB
> ended up running on that one. That may have been
> because he was so used to running the ball. I
> have never seen a game, at any level, with that
> many QB sneaks. I think during the first drive of
> the 2nd half, Robinson may have ran 6 QB sneaks in
> a row. All gaining 4-7 yards a play. They may
> have ran as many as 18-20 QB sneaks the entire
> game. The only adjustments it looked like
> Hayfield made was to rotate fresh players into the
> game. But they looked younger and not ready to
> handle the hard hitting Robinson running backs
> coming at them.
>
> Give Robinson a lot of credit, they showed up
> ready to play, and ready to impose their will on
> Hayfield, on both sides of the ball. Their D line
> was able to dominate the Hayfield O-Line in a way
> that allowed the LB's and DB's to focus on pass
> coverage. Years from now Wing-T coaches will be
> showing this game at coaching clinics as an
> example of perfect Wing-T execution. Their
> coaching staff certainly out coached the Hayfield
> staff.
>
> But the Hayfield coach did such a poor job at this
> one, I have to wonder if he had bet some money on
> Robinson. And I'm only kind of kidding with that.
> Maybe some of you really smart football people
> can explain what he was doing, but I was just
> confused the entire game.
>
> Hayfield looked to have a lot of really good
> talent, but they were very poorly coached. They
> made a lot of stupid mistakes and penalties. Not
> sure how much of it was due to the kids being
> pissed about having to run before the game, or if
> that's just who they are. But based on last
> night, Hayfield is way over rated.
>
> Robinson didn't have a lot of great athletes (but
> did have a few), but they had a lot of kids
> willing to fight and were put in a good position
> to win by their coach.
It's "have run," not "have ran."