Clinton at Northside-Jax Oct 4th
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Personally I like Northside, but Clinton is going to get The Big Mac, Large Coke, Large Fries, and an Apple Pie.
Clinton played themselves into a loss last week, so hopefully they can right the ship against Northside. For the Dark Horses, contain Conley and make his teammates try to pick up the slack. End our non-conference play on a positive note.
Quit getting penalized for needless penalties and like I heard Dabo Sweeney say at halftime yesterday keep the ball on the ground and BE PATIENT. Our defense is playing well enough to win
If they will keep it simple. They have the athletes to go along ways. They are making it to complicated on offense. Just keep it simple. That will eliminate a lot of the penalties
You're right, you need the balance especially for November.
The lack of balance in the past is why the horses couldn't get over the hump in the recent playoffs. You have to keep developing that.
Big game for Clinton. Only ECC team playing this week. A big win from Clinton would send a statement to WRH and be a good way for Clinton to close out non conference
WRH already heard that statement. Clinton always up for WRH. You can't predict a winner in that game most years.
It would be a statement if Clinton beats NS something like 42-14 or something like the Southern Nash score. If Clinton completely dismantles NS I think you would have to call that a statement.
Nothing new here. Everyone around here knows it's Clinton, Northeastern,WRH in the east. Clinton ,WRH in the ECC. I think NS-Jax could be a little down right now. Not the season they expected. They only have Conley also. Conley is one of the best players in the State.
OLine has to block better to run any play successfully. Was so disappointed in the other night. Biggest line maybe in school history and blocked like smallest.
That will not win against a good defense that shares the same uniform with a balanced offense. A good defense will shut down a one dimensional team 99% of the time....and really fast.
You got that right also 04; let’s hope this team gets it right. If they don’t quit getting penalized it’s going to be a short season. Just the fact!
I just wonder if all this creativity isn’t confusing our players and the refs because we sure do get a ton of penalties. I don’t care what formations we run as long as we can get the plays off without penalties
I think Clintons staff has a done a great job with mixing up looks/formations. Keeps teams having to prepare for multiple plays however, we have to be able to execute. If we miss a block or don’t gain many yards, so be it. But if you can’t even start the play for false starts, that hurts any team. Playing behind the chains.
You can spread them out from one side of Clinton to the other side. If you can’t get a play off without a procedure penalty it don’t matter.
It's worked for Clinton,WRH,SWO,Tarboro. Clinton going to change the game. Secret practices! Don't tell anyone.
It doesn’t matter if the defense knows what you’re running. All that matters is the execution, if everyone beats their man you can run the guard trap 40 times a game. WRH is a prime example of this.
I agree with PackHorses, the multiple formations don't matter if they can't stay disciplined enough to avoid pre-snap penalties. Also, the QB needs to have the wherewithal to throw the ball away. Once we can establish the run, the play action will be there....Football 101. When Central's coach saw that our Defense was getting tired, he put Boykins in at RB and he gashed us.
1st and 10 is hard
enough but 1st and 15 or 20 really starts you in the hole
34, you should know, you were on the team; do you know how many times the 05 championship team opened it up and threw the ball?? Yes right, you could count on both hands probably for the regular season. It was Nick Cooper & Earl Kemp running that ball. That was the last great/large offensive line we had. It was about execution. Everyone knew he was getting the ball, they could point out the block, but they could execute. They were smart, they made very few mistakes. The team also had a great defense. This team could be very similar.
I agree,it's nice to be able to throw the ball. Can't argue the fact that one thing has been consistant in WRH's success. We always going to RUN the ball. Sometimes you can loose from being one dimensional. If you can run the ball at our level,you win most of the time.
Just keeping some of the posters fired up. We are fine. Just got to stay set get the ball snapped no penalties and block. We are loaded with athletes. I don’t think Coach Johnson gives a damn about what we are saying up here. He’s not looking to us for any coaching advice
I will go one step farthur. WRH had 503 yards of total offense being one dimensional against the best team they have played in years in Wake Forest. Its nice to have both the run and the pass but its not nessesary to win a championship.
Score. Defend. Win. Simple as that, how that gets done, I don’t care. Go horses.
EXACTLY!!! Pre-snap penalties was an achilles heel last season. Sustain offensive drives to keep our defense off the field as much as possible so they don't get tired. Maybe change from slap count??
Northside Jax is going to put the ball Conley's hand. He can take care of things. When WRH focused on him, the dogs slowed him down. If the Darkhorses takes of any plays, Conley will burn you. The Monarchs defense is tough also. They tackle well, moves from side to side well. Darkhorses should go right at em, make Conley work on defense.
Sounds like to me the same issues you guys were boo hooing last season. False start penalties and such. I remember posts blaming officials for all the penalties during the East Duplin game (or home cooking or something like that) and then again during the playoff loss. Seems might be a pattern. Maybe it is a discipline problem? Disciplined, well coached football teams rarely beat themselves yet this seems to be a common theme for you guys. I sense dissention in the ranks again. On one side the tradition based fans who want two tight ends, three backs, belly right, belly left, double dive and the other want to run fun and gun and chunk it to "have some balance". On one side flashy unis from Under Armor and the other side plain black from the local sporting good store. One side wants this twitter page, the other wants the "official" twitter page. Keep em coming boys!
Im glad they go back and forth like this. Its like when you have a family gathering and you tolerate Uncle Leo because you sorta have to. Its great, I mean come on, what other fan base bickers over every single thing? "I want numbers on the helmet....I want a horseshoe....I want natural grass....No, I want turf.....I want to watch practice....I helped build the stadium" On and on....its the gift that keeps on giving.