John will live and die in these playoffs according to how well their defense plays. John is very young but has speed in the key positions and must bring the energy from last week to Grayson County. Go Bulldogs

John will live and die in these playoffs according to how well their defense plays. John is very young but has speed in the key positions and must bring the energy from last week to Grayson County. Go Bulldogs

 

They should be sky high with energy from last week as B East didnt take any energy away from them.

I was at the BE game Friday as I am for almost all of them as I have a son that plays on the team. the East team has been riddled with injuries this season, Missing your starting QB, RB, and a few lineman made it very difficult to win against a better than advertised JH team. Do I think East would have won Friday with those players maybe, maybe not. I do think the game would have been better for sure. It appeared the East team wasnt ready to play Friday as the first half was all JH, East couldnt do anything on either side of the ball. no matter who you play its difficult to win when you have 5 turnovers and 3 of those inside your own 30. JH pretty much did whatever it wanted in the first half on offense and East did nothing but give the ball away on offense. After the half East made some decent adjustments on defense and kept JH off the board in the second half. Im sure some of that was with the lead JH was a little more conservative. the sad part was there was no adjustment after halftime on offense for East. it was the same tired old offense scheme that works fine against the weaker teams but once you face an athletic team it dont work as well. The one thing the veer will not allow is for to make any sort of comeback. Its not a quick striking offense and when everyone in the park knows what your doing its easy to stop. Example. there were many times East would come out with 3 wide, JH counters with 1CB between the group of WR and kept the safety in the box, It looked like they would just spread the OLB out a little to cover the short slant. East never not once tried to throw out of this formation which is mind boggling to me. In the end JH was the better team Friday and deserved the win. the Defense was very strong and tackled very well. If East wants to advance in the playoffs they have to find a way to move the ball when the Veer is not working. you cant just keep pounding your head against the wall hoping it will eventually break. The east program has a lot of young talent at the skill positions and they will be good for next few years. the JV and freshman team just finished off another great season. the JV team has only lost 2 games in past 3 years running a little different offense but for some reason they dont allow that same offense to be ran on Friday nights. Congrats to JH for a well deserved victory they could be a sleeper for the next couple weeks....

If you paid attention o you would know that the same person calls plays for both JV and Varsity. Losing the QB hurt in the fact it took away things he was able to do, that the other QB's couldn't. That changes a lot. Bottom line is JH has gotten a lot better since the 1st of the year and is going to be a very tough opponent for anybody. Also it's easy to sit on the sidelines and second guess everything a coach does.

If you paid attention o you would know that the same person calls plays for both JV and Varsity. Losing the QB hurt in the fact it took away things he was able to do, that the other QB's couldn't. That changes a lot. Bottom line is JH has gotten a lot better since the 1st of the year and is going to be a very tough opponent for anybody. Also it's easy to sit on the sidelines and second guess everything a coach does.

 

Was Bullitt East's starting QB not playing against JH? I thought he was.

Was Bullitt East's starting QB not playing against JH? I thought he was.

No. He started last year and some early this year. Around the 4th week another kid that throws a lot better took over. The other kid was moved to WR and played some RB. The new starter got hurt against BC. Then they had to go back to the former QB. I'm not saying they would have won, but JH wouldn't have able to stack the box and the play book could have expanded more to keep JH honest. Good luck tomorrow.