John Hardin (0-1) Coming off a tough and disappointing Game 1 vs Hancock County will travel to Green County (1-0) to take on the Dragons.

JH struggled often and early against Hancock getting in a 14-0 hole early AT HOME and were down 21-0 at halftime. Honestly, I was shocked at this. There has been some buzz around this team. I was at the game and it seemed like everything that could have gone wrong, did last Friday. Hancock blocked 2 punts and JH had 2 turnovers which really changed the game.
2nd half JH won 10-0 and Hancock seemed to struggle to maintain anything offensively but JHs offense struggles led to an easy win for the Hornets. JHs defense has the potential to be very good. 
JH HAS to figure out the offense. Too much talent in backfield going to waste (Junior Cavali Pittman is REALLY good.) There were down a couple of lineman down due to injury and JH are playing freshman already. Need to develop them fast. They also have shown no real downfield passing threat.
As I said, there was some real optimism coming into the season for JH. The brand new student section was packed and JH laid an egg at the Dawg Pound.
Very interested to see how they respond and if this team had a bad first game or really aren’t much improved (if at all this season). I would lean toward the first option. There is still plenty of talent on this team. 
 

Green County (1-0)  coasted to a 36-0 win over a bad Casey County team on Friday night. Don’t know much about Green other than they beat JH last year 21-9. Last year JH’s mental mistakes costed them (blown assignments, dropped passes etc)

I know Green has graduated a couple of kids and going into the season I thought JH would matchup well. I still think this one should be a good game but I’ll give the edge to Green at home with a still developing squad. Hopefully JH proves me wrong! 

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17 hours ago, DawgsFan100 said:

I know Green has graduated a couple of kids and going into the season I thought JH would matchup well. I still think this one should be a good game but I’ll give the edge to Green at home with a still developing squad. Hopefully JH proves me wrong! 

I saw Green County play last Friday but it was hard to make a judgment. They were far better than Casey County, but I'm not sure the Dragons are quite as talented as the last couple of years. Even though John Hardin lost to Hancock (a solid club returning almost everyone), this will still be a step up for Green from Week 1 to Week 2. An interesting matchup...

I honestly don’t know what to expect with this game. Green is very young this year in some major positions, but they have some very good young talent. They could play great or lay an absolute dud of a game, as is expected with young teams occasionally. 
 

I do know the Dragons will have a tough time with John’s speed and athleticism and will have to make the plays when they get the chance to do so. I’m not sold on the Dragons being a top ten team in 2A right now, and could very well see them losing this game. 
 

I hope to be able to make this game, and expect it to be a hard hitting game. 

1 hour ago, GC-Dragons said:

I honestly don’t know what to expect with this game. Green is very young this year in some major positions, but they have some very good young talent. They could play great or lay an absolute dud of a game, as is expected with young teams occasionally. 
 

I do know the Dragons will have a tough time with John’s speed and athleticism and will have to make the plays when they get the chance to do so. I’m not sold on the Dragons being a top ten team in 2A right now, and could very well see them losing this game. 
 

I hope to be able to make this game, and expect it to be a hard hitting game. 

Exactly how I'm feeling with the Dawgs as well. They are still fighting a couple of key injuries but I think key to game will be the trenches on Friday night. With JH struggling to find anything offensively last week, I feel everything will likely depend on if they are able to run Pittman or not Friday night. He had 160 yards Friday that felt like 200+. Dawgs have already laid an egg so this is a pretty big game for them early this year. Nothing would surprise me Friday night.

After the optimism leading up to their first game of the season, starting the season 0-2 would be a huge disappointment for the Bulldogs. 

Bump.

John Hardin leading at halftime 21-0. Lightning delay. 

Final.

John Hardin  35

Green County 7