futurecoach

Let's go! Play with a lead and let our new and improved defensive line pin their ears back and get after the QB! I love it! Who Dey!!!

Brown has been very bad, no argument there. However, once again who do you replace him with? You're not going to find someone better than him right now. If you replaced him, you will be having to make sure you have someone helping and chipping to help whoever you replaced him with. So I don't think the answer is finding someone else. The answer is simply Taylor and the offensive staff have to realize he is not good enough anymore to be left on an island like they like to do with their tackles. Especially when facing elite pass rushers. They need to do more chipping and helping, rather than replacing him.

Hopefully this is a sign to come that both UK and UL can both be good at football at the same time and really make the rivalry even more fun.

Well the hype machine around UK and Stein showed today that maybe there was good reason to be excited after all.

Final. Walton wins their third in a row to move to 3 and 1 on the season.

St. Henry is out of Beechwood's district starting next year.

I think if people truly think St. Henry having a football program won't have any impact on CovCath is lying to themselves, and just having wishful thinking. Even if it is maybe just 2 or 3 kids in a grade level every year that probably would have been at CovCath, if it wasn't for St. Henry that still makes a difference over time. As that could potentially by 9 players on a varsity roster that could have helped over the next few years. Same with freshman teams currently. While this CovCath freshman team as people have said, kind of came in not being the best anyways. If St. Henry didn't have a football program, maybe they would have had 2 or 3 kids from that St. Henry team then playing freshman at Covcath. 2 or 3 kids at a freshman level depending on their talent, could make a huge difference on a freshman team success too. So while it may or may not have a huge drastic impact, it is still going to have an impact.

Fair enough, and I agree they have to clean up the penalties. With that said all the years Dayton has played Newport and NCC over the last 20 to 30 years, those teams were the ones with more talent than Dayton. I am not so sure that is the case this season. Plus Dayton definitely will have the most talented player on the field in those games this year. So I do think it will be interesting.

Out of curiosity, have you seen Dayton play this year? Or just going based off the past, considering your its still Dayton comment at the end?

Since about the middle of the year last year, the Bengals offensive line has quietly become a very good pass blocking team. With that said they will face their toughest test of the season this week, as Houston probably as the best defensive front in the NFL in regards to putting pressure on the QB.

No Breathitt County?

Which I will add I notice people have talked about how the they didn't make the Bucs punt at all. Which is true, and need to get better there. With that said, it doesn't really tell the whole story either. As two of the fumbles the Bengals got were on 3rd down, which if Mayfield and Irving don't fumble on those plays and simply just get tackled, they would been punting the next play then. So yes they didn't punt, but part of that was because the Bengals caused them to fumble as they were stopping them on those third downs.

I think Boone County will win a close game in this one.

That is kind of my point with this. Tampa Bay is a good team, they have some play makers on offense, a good offensive line, a good defensive line. It wasn't like the Bengals were going to come out and dominate them, there was going to be clear things to still fix after week 1 just like every team. As the Tampa Bay players get paid to make plays as well. The Bengals and Burrow have shown pretty consistently that they only get better as the year goes on offensively. The Bengals offensive line shown that how they ended the year wasn't really a fluke, and continued to pass protect well all game. The Bengals literally had zero pass rush last year, but their defensive line was putting pressure on Mayfield most of the game, and created two of those fumbles. The Bengals defense has been very bad the last few years, but even with that the Bengals offense has had chances the last few years to close out games, but weren't able to. Which then led to opposing teams getting the ball back, and scoring against our bad defenses. Yet in this game the Bengals were aggressive when they got the ball back and went out and won the game. So the Bengals showed a lot of improvement in areas that had cost them games in previous years. There is still plenty to fix, and with the defense while they may not end up being a top 10 type defense. They showed that with the new pass rush, and additions, they definitely should be at least a middle of the pack defense. Which would be huge, and can make all the difference in the world. As the last time the Bengals had a middle of the pack defense, they made the Super Bowl.

That sounds like the makings of a good team to me. As they had other players step up and make plays today that helped win them the game. We have seen to many times the last three years of Burrow or Chase having a huge game and yet ended up losing. So for Burrow to have a pick 6, and Chase basically being shut down. That shows me that they have the makings of a great team, that they can find a way to win still despite all that.