It is VERY obvious where the ball is going when the ball is snapped. Eyes go straight to the intended receiver and never come off. The interception that was thrown Friday night was thrown into triple coverage with two receivers standing wide open. If RV will ever learn to look off a safety or go through progressions in the passing game they will be even more deadly.
Just being honest here, it won’t be 10 cause Tazewells field goal kicker has a hard time on PATs let alone anything outside PAT range. However, he will get better. That said, they’ll never have another Andrew Murray.
He’s hit 5 of the last 6 he’s attempted, and the 1 was a poor hold in the rain. He’s improving quite a bit, though range is certainly an issue.
How well can GW pass without Jollay? That’s the question. Grundy cannot defend the pass with 20 DBs on the field, but are solid in the trenches. If it’s a ground-and-pound game, I’m taking Grundy. If GW is competent through the air, GW takes it.
Richlands’s defense isn’t what I’d call “poor”. All things being equal, it plays well enough to keep them reasonably competitive against teams outside the Graham/Union tiers. Respectable, I’d say.
Richlands’s offense looks like the football version of what would happen if Sloth mated with The Thing, then the resulting baby got mauled by a Doberman.
But it’s a rivalry game, and Richlands is home. This is Richlands’s last shot at salvaging anything of value from this season.
It was good. Rain came with 2 min left in the 4th Q, so no damage.
The rain started about kickoff, but wasn’t anything more than a drizzle until about halftime. Then it started to get progressively harder until it was just about pouring from 8:00 to go in the 4th onward.
The field held up pretty well all things considered (and since we’re in Week 6), but between the hashes is showing some wear.
Grundy’s a good team, my friends. Solid in all aspects except defending a pass. That made Tazewell a difficult matchup for Grundy, but Grundy played with a bunch of heart. Going to be a tough, tough out in November. Would love to see them come out of 1D.
Leave Council out of this for the sake of God.....
Council is undefeated since 1995, and that’s something to be proud of!
(Seriously though, props to Council for coming out and giving every last scrap of effort to field a team those 4 years. It’s not easy to build a program from scratch with established powers already there.)
No apololgies necessary. I heard it was tough Monday. Lot of wind (which I was playing The Virginian and it was plenty windy there) and tough pin placements all around at Tazewell. I have never played there, but when I saw the scores I knew it had to be tough.
Tazewell’s difficulty lies not in its distances (many of the Par 4s could be driven to pitch range by amateurs if well placed), but in the elevation changes, hazards, and winds. It’s easy to hit a decent tee shot there and have the wind/elevation combo carry it OB.
Heckuva ballgame. The Dogs scored late in the 3rd to make 7-0. They stopped GW 3 times inside the 15 yardline on downs, once on the 2 right before half. GW blocked a 26 yard fg with 1:20 to go in the game and were moving the ball but Martinsville had a pick 6 with 17 seconds left to seal the win. Was a really good high school game with a great atmosphere. GW is very young this year so this was the Dogs chance to get them. First time we have beat the Eagles since 1987.
The 2C playoffs are going to be fun to watch. Radford, Appomattox, and Martinsville are all quality outfits, and 2 of them will have to meet in the 2nd round. Man…
Yeah, he did say that but you see I consider UVAObserver more of a Tazewell guy so I wasn’t thinking of his comment as being a Graham person when I responded to you.
None of the main Graham posters on this board like Mountain Football or myself ever said anything about Graham thinking GW was a pushover.
I never said that GW was a “pushover”. GW is a decent enough team that will probably meet Galax for the 1C title in Week 3 of the playoffs. That being said, which GW team will show up? The one that played Radford tightly in Week 1 or the one that eked out a win last week over Rural Retreat?
Regardless of which one shows up, Graham is an entirely different animal than they’ve seen thus far. Graham isn’t putting up 60 points on anybody this year, but they win games with 28-45 points by grinding other teams into submission. That’s what I think will happen to GW. Graham will score its customary 35-ish points and what GW scores will be exclusively against Graham’s reserves.
A Ram truck puts up pretty good resistance, but it doesn’t matter when it meets a bulldozer. Thus I see this game.
I'm done with this. If you guys wanna live in make believe land, have at it.
Then do everyone, and I mean everyone, a favor and stop posting. The number of DMs I’ve received over the years from users who have no dog in the fight wondering if something is wrong with you reaches into the double digits. You take this stuff far too seriously and personally, and it’s clearly not good for your mental health.
You started out by claiming delusion but didn’t cite any of your source material.
I feel like I missed something but I’m not getting filled in.
No, you're not missing anything. The cylinders in his mental engine are misfiring, and it's lost on no one but him.
Tazewell's "air raid" offense of 2021 was that way out of necessity. You have a generationally talented kid at QB, and a kid who committed to a perennial Top 25 FCS program at WR. The other skill position players consisted of tall players who know how to use their bodies in space. The OL was very raw and green, and replacing every single starter from the year before. Logic seems to dictate that you throw the ball until your QB's arm falls off. If Tazewell tried to line up and run the ball 40 times per game, they'd have gone 1-9. Coach Harris getting the Fall 2021 Bulldogs to a .500 regular season was his best coaching job by a mile, even better than 2019 (going 7-4 with the sidelines looking like a M*A*S*H* ward). Sure, Harris had 103 receptions. J. Mullins had 50. E. Mills had 50 (and tied Harris with 11 TDs). McDonald had 30 (with 5 TDs of his own). It wasn't as if Harris had 80% of the catches. He didn't even have 40%.
Tazewell's offense of 2022 is less prolific, but considerably more balanced. Injuries have played a sizable role in that: Creasy being out for a couple of weeks led to Harris playing out of position to give his team the best chance to win. What is lost on the dumber folks among us is that Harris willingly threw away an assault on a VHSL career record to try and give his team the best chance to win. That blows the whole "feeding him" argument to smithereens. Personnel also allows more balance. The line play from the 2022 team is markedly improved, so Creasy doesn't have to throw the ball 35+ times per game. The 2022 offense will more likely than not double the rushing output of 2021. Heck, there was even a screen pass last week (that worked pretty darned well).
Overlook, Big Winners; he’s just trying to get under UVAObserver’s skin. He likes to stir the pot. You know what they say, if you stir it be prepared to lick the spoon 😂.
It’s funny, because he really doesn’t, at all. It’s doubly funny when, attempting and failing to do so, he posts predictions that end up backfiring in his face like Elmer Fudd’s shotgun.
The dirty little secret about Tazewell is that they’re pretty darned good at stopping the run and a fairly sound defensive team overall. Despite a 2-3 record, no team has topped 364 yards on Tazewell this season (and that was Riverheads, who ran 57 offensive plays to do it). Graham (who passed for more yardage than they rushed) barely broke 300.
Grundy is playing some solid ball right now, and will be physical and aggressive trying to establish the run. But Grundy is not Riverheads, not even close. I just think Tazewell presents a unique matchup problem for the Golden Wave. If Tazewell brings the same intensity as yesterday, Tazewell should win by a comfortable enough margin. But will the intensity be there? That’s on the team to decide.
He wanted to watch his kid “play” a game for UNC so he gave up the home game to move it and be able to go watch that game. (I think it was a Thursday night game and Bluefield had a home game).
One of y’all Graham fans correct me if I’m wrong.
This is correct. His son was 2nd string long snapper and didn’t even see the field in that game. Gave up thousands in gate revenue for it, too.
And he double-dipped as the AD, with one of his best friends manning the principal’s chair. So there was essentially no recourse.
Anyone trying to predict a Gate City game does so at their own peril this year. Lebanon could beat them by 3 scores or lose by 40. This Gate City team is schizo.
Why was this game played on Saturday? Giles coaches decide VT games are more important than the high school games they coach?
If so, I can easily see that being a huge distraction.
Well, one of Graham’s former head coaches decided that a UNC game was far more important than gate revenue his team would earn for hosting a home game…so not terribly farfetched.
I think defense done real well. The offense has to do more variety. There was couple series they was vanilla. But overall Im happy with results.
My favorite call was the 3rd-and-long screen pass. I haven’t seen that call since 2019, and it moved the chains on the drive. Executed perfectly and took advantage of Riverheads’s overpursuit.
He’s the announcer for Tazewell Bulldog Radio Network. He does an outstanding job at it too. Us Tazewell County fans are like fighting brothers when we play but we support each other otherwise. 😉
.png.01bb665814ffc257795fe158cb2045c7.png.8a531ac878a82772b21014d7a6167582.png){kind=logo}
Offensive schemes
in SWVA Football
Posted
Hardly…