Well, good morning from the world of hindsight where everything is 20/20. I am happy to report that Mother Nature was kind to us yesterday and overall, the overcast weather was good enough to play football and allow my Aftershock team to play it's make-up game. We played the YELLOW Team, AKA- The Lightning...
I am happy to report that my game plan on keeping their strongest and most explosive defensive player out of our backfield worked. I am very happy to report that we caused 2 false starts and a couple of dead ball calls in the backfield yesterday. I am happy to report that my strategy to Blitz until their offensive line had no choice but to try to make adjustments worked too. All these things made me very happy yesterday as a coach.
Good start: We won the coin toss & took the first offensive series to them. I am also happy to report that we scored our first Touchdown of the season *(2 games) on a run that was NOT a QB sneak, but just a straight up the middle run by a player that is not a starting running back but a really good offensive lineman, or lineperson to be all PC about it. Yes, I am happy to report that my team did a lot of things right yesterday. We passed the ball and made first downs on the passing game. We came out fast and furious and moved the ball down the field really well and for all that I was a very happy camper yesterday.
Now, there's the other side of the game. I knew we were playing the quickest team in our division yesterday and I made it a point to explain to the defense that they are very fast to the outside and that it would be very important for the DB's to watch for the outside runs. However, and believe me this is not a knock on my kids because I know that they played their hearts out, sometimes no matter how much a coach tells his players something, until they actually see it for themselves, they can't grasp what you're telling them.
Just like the game that I watched this team play on Saturday, they took their very first offensive play and took it to the outside and scored. Advantage: Them! HOWEVER... We had already eaten up most of the first quarter with our offensive series. Advantage: TIED! They went for 2 points - We stopped them! Advantage: US!
A couple of punts and another stop from them, another score and it was 13-7 going into the last minuntes of the first half. Then they went outside again... and scored. 20-7 at the half. Were we out of it? NOPE! Halftime came and a little pep talk and my defense was ready to start the second half. Our blitzing worked. We pushed them back and just when they were ready to break... they ran outside. AGAIN! Yikes!
Now, the really good news: My team didn't quit. We ran for first downs, we threw for first downs. We almost picked off their only 2 passes of the season. We blitzed and blitzed and broke down their front line. We made them rethink their game plan. It was a really good game. One of my coaches gave me some new plays that I am going to implement ASAP! Oh yeah, I almost forgot - Thank you very much Coach Jeff & Jeffrey for leading our defense and allowing me to step back on the sidelines to see things from a coaches eye and evaluate the little things we need to work on.
In the end though, it was too much. They didn't score again but neither did we. We got close on two deep passes and we did run a good offensive game but it was just a little bit too late. However... It was a great game and we are the first team to score against them and I was very happy when their coaches and my coaches came up to me after the game and said we ran a good game.
So, in my humble opinion, we are the best 0-2 team in the league at this point. We have a long weekend to rest and for me to regroup as a coach and prepare. Next week we play the RED Team. I don't know their team name, but it doesn't matter... The Aftershock are going to be ready to Rock n' Roll... Man I love coaching!
- Coach Carlos
PS – Pictures coming soon!
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