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[dellobo]

Well Game 4 didn't go so well.

Cardinals were up 6-0 at the half. We came out and tied the game 6-6 with about 10 minutes left in the game. Then a few broken tackles (Missed flags) and they went the distance for a score. 12-6
We came out and went 3 and out. They came back and ran the distance again 18-6. We had one more long pass that was caught for one step and dropped.

Game ended.

This team beat us twice and soon as they had their initial score my girls gave up. At half time a couple of them were crying and ready to quit and it was only 6-0.
The two easy wins made them expect to win easily.

Well we must regroup and get ready for the next game...

Now 2-2.

[Texas_D_Coach]

...Now 2-2.

Well pretty much the same scenario for us this weekend, except our game wasn't even close. We played a super stacked team that creamed us 33-0. They scored on the first play of the game and kept scoring just about every time they touched the ball. Sometimes we held them for a play or 2 before the broke one for a TD.

These guys are all big, athletic, and FAST!!! We play in a 5th/6th grade league, and all my kids but 1 are still 5th graders with average athleticism. This whole team was 6th graders. They only 6 kids on their team, and at least 4 out of their 6 were awesome athletes, so they pretty much had all stud players on the filed the whole game.

We were simply outmatched, and the other coach just has an amazingly good team. There is no one in our league who will come close to them this season.

I saw the same thing in my kids eyes after they scored on the first play. They had their heads down and knew they were going to get smoked.

I tried to keep things positive, but it didn't help much. I have already begun putting together a short talk I am going to give them at our next practice about giving their best effort no matter what.

Luckily we won't play this team a second time this season, except maybe in the playoffs...(Uh-oh!).

[dellobo]

Yeah I understand and we won't play Hector again until the playoffs if we get past the first round. It would take a mircle for him to lose either of the remaining games.

I won't take anything for granted but we should get by these two team a second time. I do have one parent of my smallest girl very upset that she only gets to touch the ball about once a game and not at all in this last one.
She is only 8 and very small for her age. We are working hard with her in practice but she seems to get distracted in the game. Two games ago we were up 22-0 so I had her run on one play and a few plays later we tried to throw to her. She ran the wrong route then didn't look back at all to the QB. Our QB scrambled for her life and was locked on the little girl. So of course two defenders covered her. Finally tried to force the ball in and got picked. Luckly she was downed right there. The dad wasn't happy because I didn't try to throw to her again....
They have made it known they will move her to a differnt league in the Spring. I am a parent and understand we all want our child to win the game for us, but we have to work with what we have and I try not to just play the best ones we do rotate.

I had a parent mad last season because she felt we wasn't competitive enough because I rotated too many kids on offense.

Did you say hi out side the stadium Sunday?

See you at the game 5 weekend.

[Texas_D_Coach]

The dad wasn't happy because I didn't try to throw to her again....
They have made it known they will move her to a differnt league in the Spring. I am a parent and understand we all want our child to win the game for us, but we have to work with what we have and I try not to just play the best ones we do rotate.

I had a parent mad last season because she felt we wasn't competitive enough because I rotated too many kids on offense.

Did you say hi out side the stadium Sunday?

See you at the game 5 weekend.

Yah that is the tough thing about coaching a team of strangers. Sometimes you will come across parents who think their kid should be the star, or you're not playing them enough, etc. It is hard to make everyone happy all the time.

Like John, Rob, Orange and others on this board, I try to keep a core group of kids that either live in our neighborhood, or are friends of kids on the team.

Just try to spread the ball around the rest of the season and if they want to part ways after that then so be it. I had the exact situation last winter with a kid who would show up late to every practice or not show up at all, and then also showed up 10-15 minutes late for every game. I asked the parents what was going on and they said he was unmotivated to go to practice and games because he felt he never got the ball. I explained that we had made at least 3-4 attempts every game to get him the ball and that sometimes stuff happens that prevents it from happening that are beyond my control as a coach (i.e. he dropped a pass, or the pass was incomplete, etc.).

[dellobo]

The dad wasn't happy because I didn't try to throw to her again....
They have made it known they will move her to a differnt league in the Spring. I am a parent and understand we all want our child to win the game for us, but we have to work with what we have and I try not to just play the best ones we do rotate.

I had a parent mad last season because she felt we wasn't competitive enough because I rotated too many kids on offense.

Did you say hi out side the stadium Sunday?

See you at the game 5 weekend.

Yah that is the tough thing about coaching a team of strangers. Sometimes you will come across parents who think their kid should be the star, or you're not playing them enough, etc. It is hard to make everyone happy all the time.

Like John, Rob, Orange and others on this board, I try to keep a core group of kids that either live in our neighborhood, or are friends of kids on the team.

Just try to spread the ball around the rest of the season and if they want to part ways after that then so be it. I had the exact situation last winter with a kid who would show up late to every practice or not show up at all, and then also showed up 10-15 minutes late for every game. I asked the parents what was going on and they said he was unmotivated to go to practice and games because he felt he never got the ball. I explained that we had made at least 3-4 attempts every game to get him the ball and that sometimes stuff happens that prevents it from happening that are beyond my control as a coach (i.e. he dropped a pass, or the pass was incomplete, etc.).

That will be my plan... spread the ball around as much as possible but also win.

[dellobo]

The dad wasn't happy because I didn't try to throw to her again....
They have made it known they will move her to a differnt league in the Spring. I am a parent and understand we all want our child to win the game for us, but we have to work with what we have and I try not to just play the best ones we do rotate.

I had a parent mad last season because she felt we wasn't competitive enough because I rotated too many kids on offense.

Did you say hi out side the stadium Sunday?

See you at the game 5 weekend.

Yah that is the tough thing about coaching a team of strangers. Sometimes you will come across parents who think their kid should be the star, or you're not playing them enough, etc. It is hard to make everyone happy all the time.

Like John, Rob, Orange and others on this board, I try to keep a core group of kids that either live in our neighborhood, or are friends of kids on the team.

Just try to spread the ball around the rest of the season and if they want to part ways after that then so be it. I had the exact situation last winter with a kid who would show up late to every practice or not show up at all, and then also showed up 10-15 minutes late for every game. I asked the parents what was going on and they said he was unmotivated to go to practice and games because he felt he never got the ball. I explained that we had made at least 3-4 attempts every game to get him the ball and that sometimes stuff happens that prevents it from happening that are beyond my control as a coach (i.e. he dropped a pass, or the pass was incomplete, etc.).

That will be my plan... spread the ball around as much as possible but also win.

Video from our game 4 loss.


Game 4

[Orange]

I watched the video and I'll make a few comments if you don't mind.

I saw too many long passes that were incomplete. It did look like the defense was cheating up and there was room over the top but I don't know if your players have the skills to make the throw and the catch. I don't think I'd do that often. Certainly you have to try, but I'd try it far less than you did.

The other team did not send a rusher which might have caused me to pace the plays differently. I saw your team executing quick strike plays which is normally good with a rush coming but in this situation you could have let your QB have more time to pick targets. Maybe push a couple of receivers long and then delay one girl dragging over the middle. A short little pop pass hitting the receiver on the run.

I liked your multi-direction run plays. What I saw was the defenders on the outside jumping in very quickly If you ran a fake handoff and simply slid the outside receiver towards the sideline, she would have been wide open. Still, its a long pass but since it would be so wide, I'd take that shot. Plus it might force the corners to stay home a little more and give you more room to run. They were really jumping the run quickly.

Also, since the defenders were so keyed in to the run and not rushing you could have had some slower developing runs and run fakes. So, on that end around instead of snapping the ball just as the end gets next to the QB, snap it when the end is 7-10 yards away. As the play slowly develops it gives your receivers more time to get downfield and the defenders have to make a choice to come in for run support or stay back for the pass. It would give you separation somewhere.

[dellobo]

I watched the video and I'll make a few comments if you don't mind.

I saw too many long passes that were incomplete. It did look like the defense was cheating up and there was room over the top but I don't know if your players have the skills to make the throw and the catch. I don't think I'd do that often. Certainly you have to try, but I'd try it far less than you did.

The other team did not send a rusher which might have caused me to pace the plays differently. I saw your team executing quick strike plays which is normally good with a rush coming but in this situation you could have let your QB have more time to pick targets. Maybe push a couple of receivers long and then delay one girl dragging over the middle. A short little pop pass hitting the receiver on the run.

I liked your multi-direction run plays. What I saw was the defenders on the outside jumping in very quickly If you ran a fake handoff and simply slid the outside receiver towards the sideline, she would have been wide open. Still, its a long pass but since it would be so wide, I'd take that shot. Plus it might force the corners to stay home a little more and give you more room to run. They were really jumping the run quickly.

Also, since the defenders were so keyed in to the run and not rushing you could have had some slower developing runs and run fakes. So, on that end around instead of snapping the ball just as the end gets next to the QB, snap it when the end is 7-10 yards away. As the play slowly develops it gives your receivers more time to get downfield and the defenders have to make a choice to come in for run support or stay back for the pass. It would give you separation somewhere.

Orange,

Thanks for the feedback. I welcome all of you to say what can help us. I have 3 more games this season. I don't know if you saw our Game 2 and Game 3 video links before that one. (Earlier posts)

We normally don't throw very much except the little toss to our TE / Center (That is the catch for the TD). We run a lot and with our out side speed normally works. My best receiver is my best passer to. I wish she could throw to herself.

We played this team in week one and they played tight on the line and covered the run on every play. We expected them to do it this week so we practiced a lot of RB / pass option plays. As you could see they didn't work well. Just a lot of long incomplete passes.

The next two weeks the team rush on every play but we beat both of them earlier and have to see how they have adjusted to our run.

Any defensive feedback?

Thanks again.

[dellobo]

Well the winter season saga continues. Our star player was out sick today but the others pulled together. Our third string runner stepped up and ran for three TD's. They keyed hard on the other runners.
Very high winds so neither team passed much. Our other QB completed a key pass for a first down.

Final Chiefs 20 vs Dolphins 0.

Last regular season game next week... then playoffs...

Video Game 5

Game 5

[dellobo]

Well game 6 our final regular season game was today... We lost playing very sloppy on offense and defense.

We beat this team in week three 28-0 due to the mercy rule. Today they were ready for revenge. They played well enough to score twice and a 2 pt conversion.

Final: Cowboys 14 vs Chiefs 6

We ended the season 3-3.
We have playoffs next Sunday and play the Cowboys again.

[dellobo]

Well game 6 our final regular season game was today... We lost playing very sloppy on offense and defense.

We beat this team in week three 28-0 due to the mercy rule. Today they were ready for revenge. They played well enough to score twice and a 2 pt conversion.

Final: Cowboys 14 vs Chiefs 6

We ended the season 3-3.
We have playoffs next Sunday and play the Cowboys again.

Played out Playoff's and finished the Winter season.

Played the Cowboys and won 16 - 6.

We then played the Cardinals who had just beaten the Dolphins 32 - 0. The Cardinals were 7- 0 on the Season.

It came down to the wire but we lost 12 - 6 at the end.

We finished at 4-4 over all and 2nd place in our division. Now on to the Spring league.