The Archer City Pee Wee Wildcats have captured the South Conference Championship. They move into the playoffs as a number 1 seed and face Bowie North this next Saturday at 3 p.m. We lost to Bowie earlier in the season 0-12. However, things are different now, so we'll have to see how it goes, but I believe that we are much-improved and a different team. First of all, it was pouring down rain for most of the game. Second, one of our starting RBs was not there, and our backup fumbled 3 times playing the spot for the first time in a game with the rain. We really only gave up the one TD with our first-team defense on the field, and I'm not sure that Bowie got a first down outside of that. The second TD came with less than 2 minutes left, and we cleared our bench to give all the guys some playing time. Our top player has played "out of his head" the last 4 games. He's nearly knocked a kid out of every game on defense and scored 11 TDs in those 4 games. Then, there's the home field factor. Bowie scored one TD, and at that exact time, the varsity coach comes out and says he wants a running clock for the rest of the game to protect the field. Combine that with the 2-minute huddles that Bowie was having, and we didn't really have much time to turn things around. We will not have a running clock and we will have a crew that includes the head ref for the league that will not allow the stall tactic in the huddle that takes advantage of no play clock. We are coming off 4 straight wins, and Bowie is coming off a conference championship loss to Wichita Falls NW. Let's do this...
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ya know i'm so tired of everyone blaming "our backup running back" for the loss in bowie. he has fumbled half as many times as anyone else on that team AND there are two sides for every hand off. were those three the only fumbles? how many fumbles have our center-quarter back combo made this year! let it go, already.....my email is ajarchercity@aol.com if you need to comment back. i don't have anything against having a opinion, its just i dont always have to agree with it..........
If you will reread the post, I didn't blame anyone for the loss. I listed a lot of factors...each contributing to basically only a 6-0 deficit, so fixing any one of them might have made the difference. I said we had a back-up playing a position he had never played in a game (with hardly any practice at all at that spot), and it was in the rain...no one is going to blame him for that. Basically, if he had practiced all week at the position or had it not been raining, I'm saying it might have turned out just fine for him. The point is that the team...including that backup...is ready to do whatever it takes to beat them this time, and there were factors in that game that meant we weren't at our best. If you want my opinion, we lost the first game against Burk because we had a quarterback that had never played quarterback before and he fumbled about 12 snaps. I'm not too proud to say that is a big part of the reason we lost that first game...it's just the truth. And I don't blame him since it was his first game at that position. But should we face Burk again in the playoffs, he won't let that happen again because in probably 80-100 exchanges in the last 3 games, there have only been 2 fumbled snaps. I also don't believe that player would fumble 3x again should the opportunity come up to take carries or even have to move into a starting RB slot. It's not demeaning to say a player new to a position without practice had a hard time with it in a game in the rain.
Trust me, if we were facing Burk this week, my post would have stated those very facts: "We are not the same team. Our quarterback was new and in his first game and he fumbled about 12 snaps."
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