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44 minutes ago, Mustang1969 said:

Undisciplined. Unintelligent. Unenthusiastic. SOFT. Hats off too McKenzie.

I bet you were an intelligent hard as steel player back in your day weren’t you. 

19 minutes ago, 1shot1kill said:

Great ballgame, hopefully Huntingdon can hang in there long enough in the playoffs to meet the Chargers again. Huntingdon pass defense is an achilles heal, the kids play their hearts out just have never been taught pass defense. The next two games will really tell the tell for the playoffs. Theses kids really learned a lesson of not giving up and weathering the storm to come back from a 14 point deficit and having a shot a tieing/winning at the end. 

Maybe if Huntingdon didn’t blitz 2 linebackers every play the 4 dbs wouldn’t have to cover the whole field.  

Will Trenton be broadcasting the game on Facebook like they did last year?

2 minutes ago, sportsnutz said:

Wrong. You don't have OPI with incidental contact. The offensive player has to initiate the contact. And the ground can't cause a fumble.

We fumbled 4 times and the ground was not involved. It’s not defensive pi if it’s not catchable then. 

5 hours ago, sportsnutz said:

Ok guys, here it is.

First and foremost I'll start off by saying, hats off to MAHS. Solid football team that was ready to play tonight.

Now that that's taken care of, I need to say that there is nothing that these Huntingdon players did on the field that indicates they should have lost this game. The refs were awful (MAHS running plays with 12 players, a dozen missed false starts, phantom Offensive pass interference call, ruled fumble after the Huntingdon player bounced off the ground), but I'm not even going to make that excuse. This game came down to what seems to always ail Huntingdon in mid-to-late November: Offensive play-calling.

Game Breakdown:

MAHS received the opening kickoff and drove about 40 yards before Huntingdon got their first interception of the night. Huntingdon drove down the field with run plays, aided by a couple offsides penalties on MAHS that resulted in 1st downs. They score and make the XP to take a 7-0 lead. The defensive battle ensues from there with the teams trading possessions for the remainder of the half, making little headway on either side.

Huntingdon receives the 2nd half kickoff and gets to 3rd and long quickly. A rare pass play picks up a big first down and as the refs are running to pick up the ball to go spot a late flag comes in. They call Huntingdon for OPI on incidental contact away from the play as the defender ran into a receiver. That killed the drive and Huntingdon punts.

MAHS takes a possession down the field and scores on a run play with their only TD of the game. Drive was aided by a DPI call against Huntingdon. It was the correct call, but it was an unnecessary grab by the Huntingdon DB as the ball was 5 yards overthrown and couldn't have been caught regardless. MAHS gets the 2 point conversion and takes an 8-7 lead.

On the ensuing kickoff, Huntingdon gets a big return (against 12 in coverage for MAHS) when on the tackle the ball pops out as the Huntingdon returner goes to the ground. He seemed to have been obviously down, but it's ruled a fumble and recovery for MAHS. A few plays later MAHS fumbles it back, but the loss of field position and momentum was a killer. Huntingdon continues to run into that brick wall and punts it away. 

The rest of the game MAHS plays keep away on offense while stuffing the run on defense until finally being able to kneel for the last two plays.

The flashes Huntingdon showed in being creative with play-calling throughout the regular season were thrown out the window tonight. The passes that won the game vs Trenton this year seem to have been completely forgotten. These kids deserved to have been put in a better position to win the game than what they were given tonight. I hate that for them. 

To MAHS credit, their D-Line was up for the challenge tonight. Normally Huntingdon can get blockers to the 2nd level. That didn't happen tonight and linebackers were meeting the back at or just beyond the LoS. Kudos to the defensive gameplan. Just a shame Huntingdon didn't adjust for it like they have previously in the season. We never really did get the run game going strong. Getting behind the chains and then being forced to pass when everyone in the stadium knew it was coming. (Flashbacks to Westview) Outside of the first drive, Huntingdon just couldn't maintain momentum on offense due to the lack of a running game and no attempts to take the lid off the defense. At least give the kids an opportunity to make a play when 11 guys are in the box!

Defensively the Mustangs played one of their best games of the year. Two interceptions and a fumble recovery. When you win the TO battle 3-1 you expect to win the game. They gashed us with a few run plays and some timely passes to Miller on 3rd downs. (Again, flashbacks to Westview) But Huntingdon was able to limit the big plays tonight.

Overall it was a very physical game. Both teams were up for it, honestly. MAHS knew what Huntingdon planned to do on offense, as everyone else does, and executed well to stop it. It seemed like the coaches were so sure that Plan A would work that they didn't even bother to prepare a plan B. 

I've already seen the "Huntingdon wants to fire their coach" meme posted. However, this game was a prime example of where that frustration stems from. When you've proven that you can execute plays like that against a team like Trenton, why would you go back to banging your head against a brick wall when you're not putting a dent in it?

I kept thinking that we would start to wear down MAHS, but to their credit it didn't happen. Both teams played their hearts out for 4 full quarters.

This feels like a letdown because of how everyone has seen Huntingdon play in the last several weeks, but if we're being honest this team exceeded expectations on the year and that's something to be proud of. For Blake, Aden, Cade, and all those other seniors I wish it wasn't over. They deserved to play next week. But if this game plan was any indication, next week would have been our last regardless.

Best of luck to the rest of the teams still playing. MAHS was impressive tonight with their grit. Unfortunately, I honestly don't see them knocking off Westview either.

 

I don’t know what you where looking at  but the the pass would have hit the receiver in the hands if the freshman db didn’t grab the receiver. I guess the fumbles and the opi which was the correct call was coaching too. 

33 minutes ago, Tide21 said:

It’s interesting you say that because we had a db last year that was maybe 5’8 and every team we played that threw the ball tried to pick on him. I believe he was close if did lead the team in interceptions 

I think one of these freshmen he is referring to is tied for the lead in ints for huntingdon 

Bring the gold ball home Tornadoes. We didn't get it done last year. Will be pulling for Union City to get it done this year.

Lets go Bulldogs bring that gold ball back to W Tn and the Mustangs are going to try to do the same.

My son jsut told me that our coach is trying to get a bus to take our boys to the game on Friday. I asked him who he would be pulling for and without hesitation he said, "Huntingdon". I'll be watching on tv and pulling for guys also. Good luck Mustangs.

 

On another note...... Of course I didn't see the other two Mr. Football candidates play, but don't need to to know that Mr. Warbritton should have won that award (because I did see him play).

I hope they get to come. Thanks for the support for #29.

i think we'll be able to put brady in ,in the second half.

I hope you're right.

wardaddy you gonna be able to eat?

NOOOOOO!!

Brummy. what time will those porkchops be ready?

Leaving in about 15 minutes.

NCSdad1962 what # is your son, if you have one playing?

How about them LIONS!!

Lets go Mustangs, this is what you have been playing for all year,win this game and you will be playing for the GOLD BALL. Protect this house, play all 4qts tonight and don't let up and this game is yours. GO MUSTANGS!!!!

Hey ballfan15,

 

We have no idea what to expect from this Huntingdon team except for what we hear from the faithful on here . But did want to set something straight about the NCS passing game. It is very capable. But if you've only been watching playoff games, then true you haven't seen much of it. But there's an obvious reason you haven't seen much of it. We've scored a lot of points and moved the ball very effectively on the ground. If Huntingdon can stop that, our hats off to them. And if they do, we'll move the ball with our passing game. I may have to come back on Saturday and eat some crow, but these predictions (from the home crowd) of us only scoring 10 points or so are cracking me up.

Just wondering, do you have someone besides your qb passing the ball? His stats 14 of 25-141yards 1-td 4-ints.

Hard to believe I would ever be saying this..... but this time tomorrow I will on my way to Huntingdon to watch a semi-final game that Milan is not playing in!! Just feels weird!!!

We have a nice souvenir store, maybe you could get your soon to be newborn a nice mustang souvenir.

momma said you dont know what your talkin about ,keep your mouth shut!

Mama said, you better stay in the barn if you can't run with the" BIG HORSES"!

Come on in Wardaddy. These city Boys are so full of crap I can't wait till Friday Night. They will find out what hit you in the mouth football is all about when the Stangs pound the ball down their throat."Go Stangs"

Tell them how it is. 50 pulling with 29 following!!

Huntingdon has not faced a defense like Nashville Christian. The "Stang" stampede is just the QB running the Wildcat 40 times a game. NCS will knock him around and wrap him up with a big pink bow. Collinwood was by far a better team than Huntingdon.

 

Go Eagles! NCS 38 - Huntingdon - 28

You're right most of the defenses Huntingdon has seen have been real good. Your boys would not be able wrap him up if he stood still for them.

The "REAL" Mr. FOOTBALL wears #7 for NCS. His stage will be Paul Ward Field come Friday night. Not to disrespect #29's fine year, but at the end of the night he''ll be thinking "wow, those city boys really hit hard"! What say you SWO?

By the end of the night, there may not be any city boys left to hit. Then you will be thinking "Wow"

I watched Nc tonight and #7 is really fast and hard to tackle, but that's about it. Quad 3 don't have nothing for y'all. I'm going to do my best to come watch this one!

What kind of offense does NC run?

GO MUSTANGS!!

Mustangs, you've been waiting for this game since week 5. Now its here, time to take care of the War Eagles and get one step closer to that gold ball.GO MUSTANGS!!!

Lets roll into Atwood and show them it was a fluke last time Mustangs.