MyHumbleOpinion

Brentwood will scrimmage Station Camp at Brentwood on Friday.

Brentwood's QB is one of the guys I was talking about when I mentioned young guys that could be good next year. Carson Croy pretty much has the starting job locked up. He's a junior with a decent arm and decent running ability. His main drawback is his lack of size. If he can combine the experience he will gain this year with a little bit of physical growth over the next year, I could see him being a very good player next year. As for this year, I just hope our O-Line can protect him enough to get him there.

This is usually about the time where I'd jump in and start talkin' some smack about how Brentwood is going to win the district; buuuttt.... I don't think I'll do that this year. I think we have some very talented young guys who will get some valuable experience this year with a chance of being a good team next year, but I think we lost far too much from last year's team to be any good this year. Ravenwood is my pick to win the district this year. With Jefferson at WR, it doesn't matter that they lost their QB; they're gonna be hard to stop.

Ha, close... I did graduate from BHS though. It's no secret that I'm a homer

Definitely Brentwood. Yes they lost 7 games, but check out the records of the teams they lost to: 1. CPA (10-0)-only lost by 3 2. Blackman (9-1, lost only to Oakland) 3. Centennial (5-5) 4. Oakland (10-0) 5. Franklin (8-2)- only lost by 3 6. Ravenwood (9-1, lost only to undefeated Overton) 7. Indy (7-3) Combined: (58-12) Throw out Centennial and it's (53-7). That's pretty ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous when you realize that Brentwood was in every one of those games except the Oakland game. I attended every one of those games and I left the CPA, Centennial, Franklin, and Ravenwood games scratching my head thinking "Brentwood should have won that game". If one or two plays had gone differently in those games, Brentwood could very well be sitting at 9-1 or 8-2 heading into the playoffs. But, unfortunately that's just how it goes sometimes. Oh well, better luck next year Bruins!

I honestly think Brentwood's got a shot in this one. All bias aside, I left the BHS/CHS and the BHS/FHS games thinking that Brentwood definitely should have won both games. I know the "should haves", "would haves", and "could haves" don't count as far as records go, but I still think you can make an argument that neither Centennial nor Franklin showed that they were much better than Brentwood, and Ravenwood only beat those two teams by a combined 4 points. I think this game will be much more evenly matched than the teams' records indicate. I'll take Brentwood 31-28

The "Battle of The Woods" is this Friday at Ravenwood. Ravenwood took sole possession of first place in the district with an OT win over Franklin last week. Brentwood needs to win its last two games to have a shot at the playoffs. Should be a great game with a huge crowd as always. Comments? Predictions?

I'll take Centennial in this one. After seeing what Beech did to Indy, I don't think Indy has any hope of stopping Sanders.

Gameday Bump

I agree, and I think it is largely because of Twitter. I don't have a Twitter account, but from what I hear, the students get on there to do quite a bit of smack talk.

Things are really about to heat up in the playoff race... I think we can all agree that the top two slots in this disctrict are going to go to any mixture of: Ravenwood, Franklin, Brentwood, and Centennial. It's fitting that those 4 teams play each other this weekend: Brentwood/Franklin, Centennial/Ravenwood. Those should both be really exciting games. I wish one of them was Thursday night so that I could attend both. Right now, I'm predicting that Centennial and Brentwood will take the top 2 district spots. Any other predictions out there?

Brentwood wins this one. 31-21.

I'd love to predict a Brentwood victory, but I just don't think it's in the cards. I'll say it's possible if Oakland turns the ball over 2 or 3 times, but not likely. I'm hoping Brentwood can keep it close and improve a little more before this upcoming stretch of district games.

This post made me want to look for some stats, and here is what I found: Critchlow: 637 passing yards with 6 TD's (This the only info provided by this week's Tennessean article. I'm hoping that, as a Franklin fan, you can fill in the blanks for INT, Rushing yards, and Rushing TD's for me) Maher: 711 passing (8TD/3INT) and 367 rushing yards (2 TD/0 fumbles). (source: brentwoodhomepage.com) I realize Brentwood has played 1 more game than Franklin, but Critchlow's average of 159 passing yards per game is not much higher than Maher's 142 ypg, and I'm willing to bet (but honestly I don't know for sure) that Maher's rushing ypg is much higher than Critchlow's. After looking at the stats, it's clear that both guys are good QB's, but I'm inclined at this point to agree with CasualBystander's statement that Maher has more play-making ability than Critchlow. I've been to every Brentwood game this year, and Maher does a great job of getting out of the pocket under heavy pressure while keeping his eyes downfield and finding an open receiver. I haven't actually seen Critchlow play, so for all I know, he could be better at that than Maher, but I doubt it. It'll be fun to watch them both play next week to get a better comparison, I'm looking forward to it.

Amen.

I think it's safe to throw Summit, Dickson County, and Franklin out of the running to win the district. Yea, Franklin is undefeated, but they struggled to beat the DC team that Brentwood just Beat 33-3 even after playing JV players for most of the 4th quarter. I can see Franklin losing to Brentwood, Centennial, Ravenwood, and Indy. I honestly don't think Indy has a shot of winning the district after seeing what Ravenwood did to them last week, but I won't throw them out of the conversation just yet. Their game against Blackman this week will tell us a lot. At this point, Ravenwood and Centennial are in the best position to win the district (both are undefeated in district play so far), but I think a quickly improving Brentwood team will beat Ravenwood later in the season. If this thing plays out like I think it will, we could very well end up with a three way tie at the top: 1) Ravenwood (1 district loss- Brentwood) 1) Brentwood (1 district loss- Centennial) 1) Centennial (1 district loss- Ravenwood) The tie-breaker would be overall records, which is where Brentwood's much more difficult out of district schedule could come back to haunt them. Thoughts?

I was pleased with Brentwood's win over Hendersonville last week. They played their most sound game of the year so far, and they played hard until the final whistle. They've got Dickson County coming to town this week, and I think it's definitely a winnable game. I also think it is a must win game for Brentwood if they want to stay alive in the playoff race. If the Bruins can minimize mistakes like they did against Hendersonville, I think they will get the W (24-10).

I'm with you! Let's go Bruins

Are you referring to Woodward or Maher? Either way, I agree with you there.

The pass interference no-call was definitely the main one I was referring to. That was a game changer. It was 3rd down and Brentwood was down 14-7 at that point. The no-call killed Brentwood's chances of tying the game up before halftime (not to mention the fact that if the penalty hadn't been committed, the game likely would have been tied on that very play). The other one that upset the entire Brentwood sideline was late in the 4th when Brentwood was down by 8, it was third and long, and Maher scrambled around the end and up the sideline and dove forward across the first down marker and the official spotted him an entire yard short of the first down. Obviously neither one of those officiating mishaps actually took points off the board for Brentwood, but they were bad calls that killed 2 drives that could have changed the outcome of the game. You made a good point though, the refs did catch a lot of holding and block in the back penalties against Centennial, so I guess it could have been much worse. I guess I'm just bitter because Brentwood could very easily be 2-1 right now, but we are 0-3 instead.

I hate to sound like a sore loser, but horrible officiating cost Brentwood this game. The Bruins definitely shot themselves in the foot multiple times with turnovers and the questionable onside kick call, but there were several terrible calls by the refs that killed Brentwood's chances of staying in this game. That being said, Deon Sanders is a grown #### man and he had a very impressive game.

The Brentwood vs. Centennial game this week should be a good one. I'm picking the Bruins in this one due to Centennial's inability to stop the run. Who does everyone else play this week?

Gameday. Let's get some predictions going. I think Brentwood will come out focused and control the line of scrimmage much better than they did in the first half against CPA, and I can also see Blackman taking this game lightly and playing a little sloppy in the first half. I've got Brentwood winning 21-17; they'll jump out to an early lead and hang on in the 4th quarter.

Brentwood has the speed and athleticism to win this game if they can control the line of scrimmage the way they did in the second half of the CPA game. I realize that's a pretty big if, but I doubt Blackman has any linemen the size of #74 from CPA, so I am hopeful.

I guess I'll meet you halfway... I agree with your last comment, and I think we already saw him running for his life on Friday night, but I feel like he handled that well; like I said, he was the team's leading rusher. Here's to hoping for some improvement by the linemen. However, I think you're blowing the Superman thing out of proportion. That's just a high school kid having fun. I only saw him do it one time, and it was after he scrambled for a first down on 3rd and about 15. He was also right in front of the Brentwood student section when he did it. If he had done it while facing the CPA sideline, I'd probably agree with you, but I don't see anything wrong with a high school football player trying to pump up the student section- to me, that's what Friday nights are all about.