JoeBlow777

No chance this was a money thing. I doubt Covington can compete with Henry Co on money. Now the wife part is certainly something that could be plausible. Sure seems like it would take more than a couple weeks to try it out. Something is not adding up here.

What in the blue moon is going on here? Has he been there a month yet? Did he take a look at that schedule after seeing the kids and get nervous?

Watched this game on the live stream. Covington thoroughly whipped Haywood up front on both sides of the ball. I was very surprised at the level of ease at which Covington ran the ball, which is represented by their roughly 7.5 yards per carry. Not sure there is a team that Covington will see until the final game that will force them to throw the ball. Haywood has the guys to slow it down and they couldn’t do it. It cannot be a good feeling for opposing defenses seeing 7 and 9 in the backfield and having no idea which one is going to get the ball on any given down. Both of those guys run extremely hard and are very hard to take down. Add that to the fact that they aren’t being touched until they are 3/4 yards across the line of scrimmage and you are in for a long night. You better be able to score some points to hang in with Covington, cause they are going to score. I think they scored on every possession last night and there was never a point where I thought they wouldn’t score. The coach for Haywood realized this very early on as he was going for it on 4th down from his own 20 yard line in the first quarter of the game down 14-0. You don’t do that if you think you can get stops. I was also very impressed with the level at which Covington held up on defense. I had heard a lot about their defense and while it did give up some points tonight, they played well upfront. The secondary is good enough to allow the front 7 to get home or to cause the QB to get off his spot.

From what I heard, Covington tried to get officials for both Thursday and Saturday and was unable to do so. Once both of those options are unsuccessful what are they supposed to do? If you can’t move the game then it stays scheduled as is. If Fairley doesn’t want to play then that becomes their issue in my opinion. I doubt Covington is too worried about winning or losing a non region game. It really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

Yikes. Looks like someone is getting a nice serving of crow to eat on for dinner

I am not going to go into why Covington does not send more players to Power 5 schools, we all know why that is, and it really doesn't matter. Multiple onside kicks.....hmmm... did Haywood not do the same thing on Friday? Do you not think there will be teams in the playoffs that do it as well? Might want to figure that one out. If it happened week 1 and still bit you in the rear in week 9 then it needs addressing...You are speaking directly to my point about the coaching staff not putting the players in the best place to be successful.

You can like the current coaching staff all that you please, but the fact of the matter is that the previous coach had no problem beating 3A, 4A, 5A schools yearly. Clearly I know that Haywood is a 4A school, and you make my point by bringing up the fact that Covington beat them just 2 short years ago, even with this same staff! Are you telling me that Haywood has assembled a team that is 50 points better than Covington in two short years???? Haywood is a great team, I agree, but there is 0.0% chance that they are 50 points better than Covington over the past two season. Talent wise they match up very similarly. Munford finally has the talent to hang with Covington this year, and what happens, an absolute embarrassment happens. That is not the Covington of old, which you should know since you have been going to games since 1982... You are also making my case bringing up Alcoa. Was that not under the previous coach? I can assure you that Alcoa would not need a late score to win by 7 over the past few years. I am not running down your team. I respect Covington and respect the tradition that it has. I have simply stated that they are getting embarrassed by teams that have equal or more talent than them. If you can't see that then I do not know what to tell you. Maybe take the rose colored glasses off and you might see it.

I hate to break it to you, but east nashville will absolutely embarrass Covington. It will be a rerun of last night and apparently the Munford game as well. East Nashville has the athletes to match up with Covington and thus, will win easily. That game will not be close. Covington will never be expected to beat Alcoa, that is a fairy tale, but Covington went to back to back state title games not that long ago. That should be their goal every year. They can beat up on their region teams that they play, simply because Ripley, millington, bolivar, and whoever else do not have the horses to beat them, but Haywood and Munford do have those horses and you saw those results. An absolute beatdown by both teams.... Maybe that is the new Covington, I dont know. I simply am on the outside looking in. But It was not that long ago when I would make the drive to Covington and watch them beat really good teams in dominating fashion. I hope they get back to that. I am a fan of good football and Covington used to play a bunch of good football.

Covington can beat teams with far less talent, but they simply cannot beat teams with equal or more talent than them. They run an offense with zero scheme and the coaching staff does very little to put the team in advantageous situations when playing better teams. It seems as if the game plan last night was to run the ball up the middle and then hopefully use that to open up other parts of the offense. A blind man could have seen that Covington was not going to run the ball up the middle consistently on Haywood. The Covington coaching staff is fine but they are in over their heads when it comes to trying to out scheme a team better than them. They simply cannot do it. It’s been that way since Coach Wheeler left for East Tennessee. I’m not sure Covington has won a game where they were at a talent disadvantage since then. haywood is a great team, and there is no reason to hang your heard when losing to them, but I expect more out of Covington as an outsider and I’m sure their fans do as well. If 8/9 regular season wins is the goal, then you will get that ever year at Covington. If state championship appearances is the goal, good luck. That’s not happening.

Covington will not line up and run the ball right at Haywood with any success. If that is the game plan, then Covington needs to be prepared for a long night. I suspect that will not be the game plan, but I also do not believe that Covington will be able to throw the ball with much success either. I look for this game to go much like last years contest did. Haywood big. Covington is a good team, but Haywood is better than anyone Covington has seen this year.

Haywood will win this one going away. I think Haywood is better than they were last year and Covington is probably about the same. I would be shocked if this is close going into the second half. Haywood wins big big!

Could be more actually. Covington goes 4 and out to start the game. Runs roughly 1.5 minutes of clock. Gets ball back with a fumble recovery. Scores on 3rd or 4th play of drive with long run. Roughly 1 minute of clock. Munford get ball, 5-6 minute drive results in TD. Onside kick and they recover. Another 6-7 minute drive that ends in TD. Covington 3 and out results in punt. Roughly 2 minutes of clock passes. Munford gets the ball on their own 2, drives it down inside the 10 and half ends without them scoring. That’s your first half and Covington had the ball maybe 5 minutes of total possession time. And I’m being generous with the time amounts. munford gets ball to start 2nd half and scored on long drive. Covington fumbled the kick so munford gets it again and scores again in a 3-4 minute drive. Covington got the ball back with maybe 4 minutes left in the 3rd down 28-7 and finally got more than 1 first down so maybe they had possession of the ball for 10 of first 36 total minutes played. It was not a lot at all.

Agree. Covingtons offense was on the field less than 7 min of game time until the 4th quarter. That is not a good recipe for your defense in week 1.

Agree! Munford OL played awesome early and kept it up after that Covington defense was on the field for 90% of the game.

I can't speak on that directly, but I would doubt the last coach was worried about playing Haywood. Haywood was down then and Covington was rolling.