FridayNightLights78

Maryville is Maryville, and normally they just play a solid game, and eventually the weight of playing Maryville causes teams to make mistakes! DB has a chance, but it will take as few mistakes as possible, and they must play a solid game in hopes that Maryville will be the ones making mistakes!

We were not as bad as the score last year at Maryville, but our kids were nervous and let playing against Maryville get to their heads and they couldn't get anything done on offense or defense, and GQ backed off when they could score at will! Maryville has the best coaching staff in the State of Tennessee! I am looking forward to seeing if the Tribe can compete with Maryville with the mighty 27 in the game! I believe we can still score some points, but not sure we can stop Maryville from scoring!

You are always trying to be funny, with old stale jokes, some of the people laugh at your jokes but most will just laugh at you!

No, your post shows your lack of knowledge and that is the dumbest post of the year!

Just to clarify my comment on the question if the defense could get a few stops, was directed at the Dobyns Bennett Defense. I haven't seen much of your defense but I have heard you have some really athletic kids! Your backup QB is also athletic and can run well so it is just a different type of poison.

Rarely do WaCo and I agree but the offense averages 35 points a game with a low of 28 this season, so the Smyrna defense will have to play well, but the biggest question in the game is whether the defense can make a couple stops! DB has some players on defense that can play, and I keep waiting for it to all come together! As much as The DB family wants to win, we truly hate to hear about the injury to your QB! We have struggled with some injuries as well and really hate to see kids kid get hurt especially during their Senior year!

Here is another known factor WaCoJoka Still lives in his parent's basement!

If you want the real actually, it was because it was ripped off by a kids hands that were up in his face mask all night without being called! He is a great kid, and if penalties are not called eventually a kid will fight back!

DB has some good ones coming up as well! They were 2-0 against the Hill Freshman this year! All the other teams they played this year were JV teams with the only loss being against Elizabethton JV. Second time around DB revenged the loss to the Betsy JV. The JV team only has one loss and that loss was to The Elizabethton JV, so they were 1-1 with Betsy as well. The DB JV also beat SH but the second game was canceled by SH due to a Soccer Game being played on their home field! Should be some good games over the next few years.

Sorry to make fun of your home field!

SH has the better facility compared to HVA but similar in distance from the field! They could have made the stadium better with better rise in the stands! They went cheap and took the angle of the Hill rather than going up with a better angle! Miserable place to watch a game, and I have sat in just about every possible location on home and visitors side, and it is not good at any location! We may be spoiled at J Fred, but most schools in the district have a better view from the stands, even WB and Bearden who only have one set of stands but a good view of the game. BC was a good venue, and good atmosphere, but the announcer is annoying!

Both of these teams have improved! This DB team is tough and they never give up! Injuries or a loss of a key player like Wadsworth, can make a difference in a game as we saw with a similar situation against WB. DB's line may be one of the best run blocking teams in the State, and their balance between run and pass could be the difference in these two teams! DB needs to just be decent against the pass to be successful on Defense! this should be a good one to watch, just a bad place to watch it! SH has a poorly designed stadium to watch a game, I do not think there is a good seat in the house!

I have actually agreed with you before, but that doesn't change my thought of you being an idiot, because you have also done a lot of whining! Do you not have the ability to see any positives or any potential, I am just wondering if there is any substance to your whine?

I don't want candy coating, I want to hear specifics good and bad, something intelligent rather the normal cry babying. I want to hear knowledge on what a team does well and specifics on where you see the deficiencies! I personally believe this team has some extremely good qualities, but the clear problem is the coaching on defense! The offense has been fairly consistent but I believe we are scared to score fast, because it means the opposing offenses will get the ball back throw it right down our throats. I want to hear the legend give us the positives and negatives, talk some X and O's, not just whine!

You got me on that one, I should know not to mess with you, cause you are a coach T legend! Haha

Waco, you continue to prove you are an idiot, and I am starting to realize you are a Science Hill fan because you are a joke!

Your point would be better if you knew what you were talking about. 6 pt game and the play was 3rd and long when he broke through the stacked line. The game was still in question until that score. It was not a knee taking time, but then again I didn't see anything wrong with what Maryville did either!

Just a reminder that DB got robbed of a TD where our kid dove and hit the pylon and they called him out of bounds at the three, and the kid dove from an angle that he could not have gone out of bounds! Their was a great picture of that and I used to have it several phones ago. It would be great if someone could share that if they have it! Or the video if someone has it! The kick off return was a great example of speed!!! Young was not big, but was one of the fastest kids I have ever seen.

To bring a local fact, Pal's started the following year in 1956

Wow, this game is bringing a lot of excitement!

A lot of key players were out in the WB game, but I guess missing key players only matters if you are Maryville who goes 3 deep at every position! WB matched up well with our weakness, pass defense. I do not feel Bearden and Science are good enough throwing the ball to exploit that weakness, Jeff County might be. With that said Bearden may have benefited from the week off to heal up and prepare while DB comes in extremely banged up from back to back hard fought battles against the two toughest teams in the District Maryville and BC. Several key injuries will be something DB will have to overcome, the next three weeks and sickness to the big man in the middle! I have seen a toughness in this DB team that I have not seen in a long time, so I guess we just need to line em up and see who has the most fight!

Different directions? Your program scraped by against Boone a couple weeks ago and got man handled at home by a HVA team DB crushed in the road! Let's wait until the last game of the season to see if you feel the same then!

Has anyone started that thread yet ?

I try to keep it as positive as possible, because I know some kids see this stuff, and I am with you we have some really good ones out there, and also agree there are others walking the halls that could play and there others on the sideline that could play, at least giving rest to the starters. There are one or two coaches that struggle with the step up to the higher level of play, and I don't like to call for anyone to be fired, but job duties should be shifted! The offense is scoring points but being held back to take time off the clock because we have not been able to stop teams that throw the ball consistently. I still believe the boys are as good as most DB teams from the past, but we need to learn to keep teams under 30 pts. If I was Clark, I would become strongly involved with the defense, or lay your ears back and try to out score everyone. D-line looks good, linebackers look good, D-backs need a strategy that makes sense. One of our leaders in interceptions played very little this week because certain defensive coaches want to blame the kids for their lack of coaching! Fix this problem and the kids may surprise some people! Three games to get it right before the playoffs.

Coach T needs a like button: I agree with and respect a lot that I see on here, from a lot of people from other teams, but you hit the nail on the head with this post! We do not know how to defend the pass, the defensive coaches make adjustments and it only gets worse. If we ever figure this problem out we will compete with anyone with a chance to win, we now only compete! Part of it is not playing certain kids in the right position, but mainly defensive coaching. Coach Clark needs to step in and do the defense himself, the players are there! You all have a great place to watch a football game, and some great athletes, just need to tighten things up for Maryville as they are fundamentally sound and have 14-0 lead over the opposing team mentally before the game even gets started.