the prophet

I have not seen Rossview this year, so who knows, maybe they can compete, very doubtful tho, I would be willing bet 3 months pay that Rossview will not play 15 games this year and 2 months pay that they will not play 13 games this year, they have beaten no one of relevence. Henry county has beaten 2 5a teams (ridgeway and Beech) and 4a Liberty that would beat that 6a rossview team 9 out of 10. see yas

who are we playing this week, Ridgeway or the 2011 Patriots, this debate should not even be mentioned until the 2013 team wins the state championship, then we can compare and contrast. By the way the 2011 team will never be defeated period. The 2013 edition still has a 12 more contests to win or lose. 15-0 3-0 apples and oranges there has been several HC teams that were 3-0 but only 1 15-0 team, compare this team to others that accomplished that 3-0 record

Rossview has been bad, they are bad and will continue to be bad. Kenwood beats them, Northeast beats them, Henry County beats them, SPringfield will beat them, West creek may beat them. If Rossview ends up 3rd it will be because the others are terrible, not because Rossview is better, the terms better and Rossview do not belong in the same sentence when talking about football.

I am seeing Hamilto as fourth in their district regardless of Friday? they have lost 3 district games?

there are a lot of self proclaimed experts with all kinds of "you really believe you know how a team is going to perform against another, a couple of weeks ago, I listened to the self proclaimed experts on college gamed day all predicted that TN would beat florida, USC would beat stanford, and michigan state beating notre dame, and they were all wrong on the 3 big games that saturday. My point is that none of us know what is going to happen tomorrow night but some luck guy will be right, Northeast has played one quality opponent and lost, HC has played one quality opponent and lost, neither have played anyone of any quality in weeks.

This thread is about Najee, but since you brought up Marsalis and him being bad, started as a freshmen on offense, started as sophmore and junior on defense, he got burned by Randle of LSU and Maze of Alabama, maybe he did not shut those guys down but who has. 3 year starter in 3 years, and obviously he is one of their best or he would be starting, most sec qbs will pick any db apart if there is no rush by the d-line.

I just want to say that Powell was a very good football team, Mobley was an excellent back and the Patriot Fans were great, thank you for all your support of the kids and program, the fans of the Patriot football program are second to none. Now for the men of the program, What a great group of young men, they were spectacular all season, they gave all of Henry County somehting to hang their hats on with no if's involved. I stood in amazement last night looking at the stands. what a great day for Henry Countians from the send off to the welcome back. Yesterday was a day that will never be forgotten in the lives of many people, and I feel very fortunate to have experienced it.

inflated stats or not both Henry County and Powell put up good numbers against good teams in the semi finals, I read where someone said Hendersonville was not a good team, that was hardly the case in my opinion, once again HC made them look sub par, Powell apparently did the same to Knox West.

I am a Patriot fan, Mobley is the best back that Henry County will face this week and folks, that is all that matters, Those are facts, Stopping Ridgeway was great but it gets us no extra points this week, another fact. Now for the my opinion part, there has been lots of talk about schedule strength, has it occurred to anyone that the reason our schedules both looked so weak is that both of these teams made them look weak. We were not challenged and outside of OR the panthers were not challenged, weak schedule or weakness relative to Powell and HC. Hendersonville was a very good football team and so was ridgeway, (can not speak for the opponents of Powell but we made Hendersonville look weak. Was NE that improved or was there just a snowball effect in game one when we were up 49-0 with 10 minutes to go in the quarter, I take the latter. This will likely be a meat grinder of a game that would probably go to game 7 if it were a 7 game series, Patriots winning of course, LOL. A wise man once told me to be careful getting in a shouting match with a fool because someone may come up and not know who the fool is. I listen to the so called experts on espn talk about their picks every week in college and pro games and every week they miss a few, I have not seen Powell, I have not missed HC play in 122 games, I know how good HC is and you better believe I know that if we do not play our best game, that Powell will beat us, what I am saying is you better respect your opponent as this is the only game that matters this week. If both teams play turnover free football, we win this one 33-21, The Prophet has spoken. Turnovers by us and Powell may win, turnovers by Powell and it could get out of hand. None of these players have been there before so who really knows.

State Championships, we have none, state championships runner ups, we have none, 4 semi final appearrances in 6 years we do have, now please explain to me how many programs in the state can say they have had that success over the last six years, Maryville and Alcoa by far surpass it, trousdale, And I would put any team that has reached the Championship over that stretch has been very successful, but to not say a victory over Henry County is a good victory well I would hav eto disagree, they may not be at the top of the top tier, but they have been consistently one of the best in their classification for the last six years, maybe that is a second tier program to you but not me. 06 Maryville beat Hillsboro 07 Maryville beat Maplewood 08 Hillsboro beat Maryville, 09 Beech beat Columbia, 10 Columbia beat Hendersonville, Columbia and Hillsboro both made two trips to the big game, Hillsboro since their run has fallen off the map, sure I would rather have one title than 4 semi final appearances and no vicotries but a top tier program is one that contends year in and year out and that is what HC has done over the last few years.

Ok, in some opinions Ridgeway played a tougher schedule, big question mark, they played 2 teams that are pretty good and what I would call better than any we played at HC, however the rest of the schedule was not so tough. The folks from Memphis do not know about our district other than we dominated the district. I have never been much on common opponents because it really is meaningless, but just to throw some thoughts out there about our district and your schedule. White station beat Ridgeway handily East beat white station by seven North East out of Clarksville beat East by scoring 42 points on them we beat Northeast by a combined score in two games 93-21 fourteen of those points came against our jv in a 63-14 thumping, we held there offense under 70 yards each time we played, the qb alone had over 300 against east

Henry County rushed for 446 yards, their offense looked great to me, As we play teams that are faster those 65 yard runs we had early in the year will be 15-20 yard runs in the playoffs, we as fans need to understand that our offense was dominant last friday, and so was our defense giving up 65 yards total yards, there was a lack of discipline that cost some penalty yards and stopped drives but I think we punted 2-3 times? We can not expect our offense to score every possession,lol just because they did in some of their regular season games, it appeared to me that they were working on their passing game once the game was in hand. two interceptions late in the game. the only stat that NE even came close to with Henry county was the penalties, the qb for NE had over 300 yards the week before and he did not have 100 in two games against Henry County. We averaged roughly 10 yards a carry and you fools complain about not playing well, compare to the first game with NE and you should understand that those games just do not happen weekly, NE had some injuries in first game and they quit late in the first quarter. If we continue to keep the ball off the ground we will do just fine.

Sorry but I disagree, Kimbrough is a special weapon on offense but Memphis east gave up over forty, lets give NE a little credit, now if east had nto scored and their offense looked awful maybe I buy into what you are saying, but east score 38 points, how many more do you think they would have scored, what I am saying is if you score 38 you should win, defense was their biggest issue.

Interesting, East played such a tough schedule and was 7-3, and gave up a loss at home by giving up forty points to a team Henry County had on their weak schedule and was beating 49-0 with 9 minutes to play in the second quarter, and went on to win 63-14. but that was one of those weak opponents LOL I think they beat the second seed in the Memphis quad. I noticed that Dyer county beat a memphis team, and now the quad is down to the one Memphis team in 5a that I think is solid, Ridgeway.

it was not the best game Friday night for the Patriots but to say sloppy? I thought the defense played very well, we fumbled the ball once on a kick return in which the runner planted andlost the ball, an interception on a very well thrown ball that popped up off the shoulder pads of the reciever and just fell into the defenders lap, two fumbles in the fourth quarter with the JV squad in, Shaq ran very well behind a well blocking o line, we need to unnderstand that descent teams will not give up 35 yard runs with regularity, 4,5 yard runs is fine, not sloppy, our defense held them to like 17-48 passing. I did not think the game was sloppy at all.