Brighton @ Covington - week 2

[CHARGERFAN]

After the opening week loss to Munford, Covington meets it’s other in-county rival this week as Brighton comes to town. I would think that the Chargers will be favored at home, but what do y’all think?

[Allthetalk]

Kirby rights the ship this week. Bounces back big at home vs. Brighton. 

[CHARGERFAN]

Massey matchup tool predicts 

Covington 42

Brighton 14

It’s early in the season and I’m not sure Massey is right on this. I expect a closer game than that. 

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by CHARGERFAN

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

11 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

Massey matchup tool predicts 

Covington 42

Brighton 14

It’s early in the season and I’m not sure Massey is right on this. I expect a closer game than that. 

 

Wasn’t 42-14 the score last week when Brighton played Henry Co?  If so I agree with you. I would expect a win but a little closer margin. 

[CHARGERFAN]

8 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

Wasn’t 42-14 the score last week when Brighton played Henry Co?  If so I agree with you. I would expect a win but a little closer margin. 

I looked at Sonny Moore power rankings:

Covington 112.61

Brighton 91.68

The difference is 21 plus 2 points for Covington home field advantage. That makes the spread 23 points. Slightly lower than Massey’s 28 points. Let’s see if either one gets close to the actual score.

 

 

[ManOfMillions]

I think Covington wins in a very convincing way this Friday. I just can not see Kirby letting his boys get beat again. 

[SuperBowlKid1489]

Covington gets back to being Covington this week, Chargers by 3 TDs. 

[CHARGERFAN]

Kickoff time for this game is now 7:30 pm. It was originally 7:00.

[CHARGERFAN]

At half

Covington 28

Brighton 24

Brighton playing good offensive football. Their kicker puts kickoffs 5 yards deep in end zone. Also hit a 48 yd field goal 

 

 

[CHARGERFAN]

Final score

Covington 35

Brighton 27

Nobody told Brighton they should lay down and get trounced, so they didn’t. 
 

The Brighton offense looked good in the first half. Covington could not stop them. The old question is - is Brighton’s offense that good, or is Covington’s defense not very good. 
 

I’ll wait to answer that question after Covington visits Dyersburg next week. 

[CHARGERFAN]

Just a wrap-up on this game. I wanted to share some stats:

Covington did what I expect a JR Kirby team to do, that is, run the ball:

Covington

Rushing 323 yards (Smith 244) 4 TD’s

Passing 4 of 9 for 70 yards 1 TD

Brighton 

Rushing 19 rushes for 70 yards

Passing 13 of 27 for 222 yards 1 INT

These stats show us something about the Covington defense too. The Charger defense against the run is pretty solid, but our pass defense needs to improve a lot. We will see what the coaching staff can do to help that happen as the season goes along.