Merlin

Wouldbit make you feel better to know WJ didn’t move the ball at all against laurel, northeast jones, or south jones in the first quarter of any of those games as well? Cause it doesn’t make me feel good. But every game has been like that. I don’t know if it’s part of the game plan to be completely predictable and see if they can make things happen while doing so or what. I do t know if they came out throwing more if they score more early or what. Also I hate running from the spread with 1 back in backfield. But this very thing with the slow starting offense is my biggest complaint so far.

They got beat worse than the 41-7 score indicated. At half Wayne had less than 60 yards of offense and 2 first downs. They don’t cross 80 yards till WJ put in backups on defense in mid 4th up 34-0 and Wayne drove to the Wj 12 and Wj put starting d back in and promptly created a turnover. After that west put backups back in on defense and Wayne was able to score. Wayne’s last 2 drives gave them more than 2/3 of their total yards for the game.

Also keep this in mind. Wayne county’s student population isn’t growing. It’s shrinking. That will pull some level of potential talent to pull from out of the school.

Poplarville won’t score more than 14 against west starting defense. Actually I don’t think anyone on the remaining regular season schedule will. They only gave up 1 touchdown so far this season. Laurel scored 1 against wests starters, a safety, then a td against backups. Wayne got a td against backups late and that game wasn’t as close as the score indicated. The offense is held back by inexperienced 9th grade qb and receivers that can’t seem to get much seperation. The last 4-5 years west was turned the ball over no less than 3 times per game. Turnovers specifically lost them the games vs Hattiesburg the last 2 years and also playoffs against picayune as the 9th grade rb (10th grade rb out hurt) was dropping the ball in the first half so coaches abandoned run 2nd half. If Wj ram the ball 3 times and punt in the 4th picayune wouldn’t have had time to complete that comeback. This year they have 2 turnovers total through 4 games. WJ 31 P’Ville 10

Just wait. Laurels MO this year is to self destruct in the 2nd half. Maybe they starting early this game.

#10 is a stud. Would love to see how he could do if we lined up a fullback in front of him.

Laurel honestly is too talented to be as bad as they are. I had heard of some grumbling going on over there after last season and into the spring. Bunch of drama with fans/parents thinking they should play for state like West Point every year. Filling the kids heads with crap. The junior high teams been blowing out everyone they play for 3-4 years and getting to the high school not wanting to listen to coaches. And then there is the school administration who’s slowly been killing laurel athletics since todd breland was coaching there. Friend of mine used to teach over there and said last year and again before this season, those kids will crumble as soon as some teams punch them in the mouth. They think they on a pedestal and won’t handle the adversity well once they get down. Looks like he was right. They hung with west jones for 2 and a half quarters before falling apart after a long Wj touchdown run. They completely imploaded and choked away the Hattiesburg game and blew 2 score leads twice in the 2nd half. They had no business loosing that game. They will for sure drop 2 of next 3, with this week being the only chance for a win. Will be interesting to see if they continue to spiral after the mccomb game.

mead updating my post as you posted with reasons. I’ll expand on it here a tad. Offensive playcalling been very vanilla. They didn’t move the ball vs south jones till they started running stuff that hasn’t been seen first 3 games. So coaches maybe sandbagging the offense in these non-district games. I don’t know. But I’m worried about the offense.

Im not sure they are to be honest. Really worried about the offense. They are starting every game really slow. Had trouble moving the ball for a quarter vs northeast jones and then the entire first half vs south jones. WR’s a tad slow off the line and not creating separation. Running game would be better if they didn’t run from the spread with only the rb in backfield. Needs a blocker out front imho.

Hattiesburg 37 Laurel 27 final. Laurel blew 2 score leads twice. Was up 27-18 with 6 minutes left.

Laurel 15 Hattiesburg 12 mid 3rd

West jones 35 Northeast Jones 0 running clock in 3rd

Laurel 12 Hattiesburg 6 halftime

West Jones 21 Northeast Jones 0 still 2nd

Laurel 12 Hattiesburg 0 3:20 till half

West Jones 14 Northeast Jones 0 in 2nd

Laurel o and d lines dwarf Hattiesburg btw if anyone curious. Actually I think Hattiesburg has 1 offensive player taller than the smallest on laurels defense. The overall size difference is kinda surprising.

never

Without any doubt.

Only way Hattiesburg fixes those holes is to scrap the entire defense and go back to last years.

I think laurel takes it 28-13.

It’s the spread. 1 back beside qb. Only in the past WK typically had 4 wr last night they mostly used 3 and a blocking TE. I felt like running plays took too long to develop. I didn’t like any of the wr routes in passing game. Way too easy to see where the ball would go after the snap. I just felt with the way the players look this year that instead of passing to set up the run like they under Scott Pierson that some 2 back sets would make more sense and focus more on run first. as it was vs laurel it’s easy to tell before snap if run or pass and after it’s easy to figure out which wr the ball will be thrown too.

Hattiesburg defense looked lost. The only thing that stopped petals offense was penalties. O line looked soft. And the special teams may be the worst I have seen after junior high. I was not thrilled with west jones offense last night but they would beat Hattiesburg by 3 scores if they play next week. Laurel will work them over.

Could be the angle but really looks like Hattiesburg got away with a double forward pass to tie it.

Petal - makes state 1 time. Petal -builds multi-million dollar 8,000 seat stadium with 7,000 home side. Petal - sells out first game in stadium vs south panola. Petal - then proceeds to average 3,000 or less a game.