Ugh, not good

So we played St Charles, the team that one the Super Bowl last year yesterday in a preseason game. What an ugly game for us. First play from scrimmage my son throws an interception. We ended up losing 20-0 and I don't know that it was that close.

They are a much bigger team than us and really took it to us. We didn't look good on offense or defense. We were playing some kids out of position, but not enough to make it an issue.

Personally I don't think I called a very good game. The pass play on the first play could have waited until we were on the right hash mark. I kept trying to go outside when I should have been going up the middle. Oh well, two weeks until our next tournament, I'll look at the film and hopefully fix things up.

Jelly Jamboree

We had our Jelly Jamboree this past weekend. We did pretty good, our two stud RBs, Brandon(48) and Jack(21) both had good games. My son Ryan played some QB and did pretty well. Had a real nice long pass for about 20 yards. Our defense looked great as well, really swarming. I hope it wasn't the competition and we really are that good. The first team we played was decent last year, so I expect that our showing was pretty good. The 2nd team was all new players and is pretty far from being a good team.

Video is below.

Another practice

So we tried to have practice last night, but the rain blew in and took care of that. Didn't get much accomplished except for our drills at the beginning.

We're going to have practice tonight and then our jelly jamboree(scrimmage among chesterfield teams) tomorrow. I'm not expecting us to do that well, not because we don't have a good team, but because we use the scrimmage to evaluate players that more than likely won't play there. We also don't try to read the defense and take what they give us. We're going with a script tonight, down to player substitutions so that we can evaluate ball carriers and blockers.

I'll post after the scrimmage.

2 Practices this week

So we had practice on Mon and Tues this week inside because it was so hot here in St. Louis. Mondays practice started out as a disaster, but by the end it was better. Tues. practice was pretty good, the kids are getting the plays down. I don't think we'll look very good in the scrimmage on Sat, we almost never do, but we'll get to see what the kids look like and critique them.

We're trying to introduce the shotgun snap to our offense this year and the kids are having problems. We're at about 50% right now, so we've got a ways to go. We're still really weak on the offensive line and I'm not sure how we'll do this year. We're very small.