I can't even describe what I saw being anything remotely fair, yet I guess in the end, it is. Bowie had so many kids on the field that the half playing Crockett were easily over 50-60 kids. They had an A team and a B team playing Crockett who has many players going iron man style and playing both offense and defense. If that wasn't enough, they had what was probably the freshman squad at easily near 100 kids split and playing each other, offense Vs. defense.
It was confusing at first, no doubt. It was a scrimmage, so there was no kick-off or punts and each team was starting from the opponents 40 yard line and running about ten plays. That was fine, I understand that, but they then split the field at the fifty and Bowie decided to scrimmage itself offense vs defense. I want to say these were the freshman and they let the real JV squad play against Crockett's JV squad, which barely has like 22-23 players. The first series was ugly bad. Crockett could not make a yard to save themselves. When Bowie went on offense, they wasted no time, easily, they ran an end route and scored, then they ran between the tackle and guard and they scored, then they passed and they scored, it took until about the 6th or 7th play before they stopped them. Once this happens, I can only try and focus on my son, make sure he is playing well.
It's like I can tell how he feels when he is playing. Like last week, he was intimidated in the first series, they had all been talking about what a great team Bowie is and he got it in his head that they were better. It took him those first few plays for him to realize the guy in front of him wasn't better than him. Once he got those nerves out, he played much better. I don't want to give him all the credit, but he was stopping plays and changing their direction in the middle. Towards the end of the game, one of the parents above me said something like "we were able to score all over the right side, but not so much on the left, I wonder why?" I really wanted to turn and say "because my boy shut the left side down!!!" but that would have sounded awful cocky from a guy whose team just lost 50 to 0, if they had kept score.
Javalina really does play good and clean. He says he has gotten the hang of hooking up kids on the inside, mostly by grabbing them by the shoulder pads in the chest area. We have studied the film and that is how the game is being played nowadays. It is still holding if a lineman grabs the outside of the shoulders, but they can grab on the inside, mostly between the shoulder pads. He said various kids were calling to the referee and asking to keep an eye on him for holding, but he was never called for it. The only time it gets confusing is when a LB or corner approaches the line to blitz and then he can get one but not both. I also noticed a very clean pull and block on the other side of the ball. He may not want to keep playing both sides of the ball, but he plays with a sound foundation, even if he is not hitting people into submission. He is in on any play involving the middle, where he roams.
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