Going into the game this week, Baby A knew he was definitely going to play more. He was told he would be playing right guard and then be in on extra point formations playing left tackle, which is weird to move them around to me, but he says they put the strongest guys inside at guard to make sure they push out any would be blockers, and I guess some upper classmen are stronger than him, right now.
He played great, it was fun to see him pulling like a guard is supposed to do and go and try to hit people out in space. He was hit for a holding call on the third series and it sucked because they had intercepted the ball at like the 4 yard line and after an awesome run by the running back of about 12 yards, it was called back because of his holding penalty. Although we saw it and I showed his big paws literally hugging the guy around the shoulder pads, he still denies he held. It turned out okay, they still scored after a long stretch into the 2nd quarter which by then put them up 21-0.
I was happy enough with him playing guard, then I am not sure if out of frustration or being an idiot but the larger defensive tackle committed three penalties in a row including a roughing the passer, for no clear reason, they removed him from the field and suddenly Mijo was in on defense. He continued playing at defensive tackle and then resting on offense for the first half. He was double teamed on the first play, but he did get a solo tackle on the second play, and he was in on a couple other plays as well.
After the half, he played some iron man style and was on the field for the whole third quarter and most of the fourth alternating between right guard and defensive tackle, only coming off for kick-off and kick returns. Navarro finally scored near the start of the fourth quarter, and it was away from our field of view towards the other teams side of the field. Our son was pissed off after the game because he swears one of his teammates knocked the ball out of the runner's hands and in the video, it is clear Mijo gets up off the field with a fumble recovery at around the one yard line. How can it be a touchdown when the ball is over here and looks like it never crossed the plane? The referees had a few questionable calls, this might have been the worst one, but the Cougars still won 59-7.
You couldn't tell talking to our son after the game. He was in a "bitchy" mood because they took away his fumble recovery, the other team was soft, his guys made too many mistakes, he said they were going to pay for it for having nine penalties called, they are usually a pretty clean playing team, that was surprising. It's funny from afar we just see the action, but he was saying, on a play he had a "pancake", that's when you dominate your lineman and he ends up on his back and he fell on top of him. After the play, he says the other guy softly says to him "can you get off me now?" They had one really big boy in the middle and he looked like he might be strong, but Baby A was saying he was so out of shape, after the first quarter the guy was just wheezing breezing so hard.
Complaining or not, I am glad they had a good game to feel good about their efforts. We celebrated afterwards by going to eat at Cheddar's, which is only the second restaurant we have gone to since Covid-19 started, but it was good because it was mostly empty and we were the last group to leave after we finished eating.
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