Both boys, again, play at the same time about 15 miles apart. I again head to St. Johns, this time with Matthew, while Mom holds the fort with Cpher.
Cpher: Lost 12-0. I think his team fumbled about 10 times. That’s not figuratively, that’s literally.
There’s video; since Cpher is a staple of the offensive and defensive lines it is not flashy. Watched him go by three kids to get into the backfield to at least get a hand on the running back. Didn’t see him do anything egregiously wrong on the offensive line; seemed to be where he needed to be and make the blocks he needed to make. Had one tackle in the fourth quarter.
Matthew: Won 30-6. Had quite a day.
(hopefully the last time I have to use the photo camera as a video camera….just impossible to keep in focus from the ground level for video)
Man, where do I start?
Kickoffs – except for one that he squibbed (unintentionally) he boomed these. Definitely thought we might recover an onsides kick 30+ yards downfield. They never caught a kick, always bouncing around back there. The first kickoff he made the tackle!
Extra Points – I thought I taped all three of them; turns out I only caught one of them. The other two are like the one on tape…..there is no doubt it’s going straight through and would have been good from another ten yards out.
Defense – SJ liked to pull a guard on some offensive plays….Matthew loved this because it just gave him this gap to shoot through to get into the backfield. Recovered a fumble like that. One of the first plays on the tape has Matthew’s teammates stuffing the play in the backfield and the running back breaks free and busts it outside….Matthew makes an open-field tackle that makes me smile as I type about it; just textbook wrapping the guy up and driving him.
Offense – First run is a 3 yard gain; he’s hit at the line and drags 3-5 kids forward. Second play he gets outside, stiff arms a kid, and runs about 20 yards before being tackled. BUT, one of his teammates blocked in the back (and didn’t need to, Matthew was already past the kid) and it came back.
His last run is the best. We are on the 10-yard line. He comes up the middle, no hole, is hit and the kid wraps him up. Matthew goes right, drags the kid what I used to describe as 10 yards but got up to describing it as 20 yards at some points in the weekend…..and finally breaks the tackle and scampers into the end zone.
