Watching your kids play football can be tough. On the one hand I am proud and grateful that my boys have the opportunity to play on a high level. One at the High School level and one at the FCS d1 level. I believe these kids are both capable of power 4 football and, eventually, the league. I’m a dad, so I am supposed to believe in them. I am also supposed to be a realist. That part of me says that one needs to play faster and both need to get bigger. When I look at what happened over the past two days, It makes me realize only more that teams are smart and they aren’t going to do the things that are needed to highlight my boys. In the case of the High schooler, he gets opportunities. He doesn’t get many so he needs to hunt his down. He needs to play faster to get there. He has one game left this season before he goes off into the spring of 7s (and track) and summer of camps. He’s running out of time.
The college kid does not get targeted very often. He’s a very good coverage corner, so he doesn’t get picked on by QBs who know they can attack the middle or the other side of the field. They attacked one guy this week and it shows. That guy wasn’t him.