A lot of football to talk about. Let’s get started at the High School Level:
High School
Desert Vista named Dave Bills its new Freshman coach to work alongside Nate Gill, 2021 AZ High School Football coach of the year. That shows me they have every intention of continuing the rebuild set in motion by coach Wisdom (now coaching in Nebraska). My sophomore started at CB throughout the year and, after making that jump from freshman B-team, has his eyes on being noticed nationally. He has a chance, because the Thunder will be playing out of state this season as part of the Honor Bowl. Each team gets to award an MVP and a Character award. I think if he keeps up the good work he can figure for the character this season. It is tough sledding for a CB to win MVP, though he hopes to play all three phases of the game this year.
His little brother will be training with the incoming freshmen this spring as a way to prepare himself to be a leader once he is in that incoming freshman role. Finishing the season as a 14u starter, the 12yr old has shown a lot of growth. He toughed it out playing multiple downs as a RB and started the entire season as a CB and never gave up a single TD or big catch. Big time work ethic on the field and some real desire off the field means he has a solid future indeed.
The Pro Game
The Giants. It is all about the Giants. I hope they get it together and get clear of this recent Flores scandal. The fact is they only interviewed Flores because they had to via the Rooney rule. Schoen knew who he wanted. The texts indicate as much. Once the smoke clears and the staff gets back to work there will be some solid questions to answer and about more than the line. What about Barkley? How to rebuild the WR corps? How to clear enough cap space to be a destination? None of these answers are near focus, so we just have to wait until they are.