It is Saturday morning, therefore a night to think about the game. And what a game it was!
Congratulations to East Surry. They are experienced, big, strong and disciplined, talented and very well coached. The surprise for me is that they were much faster than I had heard, and thought they would be.
Any one that says Mt Airy is overrated is just plain stupid, void of any rational thought or knowledge of football.
With 3 starters out due to injury, I would have been happy if the Bears were down only 20 at the half. They were down 14. Then shut down East in the 2nd half.
Yes, maybe both coaches staff made a few questionable calls. But what I saw was the Mt Airy coaching staff made a bunch of great and absolutely necessary calls when they needed to be called given that Mt Airy was playing without a full complement of players, due to rain and injuries less than a full week of practice getting 2nd team players ready, and playing a "lights out defense" by the Cardinals.
This game was one play away from being tied up; a two point conversion attempt without either of our starting running backs or our number one receiver. Yes the Coach had to call a second Time Out because he saw the team was not recognizing the line up that East put out there during their side of the time out.
Criticize the Bear Coach. Heck NO. He did what he should have done! He reset again to give his team the best chance to be successful.
The Cardinals are for REAL. I hope, and believe, they will go undefeated the rest of the way. But any body that was at that game should be convinced that the Bears will be playing late in November. They have the players and the Coaching Staff to do it.
