Army-Navy and my thoughts….

So, I have to wonder, why have we lost 7 years in a row?  Obviously, at least to me, we are doing something wrong.  The game today was absolutely pathetic.  All you have to look at a score of 34-0 and know that something went horribly wrong.

We won the toss, and received.  We then went three and out, punted, and Navy scored on their third play.  Army looked like a bunch of high school kids playing against an NFL team.  Navy quite simply outplayed us.  It sucks.  Especially since we are better than them at EVERYTHING except football.

Our star player, Mooney, is a Full Back.  So, our game focuses on the run.  Sure, I can handle that.  The problem is that we NEVER pass, and when we do, they drop perfect passes!  Balls in their hands, or in their chests, and they drop them.  I think it’s a fairly simple formula that you can’t win with a FB alone when you are going against a team with any kind of run defense going on.  Our playbook is probably 75% Mooney up the middle.

Our defense has been fair until today.  They held most people within striking distance and then the offense would lose the game with fumbles and such.  But today, we had NO outside containment.  Any time Navy went to the sideline, they were unstoppable.  Even up the middle, the Navy players were PLOWING through our line.  I just don’t understand….

It’s not necessarily bad to sit in the cold to watch your team, but it is not fun at all to sit in the cold to watch them lose.

Here’s looking forward to next year, when we will hopefully get our crap together and show those goat lovers over at Navy how we do it in the Army.

Michael

My New Career

Today was the Goat-Engineer game, in conjunction with Army-Navy on Saturday.  Basically, the upper half of the junior and senior classes (cows and firsties) play each other in Women’s Flag and Men’s Tackle football.  I had the pleasure of being on the sideline and working the down marker for both games.

Now, I love football.  I was having an absolute blast running back and forth and changing the down number.  The only downside of course being that it was cold…really cold.

So anyway, having watched a lot of football in my time, I know the rules, so I was quick to catch on with what I needed to do.  That, in conjunction with my excellent spotting skills from my spatial visualization ability to see straight lines (despite the apparent crooked attachment of my mother’s head to her body and her inability to hang a picture straight) caused the referee to say “Good spot.  I’d hire you any day.”

To that end, I have decided to leave West Point and the Army and become a professional down marker man.

Ok, so not really, but it was cool.  Maybe I can do it on the side.

Michael