5A Div II Area: MARSHALL Vs. MIDLOTHIAN HERITAGE

WOWWWW! Someone is BITTER!!!!!

Who is lufkin playing this week? I'll wait.

Yeah...we're 5-5. But we were loaded down with heavyweights like Longview and Carthage. I know Lufkin knows a thing or two about getting beat down by Longview as well. We could have loaded down with cupcakes to be 7-3...... but who cares? We're still playing in the second round.

And you'll never see a Mav fan spit in the face of making the playoffs. We were DISTRICT RUNNER UPS. We weren't a three seed. Or a four seed. And we definitely weren't a five seed like some.

And as far as spitting on our playoffs.....

Marshall playoff record since 2015: (7-10)
Lufkin playoff record since 2015: (4-9)

Come down to Athens Friday night and cheer on the Mavs..... unless you have a basketball game to attend.

GO MAVS GO!!!!!!

Just trolling Marshall for no reason.

We're playing this week. They aren't. I don't care if we are (1-11).

We won a playoff game.

Not going to pretend like we haven't had a couple of playoff wins since they've been in the playoffs.

I'm aware we aren't world beaters. We are building something.... moving forward.

Can the troll say the same about their team?

The gall of it......

Midlothian Heritage looks a lot like Whitehouse statistically.

they can be beaten if the Mavs keep their head in the game.

I didn't like the decision to go for it either....not when Marshall had ALL the momentum in the world.

But I don't think that one call cost us the game. There were a lot of factors that lead to what happened.

Our last two drives had some critical mistakes. A perfectly thrown pass was dropped that would have given us a first down deep in MH territory with plenty of time left on the clock.

On the final drive we had first down negated by a huge penalty.

Either one of those drives very well could have tied the game late.

Toss in some missed tackles of the QB in the second half that lead to additional MH scores....and there you have it.

If we had won the game....it was going to be a TEAM effort. And we lost as a team effort. Both the offense and the defense made some critical errors that contributed to the loss.

And at the end of the day..... Heritage made some really good halftime adjustments that we didn't handle very well. They shut us out in the second half.

I hate we lost..... advancing to the region semifinals would have been HUGE for the program. But pushing the #2 team in the state to the brink makes we real excited about the future.

We are going to have a lot of kids back next year.... and we have an (8-2) JV team moving up. And while the freshman team record wasn't pretty....they were VERY competitive in district.

Lots to be excited about in the coming seasons.

That fumble cost us the game.  It was going to be a touchdown if we don't fumble.  There were lots of mistakes that cost us but that fumble was the big one.

Like I said..... if we had won...it was going to be a team victory.

It proved to be a team loss.

The offense had too many mistakes. The defense had too many mistakes. And the coaching made some pretty big blunders too.

It was a sketchy decision. But the coaches weren't the ones that dropped the perfect passes (I recall 2 of them). They didn't miss those tackles. They didn't have bad snaps. And they didn't miss their blocks.

The things we have struggled with all season came to roost....esp the OL blocking.

We had 94 yards rushing on the night because the offensive line  was unable to  get anything to open up.  They were completely dominated by the defense.  We've seen it off and on all season long.  Our offensive line was the reason we lost to Mount Pleasant, the reason we lost to Texas High, and the reason we lost to Heritage.  You can't expect to win a game rushing for 94 yards when you don't have a quarterback that can complete passes downfield.  You can't be a Wing T team and not block.  We didn't block, so we lost.  That one single play didn't cost us the game.