Tuesday's practice was a little nightmarish. The boys are getting restless. I installed a pro-set series, where the receiver lines up, goes in motion, and essentially lead blocks on the play. Fairly easy concept, but we were having a number of headaches with it. Carlos and Noah look to be our main receivers with this, JD and Bryce the backs. Nick T and Jacob are other options at receiver, but I doubt I use them there. They worry me a bit.
I had to try and get a receiver out there instead of 3 backs due to Carlos's mental state and Connor being out for the game.
To top off the bad practice, we couldn't practice Thursday due to rain. The boys came out, we watched the White Hawk tape and the Steelers, who we play this week.
It was painfully clear that the White Hawks won because of superior blocking. I pointed out over and over where someone hit a guy for a second and let him go...and that guy made the tackle. I hope we are a little more resilient in our blocks today.
The Steelers are 2-5, and look eerily similar to us. They've beat the two teams they should have beat (those teams are 0-14 combined), but didn't beat the rest. They're very simplistic on offense and defense. We should beat these guys handily as we march to the playoffs.
Speaking of, it looks like we're almost guaranteed to be in the 3rd of 5 brackets. I really don't see a scenario where we sneak into the 2nd bracket.
As of right now, that bracket consists of two teams we've played and beat, though I'd be nervous to play them again at this point.
Here are the standings as I know them. There are about 3-5 games where I had to 'assume' a team won. In almost all of the games, I'm positive I'm assuming right. Ties count as half a win...which is figured in. 4 teams in each bracket.
| W | L | T | PCT | Opp W | Opp L | SOS |
| SG 1 | 6 | 0 | | 1 | 18 | 21 | 0.462 |
| Tigers | 7 | 0 | | 1 | 17 | 29 | 0.37 |
| White Hawks | 6 | 1 | | 0.857 | 16 | 24 | 0.4 |
| Bulldogs | 6 | 1 | | 0.857 | 17 | 26 | 0.395 |
| Titans | 5 | 1 | | 0.833 | 10 | 29 | 0.256 |
| Trojans | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.75 | 16 | 28 | 0.364 |
| Red Hawks | 5 | 2 | | 0.714 | 13 | 29 | 0.31 |
| SCAC 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.7 | 16 | 18 | 0.471 |
| SCAC 1 | 4 | 2 | | 0.667 | 14 | 25 | 0.359 |
| Vols | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0.583 | 28 | 17 | 0.622 |
| Blue Hawks | 4 | 3 | | 0.571 | 24 | 22 | 0.522 |
| SCAC 2 | 3 | 3 | | 0.5 | 16 | 23 | 0.41 |
| Eagles | 2 | 4 | | 0.333 | 23 | 16 | 0.59 |
| Steelers | 2 | 5 | | 0.286 | 23 | 20 | 0.535 |
| SCAC 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0.25 | 24 | 12 | 0.667 |
| SG 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0.083 | 27 | 15 | 0.643 |
| Raiders | 0 | 7 | | 0 | 32 | 12 | 0.727 |
| Colts | 0 | 7 | | 0 | 32 | 14 | 0.696 |
| Seahawks | 0 | 7 | | 0 | 27 | 17 | 0.614 |