Week 1: Chesapeake at Portland
Portland is the defending division champion, and we are in some midst of rebuilding – so there’s little expectation here. We will run a more conservative offense than our norm, as we start out young QB Brent Sedor right away. Looking at my roster, especially along the defensive front, I’m just unconvinced that we are anything more than a marginal playoff threat if things go well this year, so we will be focusing much more on getting young players working together and developing – with hopes that we can acquit ourselves okay this year, and be in better shape for the years beyond. We’re not tanking – we still will be fielding a pretty solid team, but we might be effectively dropping a win or two by focusing on younger players where it’s reasonable for our longer term future.
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Box Score: Chesapeake at Portland
Portland, OR.
Week 1, 2009
Attendance: 67,100 (79,700).
Weather: 74 degrees, rain.
2Q: 14:34 CHE - David Everhart 48 field goal.
2Q: 08:47 POR - Matt Atkins 12 pass from Benjamin Fuller.
2Q: 08:47 POR - Tyrus Foley extra point.
2Q: 07:21 POR - Isaac Mansour 20 pass from Benjamin Fuller.
2Q: 07:21 POR - Tyrus Foley extra point.
3Q: 02:45 POR - Malcolm Reese 40 pass from Benjamin Fuller.
3Q: 02:45 POR - Tyrus Foley extra point failed.
4Q: 12:44 CHE - Jimmy Castellano 9 pass from Brent Sedor.
4Q: 12:44 CHE - David Everhart extra point.
4Q: 09:11 POR - Tyrus Foley 43 field goal.
4Q: 06:32 CHE - David Everhart 36 field goal.
Game MVP: POR 17 Benjamin Fuller
Chesapeake 0 3 0 10 - 13
Portland 0 14 6 3 - 23
Team Statistics CHE POR
First Downs 15 19
Total Rushes 23 37
Rushing Yards 80 122
Yards Per Carry 3.4 3.2
Pass Attempts 26 27
Completions 13 19
Passing Yards 162 251
Yards Per Attempt 6.2 9.2
Sacked 5 1
Yards Lost 32 5
Interceptions 0 0
Fumbles/Lost 2/1 2/1
Total Plays 54 65
Total Yards 210 368
Yards Per Play 3.8 5.6
3rd Down Plays 4/12 6/14
Avg. YTG on 3rd 12.1 6.1
4th Down Plays 0/0 0/1
Penalties 6 9
Penalty Yards 50 48
Avg. Drive Start OWN 30 OWN 30
Time Of Possession 25:30 34:30
Chesapeake Individual Statistics
Rushing Att Yards Avg Long TD
44 Briner 12 39 3.2 18 0
47 Wunderlich 6 12 2.0 3 0
16 Sedor 5 29 5.8 8 0
Passing Att Comp Yards Yd/Att Long TD Int Sckd
16 Sedor 26 13 162 6.2 24 1 0 5
Receiving Catch Yards Avg YAC Long TD
44 Briner 3 29 9.6 4 14 0
80 Castellano 3 49 16.3 5 24 1
86 Napiecek 3 51 17.0 9 21 0
81 Berkey 2 23 11.5 3 16 0
42 Emerson 1 4 4.0 0 4 0
87 Hudson 1 6 6.0 0 6 0
Punt Returns Att Yards Avg TD
87 Hudson 3 30 10.0 0
Kick Returns Att Yards Avg TD
36 Carr 2 44 22.0 0
33 Lee 2 52 26.0 0
Punting Punts Yards Avg Long In20
6 Embry 6 218 36.3 45 1
Kicking FG FGA Long PAT Att
19 Everhart 2 2 48 1 1
Defense Tackle Assist Sack Int IntYds IntTD
59 McKenzie 10 3 0.0 0 0 0
36 Carr 7 2 0.0 0 0 0
58 Galvan 6 5 0.0 0 0 0
34 Nave 6 2 0.0 0 0 0
98 Hall 5 1 0.0 0 0 0
56 Kuykendall 4 1 0.0 0 0 0
31 Padgett 4 1 0.0 0 0 0
76 Linquist 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
21 McCartney 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
72 Kershner 2 1 0.0 0 0 0
90 Kleinsasser 1 3 1.0 0 0 0
88 Rego 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
27 Threlkeld 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
57 Dennis 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
99 Wiseman 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
79 Tilton 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
35 Scanlon 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
32 Webb 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Miscellaneous Fumb FForc Recov MiscTD KeyRBlk SckAlwd
75 Burns 0 0 0 0 0 1
54 Turnbull 0 0 1 0 1 2
66 Schmit 0 0 0 0 1 2
44 Briner 1 0 0 0 0 0
90 Kleinsasser 0 1 0 0 0 0
57 Dennis 0 1 0 0 0 0
33 Lee 1 0 0 0 0 0
79 Tilton 0 0 0 0 1 0
86 Napiecek 0 0 1 0 0 0
So, we get a fairly predictable result here – we are dominated and held in check by Portland, and come up well short in this game. Sedor is okay, no big mistakes, but didn’t really get a lot of help from the running game or underneath play. I may need to get to work tweaking this offense more, to see what we might be able to get working better to help out our young QB.
No major injuries, but we might be working on the game plan a bit in the week(s) ahead.