Salutations Mule Fans!
Our football season began last Friday, August 31st, against the 5A Georgetown "Eagles." My report follows:
WEEK 0 - GEORGETOWN 24 and ALAMO HEIGHTS 21
From a top-level perspective this football season began just as it did last year, with a loss to the Eagles. Now, last year's State Champion Team went on to win 14-games in a row. From what this reporter saw during this year's game with the Eagles in terms of our Mule's potential, there is no reason that this Mules Football Team cannot win a whole heck-of-a-lot-of-games this year!
I mean, our Mules entered this game with a lot more unanswered questions than last year's team, and WE ARGUABLY GAVE THE EAGLES A BETTER GAME THAN LAST YEAR, WHERE THE EAGLES ARGUABLY HAVE A BETTER FOOTBALL TEAM! My point being that since the Eagles were 7-on-7 State Champs (which requires very good pass defense) and have a highly experienced Senior Quarterback these are elements that they did not have last year. Our Mules have a LOT to be proud of in terms of their performance.
Lets talk about some of those Mule positives:
- OUR OFFENSIVE LINE WAS AWESOME IN THEIR BEAUTY! My hat goes off to these guys! The Mule's O-Line gave QB Drew Allen ample time to do his passing thing! Drew looked calm and unrushed throughout his first start at QB, and a big part of the credit for this element has to go to the Offensive Line. NICE NICE WORK FELLAS!
- OUR WIDE RECEIVERS CONTINUE TO IMPRESS! Team Captain Cody Courtney caught two "circus catch" touch down passes with 6 catches for 140 yards on the night. Bobby Broadnax got off to a great start, with 5 catches for 80 yards. Finally, Stephen West caught two bee-lines passes from Drew Allen, but made one difficult snag to have 3 catches for 24 yards against the Eagles. Oh yes my friends, our gang can catch that oblong orbus!
- DEFENSE HELD THE EAGLES TO JUST SEVEN FIRST DOWNS -- THAT IS 7 AGAINST A VERY GIFTED PASSING AND RUNNING UNIT!!!!!!!!!!! Our Defense looked stout, keeping the Eagles offense off-the-field, while also making a number of key stops. Example, with our Mules trailing by 3 points with time running out in the 4th Quarter, our Defense stopped the Eagles on its first series, following a Mules punt, and got the ball back into our Offense's hands with about 3-minutes remaining. The Eagles had only one sustained drive into the end-zone the whole night, as the other TDs were scored on a perfect bomb pass and a ~70-yard run from a broken play. Minus those two plays, our "D" would have made the Eagles look silly in their ineptitude against our power Defensive Unit.
In summary, this was a very close game where I truly believe our team "out-played" the Eagles, but just happened to come up short when given a few opportunities to bring home the win. As our beloved Mules gain more experience working together and our WONDERFUL Coaches fill-in the gaps through their instruction to our team, we are talking about bringing some powerful Offense and Defense into District play.... hold onto your hats for the fireworks!
Relative to photos, the wonderful Mary Candee took SO MANY WONDERFUL SHOTS that I could not bring it down to a reasonable number (I picked 50+ photos out of nearly 1000 shots!) to place into the Mule Fan. Hence, I structured a photo album at Mary's home website that can be entered by clicking on this link below. Once you get to the display, you can read all the captions underneath of each photo and double-click on those shots you wish to blow up. Once you double-click on a photo to enlarge it, you can also click on the advance keys to cycle through all the photos... it is a cool system!
So, here is the link:
At the top of this blog installment are some sample shots within the Album. Feel free to call Mary Candee to purchase hard copies of any photo(s) that strike your fancy! Here number is 821-5229.
CLARK INTELLIGENCE REPORT
This week's game is against the Clark "Cougars" of San Antonio, a 5A school in District 28-5A. District 28-5A includes #1 ranked Warren, #2 ranked O'Connor, #3 ranked Clark, #4 ranked Marshall, #5 ranked Jay, #6 ranked Taft, #7 ranked Stevens, #8 ranked Holmes, and #9 ranked Del Rio, as polled by the Express News Sports Staff during pre-season.
This reporter watched the "GUCCI Bowl" of Clark vs Churchill game last week on Thursday, August 30th. Churchill won the game 16 to 14, meaning that a "hungry" Clark team will similarly be entering its game against our Mules at 0 wins and 1 loss.
Prediction... Our Mules will win by two TDs or more. Clark did NOT look sharp against Churchill. They rotate the QB position between Senior Chucko Bernal and a more athletic Sophomore (don't remember his name) that did not appear to work to their advantage. Clark could never catch its rhythm against Churchill. This team is also MUCH SMALLER than Georgetown, appearing to about the size of our Mules team. Clark runs 50% and passes 50%. Our Mules have the Defensive and Offensive fire power to absolutely blow Clark off the field if we play out game.
This week's game is on Thursday at the Alamo Dome (darn near a home field for our Mules looking at how much we played there last season). This should also play into our Mules' hands as we are used to playing at the Dome.
FILM NIGHT
Don't forget film night on every Tuesday night at 7 PM in the Visitor's Locker room. This is a fine way to hear directly from Coach Byrd as to his view of the week's previous game.
OTHER NEWS
Former Mules QB Giovanni Vizza had himself a fine game against the Oklahoma Sooners. He came in during the 3rd Quarter against the Sooners and ran the offense until the conclusion of the game. He helped University of North Texas (UNT) avoid a shut-out against the Sooners (OU's stated defensive goal on National TV was to "shut-out UNT"). Until Gio came into the game the Mean Green looked ineffective on Offense. Upon entering the game, Gio promptly led his unit down the field for a field goal and then on his third offensive series, through a laser-guided-bomb-pass to his receiver for a TD!!!! See:
All for now Mule Fans!!!!
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