[#55PirateFan]

Yea the small portion of games I've watched I thought that might be one weakness belfry does have, is defending the pass. But I have seen very little of belfry. A couple years ago when they came to corbin, I thought they were a little weaker on the pass, as far as technique and actual coverage. But they had such a good Dline and great athletes as DB's it kind of covered it up. But it'll get better as the season goes. The only cure is more reps in games, so they can get the feel for it and reading different QB's. But you've always got great athletes and an outstanding coach, so im sure he'll fix it or find an ingenuous way to hide it at least. But all in all, those short routes are hard to cover in HS. Kid's are afraid to give up the home run so they play a little off and safer and then get hit on short passes. I guess its a catch 22 for everyone in high school. I'm not gonna lie, I think we have a great defense. We held beechwood to 14 points, but they done kind of the same thing to us tonight. Hit us with slants and comeback routes. We stopped a lot of them, but they made some outstanding catches tonight with coverage right on top of them. But they still was hitting some of them with no room. Just a hard thing to stop in general I guess. congrats on the win though.

Yeah, your assessment is spot on my friend. Pass defense is our Achilles heel right now. And theres one big difference in our present pass defense than the one you saw when we came to Corbin: we dont have that dominant D-Line with Raquan Horton and Cole Bentley anymore to make up for it. Lol! But we do have some outstanding athletes at DB and safety. Just not the size we'd prefer. But like you said, game reps will defiantly make them better. I agree with you to about the short passes, slants, etc being one of the hardest to defend against. It seems it's like that at every level. We'll just have to see how it all plays out. I'm sure you'll agree, its going to be fun to see just how the season is going to unfold and will definitely be an exciting November! Congrats to your Hounds to. I'd loved to have been at that game tonight. Sounds like it was a good one. Like I said man, I dont see Corbin losing a game on their schedule and I'm still sticking by that statement. I got a gut feeling this is the year you guys have been waiting for, I really do. My Pirates have won a few trophies recently, Boyle got theirs last year. So if my Pirates do get beat out I'll be a Corbin fan all the way.