Week 3 HS recap
I would like the thank the makers of Deep Woods Off for keeping the gnats at bay in Damascus and SGA for showing me yet another blowout game.
Really starting to get angry that every one of our Games of the Week have been blowouts. Can I get one close game, please. Really, any close games. Nothing but blowouts across the area again last night. With region play starting up almost across the board, it should change things up a little next week.
By the way, Monroe at Crisp County and Worth County at Dougherty are the two choices for GOTW next week. Head over to albanyherald.com and vote before Tuesday at noon.
Now, five things I learned this week:
1) Football, and life, are sometimes cruel. An unnamed assistant coach was telling me on Friday that Georgia’s Mike Bobo was telling him Americus-Sumter’s Jonathan Battle is the best defensive tackle in his class in the state of Georgia. The kid was 275 pounds and tracking runners down sideline to sideline. Rumor was the Dogs were about to offer him this month. He was set to go to Athens for the game tonight. However, last night, Battle blew out his knee (at least that appears to be the case). That is the saddest news I receieved in a long time. Not sure how this will affect Georgia’s pursuit, but I would think since they were yet to offer, it will pull them off at least until they get a better feeling on his rehab. Get better, Jon. Can’t wait to see you tearing it up next year.
2) That’s how good Rashad Jackson is. Westover held their star QB out of their game against Mitchell County on Friday for a pinky finger on his throwing hand that he injured the week prior. Suddenly, Westover went from a scoring machine to an 18-7 loser to Mitchell County. No disrespect to the Eagles, but Westover is a better team — at least, with Jackson, as we learned on Friday.
3) Deerfield-Windsor needs to start playing games every other week. The Knights are now 2-2 and have looked like completely different team in even number weeks. They lost to George Walton and FPD the first and third week and blew out Tattnall Square and Stratford on the evens. That is after DWS’ 36-0 victory last night in which Startford shockingly only gave the ball to star running back Marquez Lemon three times in the second half. Three times. Seriously. This was in a game that was 6-0 at the break. As Forrest Gump’s mama would say: “Somtimes, people do things, just don’t make no sense.”
4) Southwest Georgia Academy is for real. SGA put on a show — and not necessarily the one you would expect. Sure Nile Knapp ran for 188 yards on 24 carries, but it was the rest of the team that made the difference in this one. While TA tried to tee off on Knapp, Taylor Tabb went crazy on them. The 68-yard reverse that opened the game was the perfect example. Tabb took the ball from Knapp running the opposite direction with not an Eagle in sight and ran into open space.
Until SGA runs into a team that can overwhelm their O-line and disrupt Knapp without using nine guys in the box, SGA (3-0) is not going to lose.
*Cough*Deerfield*Cough*
5) Region 1-AAA took a step backward on Friday. Between Worth County being beat up, 45-0, by Fitzgerald and Dougherty only scoring two points against Early County, it appears the depth that the region seemed to have is not as strong as it originally appeared.
Both teams are young and have potential to turn it around, but this may not be the year for them to make the playoffs.
