Yesterday, the Delco Monarchs, paid a visit to the Kingsessing Roadrunners as a part of a home and home agreement between the two head coaches and organizations. The funny about it this game is that it is starting to become a little bit of a rivalry between the two neighboring Pop Warner affiliates which are only separated by 5 or 6 miles but play in different leagues. We always welcome the work especially in the preseason Coach Greg said. And I knew they would be fired up because our 120's rough them up pretty good on Tuesday.
As expected, the Roadrunners came out very very aggressive while the Monarchs appeared to be a little flat. I don't think we adjusted to the tempo of the game quick enough. This was the general consensus of the coaching staff. I mean they did not do anything special offensively. They appeared to make some adjustments to our defensive scheme / pressure but to be honest, we just missed a lot of tackles and we loss gap control today. The young Monarchs were not focused. Bottom line. I'm not going to take anything away from the Roadrunners new assistant head Coach Charles said but they only had three good plays from the line of scrimmage. And, on one play which resulted in a touchdown, the score came against our second team defense unit. We stopped them dead in there tracks and we dominated them on the line of scrimmage all evening long. They know it and we know it. That was evident, when the Monarchs had a first and goal inside the five and scored on the next play from scrimmage. Everybody at the field knew we were running the ball and they could not stop J. Pickens who plunged in from a yard out.
For those who want to keep score, the finally tally was the Roadrunners 18 and the Monarchs 6. I'm not going to sugar coat anything Coach Greg said after the game. We won the battle and they won the war. But, I saw a lot of good things and a few bad things all of which are correctable in practice.
Speaking of practice, the Monarchs resume practice Saturday at 11:00am for the 120 & 160 pound weight classes. Please note the Monarchs 120's are on the road against 69th street Wildcats tomorrow night under lights on 69th Street Blvd (accross from the Pathmark) . And the coaching staff has a surprise. CAN U SAY ALL PURPLE??? Yes, the Monarchs will be sporting the there 2208 new look tommorrow. Shout out to Thane C. Martin, CPA for the donation.
GO MONARCHS!!!!!
As expected, the Roadrunners came out very very aggressive while the Monarchs appeared to be a little flat. I don't think we adjusted to the tempo of the game quick enough. This was the general consensus of the coaching staff. I mean they did not do anything special offensively. They appeared to make some adjustments to our defensive scheme / pressure but to be honest, we just missed a lot of tackles and we loss gap control today. The young Monarchs were not focused. Bottom line. I'm not going to take anything away from the Roadrunners new assistant head Coach Charles said but they only had three good plays from the line of scrimmage. And, on one play which resulted in a touchdown, the score came against our second team defense unit. We stopped them dead in there tracks and we dominated them on the line of scrimmage all evening long. They know it and we know it. That was evident, when the Monarchs had a first and goal inside the five and scored on the next play from scrimmage. Everybody at the field knew we were running the ball and they could not stop J. Pickens who plunged in from a yard out.
For those who want to keep score, the finally tally was the Roadrunners 18 and the Monarchs 6. I'm not going to sugar coat anything Coach Greg said after the game. We won the battle and they won the war. But, I saw a lot of good things and a few bad things all of which are correctable in practice.
Speaking of practice, the Monarchs resume practice Saturday at 11:00am for the 120 & 160 pound weight classes. Please note the Monarchs 120's are on the road against 69th street Wildcats tomorrow night under lights on 69th Street Blvd (accross from the Pathmark) . And the coaching staff has a surprise. CAN U SAY ALL PURPLE??? Yes, the Monarchs will be sporting the there 2208 new look tommorrow. Shout out to Thane C. Martin, CPA for the donation.
GO MONARCHS!!!!!
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