Back to Reality

RECAP... AGAIN

I first want to start off by apologizing about not having a post-game for last week's win against Allen. I had created one, but apparently it had never posted. So I will recap it again quickly. Overall it was a easy game for our Patriots. The offense came out firing behind Lukas as he threw for 3 td's. The score was 41-0 at half, after domination on both sides of the ball, along with Freedom capitalizing on Allen's poor mistakes, it wasn't much of a contest. It was nice to see the back-ups be able to get a whole 16 minutes of Varsity football under their belts as well.
FREEDOM-48
Allen-21

Giovarelli chest bumps with Rosado

TBiZ Reportcard: 
OFFENSE- A
DEFENSE-A
SPECIAL TEAMS-A-
STUDENT SECTION- B+


TBiZ Player of the Week: 
Lukas Giovarelli


Back To Reality

As we return back to BASD Stadium for the second consecutive week, we go up against a much more difficult opponent. With Emmaus coming off a strong win over Parkland, they'll be plenty ready to try and continue their hunt as one of the top teams in the LVC. But I believe Freedom is thinking differently. It's truly back to battle in the extremely hard LVC, after last week's easy win, hopefully we'll bounce right back into full gear. I asked Decker (#83) what they have been going over in practice to take down an underrated Hornets team, he answered with, "We have been harping on reading our keys and doing our job.We can't go out of our way to try and make undisciplined plays and make mistakes, because a team like Emmaus will take advantage of it real quickly. I feel confident thought that our team is ready to get the job done."
THE HORNETS

Decker's statement couldn't have hit it on the nose any better. THEY WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MISTAKES. Emmaus is coming into this game with 6 interceptions in their past 2 games. Now that is impressive. So that means they have a solid line up front that will put pressure on opposing quarterbacks, along with a great set of dbacks to pick the ball off. Offensively they have a solid running game, and will also throw the ball with Nick Fick behind center who was named Western Lehigh Exchange Club's offensive MVP(2 rushing tds) not sure what that is or if it is even meaningful, but it's got to be worth something. And the Hornet's are coached by an enthusiastic Joe Bottiglieri. This Emmaus team is no push over.
KEYS TO THE VICTORY
OFFENSIVELY

Freedom has got to come into this game ready to play and ready to put up TD's. They basically had half a game last week, so they should be ready to rumble. Coming into this game Giovarelli is hot, but I believe us running the ball will win us this game. This is no knock on Lukas, because he's got what it takes to throw on Emmaus, but we are a run first team. And with the strong running game we have, if we can light up the Hornets for some quick big gains on the ground, it will open up the pass game nicely for Luke. Eddie Elliott is coming off a little injury, but he is back to full strength so he will be able to run hard like we all know he can.
DEFENSIVELY

Karb rushing the QB

We need to get lots of pressure on the quarterback(Fick). We struggled greatly against the scrambling quarterback in Nosovitch(Central's quarterback), but he is not nearly as good as that stud. If we can cause Fick to throw unwanted and rushed passes(he has been intercepted often), our secondary should do well.
OVERALL
Freedom needs to get past the problem of missing two starting linebackers(O'Donnell & Santiago). Also if we can keep our turnovers to a minimum and keep Emmaus's strong secondary from making any big plays, We should put ourselves in a great position to do very well in this LVC showdown.


TBiZ Predicts:

First Down

This is going to be a very close game the whole entire 32 minutes of football. I believe Freedom is going to have to keep possession of the ball and keep moving the chains consistently. With two teams that are very even in skill and caliber, the name of the game is TURNOVERS. And I believe Freedom will have less turnovers then Emmaus, and Freedom will capitalize on the Hornets. I see Freedom with a 2-1 LVC record after tonight.


FREEDOM: 24
Emmaus: 20