Portsmouth Trojans Football 2011

[Bleeding Red]

Minford handled Portsmouth in the trenches at the scrimmage. Defensively, I was surprised of the arm tackling from Portsmouth even though Minford has hard running backs that dont go down easily.

I was impressed with how Portsmouth's QB threw the 5-10 yard pass. He looked very impressive in some areas. Is he a senior or junior?

Both teams found many areas they need to get better at over the next week. Good luck to the Trojans this year. As always, their stadium is a great place to watch a game, even if it was only a scrimmage. Very impressive!

[Westfan]

Portsmouth has big time problems up front on both sides of the ball. It's gonna be a long season in Portsmouth.

[trojanofthepast]

Minford handled Portsmouth in the trenches at the scrimmage. Defensively, I was surprised of the arm tackling from Portsmouth even though Minford has hard running backs that dont go down easily.

I was impressed with how Portsmouth's QB threw the 5-10 yard pass. He looked very impressive in some areas. Is he a senior or junior?

Both teams found many areas they need to get better at over the next week. Good luck to the Trojans this year. As always, their stadium is a great place to watch a game, even if it was only a scrimmage. Very impressive!

Bleeding Red - You hit the nail right on the head, arm tackling. This has been a problem now for several years. Last years teams couldn't tackle at all and cost them many games. Offense usually isn't a problem at Portsmouth, most time the talent will carry them. But defense is a about effort, desire and execution. I don't think it something that will be fixed in a couple of weeks unfortunatly. Let's hope we can outscore a few people and win some games. GO TROJANS

[TrojanXplosion]

I hear Portsmouth has a very good kicker this year. That leg alone will help the defense greatly.

[Trojan_FB_Alum]

Mason actually didn’t play his best game yesterday. He is better then he showed, everyone has a bad game though, and it’s much better to have it now then in a real game. Even though it was a bad game for him he still made some nice throws, and in a real game I think he would have picked up some more yards with his feet as a few plays were blown dead a little quick to protect the QB. He did have one pick, really he might have put a little too much air under it, but in my opinion it was just an amazing play by the Minford defender.( Great diving catch by that young man) Mason will be fine, and should give us a chance to win games. He was also without the services of Zaide Whitley which is probably our fastest guy, and can stretch the field.
On the offense again we were without Zaide, which is a huge to the offense. From what I saw there were some things we did against Wellston, that were successful that we didn’t run at all or very little. Portsmouth has always been known to a very watered down version of the playbook when scrimmaging other local teams, because we like try and hide some stuff. I know that I personally saw coaches from West, and Jackson both there and I would assume there were others. Why give up everything you got in a game that is really a practice.
The offense has to do better up front. Mason can’t run for his life every play, and Duke Johnnie and Zaide will have no chance of running the ball if we can’t at least neutralize the line of scrimmage. I know we seem to still be trying to see who is going to be the final line up here. Who all is out there and who are our other options? I know we have JW Horsley, Kyle Ratcliff, Tyler Scott, Alex Grashel, and I think Andrew Hutchins.
On to the defense, what can be said really? It was a horrible display of tackling, and the Dline much like the offense could do little to nothing. Minford had a guard that would set light every time he was pulling (something I’m sure they will notice and fix) all we needed to do was watch him then we could have known right where the ball was going. We couldn’t and didn’t, and Minford ran wild. We have to be able to pick up on things like that, and we need to be able to read our keys better. Linebackers can not stand flat footed and wait to get blocked.
One bad scrimmage doesn’t sink a team’s season. Regroup and fix what went wrong and come out swinging next time.

[biggdowgg]

I would have liked to see Johnnie Charles get more touches
, I have watched him through jr high and as a freshman and this kid will give you all hes got on every carry, I like Wayne cathing the ball on the sidelines, he can make people miss and turn it into a big gain at any time, also I think L J Adams will have a big year at the receiver spot if we can give mason time to throw the ball

[Ptown Playmaker]

agree dowgg........would love to have him on defense as well.

[PTrojan59]

I as well seen some coaches and kids from other schools there. We are a much better team than we played like yesterday. Zaide is our fastest player and a big time target for Mason. Mason did well but i know he can and will play better in the future. The deffense were just getting pushed backed on every snap. We had huge gaps in the middle of the deffense and the Minford backs was going up the middle then cutting to the outside. I know they ran the same run play 10 times and Portsmouth never made any changes to try to stop it. I think we will get better as the year goes on and i like being the underdog. Good luck to Minford this season lets end the summer with a good showing out at Valley Trojans !

[FarAwayFalcon]

Minford handled Portsmouth in the trenches at the scrimmage. Defensively, I was surprised of the arm tackling from Portsmouth even though Minford has hard running backs that dont go down easily.

I was impressed with how Portsmouth's QB threw the 5-10 yard pass. He looked very impressive in some areas. Is he a senior or junior?

Both teams found many areas they need to get better at over the next week. Good luck to the Trojans this year. As always, their stadium is a great place to watch a game, even if it was only a scrimmage. Very impressive!

Bleeding Red - You hit the nail right on the head, arm tackling. This has been a problem now for several years. Last years teams couldn't tackle at all and cost them many games. Offense usually isn't a problem at Portsmouth, most time the talent will carry them. But defense is a about effort, desire and execution. I don't think it something that will be fixed in a couple of weeks unfortunatly. Let's hope we can outscore a few people and win some games. GO TROJANS

Couldn't agree more trojanofthepast. Arm tackling was a huge problem. Also the Portsmouth D-Line looked to be at a significant size disadvantage. You can get away with small when your quick, but the Minford O-Line beat them to the point of attack almost every single time. To me that is alarming, you can't really coach up quickness this late that needed done in March and April with strength and agility drills.

You're right that talent on O will carry you a lot, they will score points this year no doubt. Trojan fans better buckle up for some combined scores of 70 or more this year IMO. I wouldn't hit the panick button just yet, but they have some serious issues to correct and in a hurry. Their schedule is very tough and some of those teams will flat out abuse that D.

Good luck to the Trojans. Maybe there could be a playoff meeting between the schools this year.