The Football Team

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HARD WORK!!!!!

Hard work always pays off no matter what the situation is. Even if we play a team that is most definite we wont be able to beat them, but with the hard work we put in practice pays off in the game. Coach always explains that to us here's an exact quote, "give it your all its all we can ask from you because when it comes to the game the one that works the hardest ends up with the tackle or the yards". So we do our best in practice because when your in the game you will definitely have to do most of those things you do in practice as they say practice makes perfect. So if you think of it the more you practice on something you'll have to do in the game it will become second nature to you. That's what makes us a better team because us as an individual we do our best to get things in our head so we don't have to thing much on the field at a game and all we have to think about is wheres the ball at so u can make the tackle or wheres the defense covering you so you can throw a good pass or catch it or make yards. That's something everybody doesn't realize we work hard theirs just other teams that's more talented then us but we still give that team a hard time. People don't even come to our games to say anything, but this season will show everybody what's going to go down. We also have the same people in the game the whole game so we are tired before the half but thanks to the running we do in the summer we don't get as tired that quick. We like to call hard work in the huddle and make break to it cause it reminds us about all that hard work we put in for the games. That summer activity is a great thing it kills us but its worth it, we like to call it HELL WEEK!!! When we are in the huddle in practice we say 1,2,3, hard work. At the end of practice we say 1,2,3, Lafayette 4,5,6, patriots 7,8,9, together we stand, divided we fall or we say championship at the end.

Summer Is Here

In the summer what we do is we run all day long. Theirs different sights we go to in other words different schools we go to for something called Big Apple. this year we go to Lincoln's field for this activity last year we went to Grady's field for this activity. What we do their is almost like H.S.P.D. just without our pads on. We also do things more as a team than separate and we run mostly the whole day their, then at the end when theirs like an hour left we do 7 on 7's. we are basically all tired that we cant even stand right in our stance or even run cause we did so much running earlier that day. Yes it's tiring but very fun at the end just that you cant give as much effort cause your body is aching so much. During that day we also go to the weight room in that school. Yet again we do it as a team i think that things like this has helped us in working as a team better cause we got to know each other in a way that when the quarter back throws the ball to his receiver he knows where and how to throw it. Linemen and the running backs, the linemen knows how the running backs want and likes their gap to be open. Football is a team sport, one player cant make a difference in a game but maybe that one player can change everybody's attitude on the field so that we can win the game. This activity last for about 2 to 3 weeks I believe. After we done with that we practice on our field and run for stamina again. What we do is we run about 5 or more different stations and thats about half the day. When we're done with that our coach lets us go to the store get something to eat and relax. Then we go back on the field and we start doing more football stuff and throughout the week we get our pads little by little and we start hitting after. Then after like 3 days we run less and do more football things like hit, position drills, and certain plays we go over defensively and offensively. This little activity we do is something like mini-camp then our season is here.         

May Ball Is Over, Time For The Summer

Well now that H.P.S.D. is over teams think about bigger things like for the future, which is the season. Many players on the team cant wait for the season cause we are so confident we're going to start winning. We have 2 scrimmages this year and that means set the tone in those practice games for the season and we can have that intensity for the real games and start off great. We are looking for undefeated this season but we all know that its hard to go from losing to winning, but who knows it was an amiracle that we won 3 games so we can be undefeated. It comes together if you think of it. Im not worried about this season because I'm used to playing on varsity, i had moved up as a sophomore and I'm not the only one we had a freshman move up to varsity as running back, that helped me in a long run just like my coach said it would. The team is ready for the season they can't wait to show the school and other schools in the our borrow and who we play against that we are back ready and improved. We've gotten stronger than what we was. We started practicing earlier than other teams so we can learn more things also get some conditioning so in the summer when we run a lot we don't be as tired as we was last summer.