Jaquinden Jackson injury
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What a shame. He is an incredible player. I hope they can beat N Shore without him. The Duncanville defense will really have to step up and they have an incredible defense. They were up 35-0 on Rockwall when he got hurt.
I wonder If it will get to a point where high school seniors will sit out playoffs to protect themselves for college? Or if a university would ever "pressure " them to do so
Family member say it’s just a sprained knee which means there is some damage to the ligaments - MRI on Monday will reveal the true extent.
Unfortunately so many of our QB recruits have suffered injuries during their senior years. Both Hudson Card and JQJ this year. Roschon was injured last year. Sam had multiple injuries. Perhaps because we go after dual threat guys?
Overall, there is a bit of a snake bit feeling. Heck, football injuries happen but losing Derrian Brown to a stroke and DeGabriel Floyd to spinal stenosis at two of our thinnest positions this past year was bad luck.
Just sucks he’s out for the rematch. He was on a damn mission this year
Ya, Duncanville is on a mission. Gonna be tough after losing JQJ. Go Duncanville!
JQJ is downplaying it a bit, or at least making positive posts about it.
Fortunately Card looked healthy against NS yesterday.
We still won't have much experienced depth behind Sam next year which makes me nervius.
High school football cracks me up these days. Let's be honest-- doesn anyone truly believe that there's a team out there today that could have held their own against that 1988 Dallas Carter team?
I went to that game with my old man and little brother. Carter whipped that ass. The movie was complete BS. I'd never seen a team like that and still haven't.
Its not broken or torn (supposedly). Thank God. Card coming in banged up as well. Hopefully by fall camp all is well. We were lucky this year Sam didnt miss a game.
Carter in 88 was very overrated.
Every playoff game they played, was against a team who had to prepare for two teams, because the decision of who would be in the game was made in the courts. Carter was cheating, big time on grades. Failing players were given passing grades to be eligible to play football on orders from their principal. Since they were playing against quality teams who were losing their players to no pass no play in that time frame, it gave them a much easier road.
I've seen over 50 years of high school football in Texas. The most talented team I've ever seen was Earl's senior year at TJT. They had eight guys get a D1 ship, and Earl at running back. Gary Don Johnson. Ronnie Lee. I doubt Carter could have handled them.That, even though a couple of schools played John Tyler pretty tough at the end of the playoffs.
It's very different now than in '88. The mobility of society allows players to gravitate toward 30 great programs in the state. Teams didn't throw the ball around 30 years ago, like they do now, because their players weren't allowed to play together on summer league teams. I don't believe seven on seven in Texas had even started in the state back then.
The great teams now would kill Carter. They had a lot of good athletes, but so do teams now, especially the defending state champ. who with the D'Ville qb injury, are very likely to repeat. I covered a Carter game in 88, and saw at least one other. They were good, but they had a very unfair advantage. I don't believe they'd have won state without it that year, much less against great teams now.
Interesting take. I think Carter had 23 guys set to sign D1 scholarships that year until the arrests started. Jesse Armstead was on that team. Dude was a freak. No pass no play still applies today.
On a different note, if you go back and look at the La Marque teams in the mid nineties, you had a 4A school with barely 1000 kids and 950 were dudes. There were literally no girls in the school. You give me 950 kids and I will put a pretty decent team on the field. I'd call that quite the advantage.
Oh come on lol I was in high school in the mid 90s and got to watch La Marque spank my schools ass every year in district. They had plenty of girls. Not saying that guys didn't move there to play in that program but lets not go overboard.
Also if Hudson Card is banged up he sure didn't look like it against North Shore.
You don't remember all the girls that left la marque because of the "ahem" issues there? And La Marque was eligible to move down the 3A but chose to stay at 4A?
My cousins husband played at Texas Tech and lost 14-7 to the JT team in the state semifinals that year and he said they had a hell of team and Earl was the best player he had played against..
I remember La Marque having major issues with the TEA and failing grades and that district basically disintegrated but I honestly dont remember any sexual deviation type stuff if that's what you mean. I graduated in 97.
In 50 years plus watching, Earl is the best high school player I ever saw. By not a small margin.
If you're old enough, you saw him against the Steelers. You can imagine how he looked against high school players. Still stunning that his high school coach didn't play him much at running back before his senior year, because he (the coach) thought Earl was a fumbler.
You're cousin's husband, off the top of my head, played at Sam Houston in Arlington. I believe that's who TJT played in the semi's. They beat Austin Reagan in the finals in a good game, but Earl helped the Lions pull away in the 4th. I saw him against Plano in bi-district. Truly a game of men playing against boys.
I didn't get that feeling watching Carter beat Plano East 15 years later, also early in the playoffs. I think it was 21-7. A lot of Plano people thought it would have been a nail biter game if they hadn't had to prepare for two teams. That same dynamic was in place until the semi's. I think it was the quarter's when Marshall, also preparing for two, lost to Carter by less than a touchdown.
Carter has had a lot of talented teams over the years. But that was their only team to win all their playoff games, because of a very unfair advantage. To hear them lauded as something great all time, in my view, is just nonsense. And of course UIL took their title away because of the grade cheating, after a few months, and more trips to the courtroom.
BTW, the second best high school player I've personally ever seen is Johnathan Gray. Too bad he had achilles problems. Don't know if he'd have been a bigtimer in the NFL. But he'd have been a great college player. I'm saying that as an OU guy. I don't much like anything about UT. But Earl is respected by everybody.
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I have seen a few of those teams. The Longview game where they lost 10-9 to Odessa Premium in Astro Dome when OP kicker kicked a 63 yd field goal as time expired to win the game. My cousin Mike Mock (Chances father) was on that team. I don't know if you remember the run that Daingerfield had but they put a ton of players into college and pros. Guys like Thomas Everett and many more . They had a playoff game with Gladewater (that year Gladewater was supposed to dethrone Daingerfield) where they were up by like 28 points it appeared to be over and we left and driving home Gladewater scores 28 unanswered to tie the game and Daingerfield ended up wining on penetrations.
Another game that was really good was Longview vs Plano in Texas Stadium. Longview was winning with 13 seconds remaining and Plano on 4th & 16 or so throws into the end zone and the Longview kid could have knocked the ball down but went for the interception and the Plano receiver grabbed the ball and the ref ruled duel possession and Plano escaped but Longview was the better team. Texas High School Football is the deepest in the country and there have been a ton of great games over the years
I covered the Plano-Longview games in '74 and '75. Plano won in Tyler in '74 which was Sammy Bickham's junior year 28-21. Just a tight game.
But as was referenced earlier in the thread, Longview made the semi's in '75, with as good a high school defense as I'd ever seen. Their DL had Hosea Taylor, who was a great player at UHouston when they won the SWC three of their first four years in the confernence. And they had Henry Williams who started at UT at D End as a freshman a year later. They were ranked 1 and 2 in the state, and Longview won big, 26-0. It took that long field goal to knock them out of the playoffs against Permian. In those days, there were a lot of great teams in east Texas. That Longview-Tyler district had three of the best ten teams in the state. Lufkin was in the district. When only one team made the playoffs, some of the best schools stayed home.
I watched Plano beat Houston Stratford in Austin at the state title game when I was in 6th-7th grade. I think I was in 6th. Also watched Willie mack Garza and refugio lose by a field goal that same day.
In an odd twist of fate, when I got to Austin as a freshman, we had a 6th years senior on our team named Kevin watler that had played at Stratford and lost to Plano. I walked up to k watt and told him that I had been rooting for him (because he was going to Texas) during that game. He asked me how old I was when I was at the game and I told him I was in 6th grade. A strange look came over his face as he calculated the math in his head---- he shook his head and then replied "ok, run along freshman".
Card played the last several games in the playoffs. I saw a clip of him scrambling for a TD against NS, foot looks healthy.
Sad to see the predictions were wrong on JQJ. Really sucks for him.
Card would play if his foot was cut off. I'm hoping you're right and he's good to go.
He wasn't running like a player playing through an injury, he looked to be just as fast and agile as ever.
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