Everyone knows the main sportsmanship rules of all sports that are played. When you think of this rule you think of the popular phrase “you win some, you lose some”. This is a phrase that is not accepted very much by the Jamaica High School Varsity Football Team. Ending the season with the best record in Queens, 7-1, it was hard to figure out how and why we lost that one game. The one game all through the regular season we lost, and our only lost was to the John Adams Spartans. You might think “you lost because the other team scored more points”. Yes. That is right but how did all of this happen. Why didn’t we score at all or why didn’t we score more than them. You can also think of it the other way around, how did they score more than we did. The ending result overall is that we lost, but the reasons are not so simple.
Over the season we averaged about 200 yards per game rushing. After that game was over we only had 45 yards rushing. Now everyone blamed it on the offensive line, and as apart of the offensive live I have to say that we did make some mistakes. Even with those mistakes it all was not our fault. We tried to tell them some of the things we saw but they just would not listen to us and kept running plays that the John Adams defense was ready for. Our lead rusher only had 8 rushing yards that game out of the 8 times he carried the ball. He did gain some yards on some plays but on all his other rushes he lost yardage. A not so well performance by our offense was one of the reasons but there were others.
The Spartan defense was a good defense that was prepared and ready for all the plays we threw at them. Throughout the whole regular season in all of our game our quarterback we never sacked, except for that game. That game the Spartans had 6 sacks on or quarterback. Their defense blitzed through all the right gaps every play and gathered up many sacks and tackles for a lost. That game their defense had a combined 78 tackles and over half of them were for a lost. They also had 1 interception which they ran back for a great number of yardage.
Our offense is not the best in the world but we do have many good plays that are hard to stop. That game we had a lot of miscommunication and we were not working as one unit. Their defense was ready and knew how to stop most of our basic plays. With the combination of our stumbling offense and their prepared defense we ended up losing the game. We all came together and talked about the game. Many finger were pointed at who made what mistakes but the main result is that the TEAM lost and the TEAM made mistakes. We all except this lost but we don’t want to accept the saying “you win some you lose some”. Losing is not an option and the last thing we want to do is lose. We do though accept that we didn’t play well and we lost.
