Palatine 27 - SCN 28 F
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Palatine screwed on a 4th down conversion with a phantom flag and the strip sack was unquestionable. Rough beat
Both game changing calls by the head red well after the fact. Pretty wild
I thought Palatine was up by 2 TDs? Tough to blame the officials when you probably had chances to end the game but instead let a team hang around.
That was some of the worst officiating I’ve ever seen. Palatine Interception in the first half called inc was a for sure catch, palatine td pass called back for holding, palatine converts on 4th and 1 penalty to ice it called a hold, strip sack on last drive for palatine on 3rd down called incomplete well after the play.
Unbelievable.
No doubt. Palatine still let them drive. However, those 2 missed calls on the final 2 drives were indeed backbreakers. And they were rather brutal
When you convert on 4th and 1 to ice it and it gets called a hold…. Cmon.
Well was it a hold? Or are officials supposed to let it slide since it iced the game?
Rewatch the game. I can name 3 other calls that Changed the game for scn. You can say big plays by scn, but this game was over and the refs changed their calls.
I don’t complain about reffing very often. That was brutal
edit. Wasn’t even a hold. Called aiding the runner. Brutal.
Let me throw in that the lack of an adjustment by the PHS Coaching Staff allowing one wideout to dominate a guy half his size for the whole game is not a ref issue. They needed to double the one receiver and PHS wins by at least a TD. The coaching MUST get better.
They're too predictable too.. The 4th down at the end where they couldn't get a yard. That play and formation was run for short yardage half a dozen times.. everyone knew what was coming and all the LBs crashed the line and they stopped them. SCN crashed their LBs all night on obvious runs. I kept thinking they need to line up like that, let the linebackers crash and then throw a little 10 yard slant to Bostick.. if they'd done that Bostick would still be running right now... and those linebackers would stop crashing on every formation that looks like a run.
First drive they swept to Gaspard and on the very next play it was the same formation, faked the sweep to Gaspard and hit Bostick on a wheel route.. 30+ yards... and they never did it again. Sigh
It pains me to say since he is so good at coaching offense, but Donnelly falls into his own trends far too often. Shows up time and again against quality defenses
Well, maybe the officiating gods owed you one. Evanston TD pass end of 1st half called back for holding. From end zone view, sure looks like a clean example of the RT winning the battle and putting the guy on his back 🤷♂️. I don't envy the officials, their job is hard but these games often do come down to critical calls. In any case, came out of that game much encouraged for Wildkits.... we can win a bunch of remaining games if we play that tough (we also need to eliminate personal fouls... think we had 4, I have no reason to believe they were not legit)
They were much better than I expected. Physical and tough team. Best I’ve seen from Evanston in 10 years. I thought officiating was good both ways. Got a little too chippy imo with personal fouls on both teams. I do think Palatine seemed a little distracted from homecoming festivities but I was impressed by Evanston.
Trying to figure out what the problem is with Palatine, starting last season and now this season. Way underperforming for the talent they have.
Theories-
1.) Way too predictable and unimaginative on offense. Second offensive series they run a screen to Bostick and he outruns everyone 65 yards for a score - well, we can't run that again can - and sure enough they never do.
2.) The offensive line has four guys over 275lb, three of whom have D1 committments or multiple D1 offers, yet they don't block that well. Santiago can be a star if given time to throw. Jesse Blake Jr and Gaspard should both have twice as many yards as they do right now. Is it the coaching or the scheme? I don't think multiple college scouts could be wrong, so it's gotta be one of those.
3.) The defense was the weak point last year, and it's not improved this year. Last year the argument was they were mostly juniors or sophomores - can't make that argument this year. We let other offenses get first down after first down and eat up clock. It's how Evanston erased the deficit last Friday. We may need to admit our DBs especially, aren't as good as we thought. Again, three guys back there with D2 or D1 offers, so not sure. Scheme? We don't blitz/disrupt enough. Jaylen Williams ended Evanston's last couple of drives with big sacks/hurries, and actually had the strip fumble that should have sealed a victory over SCN - imagine where we'd be without him.
4.) Just something missing in the team attitude. Palatine has usually had a chip on it's shoulder, and we thought this senior class had it but it's yet to show itself. The last drive on offense after Evanston tied it up was the first time they showed signs of it - lets hope it continues.
All that said, they still have a shot at 8-1. I know Fremd is flying high as well as Barrington - but those two play before either one of them play Palatine - so one of them comes in with at least one loss. Barrington maybe two if Maine South feels like they desperately need to not go to 1-3.
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