SOMERSET — John Walsh is used to having a whole play sheet as he is known for always having one of the top offenses over his career.
In San Marcos’ scrimmage against Laredo United South on Friday, the head coach went with a skeleton playsheet, meaning the calls were limited and monotonous. His team also was without two of his three core running backs. The Rattlers and Panthers were allotted multiple possessions on both sides of the ball before officially turning on the clock to play a half of football. Throughout the scrimmage, both teams had stretches of good play but each of the head coaches felt what they had seen was enough, effectively ending the game at 14-14.
“As a whole, I'm really pleased with just the physicality and the effort from freshmen to our seniors. I mean, our sub-varsity scrimmage was fun, it's fun having kids flying around everywhere and it sounded different in the varsity scrimmage. I missed it. It just sounded more physical. I was really pleased there,” Walsh said. “We made a bunch of mistakes, too, but that’s why you do scrimmages, so you can make the mistakes now and learn from them. I know some of (the players) were a little mad at themselves but we want you to come out here and do good but then make the mistake now so we can fix it before just the real deal next week.”
