August 18, 2023 Marietta 18 - 21 Fort Frye

[EasternDspy]

Marietta running the Wing t will work in the Cadets favor. I do think this game will be close.

[boss8]

Regardless of outcome, I am glad they are playing. Good for the county and will be a great gate I'm sure. FF will be tough to beat for sure, but I hope it's a good game.

[EasternDspy]

Rough night for the Cadets as they lose Jamboree to Morgan 27-7.

[EasternDspy]

Fort Frye will have a good team they are just going to have some growing pains early.

[E High]

Any word on how Marietta’s 2nd scrimmage went ?

[TomcatFootball11]

Fort Frye will have a good team they are just going to have some growing pains early.

Good luck to the Cadets this season!

[boss8]

Any word on how Marietta’s 2nd scrimmage went ?

I shared my thoughts in the “Jamboree Results” thread. First post.

[E High]

Thanks

[pioneer19]

The Morgan-Fort Frye scrimmage surprises me a bit. Coach Bowman has done a great job reviving Morgan's program and I look for them to contend for the MVL small school title this year, but starting to think Fort may be in a bit more of a rebuild than I expected. Will still be a really tall task for Marietta. Don't want to overreact to scrimmages but struggling against Cambridge is concerning. Regardless, really looking forward to this one.

[beg003]

I think this one will be closer than I first anticipated, but it’s hard to go against Fort Frye in this game. Classic example of a program learning to win and compete and a program that expects to win. Hopefully it’s a great game.

[EasternDspy]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

[Dundas]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

Marietta won two games last year by a total of 18 points. No way this isn’t a running clock for Fort Frye. They have the best program in SEO.

[pioneer19]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

I think this will be lower scoring as well. Marietta's defense should be solid, the offense will be the question imo. If 2023 Marietta's offense looks anything like 2022 Marietta's offense, I think this will be 21-7 type of game in favor of the Cadets. If the Tigers show they've made some strides since last season and their playmakers get the ball and make some plays, things could get interesting.

[boss8]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

To be fair, Marietta also ran an extremely vanilla game plan against Cambridge. Most people do in scrimmages. It is good for context, but Fort doing so is not unique by any measure.

[EasternDspy]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

To be fair, Marietta also ran an extremely vanilla game plan against Cambridge. Most people do in scrimmages. It is good for context, but Fort doing so is not unique by any measure.

That was my point no reason to over react to a scrimmage.

[beg003]

Fort really did move the ball well with some basic offensive plays they just couldn’t get big first downs. Only ran like 2 pass plays. They didn’t play well they need to come up more fired up. This is first ever TSL game in football. Marietta running the wing T plays into the Cadets hands. I’ll take Fort Frye by 7 in a lower scoring game. Fort will still have the 2 best players on the field in Clayton Miller and Graham Baker

To be fair, Marietta also ran an extremely vanilla game plan against Cambridge. Most people do in scrimmages. It is good for context, but Fort doing so is not unique by any measure.

That was my point no reason to over react to a scrimmage.

That’s why the Morgan score doesn’t tell me much about FF. Is it surprising? Yes. Do I think that would be the score in a real game? Absolutely not. No one is getting anywhere near the meat of their playbook in a scrimmage or jamboree.

[Ff3233]

Ff going to struggle this year, particularly first game with missing players. Hopefully by end of year will be better

[MOVSPORTS]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Marietta win this game. They return all their talent from last year and are healthy. FF has been the standard but it’s so hard to sustain that success especially with limited numbers at a smaller school. I’ll take Marietta 19-14

[Wildcatone]

Question for the Marietta residents. Does the Marietta Times even cover Tiger Football anymore ? I'm seeing quite a bit of Williamstown football coverage but sadly not very much on the Tigers. Is the Times owned by the Parkersburg newspaper nowadays ? So much West Virginia coverage in the Times nowadays.

[EasternDspy]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Marietta win this game. They return all their talent from last year and are healthy. FF has been the standard but it’s so hard to sustain that success especially with limited numbers at a smaller school. I’ll take Marietta 19-14

You sure Marietta is healthy ?