Blaster, have you ever thought that maybe our kids may not be getting the proper coaching at the sandlot level?I'm in no way saying they aren't true elite level team's. I'm talking some of the best HS teams ever in 1A in VA. But they do have holes every team does yeah RH went undefeated this year but Galax came real close to to putting a 1 at the end of their record. And RH found Galax's holes and exploited them. That was my point in saying not 1 team we've lost to has went undefeated everyone is beatable everyone. And like you said these are kids they make mistakes so to beat them you have to confuse them. They are 100mph straight at a brick wall every play so you have to get them out of position. You have to force them to make reads on the fly you can't just let them run free. And you don't have to get high tech to do it use a simple I form or offset backfield. Get them going one way with motion and go the other way linemen block down. Backers read it as a heavy set so the go with it by the time they see RB going around the other end with a FB lead they're done. Us TE cross bucks behind those same LBs off of play action and motion. Low tech is simple and it uses the basic of football to beat you. So most of the time if a team is well coached they will rely on basics and simple reads to beat you. When they do what they are supposed they are actually getting out of position. Simple and easy over flashy and high tech all day.
Maybe this could be part of the problem!