Modesto Metro

Schedule/Scores

Week 1 Scores
Johansen 15, Sonora 28...Enochs 20, Buhach Colony 34
Grace-Davis 51, Ceres 7...Downey 14, Golden Valley 52
Modesto 27, Stagg 28...Beyer 41, East Union 35

Week 2 Scores
Beyer 38, Buhach Colony 67...Modesto 14, Sonora 43
Downey 35, Ceres 28...Johansen 14, Atwater 49
Grace-Davis 35, Turlock 14...Enochs 13, Rosemont 28

Week 3 Scores
Beyer 31, Atwater 54...Enochs 0, Manteca 56
Downey 35, Pitman 77...Modesto 48, Turlock 28
Grace-Davis 13, Sonora 16...Johansen 44, Golden Valley 30

Week 4 Scores
Enochs 14, Vacaville 49...Downey 43, Patterson 72
Grace-Davis 0, Clovis East 42...Modesto 28, Jesuit 43
Johansen 0, Central Catholic 47...Beyer 11, Edison 33

Week 5 Scores
Enochs 27, McNair 34...Downey 13, Lincoln-Stockton 42
Grace-Davis 21, Lodi 7...Modesto 27, Patterson 18
Johansen 24, Bear Creek 7...Beyer 7, Tracy 49
 
Week 6 Scores
Enochs 48, Beyer 26...Grace-Davis 35, Downey 24
Modesto 48, Johansen 13

Week 7 Scores
Downey 56, Beyer 32...Enochs 39, Johansen 20
Modesto 35, Grace-Davis 0
 
Week 8 Scores
Modesto 50, Beyer 23...Enochs 48, Downey 20
Grace-Davis 44, Johansen 28

Week 9 Scores
Johansen 28, Beyer 27...Enochs 20, Grace-Davis 10
Modesto 65, Downey 28

Week 10 Schedule
Grace-Davis (5-4) @ Beyer (1-8)
Modesto (6-3) @ Enochs (4-5)
Downey (2-7) @ Johansen (3-6)

WHERES THE DEFENSE?

October 16, 2009

It's hard to find an entire league full of team's that seem entirely indifferent to playing defense, but the Modesto Metro just might be one such league.  Only Grace-Davis and Johansen seem to even try to play defense, or see any value in doing so.  Still, even these two teams have had their defensive struggles and given up their fair share of points and yards.  For the rest of the Modesto Metro's teams, especially Beyer and Downey, defense is but an inconvenient side-effect of playing the game of football.  These schools would indeed be happiest playing in a passing league, seven on seven tournament all year long.  At the very best, these schools choose to follow a failed model for success and, at the worst, they neglect the fundamentals of the game in favor of putting together an offensive circus.  The non-league records compiled by these teams thus far this season provide the evidence; Grace-Davis, a running team that focuses its energy on ball control offense and fundamentally sound defense, is the only team with a winning record in a league full of soft, patty cake, circus offenses who throw more interceptions than they attempt running plays.

The very worst of the bunch is Downey High School.  Oh yeah, everybody knows who Downey high school is.  They are the team with the nation's eighth best quarterback (statistically), and two of California's very best wide receivers.  They are the media darlings of this season, with more coverage in local Modesto newspapers and television than any other school by far!  However, they are also a losing, 1-5 football team that has given up over 300 points in six games, by far the worst in the entire section.  The way that this team is glorified in the media is perhaps the most sickening thing that an old defensive player can possibly see, and it is a travesty that mediocre football players can be made into gods because of their fake, inflated statistics and a media infatuation.  I hate to put down anybody, and the players that I have singled out at Downey high school are decent football players...but they are not gridiron gods!  These kids will never play division one college football, and if they do, well it will be a travesty.  The main point here is that the style of football that is largely infecting the Modesto area is a losing style of football.  The fact that this league has gone 9-21 against other leagues that largely play another type of football is testament to this fact.