This may be true, but who tested them? Folsom’s star TE got hurt early in their game. Who else was a passing team on their schedule? Mitty, maybe? Same Mitty that got shut down by St. Francis?
Who tested them? Are you serious, do your homework. Serra is in a league of their own. Salinas is a great second tier team. Serra is 5-6 scores better. Salinas has not seen a team play defense like this crew.
Thank you for proving my point. You can't name a team that's tested them. "Do your homework." lol... keep in mind who you're talking to.
Thank you.
Central Catholic can beat Serra, lead 17-0. Home cooking calls lead to Serra 42-30. Salinas wins and then Serra will be like St. Mary's of Stockton. Thought they would blow up Turlock by 4 td's. Turlock planned better. Serra all of the pressure is on you!!! Salinas has no pressure to win. Wanna play Mater Dei or St. John Bosco and lose 65-0, go for it. I got the Cowboys in another major upset in Northern California.
Watching the Salinas defense in the games/highlights I've seen has been a little nerve-racking at times. But then in key situations, there they are getting pressure, forcing a bad pass, then collecting the interception. It's been bend-but-don't-break, but they haven't seen an offense as balanced as Serra's. They also haven't seen a good passing attack since, probably, Clovis.
Central Catholic is playing good ball right now, no doubt about it. Hopefully, they will give Folsom all they can handle tomorrow. It's interesting that the Calpreps predictions for both of these games are nearly identical.
They defended several power 5 WR/TE’s this year, turned out just fine.
Central Catholic led Serra 9-7 after one quarter but trailed 21-16 at the half en route to a two-touchdown loss. It lost four of its first five games including both games against WCAL opponents.
M.C.fan: Maybe you're thinking of a different game as CC never led Serra by 17-0 [?]. I was impressed by how good CC was and suprised St. Francis was able to defeat them by 35-28 start of season [Serra defeated SF by 28-7]. There were calls in both teams favor in the Serra vs CC game and the game was not quite as close as the score 42-30. indicates. CC got 3 point FG off an INT early while Serra missed an INT and then Serra had 61-yd TD called back for "block in the back" [a 13-point swing in CC's favor]. After the initial CC 1rst quarter lead of 9-7 Serra then led 21-16, then 28-16, then 35-14, then 35-23, then 42-23 in the 4th with CC final score coming with 3-min left in game. Serra had almost double the passing yards of 261 to CC's 139 in the game. I think in a rematch Serra would prevail by at least as much as the first game.
No. DLS and Central Catholic both played Serra. The Padres had just three non-league games. The other two had more. And Serra.
DLS also had ST Mary’s who Beat CC 48-7 or something like that and they played MT as well….I would say Theirs was a little Better then Serra’s….
Name 'em.
I think we're splitting hairs at this point. All of these teams challenged themselves pretty well.
THEOC89 is actually correct overall. It's difficult to judge an uneven number of games factoring in non-league vs league games and my initial calculation was based on the first 3 games for each team. Looking at each teams full schedule you get a better idea of which team had the overall most difficult schedule and I was not far off. Here are the top 4 NorCal team schedules and CC as well. The figure represents the total for each teams opponents rating for the full season and since now at near the end of the season with one round of playoffs it paints an even clearer picture. See what you think..
According to Maxpreps, Flanagan only has 25 receptions this year. 25... in 11 games. That's only 2.3 catches per game.
I'm sure they can get chippy back,I hope not. Just good intense playoff football. Shoreview San Mateo is a proud kind of group, just saying...
Like You Said…. it’s Splitting Hairs at This Point….
Folsom is a much more prolific offense that plays in a much better league top to bottom. Folsom has 4 D1 WR’s including Lyons and a Power 5 QB to boot. The WR had 32 receptions in a running offense. The DLS TE is a ND commit. The WCAL has a number of very good WR’s.
wonderful image of the "New Serra" lol Clarification ; shore view is a neighborhood not a city within San Mateo. Lets just hope these shore view kids/families become positive alumni in the future and give back when they can. Im sure they were given a helpful hand on W20th Ave
The question was whether the Serra pass defense had really been tested. 25 receptions isn’t testing anyone.
