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Post game talk with Cannons

Thunder VS Generals

The 2012 football season in Croatia has been a bumpy one to say the least. Despite some adversity we are sitting on a 2-1 Croatian record. As you might have read in a prior post I managed to find myself with a level 3 ankle sprain 5 days before my first official game of the season. Oh the irony....yes I know.  But despite my injury and also a torn Achilles tendon on our other import, the Zagreb Thunder have seemed to rise from our hard circumstances and played some good football and got a couple wins. :D

 The first team we played were the Zagreb Patriots, a well coached and heavily stacked team in comparison. (player numbers, imports, etc) despite me being a little above crippled this game our team managed to rise to the occasion and play semi well vs the what seems to be outright better football team. The final score of this game was 33-0, a score that does not reflect a couple Thunder trips to the red zone and hard fought battle between cross town rivals.

The next game was vs a struggling program the Osijek Cannons, the coaching staff and I knowing that this game was going to be one of our less strenuous games decided that I should not play much because of my recovering ankle but because of an injury to our QB I went in at the end of the game and with a game total of about 8 plays managed to score a touchdown and help lead our team to victory.    The Zagreb Thunder showed flashes of great potential with a couple of very well executed plays and intensity but still lacked the full comprehension of our playbook, (offense and defense).

A week after these 2 Croatian League games, we took a bus to play an international game in Slovenia. Week 3 of the 2012 season we padded up to play the Maribor Generals. This is a team with a talented Slovenian National team ready QB. But this proved to be a challenge on our defense considering we brought 20 total players to the game and ZERO corners but we played relatively good football in comparison to the adversity. I had never in my life felt this shorthanded, but after a 35-18 loss, I was actually quite proud of the guys that came to play because the players with almost no experience in pass coverage managed to do a pretty good job. For me personally this was the first game that I was able to be semi mobile on my ankle and because of that stayed in the pocket as QB most of the game and passed for maybe 200+ yards 1 TD and had 1 rushing TD. Not phenomenal stats, but......starting to show that, Mr. Jones is healing. :)