By: Kipp Branch

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

On a great night for football at Glynn County Stadium and also Homecoming the Brunswick High School Pirates laid an inexplicable egg.

The Pirates dropped a head scratching 7-6 contest to the winless Camden County Wildcats to go to 2-2 on the 2016 season.

The Homecoming festivities kicked off on Thursday afternoon with a fabulous parade in downtown Brunswick, and unfortunately the Pirate offense was still there on Friday night waiting for additional floats to travel down Gloucester Street.

Camden coming off an embarrassing 56-7 loss at home circled the wagons and the Wildcat defense just flat out stoned the Pirate offense most of the evening.

The thing that really has me more baffled as I type this article is with the size of the Pirate offensive line the inability to run the football between the tackles. Brunswick flat out struggled blocking Camden all night long.

Larry Harold cautioned this writer all week that this was going to be a slugfest and he was correct. I had chalked this one up all week as a win, and how great it was going to be to get the first win in this series since Bill Clinton was President in 1999. The Pirate beat writer will grade himself also later in this article.

Pirate Report Card: Defense: A

Folks this defense has pretty much been the backbone of this football team in 2016.

This set of linebackers fly to the football and Camden to my knowledge may have not had a single passing yard last night. Football is a team sport, but this unit played like a seasoned deep playoff run caliber unit. Defensive coaching staff had a great game plan.

Offense: F

I cannot for the life of me understand why Brunswick laid an egg on offense last night.

They could not block, missed cutback lanes in the running game, receivers dropped passes, they fumbled the football deep in Pirate territory for the second week in a row, timing was off in passing game, and the most disappointing thing was that Camden’s defense seemed to want it more than Brunswick’s offense.

Hurry up offense needs to hurry up as too much time ran off clock between plays. Yes, this is a harsh grade, but what else could it be. This group needs a gut check this upcoming week.

Special Teams: F

Missed PAT’s have ended up being the eventual difference in two one point losses in 2016. Maybe we do what the University of Florida did in 2015 and have open tryouts for anyone on campus to come out and try and win a job.

Coaching: D

The defensive game plan was great and was executed almost perfect. Offensive game plan was ok and not executed. When Camden stuffed our running game between tackles we seemed to never recover.

Beat Writer: F

Never take anything in life for granted like this writer did regarding the outcome of this game. You would think I would have learned that lesson over the past 3 years by now.

Overall: C-

Only the defense kept this from being an overall F. This was a gut wrenching disappointing loss, but now this can be something this team can rally around.

In life, team sports, etc. how you deal with adversity speaks to your character. I like the make-up of this team and I look for this to motivate this team for the rest of 2016.

The Brunswick High Pirates travel to Guyton to play South Effingham next Friday night. Look for the Pirates to rebound next week. While this loss stings keep in mind that Brunswick does not start the region schedule until October 7th.

Keep your head up Pirate fans.