Belfry DE and Class of 2020’s three sport competitor…Dylan Goff

We have before talked on KPGFootball about the demand for kids who compete more than in just one season per year. It isn’t that the recruiters really care whether you happen to be good at the other sports, it is they want kids who regularly compete. Dylan Goff is certainly such a kid.

Today, up in the mountains, Dylan Goff and his teammates on the Belfry track & field team will be competing in the regional track & field championships. Goff runs the 400 meters and has a best of 52 seconds. He will be looking to clip 50 seconds today.

Dylan, who’s listed at 6-3 and weighs in the 190 pound range played 8 games this year on the varsity basketball team. True, he’s a long way from a hardwood star, but he competes.

On the football field, Goff was the 8th leading tackler on the defense with 66 stops in 2018. However, stats alone don’t tell the tale of any football player and the boy’s film tells us much more about him.

Undisciplined ends, the type who get you beat, attack through the inside shoulder of the offensive player blocking them attempting to straight line it to the ball carrier or QB, whatever the case may be. The problem with that is one is running to where the player presently is, not where the player is going.

Listen up kids, in football we don’t run to where the player is. He isn’t standing still in all but very few exceptions. In football, we run to where the runner is headed.

Now, watch the film on Goff and notice this…anytime he comes under the blocker he has containment help outside of him in the way of an OLB. In every other instance the kid is playing off the end, outside-in, not inside-out. He explodes through the outside shoulder of the blocker, turning the play inside into the pursuit, as opposed to letting the play flank him where it is smooth sailing to the end zone.

Like so many Belfry kids, the play of Dylan Goff tells me he plays with excellent discipline and he’s been well coached. While he may have tallied 66 tackles from the end-slot and only one behind the line of scrimmage, he factored in many more plays than that with his disciplined, assignment-driven play.

Guys like Dylan Goff deserve recognition. Guys like Dylan Goff deserve to win. Good luck in the regional track meet today Champ!

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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