A good article below on why Philly Waterdogs, shoutout my former teammate Hayes on getting another ring, ends with an interesting note: They Didn't Press Sowers at X I'll leave this one to the guy who knows things: “Manley is a warrior and 10 years ago he would have put CJ in the third row. But not at this time. JT battles Sowers but the pick game is intense with the Waterdogs. It was foolish not pressing X.” So that leads me to ask this group on both sides of the ball, what are your thoughts at X? How would you have game planned against Sowers? Is X over rated/under rated? What do we have on this, I am intrigued. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/why-philly-won-why-denver-lost-the-2026-pll-championship-transition-defense-diverse-offense/90c80ab4-d0ce-4ab3-b8ab-a84781a8fa65

The Farmington v Prior Lake game breakdown that p-mac and I did is now available in our "Film Study" area of the classroom - https://www.skool.com/the-coaches-box-6618/classroom/91ab571f?md=6404f57f56e84dba8de70d68ee66b645 This was a fun one to do - not only because it was a great game, but both @Austin Polson-McCannon and I were able to reflect back on the though processes and real time adjustments we had to make in this game coaching against each other.

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Welcome to the new Coaches Box Platform. We changed from the STAN store as we didn't love the functionality of the platform. Using Skool for the foreseeable future and we will be working to get some of the old content/resources added in as quick as possible