Last Chance U (2016–…): Season 3, Episode 2 - Humble Your Pie - full transcript
After the rough season opener, Coach Brown questions his D1 transfers. Malik and Carlos face tough love as they fight to meet expectations.
[distant chatter]
One, two, three.
[Paul Holmes] Let's go! On the move!
[Jesse Ornelas] Wake up!
Wake up!
-[whistle blowing]
-[players chattering]
[Jason Brown] I gotta get you where
you couldn't take yourself.
That's why you're here.
After a fucking ass rippin',
let's see how much character you have.
You either fucking shit
or get off the fucking pot.
It's a mental test, baby. Let's go.
Finish! Finish! Finish, dog!
He wanna see who's gonna quit.
I'm telling you, let's go!
-Finish!
-[Brown] That lineman's in great shape.
He can't even finish the drill.
He been just eating burgers all summer.
Let's cut him.
[Keith Donerson] Keep going, jog.
It's not a walk. Jog!
What you doing? Let's go.
Are you power walking, son?
[Donerson] Your fat butt out of shape.
Let's go!
[Brown] Fuck me, man! Let's cut some
of these fat fucks! Ridiculous.
Hurry up, Vega!
Get your fat ass fucking going.
-[Donerson] Run! Let's go!
-Send his ass home!
[Donerson] Run! Everybody else running!
Just stopped. Just quit.
-Wasting my time, son.
-[Brown] He wasted all of our time.
Look, we're outta shape.
We got outplayed as players.
Coaches, we got out-coached.
We got outclassed as a program.
How about you shut up, humble your pie
and get ready to start over?
I'll find 11 dudes that wanna play here.
It's gonna be really cutthroat.
I'mma test your fucking will
everyday this week.
We got a lot of shit to fix.
[marching band playing]
[whistle blows]
[indistinct chatter]
[bell rings]
[all] I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
I appreciate you having me.
It's always a pleasure to come speak.
Uh... I come with great humility today
after our performance last week.
Um, I'm embarrassed,
because it was so out of our character.
The whole thing unfolded from the get-go.
But, you know, Rome wasn't built in a day.
We're still building.
Sometimes, we got great players,
five-star guys
with all these high accolades
and stars after their names and all that,
but stars get coaches fired if they don't
do what they're asked or perform.
Independence has supported us greatly.
I love how you guys have accepted us
and how you are showing up at the game.
So, I want the community to know
to keep supporting,
and we'll get this thing going.
We'll figure out how we get that done.
And, uh... you know, we'll see.
[Barwick]
It's a little bit of déjà vu.
It basically reminds me
of two, three years ago
when, actually, that was the way
many of our games were.
We may not have the right pieces
to the puzzle.
We see all...
[Barwick] It's one thing if, say,
the offense is bad.
That's what you gotta work on
for the next week,
but it's tougher when the offense,
the defense,
and the special teams are bad.
Hopefully, that won't happen again.
We flip it.
[Barwick] The resources the taxpayers pay,
the tuition and fees the students pay,
there's a lot of investment
from a lot of people,
and they don't want mediocrity.
[officer] This is America.
Americans are competitors
and that's the end of that.
Our economy and culture
are built on competition.
So this community is probably
no exception to that.
[man] That's not an ideal
opening-day game, is it?
They were two scores down
about four minutes in.
It was shoulder-to-shoulder,
which never happens here.
One big loss will abate
people's excitement for the team.
I left at halftime.
That's about how I felt about it.
We were expecting
a little bit better than we got.
A lot of guys came here
because of the coach's reputation.
He's got some talent on that team.
[officer] Talent is not enough.
Dealing with young men,
you're pushing them for all they can give.
You don't tolerate it when they
don't provide what you know they've got.
[Sebastian Cole] I'm pretty damn
used to them losing that bad.
I feel like that's our first major loss
of the year and we're gonna have more.
That's just my opinion.
[LaTonya Pinkard]
It was awful. It was awful.
Hopefully they'll learn how to play
together, mesh well and be okay.
-[shatters]
-Ooh.
And life happens,
and you just keep on moving.
[Kingston Davis] That was ridiculous.
I've never lost that bad.
70-21--
[player]
Always a first time for everything.
-We needed that, really, to--
-Yeah.
That brought people down,
out their ways.
[Kingston scoffs]
Yeah. People think they so good.
We got shut down like that.
That bring you back to reality.
We also focus on
getting ourselves out of here.
If we weren't so selfish and was together,
the score would have been the other way.
[Brown] What's up, fellas?
Beat Fort Scott, only thing
that should be on our minds.
Humble pie, all right?
If you guys let the last game define you,
we're gonna have a long year.
Everybody has to be bought in,
or it's not gonna work.
Even if I called the wrong play,
if you fuckers believed,
you'd go through the wall
and get the play done,
come back and say,
"This was the right call."
Even if it was a shitty call.
That's when all the dudes are
invested and bought in. We're not yet.
Can't have dudes doing their own thing
and going against the grain.
We're not all going in the same
direction, right or wrong, we're fucked.
Tomorrow morning is gonna be a gut check.
5:15 at the stadium.
[indistinct chatter]
[Harris] Hey, we're getting started
in one minute. Wake up! Wake up!
-Set! Come on.
-[whistle blows]
Worst performance
of my damn freakin' life, man.
Told the damn coaches, man.
Recruit these cats who come here to win,
but they ain't getting it done.
Kedar, you ain't finishing.
What happen when we keep a stagger?
Can we keep a stagger?
But everybody wanna play!
Everybody wanna play!
But we can't keep a stagger.
Tired of kissing guys' butts
who try to play.
It didn't work the first time,
so why'd I kiss it right now?
'Cause I wanna please Coach Brown?
Hell, no.
[Diaz] Someone's gotta step up.
This is one of you guys' chance
to get a job because it's open.
Be a coachable quarterback
who does what I ask him.
[Bea] Set.
[Diaz] We gotta wake up.
Start getting into it. Let's go.
[player] What's wrong?
Nothing.
Just going through concussion protocol.
-You got a concussion?
-No, but, um...
Ms. Raechal wants me to
sit out right now.
I don't know if it's post corner...
It's post corner, Coach.
It's only three steps.
And then come back outside--
-I don't like that, though.
-Huh?
Wake up. Let's go.
Get out there. Come on.
[Malik] Don't break down at the top.
Gotta sneak that out of there.
-[Diaz] Let's go. Next two.
-[Bea] Set.
[Diaz] Throw it.
[Malik] Hey, give us more room.
Just a little more.
Three steps hard inside.
[player] Tell him to coach
the quarterbacks, Coach. Can you?
[Diaz] Say what?
[player]
Y'all coach the quarterbacks, Coach.
[smacks lips] Bro, all right.
[Diaz] Hey, give me circus.
Give me circus. Circus.
Quick feet, quick feet.
Neither quarterback
has completed that circus route.
-[Bea] I just did.
-[Diaz] It went straight to the ground.
Quarterbacks gotta be coachable.
[Malik] On the offensive side of the ball,
as far as quarterbacks and receivers go,
we're not on the same page.
We don't communicate.
I don't need to be calling the shots,
but I feel like I should be able
to at least help us out a little bit.
[Kerry] Know what you're doing.
[Malik] I can't communicate to them,
because if I do,
it seems like I'm being an asshole
when I'm really not.
Yeah.
I'm trying to get us better.
I was at Florida State.
I've seen what a winning team looks like,
how they're supposed to practice,
and it's not like this.
[Kerry] Not even close.
[Jason Martin] Focus!
[Malik] That makes me not wanna even play.
[Carlos] That's because
you put DBs back...
-[Martin] Here we go.
-He dropped that.
[Martin] Here we go.
[Raechal] Let's talk about
the dropped balls from wide receivers.
-[Carlos] How many?
-[Martin] Be quiet,
take one back in the game
and then talk to me.
-Right.
-Chill.
Tell him to block for me.
This is what I realized, Coach.
This is my conclusion.
They block for everybody else,
'cause they watch me trying to make moves.
That's why they not blocking.
They watching me make moves.
[Brown] Jesse. Jesse.
Where's, uh, Kingston?
[indistinct chatter]
[Kingston] God, please.
[clicks tongue]
Coach, why you ain't answer my call?
I called you, too.
[Harris] I'm a real coach.
I don't bring my phone on the field.
My car broke down all the way over there.
We had to walk.
Good exercise.
[player] What happened?
Like, I'm riding down the road,
it starts slowing down,
like, my computer start flashing
and glitching and stuff like that.
When I pulled over, it shut down.
[Brown] That's a sign you shouldn't have
had the car here.
When you bring a ton of talent in,
they think they're better than they are.
The cancer may saturate throughout.
Rakeem Boyd, Kingston Davis,
big-time high school stars.
Went to Michigan,
one went to Texas A&M.
I don't know if talent
can equal one's character or heart.
Rakeem hasn't practiced all week.
Inexcusable.
A lot of these Division I guys,
sorry to say, they're broken.
-What do you think it is right now?
-[Raechal] An ankle sprain.
I would like for you to hold it there,
so I can tape this ankle.
[Boyd] What do you think the percent is?
How sprained it is?
It's a Grade 1, where you have...
you've had recurring ankle sprains
here before,
but you have good strength in it.
You need more control.
[Boyd] This shit tiring.
[Raechal] I know.
That's why you're doing it.
-[Boyd] Will I play a lot?
-[Raechal] I hope so.
Keep the ball in your hand,
you'll play a lot.
[chuckles]
You would.
[Carlos] Oh, no,
this thing's 48 degrees.
-[groaning]
-[Raechal] You are so dramatic.
Man, us skinny people
are not made to be in this.
[Raechal] The girl that was in here
before you just hopped in and sat.
It's all good. It's all good.
-[Raechal] Is it?
-It's all good.
More power to her.
More power to her.
[Calvin Jackson]
My joint is swollen all over.
My good leg, my joint was like this.
My bad leg, it was like this.
[Brown]
What's Calvin Jackson's real deal?
[Raechal]
He has a significant hamstring strain.
He don't wanna practice.
[Brown] You never know with him.
You don't know if he's soft.
You think you can not practice
and play at Washington St?
I'm not doing it on purpose.
I'm hurt.
-I wanna make sure you fight through it.
-Yeah.
I'm gonna start cutting dudes.
You know the deal.
My gut is telling me
we've got the wrong nucleus.
[Holmes] If you don't go hard in practice,
how do I expect you to go hard Saturday?
Our guys feel like they have a switch
they can turn on any time.
I would try teaching them, you know,
There ain't no such thing as a switch.
You gotta bring it every day.
Bad news. I can't practice or play.
[Raechal] What?
How did this come about?
I got the flu, so no practice.
When was the last time you had a fever?
-[Emmit] Yesterday.
-[Raechal] Let's see if you have a fever.
[beeps]
[Raechal] No. 97,5.
[Brown] This shit, it's crazy, man.
How many big-time D-I transfer freaks
are playing?
-I don't know.
-[Brown] We got 27 of them.
Not one of them are playing, though.
They don't make it. They're broken.
They're fucked.
Malik Henry, who's a fucking borderline,
being kicked out any minute, who else?
[Ornelas] Carlos.
Carlos Thompson,
who ain't played in four years.
He's 22 years old. He's a derelict,
ready to go home. Who else?
-[Ornelas] Kingston Davis.
-[Brown] He's a fuckstick.
He can't do right.
He's missed how many times?
He's late how many times?
He is an epitome of a fuckstick.
So, fuck 'em.
Who else?
-[Ornelas] Rakeem.
-Rakeem Boyd's a fucking holy fuckstick.
-[chuckles]
-[Brown] Boyd's broken, bro.
I don't know.
You've got a bunch of broken dudes.
We don't have a D-I transfer worth shit.
We don't have time to fucking fix 'em.
[Harris] None of 'em really played
on the field, for a reason.
[Brown] Yeah.
No transfers are panning out.
So, who else?
How many guys do we have
that we can live with?
-[indistinct chatter]
-[whistle blows]
[Manoa Latu]
Bobby, remember this dude can run.
So you gonna take off, he gonna do this,
and then run right up the middle.
[Bobby Bruce] First game,
we got blown out. I barely even played.
I don't just wanna be on the sideline.
I wanna be in there.
-[Brown] Bobby playing?
-I wanna give him reps.
A bit more reps this week, but...
At least I know he'll go down there
with reckless abandonment.
How many guys like that you got?
When I let him hold the line, cut him?
Yeah. That's why I want you
to meet him there and cut him.
[Jamal] All right, man.
-[Diaz] Very good.
-[player 1] Let's do it.
-[player 2] Come on.
-[Diaz] Good.
Jamal Scott is better than them.
He's just a dude.
He's hard to tackle, deceiving speed.
He's just a big body with ballerina feet.
We'll start to see your ass.
We'll let you out the cage.
I gotta get out! [chuckles]
[Jamal] Kingston and Rakeem,
if he thought they was better than me,
I shouldn't be playing football.
If I can't compete with them,
I can't compete at the next level.
You feeling good?
[Rakeem] I gotta bounce back,
'cause they weren't just gonna
hand it to me, so I gotta come stronger.
That's what everyone was waiting for,
me to pop off.
I don't think they've seen me
at my full potential yet.
Not one dude that played on Saturday
in the front, but that's okay.
Guess what? Coach expose you
in the goddamn film room today,
and make changes.
Time to give other guys shots, man.
[coach] Rakeem.
[Harris] How long till the food's ready?
I'm hungry.
[Brown] Done.
[Harris] I'll call up Martha Stewart.
She can't fuck with me.
[Brown] Bam.
That's what I'm talking about. That's
enough for me and you plus the O-line.
[Brown] That's your salad right there.
You need salad.
[chuckles] This is the first time
I ever ate raspberry dressing.
Is it?
Julia tried to give me this stuff.
I said, "Just give me the ranch."
I need a female, man.
[Harris] I don't remember him having one.
-Me being the spiritual adviser...
-[Brown scoffs]
...I'm working on this, and I think
we're to the recognition part,
so he's starting to realize a few things.
So, realistically, I'm doing a better job
than the guy who had Buddy Stephens.
Realizing there might need to be a change.
[both laughing]
[Brown] You make me drink, man. Shoot.
-I don't make you drink.
-You talk about females too much.
You need to drink again.
You might be a nicer guy.
[Harris] Me and JB are roommates.
I pay rent by cleaning up
around the place. [chuckles]
That was the agreement to get me
coming out here to coach.
I didn't wanna stay in the dorms.
Plus, it gives him somebody
to talk to sometimes.
We need to talk to somebody.
We thought we were
really loaded. Talented.
We are talented.
[Brown] Yeah. We haven't had
that one guy emerge yet.
Malik Henry?
Told him to shut up.
He tried to be a smart ass.
Season's on the line, too.
He knows I'll cut him.
He knows in his heart.
If we could get a quarterback
that tried a little bit... man.
-[Brown] Yeah. What about Carlos?
-[Harris] Texas Tech?
-[Brown] Yeah.
-[Harris] Raised?
[Brown] He got kicked outta there
for smoking.
Brought him to Garden City.
When I left Garden City,
I took him with me to California,
and then when I got this job,
I brought him back here.
And so, been with him three years now.
He's a talented cat. Explosive.
Gotta get him to take it serious
and make this his profession,
because it can't be a hobby for him.
[Carlos] You know what I want.
[woman] You want fried chicken?
What do you want?
Oh, I'll just take two thighs.
I'll be alright.
[woman] OK. Call you up in a second.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Man.
Got your chicken fried again?
Come on, man.
That's the only way I eat it.
She just do it for me.
I asked her one time,
and she's done it since.
Nobody else decides to ask,
but I'm gonna do it.
[player] I'm about to start
having them do that.
[Carlos] I'm telling you,
it's the way to go.
But that chicken don't be cooked.
They make it seem
like I get special privileges.
I don't get no special privileges.
[chuckles]
[cell phone vibrating]
[player] That Coach Brown?
[Carlos] Yeah, it's Brown.
Wait till I show you the text I just got.
-Another one?
-Another one. Yes.
-About this morning?
-Yes.
[player] He sent you the paragraph?
[Carlos laughs] I know.
He told me I've been
running the wrong routes
and I've been doing
too much freelance stuff.
He said if I don't get my act together,
I'mma have to do some punishment.
I gotta chill, man.
[woman] Don't react.
Just say, "Yes, sir," and that's it.
[Carlos] I don't know.
They keep putting me in...
they putting me in some bad spots.
That's all I'm saying.
Send a text and say, "Okay."
All right.
You'll make the problem worse
by being rude.
[Carlos] The thing that I struggle with
is keeping my mouth shut at times.
I tend to have to get the last word
in the conversation
or possibly an argument, if anything.
And that tends to get me in trouble a lot.
At times, I feel like...
I can make the bad decisions
and still kinda squeak by.
But now, as I get farther
into the adult world,
I see you gotta make
good decisions at all times
if you want good things to happen.
[Tatasha Scott-Hicks]
Carlos is my only son,
and he's been into sports
since he was four.
He started out playing
Little League football.
He's been playing football
since he was five.
I used to do about 150 miles in one day.
Work, coming back, going way out there.
It's about 150 miles one way.
[Carlos] My mom honestly
never missed a game.
She's always been my backbone throughout
this whole thing, no matter what.
[Scott-Hicks]
At Texas Tech, he fell by the wayside.
He has an authority thing, and I tell him
sometimes, "Wait before you speak."
Because you have to think it through.
Sometimes, when you're upset,
you feel things are not going your way,
you may say the wrong things.
But he kinda got that from me.
[laughs]
So, he stayed outta school a whole year.
[Carlos] Honestly, it was a moment
when I was here working.
I was valeting cars.
And I'm sitting here thinking, I'm like,
"I'm sitting here valeting somebody's car
that I wanna own one day.
Is this what you wanna do
your whole life?
Work for somebody else?
Drive somebody else's nice car?"
So, I guess that moment
of when reality hits, like,
"Man, you might have to do this
the rest of your life
if you don't get it together.
So let's go."
[Regina Scott]
He was always an "I can do it" kid.
Anything he wanna do,
"I can do it. I can do it."
He never said no to himself, so...
Right now, he's my comeback kid.
-That's what I call him.
-[Carlos] Yeah.
[Scott-Hicks] As parents,
you want the best for your kids,
and you're sitting there saying,
"Are you gonna get on the right track?
Will you do things?
Are you gonna change?
Will you do this?"
But as a mother, that's my only child.
His good and the bad, I'm there.
[Carlos] There's been people here
or there that have been like,
"Oh, maybe 'Los won't get it together,"
but it never even crossed my mom's mind.
She always knew I would get it right.
[Scott-Hicks] For him to get into ICC,
I spent lots of money
to physically get his transcripts.
Remember, he wasn't at one university,
he was at several.
His mom paid $14,000 for him to get here
because he owed six schools
transcript fees.
She took a loan out
to pay for this kid.
[Carlos] Every call she made,
she let me hear the amounts
that she was just paying off.
Letting me see, like,
"I have faith in you, son,
but don't mess over me again.
Don't mess over me."
[Brown] I like the kid.
I wanna help the kid, but will he ever
figure it out? I don't know.
-[Pinkard] You're on the right track.
-[student 1] No.
You're on the right track.
[student 2] Oh, my God.
[Pinkard] OK, I will have
to move you all for real.
[students laughing]
-[Pinkard] Emmit.
-[students chattering]
[student 3] Oh, man! [laughing]
[Pinkard] I started to wear
all black yesterday to mourn that score.
But I didn't do that.
So, next game, we got this, right?
So, how we feeling about grammar?
We're good?
[student] I'm good.
You gonna tap out on me again, Bobby?
You not going to tap out, right?
You got me today?
-What is wrong?
-[Carlos] We tired.
We've been up since 4:30 this morning.
[Pinkard] Who all has been up
since 4:30 in this morning?
-I got up, I went back to bed.
-You'll be all right.
4:30 is gonna only make you
a better student, a better person,
more conditioned and so on.
How many athletes are in here?
If you had a bad experience
or you zoned out at some point
when it came to learning grammar...
let me ask that question.
Who zoned out when it came to grammar
in high school?
Okay.
And that's okay.
I have 15 weeks.
This is only a second in your life.
-We'll fix it and get it right.
-Right.
[Pinkard] You know,
week one through five is hard.
We're building.
So I don't take it so personal.
I'm like, "I see where you are.
I have a feeling of what you've
gone through with your education.
I gotta help you."
Are you good here?
Nah, I ain't good.
[Pinkard] What are you not good about?
With all this.
Okay.
I need your help.
-[Pinkard] What you need me to do?
-Tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Okay, so pull out your notes.
[smacks lips] Uh, well...
I ain't have no paper that day.
All right.
Okay, so hold on. Here's the thing.
If I keep telling you the answer,
you'll never get it.
But I'll help you through it, okay?
All right. So what you just...
If you're discouraged now,
it's only gonna get worse.
So I try to get them to understand
you're better than
what you expect yourself to be.
Whatever you need me to do to help you
get from here to there
because of whatever that happened,
water under the bridge,
let me help you get there.
Number 12.
-[students speaking indistinctly]
-Um, semicolon.
[Pinkard] Semicolon. Okay, good.
[Brown] Coach, we're all fucked up.
-[player] Olly! Olly!
-[Brown] Olly what?
Pistol Molly? Pistol Molly?
What is the play?
[Latson] Run, run, run.
[Brown] Well, I wish
they were in sequence, Coach.
What number are we on?
I wish the fucking thing
had the right numbers on it!
There ain't no fucking seven!
Fucking genius!
[Malik] I think
he's talking nonsense today.
[Calvin] What?
[Malik] Like the way
he runs this whole shit.
The way he does things in general.
He's so, like, iffy about everything.
[Diaz] Someone's gotta be a leader.
That's what we need.
Ain't nobody wanna step up.
[Malik]
No, but if I step up and be talking,
y'all get mad at me or some shit.
Coach, Latson said yesterday that
I can't even talk to the receivers.
Stop asking for a leader
if I can't be vocal.
[Diaz] There's a difference between being
a leader and coaching.
-Be coachable--
-But why? Tell me why.
-That's just the way they are. I can't--
-Okay. But why can't I talk to my--
Exactly. Why can't I talk to my guys
and tell them what I need
so we are on the same page?
I understand
where you're coming from, Malik,
but I'm telling you there's certain people
who don't like that.
You got coaches that are sensitive
'cause I know what I'm talking about.
Y'all wanna be mad 'cause I know my stuff.
It ain't my fault.
I've been around
one of the greatest coaches ever.
We thought we were gonna roll in
and beat somebody up
'cause we had bounce-backs on our teams.
But having bounce-backs isn't gonna
just automatically win you every game.
You gotta be organized
and have a game plan.
We didn't really have a set game plan,
and we went in and got our ass beat.
I've never been a part of something
that embarrassing ever.
Set. Hut!
When I was at Florida State,
there was a lot of pressure.
Um, I went in there with a lot of hype.
Everybody knew me as
Malik Henry, number one quarterback,
so I definitely felt pressure
from parents and grandparents,
close family members, everybody.
The fans, you know, they were already
comparing me to Jameis.
I was 17 and everything,
still trying to figure things out,
you know, just out there alone.
I was going through some things,
depression-wise.
Me not feeling ready played into
the anxiety and the depression, too.
[Brown] I don't know if anyone knows
the real story but Malik Henry.
I believe when he knew
he wasn't gonna be the guy, it went south.
Both mentally and emotionally.
Me being the head coach
and him being the quarterback,
we have to make it seem like every day
is the best day that we've ever had.
Nobody can know that he's down or up.
He needs to be even keel
and stay consistent.
That's his biggest issue.
[Malik] I was in eighth grade
and we would have high school coaches
at our games,
asking us to visit their high school
and basically recruiting us.
As a little kid, I didn't expect that.
They tried to bribe me
and promise me things,
but I've only had
one quarterback coach in my life,
and that's Coach Ward.
[Ward]
His mom and dad brought him to me,
and he wanted to play quarterback.
I happened to have coached Coach Brown
at the JUCO level.
When this opportunity came for Malik
to come here, I was pushing that,
I was pressing it, because I know
that if he gets around my son,
he's going to reinforce
what I've already set forth for him.
One team now, Malik. It's one eye.
[Ward] I am so proud of JB.
Who replaced you
as the youngest head coach?
Ah, my son.
[both laugh]
-[Ward] Yeah, but--
-At the same school.
[Ward] Isn't that something?
That's history right there.
[Brown] I was about 10 or 11,
I was at a YMCA in South Central LA.
Coach Ward brought me over,
and from that point on,
I was like, I'm...
this is my boy here.
He's going to be around.
He's not to be screwed with.
I was kind of known as their son
or whatever you wanna call it,
and I basically would be with them
for years and years later.
[Malik] I respect anybody
Coach Ward trusts.
But Coach Brown's from Compton, and
the way guys play down here in the hood
is different than most people would play.
I grew up playing for Inglewood
and it was the same.
Unorganized, fighting at the game,
so that's what he's used to.
But he'll give you his shirt off his back.
I believe that.
That's what I really respect him for.
So I'm gonna read the second paragraph.
I'm on page 11.
"At MAPP, I was the only
African-American in most of my classes.
When I walked into one room and sat down,
the students near me would get up
and move away
as if my dark skin were dirty
and hideous to them.
'You know I hate niggers,' they'd say,
'I don't understand why they follow
white people everywhere.
Why don't they stay
in their own schools?'
I tried to become invisible.
I kept to myself,
remained quiet during class discussions
and never asked questions in
or after class. I spent hours..."
I question all of my students.
"When did you last read a book?"
And they would tell me,
"Probably the third grade.
Possibly, sixth or seventh grade."
I thought,
"Let me try to get a book club going
with some young black men."
I tell them all time, I said,
"A black man with a book is sexy."
I said, "Go stand somewhere
and go to the park
with a book and read it.
Oh, my gosh.
You will attract women like flies.
It's like having a puppy
but you have a book. So, read."
What do you think is the problem
when it comes to some black men
and their education?
I don't mean all black men,
because we have intelligent black men
we don't see in the media
as much as we see entertainers.
So, what do you think
is the deficit or the problem
when it comes to black men
going further with education?
-They're not built like that.
-[Pinkard] What do you mean?
They... [clicks tongue] I don't want
to say they take the easy way out.
But, like...
really, if we black, only thing we know
is either rapping, playing ball
or going to the streets.
We don't grow up talking
about being a police
-or a doctor.
-[Pinkard] Mmm-hmm.
-We--
-And that's sad.
Everybody say NBA.
NBA, NFL, rapping.
[Pinkard] Is it because
of what he said in this book?
"If that's all I see,
then that's what I want to be."
So if I'm only seeing
one ethnicity on TV,
if I'm only seeing one ethnicity
that has everything,
if I'm only seeing one ethnicity
that's prospering,
that would make you feel inferior,
if that's all you see.
Yeah.
She wants you to think, because she cares
for you as a person first,
then a student.
In high school, I always got Ds and Fs.
I never had an English teacher
that cares for me as a person.
OK, now one holding the books up.
If you want to be a doctor,
she wants you to be that.
If you want to be a football player,
she wants you to be
the smartest one.
So, yes, sir.
[newscaster] The storm's eye
passed just to the northeast
and its 180-mile-per-hour wind
toppled trees and power lines.
Officials are still trying to get a grip
on the extent of the devastation.
Nearly a million people
are without electricity...
-[Diaz] You have family there?
-Yep.
[Diaz] How's your family?
[Carlos] My mom said yesterday
the sun finally came out.
Water's starting to go down.
-How deep is the water?
-Got up to five, six feet.
By my house, at least.
There's another hurricane
brewing out in the Gulf now.
Hurricane Irma or something.
They're trying to see
if that one'll hit Houston, too.
Man, I don't know.
[Brown] He's sitting over there.
It's 5:45.
He's not even got his cleats on yet.
Carlos, come on.
I'm not begging you to play.
Figure it out or go home.
And you late right now.
Fucking same shit
I just told you about yesterday.
You ain't changed shit.
Told you we shouldn't have
brought him back.
Come on!
Are we taking him, Jesse?
[Ornelas] What's that?
Why are you over there, Coach?
Are we taking him or is he a Roger?
Yeah, Roger on this side.
-[Brown] Man. Why do I gotta see it?
-I'm giving the huddle for the next play.
-[Brown] Coach, shut up!
-Let's go.
-[Brown] I can hear your mouth.
-Let's go!
-[Brown] Hurry up, let's go!
-[player] Roger! Roger!
[players exclaiming]
[Bea] We need you back, bro.
Next week. Next week for sure.
-We need some shit to get organized.
-I got you.
I'll try to work in the rest of this week.
I'm gonna try pads on Thursday.
-How's the shoulder coming?
-It's good.
[Bea] We need you back, man.
[Brown] Carlos, I brought you back
for this? Really?
[Carlos] Nobody else I hear
saying nothing, but why is it on me?
[Brown] Motherfucker, go home, then!
I don't give a fuck!
I didn't bring you back for this shit!
Fuck is all that? You're a grown man!
I still gotta beg you to practice?
Take your ass home, man.
Ain't nobody sucking your dick.
[Carlos] Man, Coach.
Shut the fuck up, man. Take your ass home.
[Carlos] Bro, he's always bitching.
He always bitching.
Bye. Do the same shit you did
at Garden City.
Same motherfucker.
You the same dude, Carlos. Same dude.
[Carlos] Underwater, bro.
My house underwater.
And you doing this.
[Carlos] You worried about 15 minutes
and my house underwater.
So you gonna feel sorry
for everybody?
Why don't you go help them out?
Why don't you do right here
and go help them?
I ain't dependent on your ass!
Walk your ass back to the dorm!
Pack your shit!
Get another wideout, Coach.
Let's go, coaches.
I wanna play with winners!
Fuck these loser motherfuckers!
If these dudes don't wanna practice,
get the fuck out!
I don't give a fuck who it is,
Malik Henry or whoever!
These motherfuckers don't buy in,
get them out of here!
I don't give a fuck who it is!
You motherfucker,
I'm tired of sucking your dicks!
This shit's dead.
[groans]
[Emmit] Come on, bro.
[Carlos] Bro.
[Emmit] Fuck with me, dog
You're wasting your time if you want
to tell me to go back out there, buddy.
Let me take you back. Come on.
You're wasting your time if you
want me to come back out there.
-Come on.
-You're wasting your time.
You won't dab me up?
-I dab you up. You're still my dog.
-Look...
Fuck whatever he said.
I don't give a damn.
I'm not going back out there, bro.
Y'all might as well go back to practice.
-You know I love you.
-[Carlos] Love y'all boys. Peace out.
We take care of family.
[Carlos] You know it.
-Hey. Take it easy.
-[Carlos] All right.
[Brown] There's two people that bitched
about practice structure
because we went early in the morning.
It was Malik Henry and Carlos Thompson.
Skilled players
are always the prima donnas,
and that's the reputation they have
throughout the history of football.
Think they're better than the program.
No one is better than the program.
When you bring a ton of talent in
and you don't have a backup for them,
they can really kind of hold you
at gunpoint, too.
Because now you're screwed without 'em,
and you don't have a backup for 'em.
So I gotta figure that out.
But I won't be held hostage either.
I'll have to make a tough decision.
If we started a game tomorrow,
Malik would start.
Yeah, I know that.
[Brown] Now, I need to find number two.
-For sure, number two.
-Exactly.
[Brown] You happen to be
behind a guy that has been trained
by great guys since he was six.
He was a stud in high school.
A lot of high school guys, those stars
after your name, are overrated.
[Bea] They mean nothing.
He was a five star.
Malik has temper issues.
Mmm-hmm. We've all seen that.
So who says Malik don't throw the football
at the fucking referee's face.
-You're coming in now.
-[chuckles] Exactly.
There's a saying where I'm from.
If you stay ready,
you ain't gotta get ready.
-Okay.
-You know what I mean?
Stay ready, man.
-You talk to him?
-I'm going to, yeah.
What about this weekend?
He didn't practice.
Can't let him start.
Let's see him today.
[Brown] I've never sat a cat
because of an injury
-if it was the truth.
-He did have the concussion protocol.
[Brown] But he was there
every day on time.
Yeah, he was.
[Brown] Have a talk with him
and say this is my first and only,
because Coach Brown's done with it.
You know?
[Diaz] We can't motivate you all the time.
At some point, it's gotta come through
you guys to come out here and play.
I need one guy to be a leader. One dude.
One dude that's gonna check dudes.
Say, "Come on. Let's go."
All these D-I bouncebacks
saying they're hard, man.
Malik, I need you to step up, baby.
I know you have it inside you.
You're a competitor. You want to win.
-You gotta show it. Feel me?
-Yeah.
[Diaz] I thought you were
gonna rise to the occasion.
But I haven't seen it, Carlos.
I know you have it inside.
You're the oldest cat in here,
and I haven't seen you
check these guys.
[Carlos] The flood did all this damage.
The city, in some places,
still all the way underwater, though.
They packed up everything downstairs,
'cause they had a feeling
it was coming up,
when it came up the driveway.
The house and shit, that's material.
As long as you got family,
you ain't lose everything,
thank God.
[Carlos] Don't you think
about what happened at practice?
[Markiese] We had a good practice,
but it ain't the practice we need to have.
'Cause when two of our starters
not practicing, what can we do?
And when you two don't practice,
other people think they can't practice.
When y'all two is out,
then Sean didn't wanna practice.
I feel that, bro.
If Coach Brown cuts you for real,
you know how much you gonna lose?
Not just you. You know how... man!
Think about the money
your mama put in this.
-For real.
-And the situation she in now.
We do stuff out here we don't like.
I hate practicing.
But it's a business trip.
You gotta do it.
Practice or go home.
One question.
If you go home, what'll you do?
I don't even know.
Exactly. If I go home, know what I'll do?
Fuck around, be in jail or dead.
This a business trip,
and we gotta take advantage of it.
[Carlos] I know, bro. I don't... [sighs]
I gotta suck up my pride, bro.
That's all it is.
All I can say is suck it up,
be a man and let's get out of here.
Win that goddamn Natty,
and let's get out of here.
For real, dog.
Gas up.
Always. [chuckles]
-[Brown] All right, 'Los, what up?
-What's up, Coach?
What you want to talk about, man?
You know where I'm at?
-Yes, sir. I mean--
-[Brown] Now your legacy gonna end
as the could-have-been dude who went
to Texas Tech, was an All-American,
or the guy that got kicked out
of Indy in his third JUCO,
fourth school overall.
If you think about it, four schools, dog.
In how long? Three years?
I'm the same dude that drove you
from Garden City to LA.
-You know?
-Yes, sir.
And took you to my beach house.
I'm the same guy.
I ain't changed.
But when are you gonna change, man?
These dudes look up to you.
They'll follow you going to the left
or to the right.
-How am I gonna depend on you?
-I know I can get this right.
I can come in and lead this team
in the way that they need to be led.
-Well...
-I know I can do it, Coach.
-You gotta show me.
-I am gonna do it.
Then I come out one day later,
and you going the other way.
-[stammers]
-Does that not disappoint you ever?
-It does.
-Your own self, when you go home? Fuck.
You're the only man in the household.
The last line of defense.
You can't do for them if you ain't right.
You have a legitimate shot
at making decent coin.
But you're gonna let junior college,
Southeast Kansas,
Western Kansas,
Riverside, California, stop you.
At the moment, you are at a "show me,
not tell me" situation, so...
When he says, "Seize the moment,"
he means right now.
'Cause time flies, man.
The moment last week was the first game.
Do you know this season will be gone?
It's just a moment, man.
Do the right thing for the moment,
and for the rest of your life
you'll be glad you did.
[Brown] Mmm-hmm.
[Latson] You'll be glad that you did, man.
[Harris] You're all set? [grunts]
Where's your technique?
That's where you gotta stand.
Let's go. Stretch left to the right.
Ready?
Back up. Interior three.
What you all cursing at?
[Diaz] Come on, Brandon Bea.
Hey. Lion trips, laying Vegas, Y-out. Set.
[Diaz] There you go. Good.
Good, Brandon Bea.
-Come here, Malik. We gotta change.
-[Malik] All right.
-[Diaz] We gotta change. Makes sense?
-[Malik] Yeah.
So I can't start you this Saturday. Okay?
-There's consequences to things. Okay?
-[Malik] All right.
[Diaz] Stay locked in. Don't lose me.
This gonna be a test, man.
When I say "ball," get the ball out. Go.
Move, move, move. Go.
Ball, get out. Good.
It's gonna be an awkward throw.
I want the ball out. Go.
Work, work, work.
-Work, work, work. Ball.
-[grunting]
[Diaz] Good. Go. Work, work, work.
Here.
Do you feel like practicing,
or are you upset?
Wanna go back to your room?
What do you want to do?
[Malik] Keep practicing.
[Diaz] Can you give full effort?
I know you're an athlete.
I understand why you're upset,
but I need your full effort.
Overcome this adversity.
[players grunting]
[whistle blows]
[player] Good job! Good job.
[players clamoring]
[Diaz] A lot of people
are waiting for you to fall.
The mission that you're on is impossible.
It's impossible, Malik.
I'm here to help you, man.
And you're giving me half-assed effort.
You know that I got your back.
You're giving me half-assed effort
and putting lipstick on me.
That's what it looks like
when I talk to these people.
You're putting
fucking lipstick on me, dog.
I have your back, and you do shit...
you can't give me effort, man.
-Do you want to go back to Power Five?
-Yeah.
Why aren't you giving me full effort?
I don't know what full effort
I'm not giving you.
[Diaz sighs]
[Diaz] Fuck, man.
[Brown] Listen,
it's a business trip Saturday.
You'll wear a shirt and a tie.
Get a tie.
Carlos Thompson, come up here.
Carlos Thompson came to me.
I told him this is his last hoorah.
He walked off the field yesterday.
He reflected, he came in, he apologized,
he's gonna pay the price.
But he wanted to holler at you
so you understand.
I wanted to say I'm sorry.
I let the team down.
Not being out there practicing,
I let y'all down.
I want to ask for y'all forgiveness.
-Y'all forgive me?
-[players] Hell, yeah.
I also want to say, bro, this real shit.
I'm disappointed in myself,
'cause before today,
I hadn't fully bought in to the team.
I'm being real.
I was half-assing it.
Making plays here or there,
but not going all the way.
We got an opportunity to do something big.
That's some real shit.
I been on great teams, good teams,
whatever you want to call it.
I been to D-I, did that.
The talent we got here,
we could do something special.
We got our ass busted that first game.
70-21. I ain't gotta speak on that.
We know what happened.
But if we get this brotherhood stuff going
and we get this down as a team,
we could do something special.
-We could run the table, nine and one.
-Yeah.
Ten and one. You feel me? We doing it.
We ain't messing around.
I love all, y'all boys. I love all y'all.
That's some real shit.
You all my brothers.
We gotta get it.
We buy in, we can get this.
-We love you!
-I love all y'all.
[all cheering]
[Carlos] Hey, everybody in, everybody in.
[all chanting] Ooh! Ahh!
Somebody's gonna get
their ass whipped!
[all continue chanting]
[chanting continues]
[Carlos] Brotherhood on three,
brotherhood on me. One, two, three...
[all] Brotherhood!
[all cheering]
[Emmit] Reverend Carlos. Reverend Carlos.
[Carlos] I love y'all. I do, bro.
-[player 1] Yes, sir.
-[Carlos] I love y'all.
-I love y'all.
-[player 2] You that real dude.
-I love y'all boys, man.
-[player 2] Appreciate you.
Where my receivers at?
[woman] I'm proud of you
for getting dressed today.
-Did you tie this?
-No, Coach did it.
[indistinct chatter]
[woman] Little pimp suit on?
I ain't no pimp. I'm a player.
-[woman] You're so Hollywood now, Emmit.
-[Emmit chuckles]
-[Malik] Who tied this?
-I got you.
-I don't know.
-[chuckles] Who tied that?
I post this, I might get a thousand likes.
You ready to play today?
Born ready. I been ready since Monday.
-70-21, I ain't forget about that.
-[chuckles]
[Brown] It should be all business
on the bus. Stay in the tie.
Once you get off, take it off.
Last time you'll have to wear a tie.
Let's go win the fucking game.
Hands up.
Win on me, win on three.
One, two, three...
[all] Win.
[Brown] Hey, fellas, winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.
We need to fucking hit reset today.
There is no rah-rah.
You gotta find it in yourselves.
Rah-rah your fucking selves today.
Go out there and ride each other's back
and win this motherfucker.
Go home, have a party Monday.
Let's go. Get a break.
I'm about to
make you proud tonight, Coach.
Show me, baby.
[announcer]
Welcome to Fort Scott, Kansas.
Tonight, week two.
In week one, against Iowa Western,
the Pirates were beaten 70-21.
Independence came into that contest,
preseason,
ranked number 17 in the country,
and not living up to the hype.
Tonight, the Pirates
certainly need to get regrouped
and put on a much better showing.
[crowd cheering]
Let's go, Pirates!
[announcer] Tonight, it's a new night
and a new opportunity.
The Pirates first and ten
from their own 41-yard line.
I don't even see Henry out there.
Come on, let's go, y'all.
[announcer] At quarterback,
I believe that's Brandon Bea.
[player] Bea's starting?
What the fuck he do now?
[announcer] And it is Bea.
He'll throw near side and it's incomplete.
-[Diaz] What the fuck?
-That ain't the read!
[announcer] Second down
and ten for the Pirates.
Right side is tailback Boyd,
four-man front defense.
Fort Scott, trying to stop the run.
Oh, the ball pops loose!
Indy diving after it.
-The Greyhounds might have it.
-[crowd cheering]
[announcer] They did.
Rakeem Boyd, coughing it up.
Oh, shit. Come on, let's go, y'all.
We're all right. We're all right.
We got three backs, bro.
[Brown] Where the hell is Jesse?
I can't monitor all this shit.
You gotta keep them in. Rotate them.
Let's get it, D!
[announcer] Quarterback for Fort Scott,
back to throw. He's hit hard.
-Ball picked off by the Pirates...
-[Carlos] Let's go!
-...near the 20-yard line.
-[Carlos] Let's go!
[Brown] Let's go!
Hey, Tray!
[announcer]
Opportunity for the Pirate offense,
just outside the three-yard line.
-Shotgun set, Bea.
-[Brown] Get it, Brandon!
They'll fake the handoff. Bea keeps it,
throws the pass into the flat.
-[whistle blows]
-It is incomplete.
Damn it, man. Just fucking hand it off!
[announcer]
It really looked like if Brandon Bea
read the read properly...
Might as well handed that one off.
-[Brown] You know what Tray right is?
-[Bea] Yes, sir.
-Can you have some moxie?
-[Bea] I looked..
-So why were you in quads?
-Quads?
There was trips over there, motherfuckers.
Tray right.
Fuck it. Hand the ball off
and make a fucking play. Fuck it.
Hey, give me Jamal.
Let's go!
[announcer]
Jamal Scott in the backfield.
Bea with the long snap count.
He'll hand it off right up the middle,
hammers forward. Touchdown!
[coach] Baby, let's go.
-[crowd cheering]
-[announcer] Jamal Scott
strikes the end zone here
in the first quarter.
[Carlos] There you go. Let's get it.
[announcer]
The six-foot, 235-pound tailback
sophomore out of California.
[Carlos] Get it back to us.
We gonna go again.
[announcer] So Independence
with the 7-0 lead over Fort Scott.
-Let's keep it up.
-[player] I know.
[announcer] Fort Scott trying
to answer the call. Hands off near side,
and the Pirate defense
gobbles up the ball carrier.
Nowhere to run.
Stonewalled by Emmit Gooden.
Again, great job defensively
by the Pirates.
On my life, bro. They trash. They cheddar.
We can burn their ass.
[Brown] Malik goes next.
-[Diaz] Sure?
-Yeah.
I like the feeling we got.
Make them humble.
-He hungry?
-[Diaz] Yeah, he's ready, Coach.
[announcer] Malik Henry in
at quarterback for Independence.
Fakes the handoff, looks.
-[Carlos] Bye.
-[announcer] He throws. Deep pattern.
It's complete! What a catch!
[announcer] Far side of the field,
and Malik Henry throws a bullet
down the far side for the strike.
-[player] Fucking ball, boy!
-[Malik chuckles]
Let's go!
[Malik] Go run this nigga over.
[announcer]
Scott in the backfield, tailback.
First and goal, Pirates.
Independence already up 7-0.
Now knocking on the door yet again.
Fort Scott expecting a run.
They'll get it to the end zone.
Touchdown, Jamal Scott.
[player] Oh, my God!
[announcer] The big tailback blasts
through the Greyhound defensive line
for his second touchdown
of the quarter.
[chuckles] I'm telling the people
back home how we're doing.
The Pirates up 14-0.
[player] Let's go!
[Brown] Jesse, I want you
to keep these backs fresh
and let's find a back tonight.
Fucking run all of them.
Let's see who we can get.
[announcer]
The Pirates shuffling personnel.
Rakeem Boyd back in the backfield.
It goes to Boyd.
He tries to come near side
and he's cut down after a very short gain.
Maybe a pickup of one.
The first side was there.
We could've gained 20 yards.
We can't be playing this political game.
Gotta have the right personnel.
Fuck it. We don't have a guy yet.
[announcer] A player down for the Pirates.
Looks like his right leg.
[Harris] If he ain't the dude, he ain't.
Hey, clear... hey, watch out.
[announcer] Pirate offense sputtering
on that possession.
The Greyhounds on the move,
with four minutes left
in the second quarter.
[Carlos] Bobby!
[crowd cheering]
[stadium announcer]
Tackle, number 30, Bobby Bruce.
[announcer] Bobby Bruce, the linebacker,
with the tackle out of Titusville.
[coach] Hey, Bobby.
[Brown] Trainer!
[coach over radio]
We need somebody for Bobby.
[announcer]
Looks like he was shaken up.
-[Brown] We got an injury.
-[player] Back up.
[coach] Come on, man. Stay focused.
[announcer]
The Pirate defense reeling here.
First and ten from the Pirate red zone.
Looks to throw.
He's gonna throw short side,
wide open at the ten.
-The five, dives forward. Touchdown.
-[crowd cheering]
All of a sudden, the Greyhounds
only down 14-10 to the Pirates.
Uncle Mo wearing maroon and gray here.
Twenty-two seconds left here
in the first half.
Independence offense
looking for a little magic.
He'll drop to throw.
Here comes the blitz.
Henry runs near side.
Now he's in trouble.
-He will get sacked.
-[Brown] Why does he leave the pocket?
[Harris] You kidding?
[Brown] He needs some nuts.
[Harris] He gotta throw the ball away.
We say he's an all-star.
We sellin' our soul on that cat?
Throw the ball.
[Brown] Go with Kingston.
Just go down the line.
Hey, Kingston, 20. Pull, pull!
Kingston, Kingston.
[announcer] Kingston Davis, the transfer
from Michigan, comes in as tailback.
[Malik] Run a nigga over for me.
[announcer] The Pirate offense looking
to get back to winning ways.
Henry in the shotgun.
Here comes the blitz.
Flushed out of the pocket.
Flips it over, right side.
And still fighting for yardage.
The ball was stripped out of the hands
of the running back,
-and Fort Scott recovers. Turnover.
-Damn.
[player] Hey, bro.
Don't be twisting his leg like that.
Fuck, nigga. I fucked your mama.
[Brown] Shut up! Shut up!
-[referee] That's gonna get you run.
-Oh, yes, sir.
[announcer] Unbelievable.
Another huge mistake for Independence
and then a late flag comes in.
-Bro.
-[Brown] Just talk to him?
-He's good now. Take care of it.
-I will.
[announcer]
It is unsportsmanlike conduct.
We good.
We look like a bunch of monkeys
fucking an elephant, man.
[Carlos] Now you done broke
your helmet, G.
You got that right, Kingston.
Hey, Kingston.
You got that right.
I already don't play as it is, bro.
[Carlos] Calm down.
Relax. Relax. Relax, man.
[announcer] Independence looking like
world-beaters in that first quarter.
Before you know it, Fort Scott
climbing right back into this game.
Heading into the locker room
with a 14-10 advantage.
Not much here at halftime
in the passing department for the Pirates.
-Can't take any more sacks.
-I got you.
We can't take no more sacks.
Throw the ball away.
Be efficient. Okay?
[Harris] We blanked that last quarter.
We took four sacks.
You can go back to Bea,
'cause he'll get rid of the ball.
We had Malik on the one-yard line.
Didn't do a lot.
Run game-wise, we're good.
You like Jamal or Rakeem?
[Harris] Rakeem's a good kid,
but he don't got no vision.
[Ornelas] We gotta put
our best guys in the field.
[Harris] That's it.
No political, no nothing. Let's go.
[Ornelas] I'm going with Jamal
and fuck it.
If those fuckers don't want it,
hit the road.
[Harris] Yeah, that's what we need.
We need Jamal.
It's gonna take everybody in this room
to win the football game,
whether you're in or out.
Support the next dude.
Let's party on the way home.
You guys are up in the game.
It shouldn't be close.
Smack them in the mouth and go home.
-[player] Yes, sir!
-Get out of here.
[announcer] The Pirates shuffled lots
of personnel in the first half,
trying to figure out who gets the ball
at quarterback and in the backfield.
[Malik] Anything in your power.
Anything in your power, Malik.
Gotta lead these guys.
[Carlos] Hit 'em in the mouth!
[announcer] Carlos Thompson bringing
the kick back for the Pirates.
Need to get regrouped rather quickly.
It'll be fielded at the eight-yard line
for Independence up to the 20.
Twenty-five.
There's a lane across the 30.
The 35, still on his feet.
-Down the sidelines at the 40-yard line.
-[whistle blows]
And close to snapping that one on
for a touchdown.
Great return, and that ignited
the Independence bench.
[Malik] Hey, let's go!
-Man! I need us Indys to the house.
-[Brown] Let's go.
Hey, hey, hey! Full on! Full on!
[Carlos] Let's execute right here.
Move the ball.
I need two first downs, baby.
[announcer] The offense in dire need
of some points on this drive.
[Malik] What if I need one?
[announcer] Malik Henry, the transfer
from Florida State at quarterback.
Here's the throw. It's complete.
Carlos Thompson fighting
for additional yardage.
[Carlos] You better get big, boy!
[player] Run your stupid ass over here.
[announcer] Malik Henry trying
to get this offense resurrected.
Indy trying to keep the drive alive.
Here comes the blitz.
Flushed out of the pocket.
Shuttle pass.
And it is going to be a first down!
Still on his feet,
-he flips over one tackle.
-[whistle blows]
Unbelievable.
Calvin Jackson reeling it in.
Good job! Hey, great job!
Malik, good ass job climbing!
[Malik] Let's get it in the end zone.
Let's go.
[announcer] So first and ten
inside the Greyhound red zone.
[player] Let's go!
[announcer] He's gonna fake the hand-off.
He has room near side,
across the goal line.
-Touchdown, Pirates!
-[crowd cheering]
[Malik] Ah, bitch!
One more time. Let's go.
[Diaz] Come on, baby. Yes! Oh, shit!
Hey, that's how we finish, baby.
That feel good, huh?
-Are you Malik Henry? Good boy.
-[Malik] Yes, sir.
-I ain't got your jukes, bro.
-I don't got no jukes either.
[announcer]
Independence ups the lead to eight,
and that's what they needed.
It's picked off by the Pirates.
The Independence defense with the INT
and again shut the door on Fort Scott.
Henry hands off. Who else but Jamal Scott,
the battering ram,
barreling through the secondary.
He's been the workhorse all night
for the Pirates.
[Carlos] How about running that route?
[chanting] Defense! Defense!
...then he is hammered.
Just a monster hit in the backfield.
Emmit Gooden.
Pirates defense just relentless.
Swarming to the football. Stripped away!
Pirates fighting for it,
and Independence recovers the fumble.
[Carlos] Them niggas, booty buttcheeks.
[announcer] Pirate offense trying to drive
the nail as they lead 24-16.
[whistle blowing]
I'm not sure what's going on.
They're making Davis go off the field.
[player sighs]
I feel like we're in Pop Warner.
He got in freaking trouble for something.
[Brown] Tuck your shirt in. That's all.
Oh, no, no, no.
-[Kingston] It's my damn...
-[Brown] His ass is out.
[announcer] Henry will keep it. Rolls out.
Throws into the end zone.
It's caught! Touchdown, Pirates!
[crowd cheering]
The Independence Pirates bounce back
in a big way on the road.
Final score,
your Independence Pirates, 30,
the Fort Scott Greyhounds, 16.
[Diaz] Soak in this feeling.
It's what it's about.
Tonight's the night you became
a coachable player.
You became the new Malik Henry.
Keep it going. You're not done.
-[Malik] Yes, sir.
-You're good, but you wanna be great.
[Brown] Hey, congratulations. Clap it up.
You'll play the defending national champs
next Saturday
and smack their ass
in the fucking mouth.
'Cause I expect to fucking win
every time I take the field.
That's the bottom line.
How about we go out and prove a point?
[announcer] The Pirates set their sights
on the number one team in the country
as the Garden City Broncbusters roar
into Emmett Field.
The Pirates can shock the world
if they beat Garden next Saturday.
-[Brown] Get in tight. Get a break.
-[all cheering]
[all chanting]
[announcer] The Garden City Broncbusters
are the defending national champs,
and you're the champs
until somebody dethrones you.
Y'all see the score right there?
Y'all see? 16-30. We did it.
We won.
That's what we came out here to do.
We had a mindset to win, so we won.
Everybody just know...
We got some of the best players out here.
We got this.
We're gonna go back out and practice.
Practice, practice, practice,
all the way to Saturday,
and we'll win again.
We're gonna practice
all the way to Saturday,
and we'll win again.
That's how it'll come.
One, two, three.
[Paul Holmes] Let's go! On the move!
[Jesse Ornelas] Wake up!
Wake up!
-[whistle blowing]
-[players chattering]
[Jason Brown] I gotta get you where
you couldn't take yourself.
That's why you're here.
After a fucking ass rippin',
let's see how much character you have.
You either fucking shit
or get off the fucking pot.
It's a mental test, baby. Let's go.
Finish! Finish! Finish, dog!
He wanna see who's gonna quit.
I'm telling you, let's go!
-Finish!
-[Brown] That lineman's in great shape.
He can't even finish the drill.
He been just eating burgers all summer.
Let's cut him.
[Keith Donerson] Keep going, jog.
It's not a walk. Jog!
What you doing? Let's go.
Are you power walking, son?
[Donerson] Your fat butt out of shape.
Let's go!
[Brown] Fuck me, man! Let's cut some
of these fat fucks! Ridiculous.
Hurry up, Vega!
Get your fat ass fucking going.
-[Donerson] Run! Let's go!
-Send his ass home!
[Donerson] Run! Everybody else running!
Just stopped. Just quit.
-Wasting my time, son.
-[Brown] He wasted all of our time.
Look, we're outta shape.
We got outplayed as players.
Coaches, we got out-coached.
We got outclassed as a program.
How about you shut up, humble your pie
and get ready to start over?
I'll find 11 dudes that wanna play here.
It's gonna be really cutthroat.
I'mma test your fucking will
everyday this week.
We got a lot of shit to fix.
[marching band playing]
[whistle blows]
[indistinct chatter]
[bell rings]
[all] I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
I appreciate you having me.
It's always a pleasure to come speak.
Uh... I come with great humility today
after our performance last week.
Um, I'm embarrassed,
because it was so out of our character.
The whole thing unfolded from the get-go.
But, you know, Rome wasn't built in a day.
We're still building.
Sometimes, we got great players,
five-star guys
with all these high accolades
and stars after their names and all that,
but stars get coaches fired if they don't
do what they're asked or perform.
Independence has supported us greatly.
I love how you guys have accepted us
and how you are showing up at the game.
So, I want the community to know
to keep supporting,
and we'll get this thing going.
We'll figure out how we get that done.
And, uh... you know, we'll see.
[Barwick]
It's a little bit of déjà vu.
It basically reminds me
of two, three years ago
when, actually, that was the way
many of our games were.
We may not have the right pieces
to the puzzle.
We see all...
[Barwick] It's one thing if, say,
the offense is bad.
That's what you gotta work on
for the next week,
but it's tougher when the offense,
the defense,
and the special teams are bad.
Hopefully, that won't happen again.
We flip it.
[Barwick] The resources the taxpayers pay,
the tuition and fees the students pay,
there's a lot of investment
from a lot of people,
and they don't want mediocrity.
[officer] This is America.
Americans are competitors
and that's the end of that.
Our economy and culture
are built on competition.
So this community is probably
no exception to that.
[man] That's not an ideal
opening-day game, is it?
They were two scores down
about four minutes in.
It was shoulder-to-shoulder,
which never happens here.
One big loss will abate
people's excitement for the team.
I left at halftime.
That's about how I felt about it.
We were expecting
a little bit better than we got.
A lot of guys came here
because of the coach's reputation.
He's got some talent on that team.
[officer] Talent is not enough.
Dealing with young men,
you're pushing them for all they can give.
You don't tolerate it when they
don't provide what you know they've got.
[Sebastian Cole] I'm pretty damn
used to them losing that bad.
I feel like that's our first major loss
of the year and we're gonna have more.
That's just my opinion.
[LaTonya Pinkard]
It was awful. It was awful.
Hopefully they'll learn how to play
together, mesh well and be okay.
-[shatters]
-Ooh.
And life happens,
and you just keep on moving.
[Kingston Davis] That was ridiculous.
I've never lost that bad.
70-21--
[player]
Always a first time for everything.
-We needed that, really, to--
-Yeah.
That brought people down,
out their ways.
[Kingston scoffs]
Yeah. People think they so good.
We got shut down like that.
That bring you back to reality.
We also focus on
getting ourselves out of here.
If we weren't so selfish and was together,
the score would have been the other way.
[Brown] What's up, fellas?
Beat Fort Scott, only thing
that should be on our minds.
Humble pie, all right?
If you guys let the last game define you,
we're gonna have a long year.
Everybody has to be bought in,
or it's not gonna work.
Even if I called the wrong play,
if you fuckers believed,
you'd go through the wall
and get the play done,
come back and say,
"This was the right call."
Even if it was a shitty call.
That's when all the dudes are
invested and bought in. We're not yet.
Can't have dudes doing their own thing
and going against the grain.
We're not all going in the same
direction, right or wrong, we're fucked.
Tomorrow morning is gonna be a gut check.
5:15 at the stadium.
[indistinct chatter]
[Harris] Hey, we're getting started
in one minute. Wake up! Wake up!
-Set! Come on.
-[whistle blows]
Worst performance
of my damn freakin' life, man.
Told the damn coaches, man.
Recruit these cats who come here to win,
but they ain't getting it done.
Kedar, you ain't finishing.
What happen when we keep a stagger?
Can we keep a stagger?
But everybody wanna play!
Everybody wanna play!
But we can't keep a stagger.
Tired of kissing guys' butts
who try to play.
It didn't work the first time,
so why'd I kiss it right now?
'Cause I wanna please Coach Brown?
Hell, no.
[Diaz] Someone's gotta step up.
This is one of you guys' chance
to get a job because it's open.
Be a coachable quarterback
who does what I ask him.
[Bea] Set.
[Diaz] We gotta wake up.
Start getting into it. Let's go.
[player] What's wrong?
Nothing.
Just going through concussion protocol.
-You got a concussion?
-No, but, um...
Ms. Raechal wants me to
sit out right now.
I don't know if it's post corner...
It's post corner, Coach.
It's only three steps.
And then come back outside--
-I don't like that, though.
-Huh?
Wake up. Let's go.
Get out there. Come on.
[Malik] Don't break down at the top.
Gotta sneak that out of there.
-[Diaz] Let's go. Next two.
-[Bea] Set.
[Diaz] Throw it.
[Malik] Hey, give us more room.
Just a little more.
Three steps hard inside.
[player] Tell him to coach
the quarterbacks, Coach. Can you?
[Diaz] Say what?
[player]
Y'all coach the quarterbacks, Coach.
[smacks lips] Bro, all right.
[Diaz] Hey, give me circus.
Give me circus. Circus.
Quick feet, quick feet.
Neither quarterback
has completed that circus route.
-[Bea] I just did.
-[Diaz] It went straight to the ground.
Quarterbacks gotta be coachable.
[Malik] On the offensive side of the ball,
as far as quarterbacks and receivers go,
we're not on the same page.
We don't communicate.
I don't need to be calling the shots,
but I feel like I should be able
to at least help us out a little bit.
[Kerry] Know what you're doing.
[Malik] I can't communicate to them,
because if I do,
it seems like I'm being an asshole
when I'm really not.
Yeah.
I'm trying to get us better.
I was at Florida State.
I've seen what a winning team looks like,
how they're supposed to practice,
and it's not like this.
[Kerry] Not even close.
[Jason Martin] Focus!
[Malik] That makes me not wanna even play.
[Carlos] That's because
you put DBs back...
-[Martin] Here we go.
-He dropped that.
[Martin] Here we go.
[Raechal] Let's talk about
the dropped balls from wide receivers.
-[Carlos] How many?
-[Martin] Be quiet,
take one back in the game
and then talk to me.
-Right.
-Chill.
Tell him to block for me.
This is what I realized, Coach.
This is my conclusion.
They block for everybody else,
'cause they watch me trying to make moves.
That's why they not blocking.
They watching me make moves.
[Brown] Jesse. Jesse.
Where's, uh, Kingston?
[indistinct chatter]
[Kingston] God, please.
[clicks tongue]
Coach, why you ain't answer my call?
I called you, too.
[Harris] I'm a real coach.
I don't bring my phone on the field.
My car broke down all the way over there.
We had to walk.
Good exercise.
[player] What happened?
Like, I'm riding down the road,
it starts slowing down,
like, my computer start flashing
and glitching and stuff like that.
When I pulled over, it shut down.
[Brown] That's a sign you shouldn't have
had the car here.
When you bring a ton of talent in,
they think they're better than they are.
The cancer may saturate throughout.
Rakeem Boyd, Kingston Davis,
big-time high school stars.
Went to Michigan,
one went to Texas A&M.
I don't know if talent
can equal one's character or heart.
Rakeem hasn't practiced all week.
Inexcusable.
A lot of these Division I guys,
sorry to say, they're broken.
-What do you think it is right now?
-[Raechal] An ankle sprain.
I would like for you to hold it there,
so I can tape this ankle.
[Boyd] What do you think the percent is?
How sprained it is?
It's a Grade 1, where you have...
you've had recurring ankle sprains
here before,
but you have good strength in it.
You need more control.
[Boyd] This shit tiring.
[Raechal] I know.
That's why you're doing it.
-[Boyd] Will I play a lot?
-[Raechal] I hope so.
Keep the ball in your hand,
you'll play a lot.
[chuckles]
You would.
[Carlos] Oh, no,
this thing's 48 degrees.
-[groaning]
-[Raechal] You are so dramatic.
Man, us skinny people
are not made to be in this.
[Raechal] The girl that was in here
before you just hopped in and sat.
It's all good. It's all good.
-[Raechal] Is it?
-It's all good.
More power to her.
More power to her.
[Calvin Jackson]
My joint is swollen all over.
My good leg, my joint was like this.
My bad leg, it was like this.
[Brown]
What's Calvin Jackson's real deal?
[Raechal]
He has a significant hamstring strain.
He don't wanna practice.
[Brown] You never know with him.
You don't know if he's soft.
You think you can not practice
and play at Washington St?
I'm not doing it on purpose.
I'm hurt.
-I wanna make sure you fight through it.
-Yeah.
I'm gonna start cutting dudes.
You know the deal.
My gut is telling me
we've got the wrong nucleus.
[Holmes] If you don't go hard in practice,
how do I expect you to go hard Saturday?
Our guys feel like they have a switch
they can turn on any time.
I would try teaching them, you know,
There ain't no such thing as a switch.
You gotta bring it every day.
Bad news. I can't practice or play.
[Raechal] What?
How did this come about?
I got the flu, so no practice.
When was the last time you had a fever?
-[Emmit] Yesterday.
-[Raechal] Let's see if you have a fever.
[beeps]
[Raechal] No. 97,5.
[Brown] This shit, it's crazy, man.
How many big-time D-I transfer freaks
are playing?
-I don't know.
-[Brown] We got 27 of them.
Not one of them are playing, though.
They don't make it. They're broken.
They're fucked.
Malik Henry, who's a fucking borderline,
being kicked out any minute, who else?
[Ornelas] Carlos.
Carlos Thompson,
who ain't played in four years.
He's 22 years old. He's a derelict,
ready to go home. Who else?
-[Ornelas] Kingston Davis.
-[Brown] He's a fuckstick.
He can't do right.
He's missed how many times?
He's late how many times?
He is an epitome of a fuckstick.
So, fuck 'em.
Who else?
-[Ornelas] Rakeem.
-Rakeem Boyd's a fucking holy fuckstick.
-[chuckles]
-[Brown] Boyd's broken, bro.
I don't know.
You've got a bunch of broken dudes.
We don't have a D-I transfer worth shit.
We don't have time to fucking fix 'em.
[Harris] None of 'em really played
on the field, for a reason.
[Brown] Yeah.
No transfers are panning out.
So, who else?
How many guys do we have
that we can live with?
-[indistinct chatter]
-[whistle blows]
[Manoa Latu]
Bobby, remember this dude can run.
So you gonna take off, he gonna do this,
and then run right up the middle.
[Bobby Bruce] First game,
we got blown out. I barely even played.
I don't just wanna be on the sideline.
I wanna be in there.
-[Brown] Bobby playing?
-I wanna give him reps.
A bit more reps this week, but...
At least I know he'll go down there
with reckless abandonment.
How many guys like that you got?
When I let him hold the line, cut him?
Yeah. That's why I want you
to meet him there and cut him.
[Jamal] All right, man.
-[Diaz] Very good.
-[player 1] Let's do it.
-[player 2] Come on.
-[Diaz] Good.
Jamal Scott is better than them.
He's just a dude.
He's hard to tackle, deceiving speed.
He's just a big body with ballerina feet.
We'll start to see your ass.
We'll let you out the cage.
I gotta get out! [chuckles]
[Jamal] Kingston and Rakeem,
if he thought they was better than me,
I shouldn't be playing football.
If I can't compete with them,
I can't compete at the next level.
You feeling good?
[Rakeem] I gotta bounce back,
'cause they weren't just gonna
hand it to me, so I gotta come stronger.
That's what everyone was waiting for,
me to pop off.
I don't think they've seen me
at my full potential yet.
Not one dude that played on Saturday
in the front, but that's okay.
Guess what? Coach expose you
in the goddamn film room today,
and make changes.
Time to give other guys shots, man.
[coach] Rakeem.
[Harris] How long till the food's ready?
I'm hungry.
[Brown] Done.
[Harris] I'll call up Martha Stewart.
She can't fuck with me.
[Brown] Bam.
That's what I'm talking about. That's
enough for me and you plus the O-line.
[Brown] That's your salad right there.
You need salad.
[chuckles] This is the first time
I ever ate raspberry dressing.
Is it?
Julia tried to give me this stuff.
I said, "Just give me the ranch."
I need a female, man.
[Harris] I don't remember him having one.
-Me being the spiritual adviser...
-[Brown scoffs]
...I'm working on this, and I think
we're to the recognition part,
so he's starting to realize a few things.
So, realistically, I'm doing a better job
than the guy who had Buddy Stephens.
Realizing there might need to be a change.
[both laughing]
[Brown] You make me drink, man. Shoot.
-I don't make you drink.
-You talk about females too much.
You need to drink again.
You might be a nicer guy.
[Harris] Me and JB are roommates.
I pay rent by cleaning up
around the place. [chuckles]
That was the agreement to get me
coming out here to coach.
I didn't wanna stay in the dorms.
Plus, it gives him somebody
to talk to sometimes.
We need to talk to somebody.
We thought we were
really loaded. Talented.
We are talented.
[Brown] Yeah. We haven't had
that one guy emerge yet.
Malik Henry?
Told him to shut up.
He tried to be a smart ass.
Season's on the line, too.
He knows I'll cut him.
He knows in his heart.
If we could get a quarterback
that tried a little bit... man.
-[Brown] Yeah. What about Carlos?
-[Harris] Texas Tech?
-[Brown] Yeah.
-[Harris] Raised?
[Brown] He got kicked outta there
for smoking.
Brought him to Garden City.
When I left Garden City,
I took him with me to California,
and then when I got this job,
I brought him back here.
And so, been with him three years now.
He's a talented cat. Explosive.
Gotta get him to take it serious
and make this his profession,
because it can't be a hobby for him.
[Carlos] You know what I want.
[woman] You want fried chicken?
What do you want?
Oh, I'll just take two thighs.
I'll be alright.
[woman] OK. Call you up in a second.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Man.
Got your chicken fried again?
Come on, man.
That's the only way I eat it.
She just do it for me.
I asked her one time,
and she's done it since.
Nobody else decides to ask,
but I'm gonna do it.
[player] I'm about to start
having them do that.
[Carlos] I'm telling you,
it's the way to go.
But that chicken don't be cooked.
They make it seem
like I get special privileges.
I don't get no special privileges.
[chuckles]
[cell phone vibrating]
[player] That Coach Brown?
[Carlos] Yeah, it's Brown.
Wait till I show you the text I just got.
-Another one?
-Another one. Yes.
-About this morning?
-Yes.
[player] He sent you the paragraph?
[Carlos laughs] I know.
He told me I've been
running the wrong routes
and I've been doing
too much freelance stuff.
He said if I don't get my act together,
I'mma have to do some punishment.
I gotta chill, man.
[woman] Don't react.
Just say, "Yes, sir," and that's it.
[Carlos] I don't know.
They keep putting me in...
they putting me in some bad spots.
That's all I'm saying.
Send a text and say, "Okay."
All right.
You'll make the problem worse
by being rude.
[Carlos] The thing that I struggle with
is keeping my mouth shut at times.
I tend to have to get the last word
in the conversation
or possibly an argument, if anything.
And that tends to get me in trouble a lot.
At times, I feel like...
I can make the bad decisions
and still kinda squeak by.
But now, as I get farther
into the adult world,
I see you gotta make
good decisions at all times
if you want good things to happen.
[Tatasha Scott-Hicks]
Carlos is my only son,
and he's been into sports
since he was four.
He started out playing
Little League football.
He's been playing football
since he was five.
I used to do about 150 miles in one day.
Work, coming back, going way out there.
It's about 150 miles one way.
[Carlos] My mom honestly
never missed a game.
She's always been my backbone throughout
this whole thing, no matter what.
[Scott-Hicks]
At Texas Tech, he fell by the wayside.
He has an authority thing, and I tell him
sometimes, "Wait before you speak."
Because you have to think it through.
Sometimes, when you're upset,
you feel things are not going your way,
you may say the wrong things.
But he kinda got that from me.
[laughs]
So, he stayed outta school a whole year.
[Carlos] Honestly, it was a moment
when I was here working.
I was valeting cars.
And I'm sitting here thinking, I'm like,
"I'm sitting here valeting somebody's car
that I wanna own one day.
Is this what you wanna do
your whole life?
Work for somebody else?
Drive somebody else's nice car?"
So, I guess that moment
of when reality hits, like,
"Man, you might have to do this
the rest of your life
if you don't get it together.
So let's go."
[Regina Scott]
He was always an "I can do it" kid.
Anything he wanna do,
"I can do it. I can do it."
He never said no to himself, so...
Right now, he's my comeback kid.
-That's what I call him.
-[Carlos] Yeah.
[Scott-Hicks] As parents,
you want the best for your kids,
and you're sitting there saying,
"Are you gonna get on the right track?
Will you do things?
Are you gonna change?
Will you do this?"
But as a mother, that's my only child.
His good and the bad, I'm there.
[Carlos] There's been people here
or there that have been like,
"Oh, maybe 'Los won't get it together,"
but it never even crossed my mom's mind.
She always knew I would get it right.
[Scott-Hicks] For him to get into ICC,
I spent lots of money
to physically get his transcripts.
Remember, he wasn't at one university,
he was at several.
His mom paid $14,000 for him to get here
because he owed six schools
transcript fees.
She took a loan out
to pay for this kid.
[Carlos] Every call she made,
she let me hear the amounts
that she was just paying off.
Letting me see, like,
"I have faith in you, son,
but don't mess over me again.
Don't mess over me."
[Brown] I like the kid.
I wanna help the kid, but will he ever
figure it out? I don't know.
-[Pinkard] You're on the right track.
-[student 1] No.
You're on the right track.
[student 2] Oh, my God.
[Pinkard] OK, I will have
to move you all for real.
[students laughing]
-[Pinkard] Emmit.
-[students chattering]
[student 3] Oh, man! [laughing]
[Pinkard] I started to wear
all black yesterday to mourn that score.
But I didn't do that.
So, next game, we got this, right?
So, how we feeling about grammar?
We're good?
[student] I'm good.
You gonna tap out on me again, Bobby?
You not going to tap out, right?
You got me today?
-What is wrong?
-[Carlos] We tired.
We've been up since 4:30 this morning.
[Pinkard] Who all has been up
since 4:30 in this morning?
-I got up, I went back to bed.
-You'll be all right.
4:30 is gonna only make you
a better student, a better person,
more conditioned and so on.
How many athletes are in here?
If you had a bad experience
or you zoned out at some point
when it came to learning grammar...
let me ask that question.
Who zoned out when it came to grammar
in high school?
Okay.
And that's okay.
I have 15 weeks.
This is only a second in your life.
-We'll fix it and get it right.
-Right.
[Pinkard] You know,
week one through five is hard.
We're building.
So I don't take it so personal.
I'm like, "I see where you are.
I have a feeling of what you've
gone through with your education.
I gotta help you."
Are you good here?
Nah, I ain't good.
[Pinkard] What are you not good about?
With all this.
Okay.
I need your help.
-[Pinkard] What you need me to do?
-Tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Okay, so pull out your notes.
[smacks lips] Uh, well...
I ain't have no paper that day.
All right.
Okay, so hold on. Here's the thing.
If I keep telling you the answer,
you'll never get it.
But I'll help you through it, okay?
All right. So what you just...
If you're discouraged now,
it's only gonna get worse.
So I try to get them to understand
you're better than
what you expect yourself to be.
Whatever you need me to do to help you
get from here to there
because of whatever that happened,
water under the bridge,
let me help you get there.
Number 12.
-[students speaking indistinctly]
-Um, semicolon.
[Pinkard] Semicolon. Okay, good.
[Brown] Coach, we're all fucked up.
-[player] Olly! Olly!
-[Brown] Olly what?
Pistol Molly? Pistol Molly?
What is the play?
[Latson] Run, run, run.
[Brown] Well, I wish
they were in sequence, Coach.
What number are we on?
I wish the fucking thing
had the right numbers on it!
There ain't no fucking seven!
Fucking genius!
[Malik] I think
he's talking nonsense today.
[Calvin] What?
[Malik] Like the way
he runs this whole shit.
The way he does things in general.
He's so, like, iffy about everything.
[Diaz] Someone's gotta be a leader.
That's what we need.
Ain't nobody wanna step up.
[Malik]
No, but if I step up and be talking,
y'all get mad at me or some shit.
Coach, Latson said yesterday that
I can't even talk to the receivers.
Stop asking for a leader
if I can't be vocal.
[Diaz] There's a difference between being
a leader and coaching.
-Be coachable--
-But why? Tell me why.
-That's just the way they are. I can't--
-Okay. But why can't I talk to my--
Exactly. Why can't I talk to my guys
and tell them what I need
so we are on the same page?
I understand
where you're coming from, Malik,
but I'm telling you there's certain people
who don't like that.
You got coaches that are sensitive
'cause I know what I'm talking about.
Y'all wanna be mad 'cause I know my stuff.
It ain't my fault.
I've been around
one of the greatest coaches ever.
We thought we were gonna roll in
and beat somebody up
'cause we had bounce-backs on our teams.
But having bounce-backs isn't gonna
just automatically win you every game.
You gotta be organized
and have a game plan.
We didn't really have a set game plan,
and we went in and got our ass beat.
I've never been a part of something
that embarrassing ever.
Set. Hut!
When I was at Florida State,
there was a lot of pressure.
Um, I went in there with a lot of hype.
Everybody knew me as
Malik Henry, number one quarterback,
so I definitely felt pressure
from parents and grandparents,
close family members, everybody.
The fans, you know, they were already
comparing me to Jameis.
I was 17 and everything,
still trying to figure things out,
you know, just out there alone.
I was going through some things,
depression-wise.
Me not feeling ready played into
the anxiety and the depression, too.
[Brown] I don't know if anyone knows
the real story but Malik Henry.
I believe when he knew
he wasn't gonna be the guy, it went south.
Both mentally and emotionally.
Me being the head coach
and him being the quarterback,
we have to make it seem like every day
is the best day that we've ever had.
Nobody can know that he's down or up.
He needs to be even keel
and stay consistent.
That's his biggest issue.
[Malik] I was in eighth grade
and we would have high school coaches
at our games,
asking us to visit their high school
and basically recruiting us.
As a little kid, I didn't expect that.
They tried to bribe me
and promise me things,
but I've only had
one quarterback coach in my life,
and that's Coach Ward.
[Ward]
His mom and dad brought him to me,
and he wanted to play quarterback.
I happened to have coached Coach Brown
at the JUCO level.
When this opportunity came for Malik
to come here, I was pushing that,
I was pressing it, because I know
that if he gets around my son,
he's going to reinforce
what I've already set forth for him.
One team now, Malik. It's one eye.
[Ward] I am so proud of JB.
Who replaced you
as the youngest head coach?
Ah, my son.
[both laugh]
-[Ward] Yeah, but--
-At the same school.
[Ward] Isn't that something?
That's history right there.
[Brown] I was about 10 or 11,
I was at a YMCA in South Central LA.
Coach Ward brought me over,
and from that point on,
I was like, I'm...
this is my boy here.
He's going to be around.
He's not to be screwed with.
I was kind of known as their son
or whatever you wanna call it,
and I basically would be with them
for years and years later.
[Malik] I respect anybody
Coach Ward trusts.
But Coach Brown's from Compton, and
the way guys play down here in the hood
is different than most people would play.
I grew up playing for Inglewood
and it was the same.
Unorganized, fighting at the game,
so that's what he's used to.
But he'll give you his shirt off his back.
I believe that.
That's what I really respect him for.
So I'm gonna read the second paragraph.
I'm on page 11.
"At MAPP, I was the only
African-American in most of my classes.
When I walked into one room and sat down,
the students near me would get up
and move away
as if my dark skin were dirty
and hideous to them.
'You know I hate niggers,' they'd say,
'I don't understand why they follow
white people everywhere.
Why don't they stay
in their own schools?'
I tried to become invisible.
I kept to myself,
remained quiet during class discussions
and never asked questions in
or after class. I spent hours..."
I question all of my students.
"When did you last read a book?"
And they would tell me,
"Probably the third grade.
Possibly, sixth or seventh grade."
I thought,
"Let me try to get a book club going
with some young black men."
I tell them all time, I said,
"A black man with a book is sexy."
I said, "Go stand somewhere
and go to the park
with a book and read it.
Oh, my gosh.
You will attract women like flies.
It's like having a puppy
but you have a book. So, read."
What do you think is the problem
when it comes to some black men
and their education?
I don't mean all black men,
because we have intelligent black men
we don't see in the media
as much as we see entertainers.
So, what do you think
is the deficit or the problem
when it comes to black men
going further with education?
-They're not built like that.
-[Pinkard] What do you mean?
They... [clicks tongue] I don't want
to say they take the easy way out.
But, like...
really, if we black, only thing we know
is either rapping, playing ball
or going to the streets.
We don't grow up talking
about being a police
-or a doctor.
-[Pinkard] Mmm-hmm.
-We--
-And that's sad.
Everybody say NBA.
NBA, NFL, rapping.
[Pinkard] Is it because
of what he said in this book?
"If that's all I see,
then that's what I want to be."
So if I'm only seeing
one ethnicity on TV,
if I'm only seeing one ethnicity
that has everything,
if I'm only seeing one ethnicity
that's prospering,
that would make you feel inferior,
if that's all you see.
Yeah.
She wants you to think, because she cares
for you as a person first,
then a student.
In high school, I always got Ds and Fs.
I never had an English teacher
that cares for me as a person.
OK, now one holding the books up.
If you want to be a doctor,
she wants you to be that.
If you want to be a football player,
she wants you to be
the smartest one.
So, yes, sir.
[newscaster] The storm's eye
passed just to the northeast
and its 180-mile-per-hour wind
toppled trees and power lines.
Officials are still trying to get a grip
on the extent of the devastation.
Nearly a million people
are without electricity...
-[Diaz] You have family there?
-Yep.
[Diaz] How's your family?
[Carlos] My mom said yesterday
the sun finally came out.
Water's starting to go down.
-How deep is the water?
-Got up to five, six feet.
By my house, at least.
There's another hurricane
brewing out in the Gulf now.
Hurricane Irma or something.
They're trying to see
if that one'll hit Houston, too.
Man, I don't know.
[Brown] He's sitting over there.
It's 5:45.
He's not even got his cleats on yet.
Carlos, come on.
I'm not begging you to play.
Figure it out or go home.
And you late right now.
Fucking same shit
I just told you about yesterday.
You ain't changed shit.
Told you we shouldn't have
brought him back.
Come on!
Are we taking him, Jesse?
[Ornelas] What's that?
Why are you over there, Coach?
Are we taking him or is he a Roger?
Yeah, Roger on this side.
-[Brown] Man. Why do I gotta see it?
-I'm giving the huddle for the next play.
-[Brown] Coach, shut up!
-Let's go.
-[Brown] I can hear your mouth.
-Let's go!
-[Brown] Hurry up, let's go!
-[player] Roger! Roger!
[players exclaiming]
[Bea] We need you back, bro.
Next week. Next week for sure.
-We need some shit to get organized.
-I got you.
I'll try to work in the rest of this week.
I'm gonna try pads on Thursday.
-How's the shoulder coming?
-It's good.
[Bea] We need you back, man.
[Brown] Carlos, I brought you back
for this? Really?
[Carlos] Nobody else I hear
saying nothing, but why is it on me?
[Brown] Motherfucker, go home, then!
I don't give a fuck!
I didn't bring you back for this shit!
Fuck is all that? You're a grown man!
I still gotta beg you to practice?
Take your ass home, man.
Ain't nobody sucking your dick.
[Carlos] Man, Coach.
Shut the fuck up, man. Take your ass home.
[Carlos] Bro, he's always bitching.
He always bitching.
Bye. Do the same shit you did
at Garden City.
Same motherfucker.
You the same dude, Carlos. Same dude.
[Carlos] Underwater, bro.
My house underwater.
And you doing this.
[Carlos] You worried about 15 minutes
and my house underwater.
So you gonna feel sorry
for everybody?
Why don't you go help them out?
Why don't you do right here
and go help them?
I ain't dependent on your ass!
Walk your ass back to the dorm!
Pack your shit!
Get another wideout, Coach.
Let's go, coaches.
I wanna play with winners!
Fuck these loser motherfuckers!
If these dudes don't wanna practice,
get the fuck out!
I don't give a fuck who it is,
Malik Henry or whoever!
These motherfuckers don't buy in,
get them out of here!
I don't give a fuck who it is!
You motherfucker,
I'm tired of sucking your dicks!
This shit's dead.
[groans]
[Emmit] Come on, bro.
[Carlos] Bro.
[Emmit] Fuck with me, dog
You're wasting your time if you want
to tell me to go back out there, buddy.
Let me take you back. Come on.
You're wasting your time if you
want me to come back out there.
-Come on.
-You're wasting your time.
You won't dab me up?
-I dab you up. You're still my dog.
-Look...
Fuck whatever he said.
I don't give a damn.
I'm not going back out there, bro.
Y'all might as well go back to practice.
-You know I love you.
-[Carlos] Love y'all boys. Peace out.
We take care of family.
[Carlos] You know it.
-Hey. Take it easy.
-[Carlos] All right.
[Brown] There's two people that bitched
about practice structure
because we went early in the morning.
It was Malik Henry and Carlos Thompson.
Skilled players
are always the prima donnas,
and that's the reputation they have
throughout the history of football.
Think they're better than the program.
No one is better than the program.
When you bring a ton of talent in
and you don't have a backup for them,
they can really kind of hold you
at gunpoint, too.
Because now you're screwed without 'em,
and you don't have a backup for 'em.
So I gotta figure that out.
But I won't be held hostage either.
I'll have to make a tough decision.
If we started a game tomorrow,
Malik would start.
Yeah, I know that.
[Brown] Now, I need to find number two.
-For sure, number two.
-Exactly.
[Brown] You happen to be
behind a guy that has been trained
by great guys since he was six.
He was a stud in high school.
A lot of high school guys, those stars
after your name, are overrated.
[Bea] They mean nothing.
He was a five star.
Malik has temper issues.
Mmm-hmm. We've all seen that.
So who says Malik don't throw the football
at the fucking referee's face.
-You're coming in now.
-[chuckles] Exactly.
There's a saying where I'm from.
If you stay ready,
you ain't gotta get ready.
-Okay.
-You know what I mean?
Stay ready, man.
-You talk to him?
-I'm going to, yeah.
What about this weekend?
He didn't practice.
Can't let him start.
Let's see him today.
[Brown] I've never sat a cat
because of an injury
-if it was the truth.
-He did have the concussion protocol.
[Brown] But he was there
every day on time.
Yeah, he was.
[Brown] Have a talk with him
and say this is my first and only,
because Coach Brown's done with it.
You know?
[Diaz] We can't motivate you all the time.
At some point, it's gotta come through
you guys to come out here and play.
I need one guy to be a leader. One dude.
One dude that's gonna check dudes.
Say, "Come on. Let's go."
All these D-I bouncebacks
saying they're hard, man.
Malik, I need you to step up, baby.
I know you have it inside you.
You're a competitor. You want to win.
-You gotta show it. Feel me?
-Yeah.
[Diaz] I thought you were
gonna rise to the occasion.
But I haven't seen it, Carlos.
I know you have it inside.
You're the oldest cat in here,
and I haven't seen you
check these guys.
[Carlos] The flood did all this damage.
The city, in some places,
still all the way underwater, though.
They packed up everything downstairs,
'cause they had a feeling
it was coming up,
when it came up the driveway.
The house and shit, that's material.
As long as you got family,
you ain't lose everything,
thank God.
[Carlos] Don't you think
about what happened at practice?
[Markiese] We had a good practice,
but it ain't the practice we need to have.
'Cause when two of our starters
not practicing, what can we do?
And when you two don't practice,
other people think they can't practice.
When y'all two is out,
then Sean didn't wanna practice.
I feel that, bro.
If Coach Brown cuts you for real,
you know how much you gonna lose?
Not just you. You know how... man!
Think about the money
your mama put in this.
-For real.
-And the situation she in now.
We do stuff out here we don't like.
I hate practicing.
But it's a business trip.
You gotta do it.
Practice or go home.
One question.
If you go home, what'll you do?
I don't even know.
Exactly. If I go home, know what I'll do?
Fuck around, be in jail or dead.
This a business trip,
and we gotta take advantage of it.
[Carlos] I know, bro. I don't... [sighs]
I gotta suck up my pride, bro.
That's all it is.
All I can say is suck it up,
be a man and let's get out of here.
Win that goddamn Natty,
and let's get out of here.
For real, dog.
Gas up.
Always. [chuckles]
-[Brown] All right, 'Los, what up?
-What's up, Coach?
What you want to talk about, man?
You know where I'm at?
-Yes, sir. I mean--
-[Brown] Now your legacy gonna end
as the could-have-been dude who went
to Texas Tech, was an All-American,
or the guy that got kicked out
of Indy in his third JUCO,
fourth school overall.
If you think about it, four schools, dog.
In how long? Three years?
I'm the same dude that drove you
from Garden City to LA.
-You know?
-Yes, sir.
And took you to my beach house.
I'm the same guy.
I ain't changed.
But when are you gonna change, man?
These dudes look up to you.
They'll follow you going to the left
or to the right.
-How am I gonna depend on you?
-I know I can get this right.
I can come in and lead this team
in the way that they need to be led.
-Well...
-I know I can do it, Coach.
-You gotta show me.
-I am gonna do it.
Then I come out one day later,
and you going the other way.
-[stammers]
-Does that not disappoint you ever?
-It does.
-Your own self, when you go home? Fuck.
You're the only man in the household.
The last line of defense.
You can't do for them if you ain't right.
You have a legitimate shot
at making decent coin.
But you're gonna let junior college,
Southeast Kansas,
Western Kansas,
Riverside, California, stop you.
At the moment, you are at a "show me,
not tell me" situation, so...
When he says, "Seize the moment,"
he means right now.
'Cause time flies, man.
The moment last week was the first game.
Do you know this season will be gone?
It's just a moment, man.
Do the right thing for the moment,
and for the rest of your life
you'll be glad you did.
[Brown] Mmm-hmm.
[Latson] You'll be glad that you did, man.
[Harris] You're all set? [grunts]
Where's your technique?
That's where you gotta stand.
Let's go. Stretch left to the right.
Ready?
Back up. Interior three.
What you all cursing at?
[Diaz] Come on, Brandon Bea.
Hey. Lion trips, laying Vegas, Y-out. Set.
[Diaz] There you go. Good.
Good, Brandon Bea.
-Come here, Malik. We gotta change.
-[Malik] All right.
-[Diaz] We gotta change. Makes sense?
-[Malik] Yeah.
So I can't start you this Saturday. Okay?
-There's consequences to things. Okay?
-[Malik] All right.
[Diaz] Stay locked in. Don't lose me.
This gonna be a test, man.
When I say "ball," get the ball out. Go.
Move, move, move. Go.
Ball, get out. Good.
It's gonna be an awkward throw.
I want the ball out. Go.
Work, work, work.
-Work, work, work. Ball.
-[grunting]
[Diaz] Good. Go. Work, work, work.
Here.
Do you feel like practicing,
or are you upset?
Wanna go back to your room?
What do you want to do?
[Malik] Keep practicing.
[Diaz] Can you give full effort?
I know you're an athlete.
I understand why you're upset,
but I need your full effort.
Overcome this adversity.
[players grunting]
[whistle blows]
[player] Good job! Good job.
[players clamoring]
[Diaz] A lot of people
are waiting for you to fall.
The mission that you're on is impossible.
It's impossible, Malik.
I'm here to help you, man.
And you're giving me half-assed effort.
You know that I got your back.
You're giving me half-assed effort
and putting lipstick on me.
That's what it looks like
when I talk to these people.
You're putting
fucking lipstick on me, dog.
I have your back, and you do shit...
you can't give me effort, man.
-Do you want to go back to Power Five?
-Yeah.
Why aren't you giving me full effort?
I don't know what full effort
I'm not giving you.
[Diaz sighs]
[Diaz] Fuck, man.
[Brown] Listen,
it's a business trip Saturday.
You'll wear a shirt and a tie.
Get a tie.
Carlos Thompson, come up here.
Carlos Thompson came to me.
I told him this is his last hoorah.
He walked off the field yesterday.
He reflected, he came in, he apologized,
he's gonna pay the price.
But he wanted to holler at you
so you understand.
I wanted to say I'm sorry.
I let the team down.
Not being out there practicing,
I let y'all down.
I want to ask for y'all forgiveness.
-Y'all forgive me?
-[players] Hell, yeah.
I also want to say, bro, this real shit.
I'm disappointed in myself,
'cause before today,
I hadn't fully bought in to the team.
I'm being real.
I was half-assing it.
Making plays here or there,
but not going all the way.
We got an opportunity to do something big.
That's some real shit.
I been on great teams, good teams,
whatever you want to call it.
I been to D-I, did that.
The talent we got here,
we could do something special.
We got our ass busted that first game.
70-21. I ain't gotta speak on that.
We know what happened.
But if we get this brotherhood stuff going
and we get this down as a team,
we could do something special.
-We could run the table, nine and one.
-Yeah.
Ten and one. You feel me? We doing it.
We ain't messing around.
I love all, y'all boys. I love all y'all.
That's some real shit.
You all my brothers.
We gotta get it.
We buy in, we can get this.
-We love you!
-I love all y'all.
[all cheering]
[Carlos] Hey, everybody in, everybody in.
[all chanting] Ooh! Ahh!
Somebody's gonna get
their ass whipped!
[all continue chanting]
[chanting continues]
[Carlos] Brotherhood on three,
brotherhood on me. One, two, three...
[all] Brotherhood!
[all cheering]
[Emmit] Reverend Carlos. Reverend Carlos.
[Carlos] I love y'all. I do, bro.
-[player 1] Yes, sir.
-[Carlos] I love y'all.
-I love y'all.
-[player 2] You that real dude.
-I love y'all boys, man.
-[player 2] Appreciate you.
Where my receivers at?
[woman] I'm proud of you
for getting dressed today.
-Did you tie this?
-No, Coach did it.
[indistinct chatter]
[woman] Little pimp suit on?
I ain't no pimp. I'm a player.
-[woman] You're so Hollywood now, Emmit.
-[Emmit chuckles]
-[Malik] Who tied this?
-I got you.
-I don't know.
-[chuckles] Who tied that?
I post this, I might get a thousand likes.
You ready to play today?
Born ready. I been ready since Monday.
-70-21, I ain't forget about that.
-[chuckles]
[Brown] It should be all business
on the bus. Stay in the tie.
Once you get off, take it off.
Last time you'll have to wear a tie.
Let's go win the fucking game.
Hands up.
Win on me, win on three.
One, two, three...
[all] Win.
[Brown] Hey, fellas, winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.
We need to fucking hit reset today.
There is no rah-rah.
You gotta find it in yourselves.
Rah-rah your fucking selves today.
Go out there and ride each other's back
and win this motherfucker.
Go home, have a party Monday.
Let's go. Get a break.
I'm about to
make you proud tonight, Coach.
Show me, baby.
[announcer]
Welcome to Fort Scott, Kansas.
Tonight, week two.
In week one, against Iowa Western,
the Pirates were beaten 70-21.
Independence came into that contest,
preseason,
ranked number 17 in the country,
and not living up to the hype.
Tonight, the Pirates
certainly need to get regrouped
and put on a much better showing.
[crowd cheering]
Let's go, Pirates!
[announcer] Tonight, it's a new night
and a new opportunity.
The Pirates first and ten
from their own 41-yard line.
I don't even see Henry out there.
Come on, let's go, y'all.
[announcer] At quarterback,
I believe that's Brandon Bea.
[player] Bea's starting?
What the fuck he do now?
[announcer] And it is Bea.
He'll throw near side and it's incomplete.
-[Diaz] What the fuck?
-That ain't the read!
[announcer] Second down
and ten for the Pirates.
Right side is tailback Boyd,
four-man front defense.
Fort Scott, trying to stop the run.
Oh, the ball pops loose!
Indy diving after it.
-The Greyhounds might have it.
-[crowd cheering]
[announcer] They did.
Rakeem Boyd, coughing it up.
Oh, shit. Come on, let's go, y'all.
We're all right. We're all right.
We got three backs, bro.
[Brown] Where the hell is Jesse?
I can't monitor all this shit.
You gotta keep them in. Rotate them.
Let's get it, D!
[announcer] Quarterback for Fort Scott,
back to throw. He's hit hard.
-Ball picked off by the Pirates...
-[Carlos] Let's go!
-...near the 20-yard line.
-[Carlos] Let's go!
[Brown] Let's go!
Hey, Tray!
[announcer]
Opportunity for the Pirate offense,
just outside the three-yard line.
-Shotgun set, Bea.
-[Brown] Get it, Brandon!
They'll fake the handoff. Bea keeps it,
throws the pass into the flat.
-[whistle blows]
-It is incomplete.
Damn it, man. Just fucking hand it off!
[announcer]
It really looked like if Brandon Bea
read the read properly...
Might as well handed that one off.
-[Brown] You know what Tray right is?
-[Bea] Yes, sir.
-Can you have some moxie?
-[Bea] I looked..
-So why were you in quads?
-Quads?
There was trips over there, motherfuckers.
Tray right.
Fuck it. Hand the ball off
and make a fucking play. Fuck it.
Hey, give me Jamal.
Let's go!
[announcer]
Jamal Scott in the backfield.
Bea with the long snap count.
He'll hand it off right up the middle,
hammers forward. Touchdown!
[coach] Baby, let's go.
-[crowd cheering]
-[announcer] Jamal Scott
strikes the end zone here
in the first quarter.
[Carlos] There you go. Let's get it.
[announcer]
The six-foot, 235-pound tailback
sophomore out of California.
[Carlos] Get it back to us.
We gonna go again.
[announcer] So Independence
with the 7-0 lead over Fort Scott.
-Let's keep it up.
-[player] I know.
[announcer] Fort Scott trying
to answer the call. Hands off near side,
and the Pirate defense
gobbles up the ball carrier.
Nowhere to run.
Stonewalled by Emmit Gooden.
Again, great job defensively
by the Pirates.
On my life, bro. They trash. They cheddar.
We can burn their ass.
[Brown] Malik goes next.
-[Diaz] Sure?
-Yeah.
I like the feeling we got.
Make them humble.
-He hungry?
-[Diaz] Yeah, he's ready, Coach.
[announcer] Malik Henry in
at quarterback for Independence.
Fakes the handoff, looks.
-[Carlos] Bye.
-[announcer] He throws. Deep pattern.
It's complete! What a catch!
[announcer] Far side of the field,
and Malik Henry throws a bullet
down the far side for the strike.
-[player] Fucking ball, boy!
-[Malik chuckles]
Let's go!
[Malik] Go run this nigga over.
[announcer]
Scott in the backfield, tailback.
First and goal, Pirates.
Independence already up 7-0.
Now knocking on the door yet again.
Fort Scott expecting a run.
They'll get it to the end zone.
Touchdown, Jamal Scott.
[player] Oh, my God!
[announcer] The big tailback blasts
through the Greyhound defensive line
for his second touchdown
of the quarter.
[chuckles] I'm telling the people
back home how we're doing.
The Pirates up 14-0.
[player] Let's go!
[Brown] Jesse, I want you
to keep these backs fresh
and let's find a back tonight.
Fucking run all of them.
Let's see who we can get.
[announcer]
The Pirates shuffling personnel.
Rakeem Boyd back in the backfield.
It goes to Boyd.
He tries to come near side
and he's cut down after a very short gain.
Maybe a pickup of one.
The first side was there.
We could've gained 20 yards.
We can't be playing this political game.
Gotta have the right personnel.
Fuck it. We don't have a guy yet.
[announcer] A player down for the Pirates.
Looks like his right leg.
[Harris] If he ain't the dude, he ain't.
Hey, clear... hey, watch out.
[announcer] Pirate offense sputtering
on that possession.
The Greyhounds on the move,
with four minutes left
in the second quarter.
[Carlos] Bobby!
[crowd cheering]
[stadium announcer]
Tackle, number 30, Bobby Bruce.
[announcer] Bobby Bruce, the linebacker,
with the tackle out of Titusville.
[coach] Hey, Bobby.
[Brown] Trainer!
[coach over radio]
We need somebody for Bobby.
[announcer]
Looks like he was shaken up.
-[Brown] We got an injury.
-[player] Back up.
[coach] Come on, man. Stay focused.
[announcer]
The Pirate defense reeling here.
First and ten from the Pirate red zone.
Looks to throw.
He's gonna throw short side,
wide open at the ten.
-The five, dives forward. Touchdown.
-[crowd cheering]
All of a sudden, the Greyhounds
only down 14-10 to the Pirates.
Uncle Mo wearing maroon and gray here.
Twenty-two seconds left here
in the first half.
Independence offense
looking for a little magic.
He'll drop to throw.
Here comes the blitz.
Henry runs near side.
Now he's in trouble.
-He will get sacked.
-[Brown] Why does he leave the pocket?
[Harris] You kidding?
[Brown] He needs some nuts.
[Harris] He gotta throw the ball away.
We say he's an all-star.
We sellin' our soul on that cat?
Throw the ball.
[Brown] Go with Kingston.
Just go down the line.
Hey, Kingston, 20. Pull, pull!
Kingston, Kingston.
[announcer] Kingston Davis, the transfer
from Michigan, comes in as tailback.
[Malik] Run a nigga over for me.
[announcer] The Pirate offense looking
to get back to winning ways.
Henry in the shotgun.
Here comes the blitz.
Flushed out of the pocket.
Flips it over, right side.
And still fighting for yardage.
The ball was stripped out of the hands
of the running back,
-and Fort Scott recovers. Turnover.
-Damn.
[player] Hey, bro.
Don't be twisting his leg like that.
Fuck, nigga. I fucked your mama.
[Brown] Shut up! Shut up!
-[referee] That's gonna get you run.
-Oh, yes, sir.
[announcer] Unbelievable.
Another huge mistake for Independence
and then a late flag comes in.
-Bro.
-[Brown] Just talk to him?
-He's good now. Take care of it.
-I will.
[announcer]
It is unsportsmanlike conduct.
We good.
We look like a bunch of monkeys
fucking an elephant, man.
[Carlos] Now you done broke
your helmet, G.
You got that right, Kingston.
Hey, Kingston.
You got that right.
I already don't play as it is, bro.
[Carlos] Calm down.
Relax. Relax. Relax, man.
[announcer] Independence looking like
world-beaters in that first quarter.
Before you know it, Fort Scott
climbing right back into this game.
Heading into the locker room
with a 14-10 advantage.
Not much here at halftime
in the passing department for the Pirates.
-Can't take any more sacks.
-I got you.
We can't take no more sacks.
Throw the ball away.
Be efficient. Okay?
[Harris] We blanked that last quarter.
We took four sacks.
You can go back to Bea,
'cause he'll get rid of the ball.
We had Malik on the one-yard line.
Didn't do a lot.
Run game-wise, we're good.
You like Jamal or Rakeem?
[Harris] Rakeem's a good kid,
but he don't got no vision.
[Ornelas] We gotta put
our best guys in the field.
[Harris] That's it.
No political, no nothing. Let's go.
[Ornelas] I'm going with Jamal
and fuck it.
If those fuckers don't want it,
hit the road.
[Harris] Yeah, that's what we need.
We need Jamal.
It's gonna take everybody in this room
to win the football game,
whether you're in or out.
Support the next dude.
Let's party on the way home.
You guys are up in the game.
It shouldn't be close.
Smack them in the mouth and go home.
-[player] Yes, sir!
-Get out of here.
[announcer] The Pirates shuffled lots
of personnel in the first half,
trying to figure out who gets the ball
at quarterback and in the backfield.
[Malik] Anything in your power.
Anything in your power, Malik.
Gotta lead these guys.
[Carlos] Hit 'em in the mouth!
[announcer] Carlos Thompson bringing
the kick back for the Pirates.
Need to get regrouped rather quickly.
It'll be fielded at the eight-yard line
for Independence up to the 20.
Twenty-five.
There's a lane across the 30.
The 35, still on his feet.
-Down the sidelines at the 40-yard line.
-[whistle blows]
And close to snapping that one on
for a touchdown.
Great return, and that ignited
the Independence bench.
[Malik] Hey, let's go!
-Man! I need us Indys to the house.
-[Brown] Let's go.
Hey, hey, hey! Full on! Full on!
[Carlos] Let's execute right here.
Move the ball.
I need two first downs, baby.
[announcer] The offense in dire need
of some points on this drive.
[Malik] What if I need one?
[announcer] Malik Henry, the transfer
from Florida State at quarterback.
Here's the throw. It's complete.
Carlos Thompson fighting
for additional yardage.
[Carlos] You better get big, boy!
[player] Run your stupid ass over here.
[announcer] Malik Henry trying
to get this offense resurrected.
Indy trying to keep the drive alive.
Here comes the blitz.
Flushed out of the pocket.
Shuttle pass.
And it is going to be a first down!
Still on his feet,
-he flips over one tackle.
-[whistle blows]
Unbelievable.
Calvin Jackson reeling it in.
Good job! Hey, great job!
Malik, good ass job climbing!
[Malik] Let's get it in the end zone.
Let's go.
[announcer] So first and ten
inside the Greyhound red zone.
[player] Let's go!
[announcer] He's gonna fake the hand-off.
He has room near side,
across the goal line.
-Touchdown, Pirates!
-[crowd cheering]
[Malik] Ah, bitch!
One more time. Let's go.
[Diaz] Come on, baby. Yes! Oh, shit!
Hey, that's how we finish, baby.
That feel good, huh?
-Are you Malik Henry? Good boy.
-[Malik] Yes, sir.
-I ain't got your jukes, bro.
-I don't got no jukes either.
[announcer]
Independence ups the lead to eight,
and that's what they needed.
It's picked off by the Pirates.
The Independence defense with the INT
and again shut the door on Fort Scott.
Henry hands off. Who else but Jamal Scott,
the battering ram,
barreling through the secondary.
He's been the workhorse all night
for the Pirates.
[Carlos] How about running that route?
[chanting] Defense! Defense!
...then he is hammered.
Just a monster hit in the backfield.
Emmit Gooden.
Pirates defense just relentless.
Swarming to the football. Stripped away!
Pirates fighting for it,
and Independence recovers the fumble.
[Carlos] Them niggas, booty buttcheeks.
[announcer] Pirate offense trying to drive
the nail as they lead 24-16.
[whistle blowing]
I'm not sure what's going on.
They're making Davis go off the field.
[player sighs]
I feel like we're in Pop Warner.
He got in freaking trouble for something.
[Brown] Tuck your shirt in. That's all.
Oh, no, no, no.
-[Kingston] It's my damn...
-[Brown] His ass is out.
[announcer] Henry will keep it. Rolls out.
Throws into the end zone.
It's caught! Touchdown, Pirates!
[crowd cheering]
The Independence Pirates bounce back
in a big way on the road.
Final score,
your Independence Pirates, 30,
the Fort Scott Greyhounds, 16.
[Diaz] Soak in this feeling.
It's what it's about.
Tonight's the night you became
a coachable player.
You became the new Malik Henry.
Keep it going. You're not done.
-[Malik] Yes, sir.
-You're good, but you wanna be great.
[Brown] Hey, congratulations. Clap it up.
You'll play the defending national champs
next Saturday
and smack their ass
in the fucking mouth.
'Cause I expect to fucking win
every time I take the field.
That's the bottom line.
How about we go out and prove a point?
[announcer] The Pirates set their sights
on the number one team in the country
as the Garden City Broncbusters roar
into Emmett Field.
The Pirates can shock the world
if they beat Garden next Saturday.
-[Brown] Get in tight. Get a break.
-[all cheering]
[all chanting]
[announcer] The Garden City Broncbusters
are the defending national champs,
and you're the champs
until somebody dethrones you.
Y'all see the score right there?
Y'all see? 16-30. We did it.
We won.
That's what we came out here to do.
We had a mindset to win, so we won.
Everybody just know...
We got some of the best players out here.
We got this.
We're gonna go back out and practice.
Practice, practice, practice,
all the way to Saturday,
and we'll win again.
We're gonna practice
all the way to Saturday,
and we'll win again.
That's how it'll come.