{"id":183438,"date":"2024-09-09T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=183438"},"modified":"2024-09-09T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:59:15","slug":"random-thoughts-streaks-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/09\/09\/random-thoughts-streaks-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: streaks and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest installment of Random Thoughts centers around winning streaks, a long streak, game of the week, NFL quarterbacks and a head shaking record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning streaks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state\u2019s current longest winning streak is now up to 51. Marion Local won its 51st<\/sup> straight football game, regular season and postseason, with last Friday\u2019s 42-9 victory over St. Henry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphos St. John\u2019s holds the record with 57 consecutive regular and postseason wins between 1996-2000. The Flyers will play the Blue Jays this Friday. Should Marion Local keep winning, they would tie the record in Week No. 9 against Minster, with a chance to break in the regular season finale against Coldwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, another long winning streak came to an end last Friday, when Upper Scioto Valley topped Waynesfield-Goshen 40-38 in three overtimes. Entering the game, the W-G Tigers had won 24 consecutive regular season games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long streak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a stat from fantastic50.net<\/a> \u2013 Van Wert has scored 10 points or more in 61 consecutive games, the fourth longest streak in Ohio. Toledo Central Catholic has the top spot (82), followed by Marion Local (73) and West Branch (65).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt the game of the week is in the WBL, where St. Marys Memorial (2-1, 1-1 WBL) will host three-time defending league champion Wapakoneta (3-0, 2-0 WBL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t imagine there will be very many, if any empty seats at the stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dak Prescott<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t play for the money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said after beating Cleveland on Sunday. Earlier in the day, he agreed to a four-year, $240 million contract extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please. \u201cI don\u2019t play for the money.\u201d Yes you do Dak. Why wouldn\u2019t you? If it\u2019s not about the money, why didn\u2019t you agree to a contract earlier?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not a Dak Prescott fan, at least on the field. Who knows, he\u2019s probably a great guy off it. I\u2019ve said for years he\u2019s overrated on the field. A 2-5 career playoff record says a lot. Yes, you can make the argument that it\u2019s not all his fault but when you\u2019re No. 1 on the pay list on your team, you\u2019re expected to produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeShaun Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Browns fan, I can\u2019t wait until the day Cleveland is able to cut ties with DeShaun Watson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Browns were absolutely fleeced in the trade with Houston, then they gave him a contract that he hasn\u2019t come remotely close to living up to. The only trade that might have been worse (it\u2019s debatable) was the Denver Broncos\/Russell Wilson trade. But when you factor in the baggage that followed Watson, it really might have been the worst trade ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I know \u2013 Cleveland\u2019s regular offensive line wasn\u2019t out there. So what? It\u2019s always something. There\u2019s always some excuse with this guy. It\u2019s getting old fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watson vs. Mayfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always thought Baker Mayfield got a bad rap in Cleveland. I\u2019m not saying he was elite while in Cleveland but I\u2019d take him in a heartbeat over Watson now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening day nightmare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can tell, I\u2019m still a little salty about Sunday\u2019s Browns opener. I honestly don\u2019t know why some people thought they\u2019d actually win it. History says otherwise. Counting Sunday, Cleveland is now 3-22-1 in season openers since returning in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, if you have thoughts on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports The latest installment of Random Thoughts centers around winning streaks, a long streak, game of the week, NFL quarterbacks and a head shaking record. Winning streaks The state\u2019s current longest winning streak is now up to 51. Marion Local won its 51st straight football game, regular season and postseason, with last Friday\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 14:59:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183439,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183438\/revisions\/183439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}