Reflective Essay: Is Football A Better Offense Or Defense?

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It was August 20, 2015 one hot day to be at football practice. As people started showing up for practice all we could hear was arguing coming out of the varsity locker room. When I came into the locker room they was arguing about who was better offense or defense. Being a defensive back I went with the defense, because I chose the defense they started talking about how I was soft and how I wouldn’t even hit nobody last year. When they told me that I guess it trigger something in my head and I lost it. As we made our way outside for practice all I could do was think about hurting the boys on offense. My coach came and ask me was I ok because at practice I usually be talking and that day I was and I told him I was fine. He said ok and we started …show more content…
The offense got mad at me and ask what was my problem, I told them to not worry about me and stop crying. After one on ones it was time for team and I unleashed all my anger and started going off. Ricko threw the ball to Kavon and I came down and slammed him down to the ground and everybody on the defense got crunk. As the offense couldn't complete passes they started to run the ball. One time Tatum was running the ball and I hit him so hard that his nose started bleeding and my coach got on to me talking about why would I hurt one of my team mate and I told him that he’s not my teammate when we go team and he told me not to do it anymore, but I did it anyways. It was time to switch sides of the ball or as coach call it depth, I went to the offense of the ball and Tatum went to the defense. As we ran plays, Ricko decided to run the ball and I see him running. I seen Tatum come running across my face and it trigger my anger again and I cracked back on Tatum and this time he stayed down for a minute or two and the coaches got on to me and stuff, but I didn’t care. When Tatum got up he told me to come on and do that again and see what