The fifth episode focuses on doing your job and putting in the work. They push them to try harder in school and football. Wagner has a talk with DJ about trying harder and putting in the effort. She thinks that he may not be trying because then there is a real chance that he could do what he wants but if he just doesn’t try then he will just fail that way. Buddy doesn’t come in till later in the episode and talks about how he wants to work on his anger. This week they were playing for the division championship. This game was the type of game that you get really excited about. They went on to win the game and become the division champions. Buddy seemed to keep it together for most of game. There was only one time where he lost it and that was at half time when he was talking to John Franklin.
The last half of the episode is all about the last game of the regular season. It is against the team that they always had issues. They beat them every year and they run up the score on them each time. All week the coaches talk to them about how they have to keep it together and that they can’t let the other team get in their heads. The other team has nothing to lose going into this game and they have everything to lose. When they get to the game there is a fight that breaks out during warmups and the one kid had to get stiches. From that point on you can see the tension escalating. As we saw at the beginning of the season this episode ends with both teams clearing the benches and getting in a fight.
The last episode is mainly the aftermath of the fight. Buddy losses it on the players and is calling them thugs and rednecks. The team gets really upset with buddy because they were just protecting their teammates and he won’t listen to any of them. It isn’t until one of the other coaches says somethings, about how all their guys were waiting on the sideline and then the whole other team was cleared until they left, that he goes back and watches the tape. Buddy apologies to them but it showed what he thinks of them. How much he actually trusts his team and shows what he really thinks of them. He didn’t respect them enough to even listen to them This fight ended the teams post-season. The show starting with the fight and building up to it really put it into context. This fight ended their season and everything that they have worked hard for.
The rest of the episode focuses on them getting recruited and trying to finish out the school year. For some of the guys they really needed to get their grades up or they weren’t going to graduate or be eligible for D1. Ollie and DJ really put in the work in the last couple of weeks. Ollie was able to get an A in his class which he really needed to be eligible. DJ wasn’t able to graduate in December, but he still got recruited with the promise that he would graduate in the spring.
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