In the chap­ter titled “Block­ing and Tack­ling,” the nar­ra­tive revolves around a crit­i­cal foot­ball game between the Cubs and Faith Bap­tist, under­scor­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of defense and aggres­sive plays. The Cubs, fac­ing a focused Faith offense, shift­ed their strat­e­gy and show­cased a for­mi­da­ble defense as Trevin and Kaden exe­cut­ed strong tack­les and near­ly inter­cept­ed a pass under pres­sure. Despite Faith’s minor suc­cess­es, such as eking out a first down, the Cubs estab­lished dom­i­nance ear­ly.

A piv­otal moment came when Faith attempt­ed a basic run­ning play led by Park­er Mills. How­ev­er, the defense, par­tic­u­lar­ly the Adams broth­ers, effec­tive­ly shut him down, sig­nal­ing to Faith that their star run­ning back would not find suc­cess on the field. After forc­ing Faith to punt for the first time, the Cubs cap­i­tal­ized on the oppor­tu­ni­ty, orches­trat­ing a clever screen pass to Jory that gained sig­nif­i­cant yardage. The phys­i­cal prowess of the Cubs became evi­dent, espe­cial­ly as Gio made a stand­out play, uti­liz­ing skilled block­ing to advance upfield.

The coach­ing wis­dom high­light­ed in the chap­ter empha­sizes that strong block­ing and tack­ling often dic­tate the out­come of foot­ball games. The Cubs exem­pli­fied this by phys­i­cal­ly over­pow­er­ing their oppo­nents. The game inten­si­fied as Trevin scored a touch­down, extend­ing their lead to 22–12 after demon­strat­ing remark­able team­work.

As Faith strug­gled offen­sive­ly, their quar­ter­back A. C. Swadling sus­tained an injury, com­pelling them to resort to lim­it­ed strate­gies, which fal­tered against the Cubs’ aggres­sive defense. Mean­while, the Cubs main­tained an auda­cious pace in their play-call­ing, opt­ing for risky pass plays even as they held a lead, result­ing in anoth­er touch­down for Jory after an impres­sive catch.

The chap­ter also touch­es on Chris­t­ian Jimenez, a line­man recov­er­ing from a frac­tured leg, who show­cased incred­i­ble for­ti­tude by con­tin­u­ing to play despite sig­nif­i­cant pain. His deter­mi­na­tion helped the Cubs sus­tain their offen­sive momen­tum when Trevin scored again. Just before half­time, Trevin inter­cept­ed a pass from Swadling and ran it back for a touch­down, solid­i­fy­ing the Cubs’ over­whelm­ing lead at 42–12 by the break, leav­ing the ques­tion lin­ger­ing if Faith could recov­er in the sec­ond half.