Season 4 and 5 was a genius plot. Resetting with underdog east lions and seeing them grow over 2 seasons was emotionally rewarding. And seeing Coach Taylor at the absolute bottom made me love his character even more.
I have a really hard time believing that a school could go from not existing to having a state champion football team in such a short period of time, especially in a state like Texas. But I love this show and coach Taylor so much that I agree, it was still a great watch
The way the team was built with the coach they had made it realistic and I loved it. It was bitter sweet for coach Taylor destroying his former team. I started watching last week and I finished the entire show in 2 weeks. I really enjoyed this show. Wish i would of watched it when it was on but I was enjoying high school and didn't have time to watch tv back then. Clear eyes full hearts can't lose!
@@Alex-kd5xc I think it's plausible as it happened to a school by where I grew up in VA. Westfield High won a state title their first year in existence granted it was a merger school.
It’s so funny that Landry is the leader of this team. Only one that knows “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” and told everybody to take a knee when coach came in. Great character development
Coach knows he’s got a team, but for now he needs to protect them. It’s beautiful. Love the next episode where he burns the uniforms (and hopefully with them these bad memories) and then has to scramble to find new ones. FNL is the best!
This may be an unpopular opinion, but the East Dillion uniforms with the numbers on the helmet was the best uniform in the show. Gives them that classic feel
It's remarkable how you switch allegiance from the Panthers to the Lions. It helps that all the Panthers players you loved have graduated. But once I have watched the whole series, it's difficult to go back and watch the early episodes and cheer for the Panthers.
When you break it down the show was about Coach Taylor, obviously there were plenty of other characters that had storylines but at the end of the day the plot was about him and his coaching career, so naturally where he went the story followed and they definitely did a good job of making us root for a new team but Kyle chandler is such a great actor that he was able to sell it so well. A truly underrated show its a shame it didn’t have the success it should have.
The first season will always be the best for me... the first Panthers❤❤ Matt Sarecen#7= Clear Eyes👀 Tim Riggins #33= Full Heart❤ Brian (Smash) Willams #20= Can't Loose✊
They were good but the first three will always be the best for me, just cause of Saracen, Riggins, Smash all being on the team and watching the character development of them as they went through high school. The episode where Coach Taylor gets Smash his walk on tryout and smash ends up making the team, phew that one gave me chills. I didnt fall in love with the newer characters in season 4 and 5 the way i did with the original characters
@@nopeteys2424 exactly... they will always , always be my favorite With Matt with his clear eyes, Riggins with his full heart and smash the one that cant lose👀❤✊
Cant ever beat Riggins and Matty seasons. The east Dillon seasons are great and have a place in the legacy but the OG Panthers seasons are what makes this show one of the greatest works of tv in modern history.
The last school I coached basketball at was exactly like the East Dillon lions our first year we weren't really good but our second year we destroyed people in route to a city championship
It is Never Easy Starting from the Bottom but that's where you can Pick up & Learn the Most,(If you are Broad/Open-Minded), Especially if you have fallen from Great Height's(Like Coach Taylor) going from West Dillion Head Coach to a Coach at East Dillion with Barely any Funding(If not for Buddy being Friendly with other Booster's the Football Program wouldn't have Lasted as Long as it Did), You Adapt Persevere & Keep on Truckin.
good seeing coach taylor realize in the crisis that was going against the kings, he could protect them by not allowing that type of “valley boy” material of a team they had to get to Taylor’s squad
I never understood why the team and town got so upset with him for forfeiting. His team was physically completely wasted, destroyed and injured. In fact, if I were a player, the fact that we had to forfeit would fire me up to try harder to win the next one.
Because it’s giving up. No matter how bruised and bleeding a team is they never want to just forfeit the game, they want to go out there and keep trying to battle even though they know they’re going to lose. It’s about pride. You always want to go down swinging.
Idk if you’ve ever played in team competitions but there’s a level of pride between you and your teammates to finish each game. I remember in baseball having a sprained ankle and was in so much pain but having my teammates at the end of each inning come help me back to the dugout there was just a level of pride I had as a team that it was easy to continue to go out there and play
@@nopeteys2424"because it's giving up" it's a GAME....they were getting destroyed, some of them were developing possible life effecting injuries. Calling the game was smart, there is nothing wrong with that. Going out and getting permanently hurt or other issues isn't worth it over a game
Got 45'd 13 times as a coach and player. Sometimes its better to just wave the white flag and wait for an opponent you can hang with. Taylor did the right thing.
I always thought this was the most ridiculously contrived controversy with him calling the game. These guys were already on the edge of life altering injuries, and that was going into the first half, HEALTHY. Going into the second half as beat up as they were, they wouldn't have made it. He did the right thing calling the game, it was the hardest thing for him to do, but he HAD to do it, because he cared a hell of a lot more for the guys, than his ego. Only a raging narcissistic monster would have sent those guys back into slaughter, it sure as hell wouldn't have been a battle.
Lot of guys probably graduated. Also people who completely uprooted their entire family to the other side of town just so their kid can keep playing for the Panthers.
Part of it is they rigged the lines, also some school districts have a policy that if it is your Senior Year you can finish it out at the school you have been going to for 3 years and be exempt from transfering.
No one had a choice, it was all districting, and the Panthers boosters were in charge of jigsaw cutting the districts up, to make sure they had all the good players. Corrupt AF, as always.
It would have been well into the triple digits, but as bad as that would have been, that's not why coach called it. Those guys were on the edge of life altering injuries and that was going into the first half, 100% healthy. Going into the second half as beat up as they were, wouldn't have been a battle, but a slaughter, and there, for sure, would have been some life altering injuries at that point.
@@conn_man_249 Literally every possession would be a 1 down possession. There was nothing the Lions could have done to stop anything the other team was doing. They were all practically crippled by the half. There is literally nothing the other team could have done to even slow the game down. They could run every play and still score a TD on each possession. They'd then sack the ball and force a fumble, while on Defense, setting up another 1 play TD drive by their offense.
Season 4 and 5 was a genius plot. Resetting with underdog east lions and seeing them grow over 2 seasons was emotionally rewarding. And seeing Coach Taylor at the absolute bottom made me love his character even more.
I have a really hard time believing that a school could go from not existing to having a state champion football team in such a short period of time, especially in a state like Texas. But I love this show and coach Taylor so much that I agree, it was still a great watch
@@Alex-kd5xc You're right, it's not feasible, but watching East Dillom struggle for twenty seasons doesn't make for good TV.
@@Alex-kd5xc you can if you have really great coaching and and a dominant Quarterback which east Dillon had both
The way the team was built with the coach they had made it realistic and I loved it. It was bitter sweet for coach Taylor destroying his former team. I started watching last week and I finished the entire show in 2 weeks. I really enjoyed this show. Wish i would of watched it when it was on but I was enjoying high school and didn't have time to watch tv back then. Clear eyes full hearts can't lose!
@@Alex-kd5xc I think it's plausible as it happened to a school by where I grew up in VA. Westfield High won a state title their first year in existence granted it was a merger school.
It’s so funny that Landry is the leader of this team. Only one that knows “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” and told everybody to take a knee when coach came in. Great character development
Coach knows he’s got a team, but for now he needs to protect them. It’s beautiful. Love the next episode where he burns the uniforms (and hopefully with them these bad memories) and then has to scramble to find new ones. FNL is the best!
The best "Clear eyes full hearts" from Coach. His speeches are amazing :)
This may be an unpopular opinion, but the East Dillion uniforms with the numbers on the helmet was the best uniform in the show. Gives them that classic feel
Not sure if it’s unpopular becasue I don’t think anyone cares about what the best uniform was.
This was such a phenomenal season. I felt the last two. There was such a high watching them roll in the last season because they earned it.
Yup. Season 1 and season 4 were the best for me !
It's remarkable how you switch allegiance from the Panthers to the Lions. It helps that all the Panthers players you loved have graduated. But once I have watched the whole series, it's difficult to go back and watch the early episodes and cheer for the Panthers.
When you break it down the show was about Coach Taylor, obviously there were plenty of other characters that had storylines but at the end of the day the plot was about him and his coaching career, so naturally where he went the story followed and they definitely did a good job of making us root for a new team but Kyle chandler is such a great actor that he was able to sell it so well. A truly underrated show its a shame it didn’t have the success it should have.
The East Dillon seasons were the best of Friday Night Lights.
Go Lions! Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!!!!
The first season will always be the best for me... the first Panthers❤❤
Matt Sarecen#7= Clear Eyes👀
Tim Riggins #33= Full Heart❤
Brian (Smash) Willams #20= Can't Loose✊
Thank you! I've always said Friday Night Lights was the best when we got to see Coach Taylor build the team from ground up
They were good but the first three will always be the best for me, just cause of Saracen, Riggins, Smash all being on the team and watching the character development of them as they went through high school. The episode where Coach Taylor gets Smash his walk on tryout and smash ends up making the team, phew that one gave me chills. I didnt fall in love with the newer characters in season 4 and 5 the way i did with the original characters
@@nopeteys2424 exactly... they will always , always be my favorite
With Matt with his clear eyes, Riggins with his full heart and smash the one that cant lose👀❤✊
Cant ever beat Riggins and Matty seasons. The east Dillon seasons are great and have a place in the legacy but the OG Panthers seasons are what makes this show one of the greatest works of tv in modern history.
Starting from the way bottom is never easy.
The last school I coached basketball at was exactly like the East Dillon lions our first year we weren't really good but our second year we destroyed people in route to a city championship
@@jamesdavis5482 now thats what i call persistence.
It is Never Easy Starting from the Bottom but that's where you can Pick up & Learn the Most,(If you are Broad/Open-Minded), Especially if you have fallen from Great Height's(Like Coach Taylor) going from West Dillion Head Coach to a Coach at East Dillion with Barely any Funding(If not for Buddy being Friendly with other Booster's the Football Program wouldn't have Lasted as Long as it Did), You Adapt Persevere & Keep on Truckin.
No one could of played a better coach than Eric Taylor, not even Billy Bob Thorton. I've liked everything he's played in. He's a really good actor.
good seeing coach taylor realize in the crisis that was going against the kings, he could protect them by not allowing that type of “valley boy” material of a team they had to get to Taylor’s squad
Beware of Landry! Do not get on his bad side!
I never understood why the team and town got so upset with him for forfeiting. His team was physically completely wasted, destroyed and injured.
In fact, if I were a player, the fact that we had to forfeit would fire me up to try harder to win the next one.
Because it’s giving up. No matter how bruised and bleeding a team is they never want to just forfeit the game, they want to go out there and keep trying to battle even though they know they’re going to lose. It’s about pride. You always want to go down swinging.
Agreed. As beat up as they were in the first half, it would have gotten much worse.
Could have had serious, if not life-altering, injuries.
Idk if you’ve ever played in team competitions but there’s a level of pride between you and your teammates to finish each game. I remember in baseball having a sprained ankle and was in so much pain but having my teammates at the end of each inning come help me back to the dugout there was just a level of pride I had as a team that it was easy to continue to go out there and play
Some ppl don’t see if that way they Rather you get bloody to the point of submission than Live to fight another day.
@@nopeteys2424"because it's giving up" it's a GAME....they were getting destroyed, some of them were developing possible life effecting injuries. Calling the game was smart, there is nothing wrong with that. Going out and getting permanently hurt or other issues isn't worth it over a game
Season 4 was definitely one of the best seasons!
Nothing like Texas high school football!
I personally loved season 4 more than any season thats not season 3
Season 3 gave me the most anxiety because of the McCoys 😓
@@binarystar300 man I hate the McCoys
Season 4 was about the underdog and that underdog was East Dillon.
I wish Coach Taylor talked to Uncle Jack.. Coach Taylor would have been a great DEA agent imo
he was on his way to being an nfl coach
best show created
Coach at 1:20 was in love
Season 4 and 5 were my favorite🤷♂️
Does anyone know who’s cover of “come thou fount” that was?
Sufjan Stevens
@@travisyeager4935 thank you!
Too many (somewhat serious) injuries to risk worse
I love this show❤❤❤❤
You know that calling that game was the hardest thing he ever had to do
Todd before he became a crazy meth cooking killer was a high school football player as seen here
What happened to Dillion (the Blue and Yellow colors from earlier seasons)?
Dillon split into 2 areas & coach taylor got transferred to coach the newly formed east dillon side.
@@iankinnell5643 thank you. I'll have to watch Seasons 3-5 (only watched Seasons 1&2 so far).
@@jayzee7538 it happens in season 4 they have the 2 schools
Got 45'd 13 times as a coach and player. Sometimes its better to just wave the white flag and wait for an opponent you can hang with. Taylor did the right thing.
I always thought this was the most ridiculously contrived controversy with him calling the game. These guys were already on the edge of life altering injuries, and that was going into the first half, HEALTHY. Going into the second half as beat up as they were, they wouldn't have made it.
He did the right thing calling the game, it was the hardest thing for him to do, but he HAD to do it, because he cared a hell of a lot more for the guys, than his ego.
Only a raging narcissistic monster would have sent those guys back into slaughter, it sure as hell wouldn't have been a battle.
Look at Michael b
Is Landry a freshmen when the series starts and he drives
Nice.
Did he stick his finger in Landry’s mouth
Hahahaha 😂🤣😂😂
Yep, Was Tryna Gauge How Deep Landry Wound was or Prob How Far Back in his Mouth it was or where was Exactly & How Significant it was.
Wow
Does Todd kill anybody in this series?
He actually does in season 2 I believe.
never understood this . why did only a handful of the panthers change schools? half should have came to east dillon
Lot of guys probably graduated. Also people who completely uprooted their entire family to the other side of town just so their kid can keep playing for the Panthers.
Part of it is they rigged the lines, also some school districts have a policy that if it is your Senior Year you can finish it out at the school you have been going to for 3 years and be exempt from transfering.
Zone district
No one had a choice, it was all districting, and the Panthers boosters were in charge of jigsaw cutting the districts up, to make sure they had all the good players. Corrupt AF, as always.
My cousin was number 11 Kenny Olson!!!! They screwed him so hard lol.
What happened?
You got the scene where Calvin gets kicked off the team?
If East Dillon didn't forfeit the other team might have scored over 100 points on them
Is that even possible
It would have been well into the triple digits, but as bad as that would have been, that's not why coach called it. Those guys were on the edge of life altering injuries and that was going into the first half, 100% healthy. Going into the second half as beat up as they were, wouldn't have been a battle, but a slaughter, and there, for sure, would have been some life altering injuries at that point.
@@conn_man_249 Literally every possession would be a 1 down possession. There was nothing the Lions could have done to stop anything the other team was doing. They were all practically crippled by the half. There is literally nothing the other team could have done to even slow the game down. They could run every play and still score a TD on each possession.
They'd then sack the ball and force a fumble, while on Defense, setting up another 1 play TD drive by their offense.
So we’re just going to ignore that they didn’t post the state title