Original subtitles

(birds chirping)

(whistle blowing)

- [Man] Let's go guys!

Let's go!

(upbeat music)

- [Narrator] You might think this is just another story

about high school football.

(upbeat drums)

- [Man] First down.

- [Narrator] But this is about something more.

(upbeat drums)

This is the story of a community

born from the fires of the sugarcane fields.

(upbeat drums)

Where ash falls and gators thrash.

(upbeat drums)

And a favorite son comes home in search of greatness.

(crowd cheering)

- We win this one, we tell them the sky is orange,

they're gonna believe it's orange.

- [Narrator] It's the story of players and coaches

at two American high schools, whose grid-iron excellence

is matched only by the mountains

of obstacles they fought to overcome.

(upbeat drums)

- [Announcer] All right Raiders fans

and Blue Devil fans, keep those seat belts fastened.

I don't want you fallen out your seats!

- [Man] We gotta win this thing man!

- [Narrator] It's a story of dreams bound up

in a game that's more than just a game.

- When you live in a place like this

a lot stuff you go through, a lot of stuff you see

gonna either break you or make you.

- Football is my dream.

I got a little scripture right here.

It say your talent is your gift to God.

- We got more NFL football players coming outta this area

than any school in the country.

- Yeah!

(crowd cheering)

- [Narrator] For these athletes and those cheering them on

it all comes down to one...

final...

play.

On the banks of lake Okeechobee surrounded

by a sea of sugarcane fields are two tight-knit

south Florida towns, Pahokee and Belle Glade.

Known collectively to locals as Muck City.

- Basically the muck is an organicl below us

for about eight feet or more,

It's just black organic muck.

- We love the muck.

The muck is our black gold.

You can grow anything on it.

Sugarcane, we grow year-round.

- When we talk about Muck City

it's pretty much the most western part of Palm Beach county.

It's Belle Glade and Pahokee, Florida.

- We're 40 miles from West Palm Beach.

60 miles from Ft. Lauderdale.

- Most of the stuff in Florida is along both coast.

So we're out here in the middle of no where.

(slow drumbeat)

We have a reputation of being poor,

which we are, but we know who we are,

and we're very proud of it.

It's kinda nice out here.

People are friendly.

Now we're gonna beat your ass in football.

(crowd cheering)

- Muck City versus everybody.

We take names and kick ass.

That's how it is.

- I tell people the muck is known for two major exports.

That is sugar and NFL wide receivers.

- [Narrator] Since the 1970's more than 200 players

from Pahokee high and their arch rival Glade Central

have gone on to play college football.

More than 60 made it all the way to the NFL.

(crowd cheering)

Not bad considering fewer than 30,000 people

call Muck City home.

- We have Anquan Boldin.

We have Janoris Jenkins.

- Robert Newkirk, Johnny Rutledge.

- Jimmy Spencer.

- Jimmy Spencer.

- He play for the Broncos.

- I play with Santonio Holmes.

- Muck City baby, that's what it's all about man.

These hands that make that Super Bowl catch.

- When I played I was a senior.

He was a sophomore.

He didn't play as much when I was there,

because like I said the talent was great.

And you know he made it to the NFL,

MVP, and Super Bowl, and all that.

But he wasn't the best one,

and that's just the way the talent is here.

- When I played in the Super Bowl

we had five guys represent the hometown.

It was definitely an accomplishment.

I don't think too many places can say that.

- [Narrator] You don't put five home grown players

in the same Super Bowl without setting lofty goals early on.

- We expect state titles out of our Muck teams.

Anything that's less than a state title

is considered a failure, and it's always gonna be

that way in the muck.

- [Narrator] Pahokee and Glade Central

have won 12 state titles between them,

but in Muck City winning a state championship

pales in comparison to winning

the two schools head to head battle.

A local tradition known as the Muck Bowl.

(crowd cheering)

(upbeat drums)

- The rivalry between the Glades Central Raiders,

and the Pahokee Blue Devils

has just been going on for years.

- You know it's like we better than y'all.

Belle Glade better than Pahokee you know.

- I'm a Raider to the bone man.

It even go past my bone.

- We competed for the land like the muck.

So we win we get to have the bragging rites.

We run the muck.

- That's bigger than winning a state champion.

That is every single thing to them.

That's what they live.

That's what they breath, and that's what they are.

(crowd cheering)

- [Narrator] Glades Central is the larger

of the two schools, and has won the Muck Bowl 25 times

including a 70 to nothing blow-out in 2011.

Pahokee meanwhile has claimed

the prized Muck Bowl trophy 13 times.

- We love our football here on the Glades.

You know we love basketball, and track too,

but we football people (laughs).

- Get over there, get over there, get over there.

Yep, seven hold.

- [Narrator] The head coach at Glades Central is former

NFL wide receiver, and Florida State legend Jessie Hester.

He's also a Glades Central alum.

- Jessie Hester, he can fly.

He one of the first guys out of Belle Glade

to really go to pro and make it.

- There you go.

Good job guys. Good job.

(players yelling)

Going into my 7th season coaching here at Glades Central.

I graduated from Glades Central high school,

went off and played college ball,

and then was fortunate enough to play professionally.

- [Narrator] In his first six seasons coach Hester

led the Raiders to the state championship game twice.

This kind of success only happens

when coaches connect affectively with their players.

- You're late.

You gotta throw that early side.

Come on man, throw that early.

And to come back and coach these guys

has definitely been a dream.

- [Man] Come on guys.

Come on let's go, let's go, let's go.

- Just to see these kids going in the same footsteps

that I done on these same fields.

These kids are very passionate about the game of football.

They also know in order to do that

that gotta have the academics to go along with their play.

- I actually graduated 4th in my class.

My senior year I had a couple of academic scholarships.

- We have kids that now is lawyers,

doctors, nurse practitioner.

- The top attorney in the state of Indiana,

the first black veterinarian in Beverly Hills,

is one of the top engineers from NASA

for the last 30 years, but they don't get the spotlight,

because it's not on the grid-iron.

- We thrive because we have the fight here.

You know we have the fight to be noticed.

We have the fight to compete

on the football field, in the classrooms.

You know we just wanna be the best.

- We're trying to hammer that home.

You've gotta be a student first and athlete afterward.

- [Narrator] One player who's blossomed

under coach Hester's leadership

is senior defensive end Jermaine Mays.

- Jermaine Mays, we call him the team clown.

He's full of spirit.

A fun-loving kid just love every moment.

- Hey the freshmen love us man.

I don't know why.

(students yelling)

- [Narrator] Like many of his teammates Jermaine's family

has lived in Muck City for generations.

- All my people stay close.

My daddy stay further down this way.

I don't really be chopping it up with my dad a lot,

but he stay right down here.

It like a straight angle.

My nephew stay right here.

My cousin stay right here.

You take another angle this way, my mama stay that way.

You feel me?

So it's like it's all right here for me.

I see how it feel as an adult to struggle

you know what I'm saying, and being from a place

like this you know you always got that hustle mentality.

You can't let nothing deter you from your path.

You got a plan.

You gotta follow that plan.

You gotta keep going.

You know what I'm saying?

(whistle blowing)

(clapping)

- [Man] Hands open.

- [Team] G-C R-A-I-D-E-R-S.

ers, raiders.

- Raiders!

- [Team] Raiders!

- [Narrator] Jermaine's hard work recently hit a setback.

One that has implications for him on and off the field.

- Two days ago in practice I had ran into somebody's knee,

and then it just got inflated so like now

I'm in this situation where the trainer gotta see

the swelling go down...

like a lot.

If I don't go to the hospital to get the fluid

drained out my knee then no one will want to play me.

But everybody can't pay hospital bills

you know what I'm saying?

I'd rather just thug it out.

Growing up I always wanted to be a Raider.

You know what I'm saying?

My grandma stayed right out there in the project,

and like you can hear the game Friday night.

Like you can hear the clank you know what I'm saying

when somebody make a hit you can hear the noise.

You can see the lights from my grandma's house so like

I always wanted to be a part of that when I was younger.

Being younger what we use to do no pads, no protection.

We just go out there playing the game.

If it was 10 of us we'll do five on five.

If it was 14 of us we'll do seven on seven.

You know what I'm saying?

We got running backs, receivers.

We got everything just playing the game.

That's how it is when we growing up.

- Jermaine, he's anxious to get out there being a senior.

He's one kid that understands it it his last hoorah.

(whistle blowing)

- [Man] Get out of bounds.

- Listen up.

There shouldn't have to be no big long speech

talking about trying to motivate you.

Tomorrow we win.

Tomorrow we win.

I ain't got no famous saying for you.

None of that kinda junk.

Tomorrow we win.

Break it down.

Break it down.

- [Student] Execute on me.

Execute on three.

- [Team] One, two, three, let's go!

- [Narrator] It's the day before one

of Glades Central's first games of the season

against another rival, Palm Beach Gardens.

- Get set, go!

- [Narrator] In order for Jermaine to play

the swelling in his knee must go down.

Whether he can afford a doctor's visit or not.

- If I don't be able to play tomorrow night

I might go home and cry.

(slow hiphop music)

Every game is your last as a senior.

So you gotta take everything serious.

You know what I'm saying?

- [Narrator] Up the road another product

of the muck is fighting to leave his mark on the field.

Demir Boldin...

better known as DJ.

He's a favorite son of Pahokee,

who was called home to take over

as the Blue Devil's head coach.

- Don't dunk your head.

See what you're hitting.

There you go! Good job!

(whistle blowing)

- [Narrator] The Boldin family

is practically royalty in Muck City.

DJ's older brother Anquan Boldin was a star in the NFL

for 14 seasons winning a Super Bowl

with the Baltimore Ravens in 2013,

but little brother DJ only played briefly in the NFL

before a short stint in the Canadian Football League.

- Every younger brother wants

to be like their older brother.

I don't care how old you are, or how young you are,

but at the same time I had to find my own identity,

and who I was as a man.

- [Narrator] What DJ discovered was a knack for coaching.

To the muck he now brings three years of experience

as an assistant on staff with the San Francisco 49ers.

- I felt it would be a great opportunity.

Not only for him but for Pahokee football as well.

You know Pahokee hit a point in time

where we slipped a little bit.

Didn't live up to the expectations

that we have on a yearly basis,

so having DJ come in and be the head coach

I thought would be a great opportunity.

- I felt like I had all of the tools,

the skills, the leadership to bring back

prominence to my hometown again.

This is my heritage.

Pahokee is my heritage.

Feels good to be home.

(upbeat drums)

My class 2003, 2004 we won the state championship,

and it started something ial.

Winning championship after championship after championship,

so it feels pretty cool to be the guy

that spearheaded the state championships here.

You couldn't tell me I wasn't

my brother Anquan at that time.

I thought I was God's gift to earth.

- [Man] Rip, rip, rip!

- We about to get that work in.

I need you defense guys to anty up your tempo.

(slow techno music)

- [Narrator] The team that coach Boldin inherits

just suffered through a rare mediocre season

the year before, so DJ has to find ways to build up players

who are more rag tag than game ready.

- Good job, good job.

It was perfect until you made the decision to do this.

Now, I can't see anymore.

Keep your head up.

My job to keep things in a relative perspective

as far as respect, as far as accountability,

because you get kids that fall to the wayside.

And you want to reach the kid,

and you have to find a way to get that kid

to channel those emotions, those thoughts,

those feelings to a positive outlet,

and obviously that's what football is.

Let's go!

- [Narrator] But coach Boldin doesn't have many

positive take aways from the first few days of practice.

- [Coach Boldin] Come on DJ, speed up those feet on contact.

- [Narrator] Early in the season several of the players

have bridled at the rigid structure and high expectations

coach Boldin is bringing to the program.

I'm here to change mindsets.

I want energy.

I want enthusiasm.

Jog off, don't walk.

Don't walk, Cave.

- [Narrator] But perhaps coach Boldin's biggest pet peeve

is idle chit chat during practice,

which he believes is a sign of lack of focus,

and mental toughness.

- I don't mind talking.

What I do mind though is

when you're not working while you're talking.

That's the issue for me.

- [Team] Yes sir.

- [Coach Boldin] All right, drop your feet Kerry.

They never had a real structured practice.

Trying to teach them how to practice,

and how to train professionally.

Like this is how it's gonna be in college.

This is how it's gonna be in pros.

I need more speed out of you, Dre.

Your natural tempo too slow.

Coming back and trying to change the coaching,

I bring a different level of expertise.

I bring a different level of accountability,

which is not the norm for a lot of guys.

Ball, ball!

(air horn blowing)

Let's go!

This week was the training wheels.

You take your training wheels off,

and we moving full speed.

- [Narrator] The team is headed

into a tough early season match up against Palm Beach Lakes.

A school with an enrollment more than twice that of Pahokee.

But the Blue Devils have long staked their reputation

on punching above their weight class.

(Team yelling)

- Our football schedule is one that's probably

the toughest schedule in the state,

so it was already a task trying

to get the guys prepared and ready.

- [Narrator] This year coach Boldin is counting

on a handful of players who transferred

from Glades Central in hopes of gaining more playing time.

One of those transfers is a 6'3" gifted athlete

named Mack Williams whose vying

to be the starting quarterback.

- He wasn't getting the type of exposure

that he has now at Glades Central so he said he wanted

to be at Pahokee to get the more exposure.

- I like Pahokee because I like the program they running.

It's like the way they run it,

they run it in an orderly fashion like college wise.

They getting us ready for the next level.

Like when I be at home I watch colleges

just to see which one's the best fit for me,

and they work hard every time everywhere we go

on and off the field, so in the classroom, at school,

or even when we out there just playing around.

We still gotta through the motions that we do at practice.

- [Narrator] Perhaps no one is more excited to see

Mack develop under coach Boldin

as much as his father, Mack senior

known to the people of Muck City as little Mack.

But Mack's relationship with his dad can be a rocky one.

Little Mack has had his fair share of run-in's with the law,

and has been in and out of jail several times.

- Like me, I've been in and out of the system,

so mainly his uncles, and mother done kinda raised him.

How your grades doing?

- Had my SAT.

I ain't take ACT yet.

My GPA high.

- What if the football ain't work?

What happening?

What you gonna do?

- If I don't make it or do make it

I'm gonna start a business, and I'm a build a house

around here for the homeless people.

(laughs)

For real.

- Them shelters.

- Yeah, I'm gonna build some of them.

- Well, you need money to do that.

- Yeah.

- How you gonna get it?

You gotta have a plan.

You gotta dedicate yourself.

Once you dedicate yourself man you gonna be straight.

Once you put your mind to it and you do it,

can't no body take nothing from you.

But you got to show and prove.

I keep telling you that, so it's up to you.

I ain't gonna say I was the A-1 father of the year,

but you know I'm always here for you.

Keep your head straight.

Stay level.

I told you I'm gonna make it.

I'm gonna make it to every game.

As long as I'm here I'm gonna make it.

Feel me?

- Yeah.

- Gonna be here for my son you know.

Anything that better him I'm trying to be supportive of it,

so he's on the right track,

and I want him to stay on the right track.

- [Narrator] Coach Boldin is excited to start the season

with talented transfers from Glades Central.

He wants them to know he has their back,

but he also wants to make sure

they're ready to live up to his high expectations.

- You asked me if there were a lot of guys

that played professional football,

or has played collegiate football,

but what we didn't have was a lot of guys

thoached professional football

or coached on a high level.

Believe Pahokee high school hired me,

because they knew that I had been a coach on a higher level

so they felt I could implement something greater

or way better than what they've had in the past,

and I think it's holding true.

- I felt like this was the best place

for me instead of down there.

Just gotta keep my head right,

and keep doing what coach tells me.

- I mean at the end of the day

this is high school football,

and it's about you guys.

- [Mack Williams] Yes sir.

- And if you guys are unhappy

or pleased with something we as coaches

have to give you guys a voice to say what's going on.

What's not working.

If I'm a real coach it's my job

to get you in school Mack, Don.

I want each and every last one of y'all

to earn a scholarship to go to college,

and if you go to college you are that much closer

to changing your whole family life; not just yourself.

You get what I'm saying?

- [Mack Williams] Yes sir.

- [Don] For real.

All right, have a safe weekend.

- People absolutely love football here.

And for many of the young men in this town

it's a way to leave this town.

(slow drums)

- [Narrator] Student athletes across the Glades region

hope to secure a place at the collegiate level

as a result of their performance on the field,

or in the classroom.

The latter at which, kids from Muck City increasingly excel.

- For 90% of the guys that's the way out.

- For me in life football is the key

to going places you never gone before.

- Because we don't produce

no basketball players or nothing like that.

It's strictly football.

You get it out the muck.

- [Narratot's the day before Pahokee's show down

with Palm Beach Lakes.

Coach Boldin's pregame plan includes an off-campus meeting

where he tries to sure up team unity.

- All right put your phones away guys.

Phones away.

Earphones out your ear.

- Obviously this is my first season as a head coach.

Here at Pahokee high school the expectations is high,

but in order to maximize the expectations

there's a couple of things that we have to address early on.

Everybody stand up and lock arms.

Listen up in the Roman Empire times

there's a strategy of war.

As long as y'all have locking arms who can breach this?

- [Student] No body.

- Who?

- [Student] No body.

- No body can get in between the Pahokee football team

as long as y'all are unified,

but as soon as you get one knuckle head

to unlock arms you have let an enemy in your camp.

And once you get an enin your camp

he causes great destruction, and chaos,

and fear, and intimidation.

We are the Pahokee football team.

We give chaos.

We give fear.

We give intimidation.

If you guys stand together there's nothing

nobody can do to you...

period.

If you stand together.

One, two, three (clapping).

(upbeat techno music)

- [Narrator] While Pahokee must travel

to face Palm Beach Lakes high school

Glades Central's game is against Palm Beach Gardens,

and it's on the Raiders home turf.

- How y'all doing?

Y'all cook this?

- [Narrator] It's just a few hours before kickoff,

and Jermaine Mays has learned he won't be suiting up.

- The trainer had told me I won't be able to play tonight,

because my injury.

Trying not to show it, but I'm really emotional about it.

I just gotta take it an hour at a time.

A minute at a time.

However it's gonna take me to get through it,

then that's what I'm gonna do.

- If only you would listen bra,

I would have got this took out Monday

when it first happened and you would have been good.

- I can't go to no hospital man.

You know that man.

- Well, he's scared of needles.

Y'all can see it.

He won't get fluid took out (laughs).

- I ain't scared of needles feel me.

Everybody ain't got those funds man.

(upbeat drums)

- [Narrator] As kickoff approaches

the atmosphere at the stadium,

and inside the Glades Central locker room intensifies.

- Let's make this community great.

Let's make this community proud.

You guys are riding on great shoulders

that made Glades Central great.

When they make a play tonight you come like it,

and you punch them in the mouth.

This Glades Central.

It's in our DNA.

- [Student] Bring it in close.

- [Adam Jolly] No more excuses.

We are one in the spirit, and we are one in the flesh.

One, two, three!

- [Team] Raiders!

- [Man] This is really a big game for us.

It's really a true test of where

we're at as a football team.

(yelling)

- [Narrator] For decades the teams at Glades Central

have been renowned for their blazing speed, and grit.

- Ladies and gentlemen it's about that time.

(cheering)

- [Narrator] And against Palm Beach Gardens

both teams are on display early and often.

Though one of the grittiest players

remains on the sidelines.

- Let go boss!

(cheering)

(upbeat techno music)

- My emotions arboiling ove.

I can't play you know what I'm saying,

but I still gotta root my boys on.

- [Narrator] Jermaine's fellow defensive players come up big

snagging an interception and extending the lead

against Palm Beach Gardens.

(crowd screaming)

- Touch down!

Touch down baby!

- They do look better than the Dolphins.

(crowd cheering)

They look (mumbles) too.

- Oh.

(whistle blowing)

- [Narrator] At half-time the Raiders

have a comfortable lead, but in the second half

Palm Beach Gardens narrows the gap

with some speedy play of their own.

(crowd cheering)

- [Announcer] Touchdown!

(crowd cheering)

- If we win tonight I think it'll be one

of the biggest wins, because this is a hard school.

- Let's go Raiders!

- Right now we're in a crunch situation,

but you can't lay down.

Not a team like this, so what the gotta do

is they gotta stay focused.

They gotta calm down and keep playing football.

(whistle blowing)

- [Announcer] Touchdown!

- [Narrator] At the end of the 3rd quarter

it's neck and neck as each team continues

to put points on the board.

- Another touchdown right there.

(air horn blowing)

It take heart right here.

You ain't got no heart you can't play this sport right here.

- I wish I was on the field, that's all.

Thinking about all the plays I could make.

- [Narrator] Jermaine also realizes that every minute

he's not out there it's a lost opportunity

to catch the eye of college scouts.

- I always tell them boys that people

in the stands watching you.

You never know who watching you.

- [Narrator] Late in the 4th quarter

it's a Palm Beach Gardens receiver

who turns heads when he breaks away

for what could be the game tying touchdown.

(mumbles)

Raidstandout Jim Davis pulls down the receiver,

but he still crosses the goal line

making it a one point game.

- That's bull man.

- [Narrator] All eyes are on the kicker.

Palm Beach Gardens can tie if it hits this extra point.

- Now it's a one score game (mumbles).

(yelling)

- [Announcer] And the Raiders block the ball.

(cheering)

(upbeat drums)

- [Man] 33-34, you gotta keep playing your game.

You can't quit.

- Good game, good game.

(yelling)

- [Narrator] Though the final score was a little too close

for comfort coach Hester takes pride in every victory,

especially against a formidable rival

like Palm Beach Gardens.

- Hooray for defense.

Hooray at last.

Hooray for defense (mumbles) Raiders from the path.

- [Narrator] The victory also inspires Jermaine

to find a way to somehow pay to go see the doctor

about his injured knee.

- [Man] Straight up, you got something to say.

- Y'all boys know I been out because I was injured

with fluid in my knee.

I ain't want to go to the hospital,

but seeing y'all boys on the field,

how y'all pulled through for each other,

kept playing, kept going on.

I gotta go to the hospital for y'all boy (mumbles).

(clapping)

- [Team] One, two, three Raiders day!

(upbeat drums)

- [Narrator] Anytime Glades Central notches a win

that puts pressure on players and coaches at Pahokee

to match their arch rival's performance.

- Headed into this game with Palm Beach Lakes

I feel like our chances are very great.

Just if I get the guys rallied up.

Get the troops rallied I feel like

we can go in and tak Get dressed.

Everything, put it on.

Let's go.

- [Narrator] Coach Boldin and the rest

of the Blue Devil faithful are counting

on transfer QB Mack Williams to have a big game

against Palm Beach Lakes bruising defense.

- They feel like I'm not taking control of the offense.

That's what I gotta go out there and do...

when I get out there.

Trying to work on getting my team right,

and getting my head in the game.

- I go back to the old day

where we said Pahokee pride meant something.

It meant nobody was taking nothing from us.

It's one unit man.

It's one heart beat man.

It's Pahokee pride.

Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- Blue Devils!

- [Team] You know!

- [Emmanuel Hendrix] Break time!

- Two by two.

My guys feel great and confident going into it.

I think as a coach for me it's just trying to prepare them

to go in and just compete on a high level.

- [Student] Let's go!

("Star Spangled Banner")

(cheering)

- [Narrator] Pahokee gets the ball first,

but the Palm Beach Lakes defense shuts down

Mack Williams and the rest of the Blue Devils

from the get go.

- You gotta get a better angle man!

Force it back in!

- [Narrator] Then the Rams take over.

(shouting)

- [Announcer] And he could go all the way.

Touchdown!

(cheering)

- [Man] (mumbles) they killing us dog.

- Close it, close it (yells).

- [Narrator] On his second series under seven

Mack Williams continues to struggle.

- [Announcer] Pass was incomplete.

- [Narrator] And on just the fifth play from scrimmage

he throws an interception.

- Who you throwing the ball to?

- [Man] Stay outside!

- [Coach Boldin] Let's go defense.

- [Man] Go get it!

- [Announcer] He could go all the way!

Touchdown!

- [Narrator] Palm Beach Lakes goes on to score

a pile of unanswered points thanks in part

to another interception from Mack Williams

brought on by the Rams fearsome pass rush.

At this point Coach Boldin has seen enough.

- Get him out the game.

Bra you want to play football today?

We could have left you home.

- [Narrator] Mack is benched, and Pahokee rotates

on the second string QB, KJ Booey number 14,

but he doesn't fair much better than Mack.

- I thought I was gonna like come out

and be the starter.

Like have a great season with my team as the starter.

sometimes I be nervous to throw the ball

because I feel like my ball ain't gonna be right.

All I got do is stay focused mentally

so when I get on the field I know what to do.

- Mack is a good quarterback.

Now when he learns how to go through progressions good

you'll see a whole new player.

He's the future.

He is our future.

- [Narrator] But tonight it's clear

Mack has a long way to go.

- [Announcer] Touchdown!

- I swear if I hear a soul talking

on Monday they will not go to Jacksonville.

(whistle blowing)

- [Announcer] The score is Palm Beach Lakes 48,

Pahokee zero.

- [Narrator] The loss comes as the largest

for Pahokee in six years.

Perhaps no one is more shocked

than the Blue Devils new coach.

- Good game baby.

(shouting)

Need y'all to ask y'all selves a real question.

Do y'all feel like y'all played your hearts out tonight.

- [Team] No sir.

- Cause 40 something to zero, I don't believe that's y'all.

So I'm gonna look within and see what I can do differently

as a coach, because obviously

what I'm trying to do is not working.

Looking at my coaches what can we do differently?

- The next practice will be an angry practice.

It will be a disciplined practice.

I can tell you that.

Any real man self-reflects.

We gonna find the answers.

I promise you if it's the last thing I do in this world

I'm gonna find the answers.

I'm gonna find the guys who wanna play football.

- [Narrator] The loss further ratchets up

the pressure on coach Boldin to succeed.

- None of this stuff matters if we don't win.

So for me this is like putting more fire under the butt.

You know if you wanna come and be a part of this win.

- [Narrator] But being back in Muck City

has one silver lining for this native son.

Sunday dinner at his mother, Brenda's house.

While Brenda gladly serves up DJ some comfort food

she doesn't mince words when it comes to her thoughts

on the loss to Palm Beach Lakes.

- I was very disappointed with the way they played, very.

I don't know what to say about these kids.

Either you want it or you don't.

That's what I feel about it.

Ain't nobody gonna give you nothing.

You got to work hard for it.

- Lord bless the food that is prepared before us

as we give you the glory and all the honor

in Jesus name we pray, amen.

- [Group] Amen.

- [Woman] Guest first.

- I have to self-reflect.

I have to go back to the drawing board as a leader,

as a mentor, as a coach, and figure out

how I can get my guys ready.

Everybody look at me as the head coach and think

we just go out on Fridays and do it, like no.

Like there's a thousand other things

that needs to be done on a day to day basis

to get to Friday to be able to win,

and I don't think everybody fully understands that

on my staff completely.

- You know one of the biggest things you have to do

is pay attention to your staff,

because you have to be that leader and that example.

It's just some people are not ready for change.

(upbeat hiphop music)

- I am from Pahokee, but I've been gone for 15 years.

There's an expectation here and you want

to live up to the expectation.

So the only pressure I feel is the expectation

of the community of Pahokee.

But I have to be head strong and I will see

where the chips fall come next Friday.

(upbeat drums)

- [Narrator] Next time on 4th and Forever.

- Hang tight!

- [Narrator] The jury's still out on whether or not

Pahokee fans can accept the former Raider

on thee Devil coaching staff.

- I grew up in Belle Glade.

I graduated from Glades Central actually, the rival school.

- Everbody want me.

It's not about no other coach on this staff.

It's about me!

- [Narrator] And Jermaine Mays comes back

from his knee injury.

- Everybody know what need to be done,

what's at stake, what's on the line.