“I want to get him ready so when I leave, I wanted him to be able to have the same opportunities I had.” “When Whitman got moved up (to varsity), I saw him as me,” Giles said. Giles will make sure he does everything he can to ensure that his current backup, Rowland, will have a similar football career to him in the near and hopefully bright future. “Even if it is not the biggest role, it is one of the most important on the field because Coach Cutcliffe always says that you can have a drive on offense that is 15 plays, but every time you go out on special teams, that is one whole drive in one play,” Rowland said. “It is a role that a bunch of teams, especially in Mississippi, our division and in smaller football, they take it for granted,” Giles said. Giles has played a vital role with accurately and swiftly snapping the football to the punter or the holder on PATs and field goals. His older brother, Chadwick, long snapped from 2011-2013 for the Chargers and went on to long snap for Hugh Freeze and the Ole Miss Rebels. Giles, a long snapper, has racked up multiple All-Region honors and earned an All-State honor in his high school career. “We are really close, it makes us the Bomb Squad,” Jenkins said. If we aren’t doing something to get better, we are having fun with what we’re doing, whether it is at practice or at the game. “There is no bomb squad like us because we have fun with what we do,” Giles said.
“We have really, even just as players without coaches, have made this part of them team grow on our own, we did that for ourselves and that is just what it takes to be the best,” Mobley said. All four of them have a special bond on the field and off the field. The 2016 edition consists of senior Giles Lamar, junior Gray Jenkins, sophomore Whitman Rowland, and freshman Max Mobley. Now we have Coach Cutcliffe out there showing us what we really needed to do,” kicker Gray Jenkins said. “Last year we had Coach Hill who taught us the basics. Special teams in general without fakes have been heavily emphasized in practice under Cutcliffe’s reign.
His successor, Chris Cutcliffe picked up where Hill left off, keeping opponents guessing on special teams the way Hill did. He would always keep his opponents on their toes, stealing possessions with surprise onside kicks often while occasionally faking field goals and PATs. Special teams has been an overlooked quality by opponents under Hill. They too have been successful this year, despite former head coach and special teams mastermind Johnny Hill retiring after 22 years at the helm of the Chargers. Three seasons later, their successors have continued the Bomb Squad legacy that was left by the 2013 squad. Their ability to change the game on special teams bore an idea to title themselves with the name “Bomb Squad.” In 2013, the year the Chargers made it to their second ever state championship game, their special teams unit consisting of Cody Mills, Chadwick Lamar, Connell Yoste, and Liam Cooper formed a tight bond with each other on the field and off the field. They have scored points in clutch and not clutch situations, drastically changed the field position for the opposing team by punting, caught opponents off guard with tricks, or just completely changed the momentum of a game. Special teams has played a significant role in the Chargers’ success in football, particularly in the past three seasons.
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