Whoa. The Seckman Jaguars just laid yet another surprise on the STL Metro, and this one’s got Week 9 and Week 11 implications. The Jaguars’ 40-6 thrashing of the HEHS Spartans proved a point that went beyond the scoreboard.
SHS quarterback Brody Kube made a stunning early return from his collarbone injury that struck late this summer, putting on an aerial display at Hazelwood East that rivaled the takeoffs at nearby Lambert Airport. Kube’s presence helped senior WR Nick Weidler have his finest Thursday-or-Friday night of the 2026 season so far. No. 12 found Weidler down the middle for an immediate 45-yard gain on Seckman’s first turn, on a play that got the Jags’ sideline excited.
Weidler was quick to capitalize when the field-flip made the Spartans’ defense woozy, taking a 32-yard catch-and-run to the house for the Jaguars’ first touchdown. Kube, and his newest favorite target, were just getting warmed up.
The returning senior QB made like Johnny Unitas and threw the perfect short pass at the perfect time again to start the second quarter, allowing Weidler to catch the bean in space close to midfield, fake his man into the dust, and race away for a second long TD. Seckman switched back to its Wildcat for a third TD drive that preceded the Jags’ goalline stand to end the first half. Again, anyone who thought Kube and Weidler were done throwing a party was dreaming.
Kube hit his 6’2″ wideout for another 32-yard gain down to the 1-yard line to begin Quarter 3, giving the Jags a dominant 28-0 lead over a team that held Parkway North to just six points in the first 36:00 last weekend. Then it was time for the piece de resistance, as our Frenchy’s Cafe cooks would say, as Kube hit sophomore WR Logan Harris with a 46-yard beauty, in essence the Seckman quarterback’s fourth touchdown toss of the game, notwithstanding the fact that SHS snuck the ball in following his pylon-rocket to Weidler late in the first half. However you count up the stats, the Jags had the Turbo Clock running before you could say “what a fast rehab!”
Seckman’s surprisingly easy, dominant road win at Hazelwood East doesn’t just move the Jaguars to 6-1, deadlock Pattonville in the Jaguars’ league standings (Pattonville fell to Ritenour in Week 6, making PHS an equal 2-1 in the “Red” pool once Pattonville beats Hazelwood Central), and reestablish the Kube-to-Weidler connection as one of the area’s most dangerous. It also gives the Class 6, District 1 race for No. 2 seeding a dramatic new shape. It’s not Northwest with the hot offense, it’s Seckman with the hottest offense – and the Jaguars are a team for which injuries had supposedly frozen the offense.
Can anyone imagine the Jaguars losing to the Pirates 35-0 again? Heck, it’s difficult to imagine Week 7’s offense being outscored by 35 points by any opponent. Seckman picked up its starting QB’s playbook again like the Jaguars were riding bikes, outdoing more than one STL contender against a common rival.
In the meantime, the Jaguars’ defense was a team effort, one which made more than just that one Red Zone stand at the tail end of the first half. There is a 93% chance that head coach Nick Baer will say the defense “bent but didn’t break” against Hazelwood East, which advanced into plus-territory several times without scoring any meaningful TDs. It was Seckman’s sixth Turbo Clock win in 14 games since last September.
Imperial’s fly in the ointment is that everyone else in C6D1 is racking up a nice W/L record also, except for the 2-4 Lindbergh Flyers. Seckman could have an entertaining #4 vs #5 playoff bout with Lindbergh, but the Jaguars would likely prefer to set up a playoff rematch with Northwest, and they’d surely like to host that potential clash in Week 11. For now, it’s on to Week 8, and new life on the Suburban League “table,” as Seckman’s soccer kids might say. The next two matchups against Ritenour and Parkway North, might either or both of those teams prove as beatable for the Jaguars as we think, could give rejuvenated Seckman a chance to lift a conference trophy over the toughest division of Suburban teams that The Valley has conquered to date.
Kube’s crazy return to stardom in midseason, long before any St. Louis sportswriters had a broken-bone case penciled in to come back in any way, is a spark of hope for several Mississippi Magazine standouts who went down with similar injuries in the year’s early weeks of football. Kube’s team has already invalidated the results of 2026’s Jefferson County Fantasy Tournament quarterfinal round. We ask if our champion St. Pius would’ve gotten past Seckman without a few bruises left by Brody.
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