GIFTORY: 37-26

* - I love the way Brooks takes out two defenders on one block!
* - LT3 was a beast last night....I thought we might see more of him running after the trucking of Sweeting on the first series.
* - I hope Attaochu enjoys watching the GT/Duke game from the sidelines or home next week, cause I think thats where the boys in the home office are gonna give him an all-expense-paid ticket to.
* - As always, thank you Paul Johnson for hiring Algroh.

I am glad you included the Becton play. On that play, VT rolled blocking all to the DeChristopher side, leaving Becton one on one with the GT DE. The DE intially beats him to the inside. The Nick Becton who has driven us nuts the last couple of years would have:

A) Ed Wang'ed the defensive end around the neck, dragging him to the ground, negating a beautiful touchdown throw.

B) Looked back at the QB while he either got smoked OR rolled left, taking away any chance of hitting a WR as the pattern was designed for the two middle backers to jump Danny Coale's route, allowing Boykin to sneak just in behind the linebackers. Logan can't make that throw if he has to wait even one second longer, because the left side safety would have time to come across and make the play.

Instead, Becton took a very strong inside step pushing off his left leg, and recovers to tie up the Georgia Tech defender. It looks small and simple, but usually when you see a DE get even with an OL's shoulder pads, the gig is up. That was a subtle, yet big time play.

Thank you also for including one of Jaymes Brooks impressive cut blocks. Brooks was outstanding pulling and cutting linebackers. At least 3 of Wilson's big runs were directly a result of a Brooks cut block on a backer. He also capitalized on Al Groh's three man pass rush to light up GT DE's in the ribcage while they were engaged with tackles (see LT3's nice first down run on a pass-pro dropback on 3rd and 6 early in the game.) He played MEAN football. DeChristopher, Lainer, and Miller all had excellent moments, and I can only recall flipping out on Nosal once. I didn't like the running gameplan for stretches where they really focused on the outside. When they did focus on running in between the tackles on quick hitters, it opened everything else up.

I knew he was getting gif'ed on here!