Several TKP staff (including myself) will be providing coverage of Saturday's open Hokies scrimmage. I am planning on focusing on several key questions:
1) What is the pacing of the offense? Will they run no huddle? Will the first team offense feature a hodgepodge of formations, and if so, will they run every base play needed to make each formation fully effective.
*We will chart the formation of each play and attempt to catalog the types of plays, with special focus on spread, single wing, and pistol.
2) Is the offensive line sharp with snap count? What is the head position on veer blocks, down blocks, and zone blocks? Do they get to the second level? How well do they pick up blitzes?
3) Can the Hokie offense effectively run the football?
4) What is the performance of the defensive depth players?
5) Can the secondary hold up against the top wide receivers? I will focus on this during one on ones, although I believe that Leal will attempt to stretch the starters as he has the backups over the last week.
What are your top questions? Let us know how we can make this review the most valuable we can.
Comments
Please please please
report back that we have a punter worth the grass he plays on
This punter drama is
How hard is it to find a decent punter? This is somehow the hardest position to fill on the team. Why does Delmer still have a scholarship?
Will do. We will try to time snap to kick, then the depth and hang time.
I'll be watching the freshmen.
I want to see Josh Stanford in person. Given the hype around him since the start of camp I'm expecting a lot.
Edwards, Mangus, and now Coleman are all behind Holmes and Scales according to BeamerBall. Can any of them ball harder than Scales? Speaking us Scales, at this point I want to see him deliver the boom.
The defensive backs, do we have two ready-to-go corners in the class of 2012.
#SCALES4HEISMAN
No longer just TSL narrative?
i'll be looking to see if donaldven manning looks big enough to tackle someone the size of marcus davis. he still seems very undersized to me.
Based on his assignment to field corner, the coaching staff see him as a guy who will be better in zone and run support. I think his size will make him a bit of a liability in man coverage, so I would expect him to stay at field when Kendall Fuller arrives, even though the pattern has been the field corner being the underclassman and the boundary being the upperclassman.
yeah, im interested how he holds up against the run. i think field will be a good spot for him.
totally off topic, but holy hell french.... i just noticed your avatar. that is AWESOME. i saw robocop when i was 5 and have been a huge fan ever since
Can Exum play corner?
He was suspect in his ability to cover as a safety the last two years. Now, at boundary corner, he will be expected to cover the likes of Watkins, Greene, and Vernon week after week. I'm a little worried that he'll remind me of Ronyell Whitaker, getting burned play after play.
Exum at corner is a huge concern. We won't focus on him when the 1's play the 2's (because if he gets burnt then, it will be VERY noticable even when we are focusing on something else.) However, if I see Coles or Davis line up on Exum head to head on a passing down, our eyes will be focused right there.
Red Zone
I would be interested to see if there has been in change in red zone play calling. Not sure if they will do any situational red zone sets, but hopefully we incorporate more pass plays because we have seemed to forget the past few years that you are allowed throw the ball inside the 20
Tight Ends and Running Backs
Another thing I'll be keying on is how they do in pass protection. A lot of time they're the ones responsible for picking up the extra blitzer, their success or failure will make or break a play.
detached curiousity
On Tony Gregory being co#3 and where that goes...
Fumble Gregory
Hope he doesn't see the field at all, he fumbles every chance he gets
Kick offs
Who is kicking the ball deep?
Tight ends | Formations | Whip | Bruuuuuce
Which tight end makes our offense look better? Do we bring Dunn in only for passing plays?
And I'm interested to see how smoothly the pistol and spread formations looks. I'm sure our defense has seen it so knows some keys to stop it, so I'm not too concerned with effectiveness for the scrimmage (although high effectiveness would obviously be nice). I just hope everybody knows what their doing and it seems to run smoothly, with good chemistry.
And some notes on the GW/RVD/Tweedy battle would be nice. Really hope one of the latter beat out GW, never been too confident about that guy.
Lastly, how does Bruce Taylor look having to move from Mike to Backer? Does it look like he's thinking too much? Too much thinking against gt will be a bad thing.
Luther vs Antoine
And how Hopkins responds after being called out by Charley Wiles.
All Scales all the time Not a
All Scales all the time
Not a lot of noise has been made but I want to watch Corey Fuller. Scrimmage in the spring focused on him. Can he stay #4 WR or can Knowles, Asante, Stanford or the Walk-On kid make a move?
Thanks for the direction everyone! Heading down to Wytheville tomorrow then Blacksburg Saturday. I am looking forward to what should be an exciting day.
The Icebox
Coleman fractured his hand during practice yesterday, still scrimmaging today. I'll be looking to see how much, if any, that slows him down.
For anyone else that's at the scrimmage today, post your thoughts here, French and I will have a post up later.
Holy mother of god
1. I'm used to being able to have full conversations between downs. I barely had time to blink between plays at times. The hurry up actually works rather well, and with some polish in real games, could be very effective down the stretch.
2. The pistol. That is all. I'm thinking this was O'Cain's or Shane's doing all the way, but it's going to be an asset to us. Some of the option looks out of the set show a great deal of promise, and LT3 is just the guy to make it work.
3. J.C. Coleman. Where the hell is he!?!? His size is going to be a factor, as even our 1st string defense couldn't find him on the field. Shadows hid him. He's going to make some plays that are extremely entertaining.
4. Scales/Holmes/Edmunds. Run over everything. The guys just don't want to go down. Even Stiney's bullshit third down calls will work with these guys powering through people.
5. Nick Becton is one scary looking guy. I think we ought keep him on the sideline with his helmet off just so he can scare the bejesus out of everyone. In addition, we should send him for a chat with Heather Dinich. What would be the over/under on how fast she resigns?
6. The O-Line. If the starters can stay healthy, the line will be a lot better than everyone expects. They looked pretty good together, and there is a lot of potential moving forward.
7. Kevin Asante looked better than Caleb or Stanford from what I saw. I think we end up redshirting Stanford, since Caleb seems to be the better athlete right now, but Stanford would be a four year starter once Coles, Fuller, and Davis graduate.
8 D.J. Coles' limp was very noticeable, and he may not be quite ready for GT. Luckily Corey Fuller looked good enough to hold his place for a game or two.