No need for a Vent Thread as there really is nothing to vent about. We are a bad team, coached by people who aren't very good at their jobs, playing some really bad football. It's about that simple.
The frustration today is that this game was not only winnable, but winnable with ease. We should have cruised into halftime with a double digit lead and then leaned heavy on the run the entire second half.
Nope. We fooled around with asking Drones to do way to much early. We had two back breaking penalties that resulted in 14 points. And Monty may have mismanaged the final couple of minutes of the first half worse than Pry would have.
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New QB with actual P4 ability cannot get here soon enough as well.
Pry was saying Drones had "a lot of potential" at the beginning of the season. It's exhausting. He's at the end of his career, there's no room for "potential." He just doesn't have it.
If Montgomery doesn't trust Drones enough to go for it on 4th and short, you need a new QB.
Got away with it last week. Either less penalties or 4th down conversions is a win this week and VT had neither
1st and goal from the 5 and walking away with a FG might be part of that trust issue
A QB who isn't complete and utter trash would be a good start
I try to defend Drones at times, but when given the choice of keep or hand off he makes the wrong decision 80% of the time. I am not sure if he calls his own number because he doesn't trust the RB's or because he wants to have inflated stats. But our QB has the most rushing carries just about every week.
As for passing, he has no pocket presence on third down. He skips the ball to often and just seems to lock on to somebody and throw into double/triple coverage way to often while somebody else is running completely free.
Think I saw every single one of those happen at least once if not multiple times Saturday.
Made one great decision to pull the ball and option right; missed nearly every other read;
Re pocket presence the one Wake player- whose name I can't recall-blitzed from the blind side what seemed liked dozens of times(probably 'only' 5-8 lol) and was never or nearly never even touched much less chipped or blocked-amazed Drones didn't fumble more as he never sensed the blitzer nor did he do the obvious thing and throw to where the blitz came from.
Definitely saw multiple skips, scattered throws over the receiver's heads and at least one spectacularly awkward through into triple coverage on the edge while another receiver was surrounded by 5-8 yards of space across the middle of field.
We've got a decent amount of money to spend now, and the search staging seems to have shifted from GM then HC to HC then GM. Screw it, call up Nick Saban and see if he still wants to coach. Hire a GM to manage the NIL/retention part he didn't want to fool with at Bama. Go big or go home.
As easy as it was last week to get swept up in the romanticism of rallying behind an interim to get some wins, I think today was necessary to bring us back to earth. No one in any radius of Merryman deserves to feel good about football in any way, until they do their fucking jobs, and do them correctly. I want the search committee, BoV, and Sands to feel every ounce of pain and pressure possible to ensure they don't fuck up the HC hire, and I want them to have no moral victories whatsoever until they accomplish that.
On this note, I'd also like to skip the "our staff sucks but position coach X is actually good and the new head coach should try to keep him" discourse.
We need a fresh start across the board
I would agree except for OL. Need continuity in OL play, and if you get a new OL coach, you're going to lose two of the best three players on the line, as they came in with him.
let's see how they develop as the year goes. If they're looking good at the end of the year, it could make sense. Because that would be making chicken salad out of the chicken shit we had previously.
But my gut (maybe unfair) feeling is that there are no rockstar coaches on a team that got their doors blown off at home by ODU. The next head coach should be aiming for good assistants, not "better than the moron Pry hired in a panic when his first OL coach bailed after a year"
Not trying to justify the loss because it does suck, however, this years odu team is miles better than wake or nc state and most likely USCe too.
Barring some sort of fall off, I expect them to end up ranked before the end of the year. Next week vs JMU is going to be a pretty big game for both teams
edit: Next week is Marshall. JMU is the week after.
If their defense can get better/stay healthy I think they have enough offense to beat anyone in the SBC and be a legit top 25-20 team
Wouldn't be my top choice, but curious why Ricky Rahne hasn't been mentioned as a candidate for our position.
This article from Pat Forde suggests just that plus a ton of other potential coaching changes
https://www.si.com/college-football/forde-yard-dash-imagining-the-wildes...
This year is looking better for the Monarchs, but he hasn't exactly been tearing it up since he got to ODU.
2021: 6-7
2022: 3-9
2023: 6-7
2024: 5-7
2025: 4-1
Yeah I am not a fan. He hit the 3* lottery with his QB. Joseph has been a one man show this year and ODU has a semblance of a defense this season. Seems more flash than substance long term as coach.
I don't want him either. If he's our coach, then we missed on 10+ other coaches.
I was really disappointed that their All American linebacker (Henderson) retired from football this season. He led the country in tackles two years ago and spent all of last season injured and played some this season before hanging it up.
The defense has still been better this year, regardless, but he was something special.
Yea, because ODU juices their stats at home and over distributes assisted tackles.
Doesn't everyone do this? Go look at Michael Jordan's stats for home v away.
And even if the numbers are higher than they would be otherwise, that means he's only a 2 time all American who came in fifth for tackles in the nation? Either way, an extremely talented guy retiring from football.
Ah, so he's not great - just good at beating VT, lol
I absolutely do not want anyone from the Frames Janklin coaching tree, and not just because of Pry. Inattention to detail is a key fixture of that regime.
End of the first half was so bad in so many ways, but I thought that 3rd - 19 catch was going back towards the line and should have been a running clock. Refs weren't great, as at least according to Bill Roth there was no one covering the longsnapper on the missed field goal called back.
But at the end of the day, this team is just not good and teams know that if we get to obvious passing situations we won't be able to move the ball. Just frustrating to know we have to play with an early lead to have any shot, and that we blew plenty of opportunities to do that.
Defenses now know all they have to do to shut us down is sell out to stop the run. Just blow up the line as a blitz and Drones can't handle it, and we just refuse to run to the outside.
The center was definitely covered.
The Orange Curse strikes again!!!
After ODU, I figured we go 2-10, and 1-11 was absolutely on the table. Considered 3-9 to be a reach. Montgomery did a lousy job today and the players did a lousy job, but I'm not going to jump all over Montgmery. Look, we are a bad team. ODU was (hopefully) the bottom. The last 3 games have been way better than the first 3. Yes, I want a better coach and I want better/more prepared/more disciplined players. But it's not like any of us could have seriously expected this team to win 2 of 3 games after ODU.
Just not going to get worked up over things as we are as good as I could have reasonably hoped for. Let's try and get a couple more wins this season and just build for the future.
100% agreement. I think we should have won this game but at this point I'm looking more at being competitive in every game, since I think we're the gimmie on everyone else's schedules.
A gimme. And also, somehow, a "signature win" too. Figure that out
Remember how that caller told Cowherd that "UVA beat Florida State last year" and his response was "everyone beat Florida State last year!"?
We're Florida State this year except everyone, including the powers that fired Pry, caught on to how bad we are REALLY early in the season.
Obviously disappointed with losing a winnable game, derailed by unnecessary penalties the way that it was. But at least there were moments of high effort to keep the game close to the end, so still better than ODU and above my expectations since then. Still think this team can win a few more games this season if they're able to stay focused, but very much agree with the sentiment of the thread that I'm more engaged with the coaching search than the results the rest of the way this year.
Really thought we were going to pull this out after the IBM interception. Then we get stuffed and lose all momentum. Even then had plenty of chances to put this one in the win column.
That's the place where I knew we deserved to not win. If you get the ball that close in and don't score a TD, then you kind of threw all of the other stuff out the window in a game this tight.
This season is sunk. I think everyone can agree on that. Every coach in Blacksburg has to know this is their last season at VT. They can't possibly think there's any reasonable path to them being here again next season.
With that said, why the hell are these coaches not trotting out other qb options? Drones ain't it. He's had plenty of opportunities and all he's done is prove he's not capable at this level. I want to see someone else commanding the offense next week. The coaches literally have nothing to lose. Drones isn't getting any better... Time to give someone else a shot
Is Pop Watson in witness protection?
If he is noticeably worse than Drones to this staff then he definitely shouldn't be on the field but probably worth a game to see how bad it is
I look forward to him annihilating the record book wherever he transfers to next year.
How is it that we get amazing RBs in the portal (Herbert, Tuten, Stewart) but we can't find a QB
Why can Tennessee do so much better with Hooker than we did. Maybe it's just an us problem?
Yeah, I really think it's the coaching more than anything else. I mean, yeah, we need to improve our talent but at the end of the day we just aren't developing players or putting them in the best positions to be successful.
Coaching, particularly offensively, has been a huge problem for us for decades. Hopefully this new restructure will be attractive to a coach who knows how to build out a competent coaching staff and he hires coaches who actually know a thing or two about coaching these kids. Because we haven't had that in decades
I'd argue that Bud Foster is really the only coordinator we've had in the last 30 years who knew how to coach up his players, develop them and hire position coaches who could also do that. That's what we really need. I don't think any of the coaches Pry ever hired could do any of those things.
It's part of why I want no part of even kicking the tires on Monty. He could win out and I'd still want every single person associated with this version of the football program gone and replaced with coaches who know what they're doing
Haven't had a coach that had any idea what a P4 QB should look like
Of course we have. Our coaches have just seen them all the time as opposing QBs, or on ESPN. Just never on their team.
Except Hendon Hooker (recently).
I watched the game in delayed fashion. Never caught up to live action.
IMO, the really big head scratcher on the coaches was the pass play calls. Once again, way too many.
Outside of that, the PLAYERS gifted WF 17 pts. The ridiculous INT on our first possession from Drones set the all too familiar Dumbshit Party Train. 3pt FG for WF.
Two horrible 1H penalties kept WF drives alive and gifted WF 2 TD's. These go so far above and beyond discipline. These penalties were just so fucking dumb. Dumb Dumb Dumb. Can't fix stupid. 14 pts WF
The ST covered center penalty, though bullshit call, gave WF 3 pts. That's 20 total points gifted to WF. 17 from VT and 3 from the Ref.
Our inability to gain 3 yards for a TD after that awesome INT. We lost 4 pts there.
You see, the PLAYERS couldn't execute. This loss is on them and not Monty. Now, the last drive in the 1H. That was on the coaches, but the game was on the players.
To boot the amount of PI not called on WF was ridiculous. There were a number of in your face holds too that weren't flagged by the refs. Those didn't cost us the game but provided a very unforgiving field to play on.
This is yet another WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA game and IM FUCKING TIRED OF WATCHING THEM.
2 dropped for sure interceptions as well
exactly
The reason we were trying to pass is that they knew the only really effective thing we have is a talented RB, so they load the box and dare us to pass. We can't make passes, but also can't run the ball, so have to pass on third and long. Plus, I didn't see much of a variety of plays.
Maybe the players couldn't execute, but also maybe don't call a run straight up the gut 3 times in a row to try to pick up, what, a 4 yard TD?
Plus the punt on 4 and 2, which we didn't question at the time, but probably needed to take a chance on.
People may not have been that big on Bowen, but I feel like he came up with plays that the players on offense could actually execute. (And that includes having a porous O-Line to account for.) I think Montgomery acts like we've got a great line and a highly accurate QB and calls plays accordingly.
Why the hell did Montgomery accept the penalty that made it 3rd and 15 for WF when the result of the play would have been 4th and 5? Force them to kick the field goal, don't give them another down when backing them up 10 yards doesn't take them out of FG range. Next play, stupid penalty gives them a first down and they score a TD.
WF head coach had the same choice later in the game and declined it to force VT to kick the FG. Smart coaching beats dumb coaching every time.
Their QB couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. This game was extremely winnable.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Just one of a thousand cuts.
Y'all made the mistake of resetting your expectations after the
WakeNC State game.3 years of OL mismanagement doesn't get fixed in a single week. The talent was upgraded there but we're
stuckstill young and learning. Drones has had one fall practice of coaching from an actual qb coach. Seifkiss may be an up and comer, but he's still a first time DC.These guys are still 18-22 years old. There will be highs and lows. As I type this, Texas is losing to UF - a team with less talent and a lesser coach. This is CFB.
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I would say if this happened every now and then it would be one thing. But VT is consistently awful. At this point you should expect us to lose every game and be surprised if we do win one. This team is just so inept that people are just hoping that something, anything goes our way for a change. But it never does.
Everything we saw today has been ingrained into the team by the Pry era, stupid penalties at the worse time, no pass protections, no discipline. This isnt on Montgomery because he cant fix institutional issues in 3 weeks. We were competitive which is what we should be asking for in our games the rest of the way out, except UVA, we need to win that one.
And even if it was on montgomery, who cares????? He is coaching out the string here. Anyone who thinks he has a chance to coach his way into the full time job is fooling themselves, and if he somehow is named head coach i think we all should be all the way checked out moving forward 🤷♂️
Agreed, even after last week i didn't want Montgomery. Its just nice to see the team playing better.
I agree, if we are going to spend $8M+ for a HC under the new budget then we better get a HC that is multiple tiers above Montgomery.
Montgomery should be coaching to prove himself for somewhere else. VT needs to take a massive step forward and that starts with getting a much bigger name than Montgomery.
Hope Napier pulls that off and saves his job. One less HC vacancy to worry about.
I tried, but my in-Blacksburg win streak has been broken.
It's one thing to lose to a team that is just physically better than you.
It's an entirely different thing to lose to a team that you have more talent than with their best RB out for more than Half the game and their QB 1 who is already terrible with both upper and lower body injuries.
The mental mistakes are inexcusable. The OL isn't great but there are teams with less OL talent that manage to put a cohesive offense on the field. Here's an interesting theory---if you know you struggle in Pass Blocking, don't consistently call 3 and 4 consecutive pass plays....
Drones is bad. No one should be making excuses for him. He isn't a good passer and he's bad in the Read Option game. His struggles are his own and would be only slightly better if you put him behind the 90's Cowboys OL.
We are not a highly talented team but we compound that by playing down to our competition. It's not an unreasonable expectation for a team to play up to their potential and not constantly shoot themselves in the foot and look totally inept.
Weren't we also without our best RB after his ninth carry? And our QB is just as bad. We have a ton of true freshmen playing significant snaps right now. This was a close game between two bad teams. We didn't play down to anyone IMO.
We gave away 14 points on Personal Fouls that were beyond dumb. If we just don't play stupid we win that game by 10 points minimum.
We let a team that had no business winning beat us---that is absolutely playing down.
Playing down insinuates we have a superior roster and coaching staff which we don't. You also have no idea how the rest of a football game plays out if you subtract a play or two (butterfly effect). The whole feel of the game and playcalling would have been different from that moment on. This was just a clown show game between two of the worst teams in the conference that could have gone either way. Wake made slightly fewer mistakes and won.
The 3 penalties that gave them the opportunity to score (and they did) are not disputable. If those don't happen we get the ball back and more possession time. Without those, we win this game.
Also, our OL got victimized all night, Drones could rarely get settled. And he's just not good. And, though their QB couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with most throws, our D backfield was so bad they gave them so many opportunities to get a completion that they did.
Wake Forest is a middle of the road ACC team and we are below that.
His point is that, after the fist penalty, if we'd made a TD, the entire rest of the games is different and maybe there isn't a second boneheaded play. Given that we made really boneheaded plays, I would argue against his point and say, we were likely to make another (at least one) boneheaded play, just a different one. We seemed intent on fucking ourselves over from dumb, costly mistakes, so maybe the butterfly effect in terms of changing things, but still think it would have been a negative outcome.
I hear both of you. BUT, their opportunities would have dropped dramatically. And the CHANCE for that butterfly effect is significantly reduced. Take 17 off the board for them and reduce their TOP by 7 minutes and....
monty: ben bell and donovan greene need to be doing up downs until they vomit tomorrow
I feel like we played well enough to win this game and our undisciplined mistakes were what made the difference. (Not well, but well enough)
Wake also had mistakes, but theirs were far less costly.
Not super angry at this loss, a little dissapointed. Any win since we changed coaches is a pleasant surprise.
Montgomery getting the head coaching gig was always going to take a magical, historic season, and no one should be shocked he wasn't able to spin gold out of straw. He's made some improvements, but it's still going to be rough until we strip the program down to the studs and rebuild
Feels like this team needs to memorialize all their dumb plays like Bruce does each year for each QB he sacked. They can put a headstone in each empty seat....might fill Lane before they are done.
Ben Bell is gonna have a yard full of roughing the passer and late hit tombstones.
Does anybody else think the timing is odd between Shane Beamer earlier this week voicing his displeasure about the thought of working for a GM in college football, and then things start coming out that we are pivoting our search from GM first to HC? I'm going to have super mixed feelings if Shane is our target.
Saw someone else using Frank not being on selection committee because there might be a conflict of interest. Not sure I buy into it in any capacity. Really don't see Shane as an option from his side. Why would he leave SCAR?
If Whit is ultimately gone I could see it. From what I gather Shane would not ever come back to VT as long as Whit was still around. Honestly what else could/should he say right now other than he loves South Carolina and wouldn't want to be anywhere else? I have to think he would love to have the VT job if the situation is right. He's going to have WAY more job security here than he will at South Carolina. Might be a good idea to jump to VT where his dad's status will offer him a good bit of protection while his stock is high.
I would feel mixed about it because ideally I think we need a full clean break from everything Beamer. I think VT football needs to quit living in the past. But I'm starting to think and somewhat worry that there are too many in influential circles that just can't move on from the Beamer legacy. Even Eddie Royal who was interviewed after it was announced he was on the selection committee, really sounded like he wanted another Frank.
I think Shane is a good coach and would recruit well and hire well at VT. But part of me wants to move away from the past.
I mean if course he wants another Frank, who wouldn't want a HoF coach that changed the way special teams are viewed.
But I agree that we need to move away from the past (keep the #25 jersey thing though). We need good coach to come here and win and then maybe go to a bigger job and show everyone you can win here. And then we need to hire another winner.
I'm fine with moving on from the 25.
We need to just let go of the past. All aspects of it. The first step forward needs to be untethered from the past if we want to truly move on (and up)
Let's just change our colors and logo too. Why not change our name as well? Why stop at just the 25?
We really are at a crossroads as a program and fan base. Yes Beamer built the program and did so much for the university, it can't be overstated. But also we aren't the fighting Beamer's. And the 25 thing, who keeps that going for a coach who retired 10 years ago? It was a good tribute the first couple of years but it seems like clinging on to the past at this point. I would hope VT is bigger than always being tied to a Beamer in football, but I'm starting to think otherwise. For better or worse.
Think WVU is going through a similar existential crisis, when they thought hiring Rich Rod back would bring in the glory days. Turns out "Hard Edge!" isn't all that fun.
Um their glory days were Don Nehlen not Rich Rod. They're trying to relive their relevant years.
A lot of the Florida fans/alumni i know seem to think they'll pull Beamer away from USCe if they part ways with Napier
I don't think there's anything there.
Us switching focus from GM to HC first doesn't change the fact of a GM (eventually), so it wouldn't (shouldn't?) placate Shane anyway, if he was the target.
I also just don't buy that he's the guy, regardless. At most, timing because a reporter asked him because of his name. No more than that.
The fuzzy thing to me is the hierarchy still hasn't been fully explained. Is it going to be a GM who oversees all of football and the HC reports to him, or is the GM going to kind of share duties with the coach and handle more of the business and NIL aspects rather than full control of personnel? If it's the latter I think the HC would have a ton of input into things and maybe even who the GM would be. I think they pivoted on this search to prioritize the coach because they probably got a sense from agents that many HCs at least right now in the college market are not interested in reporting to a GM who has full personnel control. That would limit our candidate pool tremendously.
The only other program with a true NFL-like GM who has full program and personnel control is Stanford with Luck. The other arrangements to me seem more shared duties or collaborative.
No...
Every standing P4 coach hates the idea of GM that hires them and scouts the players. Want to rename DPP to be GM and let the HC hire them? Sure! This isn't just Shane, a lot of coaches feel this way.
I also think there is zero change Shane comes to Blacksburg. Maybe I'm wrong. But I would bet the house he is not the guy.
I 100% believe you're correct that Shane aint coming. I don't know how many times he needs to say he's happy to leave Blacksburg behind for people to believe him.
I never trust what coaches say about their current program. No coach is going to publicly say that they want to be somewhere else. Career suicide. Every job a coach is at is their dream job.
That aside, I don't think he's coming here because the pros/cons list doesn't really make sense. I think he likes SC and genuinely wants to build his own legacy apart from his dad.
Robby Ashford has a higher passer rating than Drones this year. If you watched the game it's eye opening.
Drones is the second worst in the ACC and the guy below him was benched
And Ashford was god awful. Thank the Lord he can't throw worth a shit. Thank the Lord.
For fuck's sake Monty, for the rest of the year if we have a 4th and short, just go for it. There is literally nothing to lose.
If you're gonna be dumb, be tough. Cuz it sure is tough being dumb.
Where's the +1000 legs button???
I agree but I have not witnessed this in my career.
If you've seen Kyron Drones play football, yes you have.
Also, IMO Drones is the number one issue holding back our offense. But now having seen Monty's scheme for a half a season, it looks like something that would have been good 10-15 years ago, but just lacks creativity and is pretty bland. Especially in the run game. TE's also rarely get used in the pass game. And he's overall too pass happy with a QB that really can't throw very well. Not very good.
How do you not pass to TE's when they have been some of our best receivers the past few years??? I was wondering where the passes to Gosnell had gone.
Yeah, but that's Monty's thing:
15 years ago, you could run the system and beat good teams with lesser talent because it was so unique. That is no longer the case.
Even saw this in his time as a head coach at Tulsa where he had a pretty solid first couple years and then really leveled off
Also to give him some benefit of the doubt, he didn't get hired until later in the off-season, so maybe in installation was a little challenging.
Regardless, we have personal issues at the coaching and player level. Monty was never going to fix this as interim.
Heupel runs a similar system so it's not that the system cant work.
I'm of the belief we should just run the triple option the rest of the season.
I've been saying this since Vandy. Drones Stewart and Hawk all in the backfield at once. We still have talented enough receivers and Drones arm has to at least be half respected. At the very least we'll burn more clock and the defense will be fresh and my misery will be shortened.
Or talk to Giles and get the single wing thing happenin'.
Drones struggles (to say the least) in a drop-back passing scenario. He has had some success on roll-outs. So why in the hell did we abandon the run to drop-back passing plays, leaving Drones in the game through all of it? Just awful! We don't know that rolling out Drones more or putting Rangel or Watson into the game wouldn't have sucked, but it's obvious that what we did do led to a big fat L.
Yeah after the Pry firing I knew ultimately the rest of the season didn't matter. Monty gave us a little hope after NC State, but I'm fairly checked out on the rest of the season now if we continue to trot Drones out there. He's just not a good QB at all. A 50% completion percentage and his lack of production is just not going to cut it at this level. He is SO SLOW at processing a defense, making a decision, reads, everything. And to top it off, piss poor body language. The only reason I can surmise why they continue to put him out there is we've sunk a ton of NIL money into him (talk about lighting cash on fire). I don't understand how Pop or Rangel could be significantly worse than what we've seen. Drones is just pure butt.
I think the fact that he keeps trotting Drones out there is a damning indictment of just how bad Pop and Rangel are.
They certainly might not be better. But I objectively don't see how they could be much worse. We are already losing, might as well see what we've got.
Even if Drones is the best QB in the room, I also think trying the backup when the starter isn't performing consistently enough can have a motivating effect on everyone. The backup probably practices differently if they believe they have a real chance to play meaningful minutes. The starter might be more prepared if they feel the competition every day at practice.
Counterpoint: Monty has no incentive to play for next year, his only motivation is to put the team that has the best chance of winning on the field. If Drones gives Tech the best chance of winning, he will play, and should. At this point, we are what we are.
They must have been hoping that Drones would turn some kind of corner.
It just hasn't happened.
While I know nothing, I surmise that Drones is a good practice QB, showing stuff during the week he can't seem to trot out during live action. I'm firmly in the camp of let's try everybody just for gits and shiggles, and try to come up with a team that can maybe put a little crimp in UVA's season. We already know we have no favors left on the schedule, so why the hell not?
And that could be because the Defense isn't going to clobber him for taking to long in practice.
I was just going to say this. Maybe he's more accurate when it doesn't matter. You can't exactly "win" practice, or, alternatively, losing doesn't sink standings. So without that stress, he makes passes. But in games, with consequences, maybe he gets tense and makes a lot of mistakes he doesn't in practice.
no court awareness...too mechanical. if you have to think, you're too slow
and how many times in that one game (ODU?) did he slide short of the line to gain?
I was at the Rutgers' game 2 seasons ago, up in NJ. Even then, you could see that they were having reasonably good success rolling the pocket out and having the crossing patterns. It was where they were most effective. The lack of pocket roll outs with Drones' skill set and liabilities coupled with the very modest pass blocking capabilities of our offensive line is hard to logically explain if the VT coaches actually want to win games.
We have not seen any RB screen passes yet. We get the run going and they stack the box and start coming downhill, give them the ol RB slip screen and let Stewart out Hawk flatten some DBs. Easy read and pass for Drones and our OL has been so porous the defense would be able to tell the screen was on.
I feel like we had one of these dropped during the Wake game
Stewart caught one and dropped one in the Wake game. During #20's brief time on the field he dropped one.
I guess that is why I don't remember, none of them worked. I am not talking screens to the side here either, I mean the RB to the middle screen when the DL and LBs are coming downhill.
Already with some dread for French's upcoming analysis of the WF Game.
Last week was one of the first pleasant reviews in a quite a while....
So after a week of "A New Energy," it seems like the fitting title for this week would be "Same Old Shit"
Noah chambers graded out at 89 holy cow he's good
Yeah... that kid really popped out on a couple of plays. Clearly the best player behind the DL by a long shot. Hopefully the new coach can keep him in the fold.