Hokies released an availability report showing who was out for Spring.
CB Jojo Crim
DL Garrett Witherington
LB John-Patrick Oates
OL Logan Howland
OL Roseby Lubintus
RB Messiah Mickens
WR Marlion Jackson
Bitter updated that Marcellous Hawkins is a limited participant currently out. Adds to the RB concerns.
Mickens is the one that concerns me out of this list. What other impacts are there in this group?
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Wasn't Howland supposed to be a key contributor or maybe even starter at Tackle?
Yeah and didn't he come in with health concerns and injury history?
Expected to be a contributor, and has a history of injuries. We will see.
I have heard rumors of a lot of position movement. Hopefully Moore is finding the right spots for his best and not "cross training" because the depth isn't there.
Eye was just literally telling Tau Sigma Lambda ...^^^this^^^.
Nobody worth their old-school, O.G., NaCl {sic: salt}... ever believed in cross-training much of anything on the O side of the 'ball. (Maybe a little on D... if you deploy a true hybrid or Bandit or Rover in yesteryear vernacular... maaaaaybe...). If you are elevatoring between the three layers... I guess...
Oline?
Where more than a few tend to be: (single) 'sidded'? (left/right, unorthodox/orthodox).
Best to let them settle in... (to a home position and associated odd/even stance) and let them be them.
Ask the generally useful Rimac how it tastes to be spun (from odd-C-even side) like a, top...
💯,
b.street
i.e., our moving Ot's to G... with several Ot's denty/dingy is hard to 'splain...
I'll give b-st translation a try here:
"I was just saying this over at TechSideline.
"Historically, cross-training positions on the offensive side isn't much of a thing. Maybe on defense, if you are trying somebody at differing positions between the line, linebacker, and secondary.
"But on the offensive line? Generally, players tend to be more effective from a particular side of the line, and it's best to find that place where they're more effective, and let them learn that position.
"OL Tomas Rimac was moved around between several different positions on the line, and he would likely tell you that that experience left much to be desired.
"bourbonstreet
"P.S. In other words, I'm finding it difficult to explain why the OL coach is moving players from tackle to guard, while there are several tackles that are injured."
And regarding that P.S.:
And about that last meme, I had to also upload the second part to it, for use in discussions about Whit Babcock:
WRs move around all the time in offenses unless you played for Mike Leech which meant you were either the right side or left side of the line all the time. They put the X in the slot some times, and RBs go into the slot in some offenses. So what is the difference you are trying to make?
Me? I'ma not Flanker1 (myself) party to that... nevertheless, in the last couple of decades?
Prolly is a bit mo' flex between the alphabet (X, Y, Z, H, F, W/T) in '26 terms.
Though to 1970's football camping me?
To me, you need a longer Wideout (today's: Outside-Wr); a possession/underneath chain-moving guy... then either a Te1 or a Slot1 (who can drag) or a Fb1 who can Belly-play Fly. Which, to me, depends upon how much rushing and, therefore, blocking you will ask of them. Like say: Jefferson, Joyner, and Winslow, respectively. They were perfectly suited to the three main historical Recieving roles. Think: 'dre Davis, Carol Dale, and Mike Shaw in O&M terms.
That said... been a little minute since Eye've seen such strictly bounded roles.
However, the diff is... my set is not so hybrid. In today's set, you defend a somewhat to downright homogenous set of blurry receiving roles. In my pet set, you need far more specific defenders to match up-- like playing a true-C1 in hoops, as opposed to stretch-Fs.
IF, you could find those three... today's D's would struggle to cover all three levels or ranges at the same time, as they have not done that in Triangular Passing terms in quite some time.
(Plus... these (passing triangles) are sooooooo much easier for a Qb1 to same-side read...)
HTH's,
b.street
That X should be reversing field right at the center, so you don't have two receivers in the same area.
And thanks for reminding me of Loeffler's triangle offense. I'd repressed most of that. =^/
X should be attacking man coverage as it looks like the left side attacks zone with the Y making it a hard civer 2 throw and the TE and z can sit in zones to be open (unless that's a rub route to attack man). The Y also keeps a defender sitting on the throw to the flat. So I think you want a man 2 man coverage on X so that you can attack bo matter what the defense gives you. That looks to round to be a slant route, so it looks like it would sit in a zone which goes back to your point.
Well, ideally, there would be "levels to what the "Z" and the "X" are doing with the "X" working slightly deeper and towards the sideline. I think you show this, both on film and throughout the game, until that moment when you need to leak someone out on the opposite side (there are a couple variables to this set where that is possible).
Eye do see what you mean...
...my best take is... methinks that might be a covered/uncovered check or "One-Mississippi" delayed Drag (right to left). Or, maybe they (the: FLA.Gators) intentionally wanted it to rub/pick on time?
b.street
If the flip the play the what does the right side WR run the Z route? Or does the tight side WR follow the X and line up left of QB? Cause Mike Leach leaves the right side WR on the right so all their routes are always from the same position.
Also you have the slot running a corner which would be better for a taller WR. I'd rather Moss be my slot and Edelman be the outside (to give a very archetype WR example). So the receivers are moving around to different positions. Yes Moss would be the X.
School full of engineers and no one is bothering to determine the area of the triangle or solve for X.
That sounds like a mathematician fetish. As an engineer, the first question is "does it work", if no, can you make someone else's problem?, if no, cuss, then solve for the area. If it works, then don't f-ing touch it!
X= 6 points.. Duh.
if you're loluva you're going to throw it to T
You're at least going to try.
{Randolph} "zing!" {/Hall}.
Any OL being limited for any amount of time is always a concern for me. Hope we can get these guys back into the fold quick. I was also high on JPO developing but he wasn't going to contribute right away.
AJ Brand working out with WRs at Spring Practices
CJF talked about this in his press conference. Kid wanted to make the move. Staff seems excited about the move
Every time I see CJF, I read Fuente - my brain needs a full Hokies football reset.
This is why I dont use odd abriviations like thay because my old man brain doesn't compute like it used to.
JMFF has entered the conversation
I always thought Galen Scott seemed like the coach that most earned the MF title in his time here.
This should go plaid. Another leg for you, anyways. It's well deserved.
This is the solution! And, it fits.
Boxing glove on a stick is back!
No idea why this just popped in my head, but I feel like there's an alternate to boxing glove on a stick that I feel is waiting there to be explored. I humbly submit:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first we've seen of a VT logo on a guardian cap in practice footage. And what's more interesting is that it features a white stripe down the center of the helmet.
Fuente added a helmet stripe when he got here.
Pry modified the helmet bumper from GRIT to TECH when he got here, removed the helmet stripe from the maroon helmets and modified the helmet stripe on the white helmets.
Does Franklin have a helmet modification coming down the pipe?
I wouldn't read too much into that. I guess the style of the Guardian caps are advancing and they've probably been tested enough to have proven that the ROI is there, so we probably made a bigger investment in them. The testing is all done at the VT Helmet Lab, so there may be some partnership there as well.
I don't see Franklin as a guy who is devoting time to uniform design. He sure didn't have to think about it at Penn State.
I'm curious what happened to the hard helmet caps that they've worn in the past that came from the Helmet Lab. Did they decide Guardians were safer? I thought the hard caps were going to spread, there was one OL who wore one in games.
I thought the hard caps were game approved for guys who couldn't risk another head injury. I'd say the guardian soft shells are safer but they are not game approved.
NFL teams have guys wearing guardian soft shells. Why not college? I think I remember a few guys wearing them in the playoffs this year too.
Interesting. Did not know that. I don't really watch NFL unless I'm at someone's house and they have it on.
I read on the twitters that the stripe was added because without it its hard to see where the person is looking in aerial/overhead practice film.
I've seen film gurus on YouTube make this point before, so it makes sense.
For all everybody made fun of the boxing glove on a stick trick, our RB's fumbled less those years.
You don't love to see Mickens there, but I don't think he will be relied upon this year, so taking a year to get healthy and get college ready is fine.
Logan Howland news when it came out awhile back was really disappointing. Hopefully he is ready and fully healthy by the season.
Jojo Crim at risk of becoming one of those "hearing good things from practice" guys who never quite has the luck to break through. He still has plenty of time though!