Given the bye week and my desire to contribute something to this community I want to know what you all would like analyzed from the first 5 games. Let's keep it simple because I'm not French or Mason. Maybe we can start with categories of things you would like to see and then narrow it down. Vote using the number below:
- Numbers numbers and more numbers. What do the numbers say about this team through 5 games?
- More offensive play analysis.
- More defensive play analysis
- All of the above
Once we have a category we can vote on items specific to that category.
Let's have some fun!
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I feel like numbers are kinda tricky with only six games to work with; all of the above is really a non-answer, and we've had a lot of experience with Bud Foster.
I'd be interested in offensive-focused analysis.
I refuse to work with a sample size lower than 50.
That's understandable but given a season is at most 13 games and from year to year different personnel can make a team quite different I'm not sure we have that luxury.
Wouldn't it be better to define your data by significance and power, not mere sample size?
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Numberz
I see what you did there.
Either 1 or 2.
this thread is way too positive...search either usmnt or nationals for the right crowd. shit wrong thread... yeah we're gonna win the coastal no problem
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Maybe looking at execution by younger receivers away from the ball. Have they improved their blocking, etc. each week?
Let's do something different. Idk, maybe a look at every snap our freshmen have played. Maybe a look at each of the RBs and WRs and how they are contributing in terms of blocking. What are the TEs doing (seriously, what are they doing)? Something more focused on the players as opposed to the games themselves.
I vote that we drink bourbon during the bye in preparation of drinking bourbon the following weekend.
Does VT get off to slow starts? Is it our imagination? What defines a slow start? Totally subjective, but I've given each a grade (kinda like UNC, lol).
Below is a link to the first half drive chart for every game beginning with the 2016 season.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qeUs8dCBeHeFZGPJ9_Enpayp1VDWVlws...
Nice work!
First let me say that I have a newfound respect for what French and Mason do every week. I always appreciated their work and had the sense that it was difficult but I had no idea exactly how difficult it was.
So here goes! It's fun to look at offensive plays that work and describe the things that made them work. Being a glutton for punishment I decided to look at the first play of the Clemson game to see if I could understand the play's intent and the reasons the play failed.
From what I can tell this was supposed to be a short pass to Dalton Keene setup by a fake handoff to Travon McMillan. It is clear that some of the misdirection worked. I am particularly focused on 4 of Clemson's defensive players: #7 DE Austin Bryant, #34 LDB Kendall Joseph, #57 LB Tre Lamar and #6 LB Dorian O'Daniel. I suppose the OL standing up and getting into what looks like pass blocking stances could have tipped off the left two players in the fearsome foursome. These second level players pretty much disrupted VT's entire game plan and watching this play it's easy to see how. The first thing to notice is that Clemson has three down linemen. They didn't exactly eat up VT's 5 lineman physically, however, it did take double teams from four of our 5 to handle two of their three. Yosh Nijman was disengaged the entire time blocking pure air. As the play progresses two things happen. The first is that #57 and #6 bite really hard on the fake handoff to Travon McMillian which is seemingly good. It turns out to be irrelevant as #34 seemed to know to head straight for the QB as mentioned above. Was this a gamble? Perhaps but if the handoff is real you already have two linebackers headed towards McMillian, if it's not you are either dealing with a QB run or a pass in which case putting a linebacker in the QB's face will definitely have a huge effect.
By clogging up the middle to take away the underneath routes and using incredible speed Clemson was able to neutralize our misdirection by not over pursuing and also being able to close in on the QB and ball carrier quickly. In this case I would say this play was executed reasonably well by VT but it was defended flawlessly by Clemson. For a team with Line Backers running sub 5 second 40s you pretty much have 1 second before they are in the backfield wreaking havoc.
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