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Or how about how quiet the 100,000+ fans at the Horshoe got, while the "Lets Go! Hokies!" cheers rang out.
It could be higher, but just win and the rest takes care of itself.
I think it's always better to start with the ball after the half, because it gives you an opportunity to check the pulse of the game and then get a series. Are we ahead and running well? Can we just grind them down with rbs? Or do we need to implement new wrinkles? Are we behind and in catch-up mode? Use the half to evaluate your team and the game, make necessary adjustments and open with the tempo needed given the situation.
That is awesome. I have nothing to add to this conversation but that.
oof. Not a great outing.
I'm not talking about this being the key to a championship. I'm just saying that you can create an offense that is disproportionately successful given the talent level in it. I'd say that currently, as more and more defenses adapt to the spread (including ours - more nicklebacks on the field, a de-emphasis on the whip position, smaller and quicker d-linemen), teams like stanford or bama will only become more potent on offense. This will be the case until people start copying those teams in earnest, hoping to gain the same advantage, and the pendulum swings back the other way.
A stellar defense is still the key to a championship, but nobody has won without a functional offense either, and I think going against the grain is the easiest way to get that.
My $.02, and take it for what it's worth:
I think being the outlier is almost always a good thing in football. If the majority of teams are going spread, you're better off being a smashmouth team that can bully the 4-2-5 teams with quick backs to combat the spread. If smashmouth is the norm, you should go spread to outmaneuver the slower defenses that have adapted to handle the power of the Stanford Offenses.
Play to the weaknesses of the norm defenses, and attack them from directions they aren't able to defend against as easily. As the spread is currently in, and more and more defenses are going to lighter personnel to cover ground fast and engage in space, going heavy to overpower the defenses at the point of attack would be my approach. But you need to keep your ear to the ground and be ready to change when the winds blow the opposite way.
Not if they want to evaluate him...
That's not really true - look at Devonta Freeman. 2nd round pick out of FSU for Atlanta, and was a part of a rbbc in college. The evaluators will figure out who can play.
Well, to be fair, the Browns qb situation was clearly the only thing really interesting about the pre-season game. It's not like playoff implications were on the line, or like there was anything new to say about Gordon's suspension...
Don't you make those prior to the season? I mean he was just a redshirt freshman, at the time - hadn't blown up by then.
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# | Hokies Aaron Moorehead Uses Pro Experience, Personal Connections to Succeed on Recruiting Trail Man, The Key Play's all grown up now. Like with legit reporting and recruiting news and interviews and everything. Kudos, Alex. Great article. And more kudos to Joe and staff for building this thing into the behemoth it is now.
I know this is sacrilege, but I really don't miss college. I love having money to do fun stuff. I love not having to worry about homework. Ever. When I go home from work, I'm done. There's never that thought eating at the back of my mind "you need to be working on that project... you aren't going to sleep Sunday night if you don't stop procrastinating...."
Living close to friends was awesome, but I work with a lot of similarly aged people. I still see people regularly. I still make it down to Blacksburg for games. I still play drinking games to Sharknado. I just also get way more freedom. Being grown up is awesome.
Fair enough. I just lack sympathy for any guy who strikes his wife. Particularly when he hits her hard enough that she has to be dragged from an elevator like a rag-doll. And clearly, that seems to be the consensus
I don't think you need to answer difficult moral questions - the market takes care of that. If the majority of consumers feel like you should suspend Ray Rice for longer, you probably need to rectify that or risk pissing off your fans. This isn't the legal system, he's not losing his voting privliedges or being jailed or anything. This is the entertainment industry, and if the crowds are displeased, the product is flawed.
Your mom knew you too well.
Well, I think at the end of the day, a professional athlete is an entertainer. So he is tried in the court of public opinion. If people are outraged at the NFL for not suspending him longer, and the NFL is losing in the court of public opinion, it needs to recitfy that. This isn't an industry where they produce stuff. They produce entertainment. And if your buyers aren't happy about your product because wives are getting beaten, then it can be recitifed.
Same. I'm ashamed.
I think it's a reaction to him getting nasty later. I think a lot of times when someone gets snippy, people go through and downvote a bunch of their stuff. Not saying it's what ought to be done, just that I suspect it is.
and the QB situation works out as we all hope it will
Wow, he really gets up there. When I heard Brewer threw two picks yesterday, I was rather bummed, but if they were both like that... those are picks that won't be happening against most other teams.
It's like a nightmare where they speak only in screams.
That's a bummer, but can't really blame him. Hope he latches on somewhere and does well.
"More movies in the stadium! I haven't seen Aladin on the big screen in years. Show it before home games to drive up attendance numbers!"
Also has a lot to do with risk-vs-reward. You're basically betting the outcome of the drive on your getting to the qb before a WR gets open. If you are playing a high-powered team with awesome athletes, that might be a safer bet than a conventional defense because they can score from anywhere (take a screen 80 yards or something). So the increased chance of a big play is neglibible. Against an opponent where that isn't the case, you are dramatically increasing the chance of a big play.
It's an all-or-nothing formation, that I would expect should remain in the "in case of big game, break glass" type case. Not something you trot out regularly.