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I think Whit bringing in Buzz also might have opened peoples' eyes as to how well we could hire if we truly gave ourselves a nation-wide search. If we do that and Bud is the best, then hire him, but we're doing ourselves a disservice to not look.

That really isn't that true, and last year's bowl season proved it. The upper echelon SEC teams got the crap kicked out of them in all of the major bowls. I feel like the conference has been resting on 2007 (when it really was legitimately deep), and one or two elite teams a year.

Run it like a goddamn hockey team

Hokie nation turns its troubled eyes to you...
Woo woo woo

So a comment about stats against us when a QB is NOT pressured:

For a defense predicated on pressure, to me, the times we don't get pressure on a passing down represents a breakdown of the defensive scheme. We put our corners in more difficult situations on the assumption that we can then get pressure. It's not the same as a team playing a cover-2 scheme who doesn't rely on pressure, and focuses on coverage or limiting YACs. I think we are comparing apples to oranges. That said, the numbers are still interesting.

That's not true:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/health/19really.html?_r=0

Key quote: "because there is no weight or pressure on the limb, it becomes weaker — except at the site of the callus, where calcium is being deposited.

'The area that's healing is undergoing rapid mineralization, but because you can't use it, the rest of the bone is demineralized,' Dr. Amaral said."

I say again - it the staff was concerned enough to want to hold Brewer out another week and not start him, then they shouldn't have played him later regardless of the game circumstances, and they sure as hell shouldn't have been calling qb counters or draws with him. It's irresponsible.

If the play call is for the qb coming back from a broken clavicle to keep the ball, then he's not the one who screwed up - Loeffler is.

Agreed 100% - he's a coach in the Dabo mold, the key would be getting (and retaining) excellent Xs and Os coordinators

My point is not to diminish how Motley has been performing these past few weeks. It's rather to note that he's capable of playing at such a high level, although whenever he came in for spot duty/Brewer injury he was limited to basically just running the wildcat/turkey. When there was an option A ahead of him, I felt like he was totally unprepared to throw, which meant that Brewer HAD to play, or we were dead in the water, regardless of his health. We were one injury (say, a broken collarbone) away from having no competent offensive system for the duration of the game, despite having a backup QB who is capable of producing when given the chance.

I feel like the staff utilizes Lawson similarly, in that if Motley went down in the NCSt game (during which he was noticeably limping), we would have NO passing attack. It's putting all of our eggs in one basket, and then using that basket as a leading rusher for the team. Is Lawson capable of handling a passing attack at all? No idea, but Motley didn't look capable in his spot duty before he was pressed into the starter's role, and has proven to be able to do it. I guess that's what I'm saying - our backup qbs aren't ready to go in if they need to, and that puts too much pressure on the starter to tough it out/play hero ball, because there's literally no-one behind them who we even consider allowing to pass.

I guess I just don't see what "game experience" he had prior to becoming the full-time starter contributed towards his development in any way. He basically was just a read-option wildcat back. I'm not sure if he even threw a pass in any of his limited action last year or against OSU before Brewer went down.

It's the same kind of stuff we see Lawson running now, and I guess speaks to my point that we're only preparing one qb at a time to really play.

I'm talking about both - I'm saying they never got him ready last year, and wouldn't have gotten him ready this year until Brewer went down. In the OSU game, he looked just like Lawson did in his smattering of plays - a runner who has no idea how to pass. He's since proved to be at least competent at passing.

In DC I'd recommend hitting up one of the Brazilian Steakhouses... A little pricey, but there's just so much beef. I feel like that guy from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life afterwards.