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If we're trying to be logically consistent, whatever infection causes fever and eventual death has to be caused by and agent that's found in the mouths of walkers. In essence, zombies are venemous.
Back when I started watching, I had a long conversation with some other fans about how in the show they said scratches were also fatal, but they never actually showed someone dying from a scratch. IMO, the only way TWD could be internally consistent is if the scratch thing is just a myth inside the universe of the show. If a scratch kills, so would splattering zombie guts on an open wound.
Well, a bite kills you even though everyone is "infected." And the idea of "tainted" weapons killing people like a bite is straight out of the comics. I just don't think they would have made an issue of showing it if they aren't going to go anywhere with it.
If nothing else, we can expect one good drive from our offense in a game.
Following up on this, the offense has twelve touchdown drives so far that covered 75 yards or more. This is not a bad offense, it's an infuriatingly inconsistent offense.
So far I am loving season 6. Scott Gimple has found a way to balance action with character development.
Did Morgan say he learned how to fight from a cheese maker?
Also, anybody notice in the preview for S06E03, Rick cuts his hand on a walker-tainted blade? o_O
Neither will any of the other ACC members.
I'm guessing John Q. Footballfan. Just talking about general perception, which IMO is a stronger metric than some pundit's personal opinion. I'm guessing if you went out and asked people who casually follow college football as fans and ask them what the premiere programs in the ACC are, they'd include Miami and VT even though neither has been relevant for a while, simply by virtue of history.
I put together a three-way this past weekend. There were a couple of no-shows, but I still had fun.
Even more sobering: 63.6% of them have come vs Miami and Pitt. Outside of those two performances, we're averaging less than one turnover per game.
Hold up. We're calling criticism of the who farted look a personal attack now? I think that's a little overboard.
Also, if a coach is a good motivator, his team doesn't play down to the level of their competition. That has plagued us as a program for years and has become a more serious problem the last four or so. A coach who is a bad motivator will field an inconsistent team, and inconsistency has been the issue that has kept our program from reaching its fullest potential.
Players may love playing for Frank. That's not the same as being a great motivator. Players loved playing for Bo Pelini and he's an asshat.
Quick, non-graphical answer: through seven games we have 11 turnovers in 2015, compared to 14 through seven games last year. The year over year difference is entirely INTs, 8 this year vs 11 last year.
Jim Mora and his Mark Wahlberg-impersonating ways
Klempsun
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
Jimmy Madison
Gig em. (Unless that's a BDSM term.)
The Monogamists continue their march toward destiny
Kudos to you, sir.
Yes, I agree, this isn't exactly the LT '13 offense. But I think the differences we're seeing are a direct result of the rest of the offense being on the same page with the scheme, finally. Motley could be asked to do more because all the skill positions knew their roles and the OL was finally blocking okayish. The '13 offense was limited by the fact that nobody around LT knew the scheme either
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# | The Melancholy of Inconsistency and Desperation, a Review of the Hokies' 20-30 Loss to Miami Shitty shit shit shit
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# | The Melancholy of Inconsistency and Desperation, a Review of the Hokies' 20-30 Loss to Miami Well, that part's pretty easy.
OSU - Lost QB1, offense turtled in fear of losing QB2, defense finally gave in.
ECU - Defense shit the bed against a mobile QB, despite a strong effort from the offense.
Pitt - Flip the script. Running back rotation finally kills us, Motley doesn't have enough to carry the team.
Miami - Motley has a day of questionable decisions that undoes a strong showing in the run game. Defensive mistakes and penalties seal the deal.
I expect substantial secondary support against GT. I think Alexander and Clark will play a big role vs. GT.
Regarding Duke, number one scoring defense and number four total defense. I don't care who you've played, if you're giving up 9.3 points per game after six games, you're doing something right. I expect we will have a difficult time moving the ball against them.
The zero-sum leg is the greatest leg of all.
Fernley is on of my favorite posters on TKP. He is eloquent and factual, but he does not suffer fools gladly.
I'm unconvinced it will ever happen, though I am hedging my bets until I see how Brewer finishes out the year. One thing I do firmly believe, this offense will ebb and flow with its quarterback turnover. This is the type of offense that could be like what we saw at ECU with Carden as a super-senior. We get the right guy at the position who has 2-3 years starting experience and I think this offence could be all kinds of lethal. The question is, is there a "right guy" out there, or is the entire scheme simply too complex?
First year starters are going to struggle with what Lefty is doing schematically. LT struggled, then Brewer, then Motley. Though maybe it's worth noting, Motley's struggles looked better statistically than LT's and Brewer's. A byproduct of the rest of the offense finally "getting" the scheme? Perhaps. Also, Motley's getting pulled after starting half a season. For all we know, he could be on the verge of tanking as opposing defenses finally have his number.
Either way, where I'm at right now on Lefty is, the guy's a football genius, and he's poured all that genius into a scheme that I believe might simply be too complex for the college game. I'm now waiting for games 8-12 to see if Brewer can prove me wrong.
Pacman furiously guzzling something or other.
Agreed. It is a damn shame the defense couldn't make a stop in that game to give Brewer the W. He played his heart out against BC.
I want this to be true. Not because I'm frothing at the mouth to fire Frank, but because he has to r realize, despite all the coachspeak and excuses, that he doesn't have the answer. He said he would coach until it wasn't fun anymore. How the hell could he be having fun?
I also want it to be true because, in its own fucked up way, it would salvage the season for me. I would watch the next five games with a mindset I've never experienced before, knowing that we are witnessing the end of an era. Win, lose, whatever. Just knowing that we would be seeing the end of one if the most incredible, improbable head coaching tenures of the modern era would make me glued to the TV like never before in my years of following the Hokies.
Looking to the future makes you pause and appreciate the past. If this is the end, I want to know it, so I can savor it properly.
So, basically us seven years ago?
Actually, from a stats standpoint, the bowl game was one of Brewer's worst of the season. 14 of 24 for 94 yards, 3.9 YPA, 1 TD, 1 INT, passer rating 96.65. After all that extra practice, if anything, he regressed from the UVA game: 15 of 33 for 235 yards, 7.1 YPA, 2 TDs, 1 INT, passer rating 119.22.
Against OSU? Yeah, worlds different. Because of spring camp. After three years of making a toilet bowl, though, I'm not convinced the bowl practices are worth hot spit.
Actually there's a pretty cool making-of feature that shows how Greg Nicotero has been advancing the decomposition of the walkers through VFX since season one. So it's stands to reason that eventually a walker will just fall apart. But keep in mind, if they lose their legs, they're going to pull themselves along like Bicycle Girl from the pilot. They'd still be a hazard after they lose the ability to walk bipedal.
Zombie tainted weapons were a thing in the comics, but the comics have a lot less splatter than the show. So it doesn't really hurt the internal consistency of the comics.
Also, up until this past season, they were in Georgia. Average winter temp in the Atlanta metro area is mid-30s. Hard freezes are pretty rare. So the freezing thing shouldn't have come into play yet. Now that they're in Virginia, they should probably address that. But if whatever the reanimating agent is can keep a corpse ambulatory despite rigor mortis, freezing temps shouldn't be any more of a problem.