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Bruce Fowler smells like beef and cheddar
Bruce Fowler sits on a throne of lies.
Just being real, people have been banging the drum on Motu's shortcomings for way, way longer than French's OSU writeup. People here were pushing the panic button after the spring game. If anything, French urged patience and defended Motu. This latest writeup, if anything, is basically admitting the consensus on the board was right all along.
We had one QB who played like a five star. He took us to the Orange Bowl against Stanford.
We had one QB who revolutionized the college game. HE took us to the BCS championship game.
That's one I haven't heard before. Inaccurate and lacks touch, sure, but doesn't have an arm? News to me.
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# | Bitter blog - Kendall Fuller on Cardale Jones' DBU tweets: 'They took the W; they can talk' No, that would be 4chan.
He ran the wing-T in high school.
either motley wasn't up to speed on the playbook which considering his time in the program seems ridiculous or lefty didn't trust mot to run the playbook effectively
Option 3: Rather than a trust issue, we conceded the game for fear of losing our first and second string QBs to injury. Scaling back the offensive playcalling doesn't necessarily imply a lack of trust.
I don't get this. Losing your starting QB is a major change. It's a natural point to look at and say, what happened before this point vs. after it?
If anything, my point was, in the blur of emotions that was the second half of the game, it felt like the sky fell along with Brewer. But the stats don't pan out that way. The big gash in the third quarter came BEFORE Brewer's injury. The two drives following the injury, the defense was dominant. The game actually turned on turnovers, not so much on Brewer's injury. So had we been able to maintain offensive momentum after Brewer went down, who knows what would have happened?
To be clear, I'm not claiming that we would have won with Brewer. That's my completely unempirical hunch, but there's no data to support or disprove it. The data does support the claim that after the offense stalled, the defense continued to hold for two series, then folded starting with the first of two consecutive turnovers.
Going forward, it's a pretty safe bet that means that without support from the offense, this defense might not be enough to carry the team. If anything, this should all be construed more as "we absolutely have to find a way to be productive with whoever replaces Brewer" than it should ever be interpreted as me saying we "should/would have beaten OSU with Brewer."
Everybody else stops listening when the sentence starts with "Yea, well we only lost because..."
Thankfully, I never started a sentence like that.
There's excuses, which I'm not making, and there's analysis. You seem to be dismissing both.
They turned our two turnovers into 14 points. That opened the floodgates.
No excuses. We lost because we couldn't compete without Brewer. But the floodgates still took a while to open even after Brewer went down. If we had put points on the board after the two quick stops the D got after the injury, completely different ballgame.
Okay, so, 312 yards. 75 came on the first drive of the second half. Their first two drives after Brewer went down went for 19 total yards. They racked up 188 yards in the final 15:02 of game time.
32% of their yardage game in the final 25% of the game.
EDIT: math failure, adjusted numbers.
So Motu is the second coming of Jake Johnson. Splendid.
Waste of time in what regard? It got a utility backup lineman critical practice snaps. And Osterloh is one injury away from taking over for EEEEEASILY the best offensive lineman on the team.
Let me frame it this way: did you see any dropoff in play from Teller that you could attribute to him not taking all the snaps with the 1s in practice?
No, this is Patrick.
Has anyone crunched the numbers on how many yards came after the injury? I remember at one point they flashed the graphic that said we had 100 yards in the second quarter and they had like 36. I'm thinking like half of those yards might have come after we essentially abandoned the game.
Not an excuse, I'm just saying, I would really like to know the breakdown of when the yardage really piled up.
This is fantastic. Wrestling and women's soccer are in a race to see which will be the first program to bring a national championship to VT. Excellent news.
And up from 2.6 ypc a year ago, without Shai available. Marked improvement.
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I don't think it was a broken play, I just think Motley had to run away from pressure. I think it was a safety read to either Ford or Phillips from the start.
Lots of that kind of pass play, with a check down to Malleck or Rogers, and always the option to get whatever he can with his legs if all else fails. That's the recipe for success with Motley.
No problems offering this kid...in person, when he attends a camp or an event, thereby proving his interest in the program is genuine.
It was me, and it was indeed mobile scrolling. Since retracted. Mea culpa.
I suspect that putting both Ford and Phillips into opposite sides of the corner's zone was what the play was designed to do, to make the corner decide which of the Hokies two best receivers he should cover and leave the other one open.
The more I see of Lefty's route designs, the more I love them.
The solution there is simple: play calling. One to two reads in the progression maximum. Primary target, check down, tuck and run on every pass play. Risk of injury? Yes. But that's the game Motley plays. He'll never be Brewer.
Want him to make his reads faster? Give him fewer reads.
And his son sought the Holy Grail.
(PS, too many good movie setups here.)