Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
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# | 2016 DE Quayshon Alexander Connects with Cornell Brown, Decides to Delay Commitment and Visit Tech All we know is, he's called the Stig.
It's not a lisfranc sprain, is it? Those can be debilitating after sending to initially be nothing serious. It's the injury that ended Kevin Jones' NFL career, and we got hit with three or four of them in a season a few years ago. Nasty stuff.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit I have to admit my optimism about the offense. Currently we have proven quality coaching at almost every offensive position. I like what Searels is doing, I'm enthusiastic about the Burden hire, Stiney has a proven track record at TE, and Lefty certainly seems to be bringing in quality recruits at QB (let's see if he develops them). My one concern remains Shane at RB coach. He hasn't produced a dependable feature back since DW4's senior season, and in my mind he hardly gets credit for that. I think he was close last year but injuries plagued his efforts. But until he proves to put reliable running backs in play it will remain my one concern.
Billy Price at left guard, a converted defensive lineman, is a hammer. The right tackle will likely be Chase Farris, another converted D-lineman.
Wait. I thought we were the only team forced to do something as drastic as convert D linemen to OL.
My overall takeaway from this is that their OL coach took the loss personally and has adjusted to the Bear front. Wonder what Bud will surprise them with this year.
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
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# | OSU OL signee Matthew Burrell thinks VT acted "entitled" after last year's OSU victory. Offseason fluff piece is offseasonal.
David Wilson ran up the side of Cassell. Bucky just steps over it.
Holy crap. I think you're right. I think I was getting my seasons confused. Leg, sir.
However, I will disagree that Frank got it right by playing Tyrod in 08. Basically everything I said above about 07 applies to 08 in my mind.
I think Tyrod's redshirt getting burned his freshman year was a perfect illustration of good being the enemy of great. 2007 was a down season for the offense, and had Frank stuck with Glennon the entire year, the 10-win streak would have been in serious jeopardy. However, it was plain to see that we had something special in Tyrod, and giving him a year to learn the system could have only been a good thing. But the fear of regression from the mean forced Frank to play Tyrod or fear the fallout that inevitably came after 2012 anyway.
It'd be one thing to burn Tyrod's redshirt if that spark might have put us in contention for a national championship. But instead it was done just to maintain the status quo. It was one of Frank's most stubborn decisions to date.
I'm betting he made it a personal goal.
As long as the font isn't Comic Sans.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit Also, Searels puts a much bigger emphasis on size than Grimes did, and ideally wants all his linemen to be 300 pounders. That means the linemen who did have starts also had to learn how to play at a significantly heavier weight.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit I guess this would be my question then: given the situation we were in during the transition from 2013 to 2014, with the loss of LT at QB and the lack of supporting talent in his senior season, did you see any objective reason to believe there would be offensive improvement year over year? I understand the general mindset that, hey, it's year two, we should see some improvement. But would you have expected improvement from an established OC given the specifics of the personnel on offense from 2013 to 2014? In general, our offense took a hit from the previous year because we lost a senior QB, dismissed a tailback and lost some key O line personnel. Outside of the "it's now year two" mentality, there just wasn't anything there to expect improvement.
Darn, I was also trying to be snarky. I'm missing my mark today.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit And thank God. Hopefully the days of the "athlete" receiver are over. But now watch Joel Caleb excel at the position for two years and make us rethink our strategy there.
I think the difference is he's publicly admitting it.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit I believe Loeffler deserves a longer grace period than most fans are willing to give him simply because the mess he had to clean up was astronomical.
I don't necessarily think that's true, but rather we need to be reasonable about our expectations and how we judge his performance. In my mind, you can't reference the last two seasons when judging the upcoming season. That was the installation phase. Things get stupid during that. So we take what happens on the field in 2015 and evaluate it. It doesn't have to be perfect, we just have to see production. And we have to rationally look at things that happen, like a potential OL injury, and evaluate how that affected the offense. Because part of an OCs job is adjusting to unforeseen circumstances.
To me it isn't so much total offense and scoring offense, which can be misleading, but more like YPC, red zone TD%, few to no 3 and outs when holding a one possession lead, etc. Situational stats tell me a lot more about how an offense is functioning than the "big" stats.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit This... is a considerably lower threshold than I was expecting from you.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit Not quite the clutch corner fade weapon height. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have a 6'2" receiver than a 6'0" receiver (all else being equal, obvs) but I wouldn't call a 6'2" receiver particularly tall for his position.
I wonder if this is as true for mobile QBs as it is for pocket passers? I'd imagine a dual threat QB would have an easier time, relying on his legs while he adjusts to the college passing game.
Yes, please, do not let us become one of those sites.
I make some wonky word confusion errors in my posts and probably 99% are a case of fat fingering it and autocorrect conspiring against me. Even when it isn't, if the intended meaning is discernible from context clues, that should suffice.
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# | QB Joshua Jackson Builds on Decades-Long Relationship with Scot Loeffler, Sets Hokies Visit About the tenth time today I've seen and agreed with this idea.
But it makes me think, what's the threshold? What mark does Lefty need to hit to justify his retention? I have a feeling after this season we're going to have a lot of disagreement about Lefty regardless of how good or bad the offense is. Some people will never be satisfied, and some will be lifetime apologists.
And a hell of an about-face from two seasons ago.
I think Jesus was the first person to perform the Coulson Maneuver.
Adama was the shit. Nerd leg.