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It's already the right shade of blue.
Assuming, of course, his arrival doesn't ignite a surge in defensive recruiting. Took Venables a while to get going at Clemson, too.
Foster celebrates by bench pressing a truck.
Also, teams have to respect the vertical threat and play off the receivers in coverage for screens to be really lethal. Seems like as the season wore on, no opposing defenses were worried about our vertical passing threat. Really hard to set a bubble screen when the DBs are playing two yards off the receivers.
I think he asked something like, "Where's your dad?"
Declaring before or after the game?
I wish there was a way to stat check this, because to me it felt like we were consistently getting 5-6 yards on the bubble screen. Certainly enough to keep it as a staple of the offense.
I could just watch this on a loop. In fact, I think I might.
That is amazing.
Though to be fair, 77 just followed his block, which carried him into 35. 35 was trying to get to his assignment on the OLB and just didn't adjust in time. Funny as hell on tape but I don't see the ineptness here that the infamous UF play displayed, where it looked like the two O linemen honestly committed to blocking each other.
The epic quest to explain away our W in the Horseshoe continues...
I'd also wager Bud will not be playing the double eagle against them next year. He'll dream up a new scheme, one which will most likely focus on how Urban would target the defense we showed in the Horseshoe.
OSU will be a huge game. But everyone will be healthy and rested going into it. Can't get here soon enough IMO
Hats off to GT. Way to represent the ACC on the national stage.
TBH when CPJ first came to GT I felt the exact same way. French was responsible for making me understand why the flexbone is so damn different than defending basically any other offense. If you don't see it regularly it's gonna mess with you.
There's a part of me that loves watching teams that don't play GT just get shell shocked by the flexbone. Makes me just think of French's "death by a thousand cuts" line.
This a bunch. I think Lefty is sporting a significant pair of blinders. He just wants to actually field his dream offense.
We've been here before. Strong finishes to disappointing seasons leave the fanbase energized and dreaming of things to come, and more often than not it has been followed up with a customary slow start and familiar struggles the following season. I'm very high on how the Hokies finished out the last two games of a rollercoaster season. But to believe that this late season surge will translate into continued success in 2015, we must find a reason to believe that things are different now than they have been under similar circumstances in the past.
I find that reason in the words of Scot Loeffler. When Lefty speaks enthusiastically about how we're about to have the most get-after-it off season in college football, to me it rings with a quality of a man who senses progress. When he says we're close, it tells me he has a vision. My biggest gripe with Stiney as OC was a lack of cohesion. He wanted us to be everything, and consequently we were nothing. But with Lefty, I get the feeling that he has a clear vision of what he wants this offense to be, and he seems us nearing it. Whether or not he can do what he wants to do here is yet to be determined. But I'm more hopeful after a strong finish than I've been in quite a while.
That is just a list, albeit an epic one.
#1 on my list of lists of lists is a list that includes a list about your list.
Double post glory
I agree. I want a return to VT/Miami having national implications.
Nicely done. So far this is #3 on my 2014 list of lists of lists.
To start the season, yes. I could see him making a surge up the depth chart as the season progresses if JCC regresses and Trey has injury issues.
Had the play resulted in a fumble, Cincy could have declined the penalty.
I think the issues in Miami are systemic rather than a coaching problem. Shalala hung the football program out to dry. They are behind the curve in terms of facilities and (shocking to say) resources. Students don't show up to Pro Player Land Shark Sun Life Stadium and the program has lost much of its identity. I don't think this is a "find the right coach" problem as much as it's a "right the ship" problem. Until they invest in the program, I don't see any coach having more success than Shannon and Golden have had.
Brewer floats his deep ball. He did it on the play action pass that resulted in the pick against Cincy. I loved the play call but the result was horrible because he threw to the inside rather than leading his received toward the sideline. Good placement or at least some zip and that's a great catch that puts the Cincy D in a no win situation on how to defend us.
Floating a deep ball is usually a sign that a QB is overexerting on the throw, trying to launch it with his whole body. Maybe if Brewer hits the weight room hard he can make some strides, but if this is his upper limit then he brings some significant limitations along with his jumbo-sized heart.
Arm strength issue, IMO. Brewer can't get enough mustard on the pass to get it to the receiver fast enough. Also, and this is pure conjecture on my part, it seems like we have our receivers aligned really, really wide on bubble screens. Like the ball will be left hash and we're throwing it practically to the right sideline. Maybe the slower delivery is just exaggerating how far the pass is actually traveling, though.