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Seven home games, anchored by ND and Miami. That's a sexy schedule.
This one's for HOAT...
Although the NCAA doesn't officially keep track of single-game time of possession records, MSU's TOP of 47:50 is believed to be an FBS record. Air Force had previous record of 45:14 set in 2015.— Spartan Football (@MSU_Football) November 26, 2017
Penis.
(Am I doing this right?)
#karma
Lifted from r/cfb.
Of all the VT/LOLUVA games I've watched, this was one of them.
Doesn't matter, retained the Commonwealth Cup.
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# | One More 3.5-Hour Stomach Ache: Film Review of Virginia Tech's White Knuckle Win over Pitt Here's to them both being high draft picks and paving the way for this level of DL recruiting to continue.
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# | One More 3.5-Hour Stomach Ache: Film Review of Virginia Tech's White Knuckle Win over Pitt To have as solid a frame as he has, JJ sure seems timid about contact. In clip 4, he starts slowing up about three yards before reaching the defender. I'm not sure if he thought he could make a move there or what, but he's never gonna have much wiggle as a runner. He's no LT, but he's got the girth to lower the boom and get two extra yards after contact.
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# | One More 3.5-Hour Stomach Ache: Film Review of Virginia Tech's White Knuckle Win over Pitt What's brewing?
Holy shit, French. Dropping knowledge bombs like a boss. I get it now. Completely different elements in the run game with Lynch. The stats being similar is just coincidence.
Any block in the back is illegal, high or low.
He said Hilgart, not Wiles.
In this type of system, all facets need to click in order to win. The threat of the quarterback run opens things up for the tailback. Establishing the jet sweep with the tailback as a lead blocker sucks up defensive backs so the tailback can leak out on a wheel route. The slant route forces defenses to play inside leverage, which opens up the fade and vice versa.
When the offense can't force the defense to defend the entire field, it becomes predictable and easy to defend. Right now, the lack of a quarterback run threat from Josh Jackson allows defenses to crash an extra unblocked defender against Tech's tailbacks, and those tailbacks don't have the speed, size, strength, or wiggle to consistently win those one-on-one battles.
I defer to your expertise here. When I look at Fuente's offensive success at Memphis, Paxton Lynch does not strike me as a run threat. His rushing numbers at Memphis are almost identical to what JJ has posted this year, except for a bizarre spike in rushing TDS in 2014 without any accompanying increase in YPC. (That tells me the QB keeper was probably their preferred goal line play that year, if I had to guess.)
You've studied tape on Memphis. Did opposing defenses just respect a run threat from Lynch more than defenses are respecting it from JJ? And if so, why?
Somebody forgot about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
The best way I can explain BvS is it was exactly the movie I wanted to see, with a whole other movie squeezed in. They tried to do a Man of Steel sequel and a crossover film at the same time. It was obvious they were playing catch-up to marvel. It should have been:
- Man of Steel 2, with Batman introduced in a cameo role.
- A standalone Batman film, set concurrently with the events of MoS2, in which Batman faces his own villain but grows increasingly suspicious of Superman.
- Wonder Woman introduced in either/both of these movies, leading to her own standalone pretty much as it is.
- BvS, with a plotline focused solely on Batman trying to take down Supes.
- Justice League, when Batman realizes the world needs meta-humans for the threats that it's about to face.
They tried to cram 1, 2 and 4 into one movie. It was just too much.
The worst call of the day, in my opinion. Say what you will about the long pass on 4th and 1, at least there's the possibility of catching the defense selling out for run stop. Bringing in Bush on 4th and 2 telegraphed the play.
(Also not excusing the long pass on 4th and 1
Still a bad call.)
Thanks, Joe, and just to further clarify, this right here:
What concerns me is the lack of faith in their own abilities.
That's precisely what I meant when I said Fuente and Cornelson are too in their own heads right now. The play calling reeks of a lack of confidence in...well...pretty much anything right now. They're overthinking themselves.
What I mean when I say I don't want them to adjust the offense to the players this year is, I don't want to to see another offense like when Lefty based his first season's offense completely on LT. That was basically a wasted year in installing a new scheme. Probably a better way to put it is, I'd rather see the offense struggle this year but be learning fundamentals of the Fuente offense rather than try to run something made up on the fly out of spit and duct tape to try to win now.
What we saw against GT wasn't the offense I've seen Fuente run in every other game he's coached here. Ultimately, I just want to see Fuente decide we're gonna play his brand of football, and if it doesn't work this season then it doesn't work. I'm down with delayed gratification.
Even though I'm not really onboard with the wailing and gnashing of teeth, it was a bad call. As soon as that pass left JJs hand, I thought, "Oh shit, there's over a minute left on the clock, we're giving them time to score."
To be clear, I'm fine with passing on that down. I'm not okay with leaving a minute on the clock for an opponent who had torched our secondary in obvious passing situations.
This doesn't deserve its own post.
(I didn't downvote.)
Gut check: the bowl streak in intact and we have no chance to get back to the ACCCG. Fuente does not have the players to run his offense.
I've heard a lot of "Fuente should adapt his offense to suit the players he has now." And I disagree with this sentiment. Here's why: it sacrifices long term growth for instant gratification. It would be a disservice to the players who will factor into this offense long term to not be running the offense as Fuente wants to run it.
There were bad calls against GT. And to a certain extent I think Fuente and Cornelson are too much in their own heads right now because they know they're limited in what they can have success doing. And I think a lot of the bad calls we saw in Atlanta were the result of a mindset of "what can we do here?"
It kind of boils down to do we trust Fuente to fix the tradition of offensive incompetence VT is known for? And that is a long-term commitment. It was a bit misleading to see what we were capable of last year with a lot of good talent running the offense, and it makes regression that much harder to swallow. But it also gave us a glimpse of what we can expect if we get the right players in the system.
Nobody likes to lose, myself included. But to me, the difference between losses now and losses during the twilight of Beamer's career is that losses now still feel like we're going somewhere. It feels like we're building toward something. It feels like there's a deeper plan at work and a roadmap to a better place being followed.
If this loss has shaken your faith in that, I probably can't convince you otherwise. And maybe it's just me being okay with mediocrity, but I'll take this feeling over the 6-6 years where it felt like the program was on life support any day.
I don't think he meant just being in the red zone. Knowing GT runs a clock control offense, I think he knew we weren't going to get as many possessions as we get against opponents who run a more traditional offense. People are using this quote to establish a distrust of the offense by Fuente, which I do ultimately believe is a problem, but in this particular instance this quote reads to me as, "We're playing Georgia Tech."
Also for context, Memphis regressed offensively in Fuente's second year there.
Let us all burn an offering to the god of college football and memes that they hire Lane Kiffen.
I'll be shocked if Cut leaves his sweet spot at Duke for that shitshow.