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Professing my own ignorance here, but what is the rationale for not allowing linemen downfield on a pass play? It has never made sense to me. They're already ineligible to receive the ball. I've always felt linemen should be treated like a player who has stepped out of bounds on the play - they can't be the first player to touch the ball. Is there some schematic advantage to allowing downfield blocking on a pass, other than really being able to sell play action with run blocking?

He fundamentally beat the shit out of ECU, if that's what you mean.

Holy shit, is this footage of Northeast Regional 188 derailing near Philly a couple years ago?

Welcome to TKP, where the comments are off topic, and the legs don't matter (even though we pretend they do).

You should have a dedicated ticker across the top of the homepage instructing TKPers what to worry and not worry about.

SHOW ME YOUR BUSH!!!

There's a tamale truck in my area that embarrasses every Mexican restaurant I've ever eaten at. A different food truck used to set up at local farmer's market and would make you an omelet with any veggies you wanted. (You pay for the veggies, of course.)

Food trucks are where it's at right now. A food truck got awarded a Michelin star for the first time not too long ago.

Are you the guy that keeps leaving me voicemails about your stone cold lock of the week?

Maybe I'm just out in left field here, but while most other people seems to be wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth over less than a statement win, for me personally, when I saw us come out slinging deep and never trying to establish a run game, my immediate response was, "Oh, okay, we're scrimmaging today."

Everything about the Delaware game indicated to me a coaching staff that approached this game with a mindset of, we're good enough to beat these guys, so let's tinker with some stuff (primarily finding WR3 and WR4) rather than blow their doors off.

Nothing about this game was indicative of a typical CornFu game plan. In Mason's excellent write up, he correctly assessed that large sections of the playbook were left on the shelf against Delaware. So was the typical misdirection/confusion strategy Fuente typically employs to win. And if there was one maxim we we're playing by, it was THOU SHALT NOT GET INJURED. And that led to things like JJ taking a ridiculous sack when he had all day to throw, simply because it was obvious he had been coached not to tuck and run improvisationally. It also led to a lackluster ground game, where RBs were going down at first contact, six days after I watched every back who touched the ball against WVU keep their legs churning for every extra yard they could manage.

My opinion of this offense hasn't changed in the slightest after Delaware. We have an NFL talent at WR1 with a bunch of question marks behind him; a talented, heady QB who will usually make the smart play but will also play like a freshman; an OL that has apparently made some strides in pass pro but may or may not still be suspect in blocking a power run game; and a stable of RBs who will probably continue to be more effective than last year when we approach the ground game the way we usually do. All told, I continue to expect the offense to pull its weight and contribute to wins, alongside the defense and special teams.

Remember, our offensive success will be equal parts talented players executing and the wicked sorcery that is the way CornFu frustrates a d confuses opposing defenses. When the offense looks how it looked against Delaware when we're running the offense the way we usually run it, then I'll worry.

If you have the X1 DVR, you can also set it to record or auto-tune to all Hokies games by setting VT as one of your favorite teams in the X1 sports app.

Clemson's rushing the field.

This should make for interesting conversation.