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If you want the best burger in the freaking world, go to Au Cheval. Expect to wait 90 minutes for a table.
Revolution Brewing's brewpub in the Logan Square neighborhood is my favorite bar in Chicago. Food is good, beer is otherworldly.
If you want barbecue, go to Smoque.
Navy Pier is worth doing if you're a tourist. Not nearly as tacky as it used to be. Lots of good food options there, and Riva is one of the better seafood restaurants in Chicago. Harry Cary's, Billy Goat Tavern and Giordano's also have locations there, so it's kind of like Chicago in microcosm.
I'm glad you brought up RPOs. It seems like Fuente uses RPOs as a variant of a check down for the QB. Once we get the RPO fully installed (and teach the OL how to block properly for it) I don't think we'll be talking nearly as much about the one read in the passing game.
I don't get the angst.
I'd understand it if we were good. We haven't been good for four years.
Is it because you want us to be good? Ok. So do I. We aren't. We haven't been for a while. We didn't think we would be at the start of the season. (Seven or eight wins was the prediction that got thrown around the most, IIRC.) We knew we weren't going to be good before we got started. So why is there so much gnashing of teeth when we do what we've done for four straight years and drop a game to a team with a worse record?
This season, we've looked like we've looked for the last four seasons, with the exception that there have been glimpses of what we can be once the offense is fully installed and functioning properly. In that regard, this has been a replica of Fuente's first season at Memphis. The change wasn't instantaneous there. It won't be here. And we knew that.
How can people still be completely derailed by our team losing when it's happened 23 times in the last four seasons?
If we "didn't come to play" yesterday, then neither did Clemson, Michigan or Washington.
Bro, do you even Reddit?
After back to back weeks failing to crack 25 points, I think it's possible the surprise factor of Fuente's offense has worn off. There's a ton of tape on both Evans and the scheme for opposing DCs to study.
Fuente's scheme is going to win us a lot of ballgames, but we are not a complete offense right now. We haven't really been all season. Our run game is really one-dimensional, and our rushing between the tackles is basically nonexistent. We've relied on Evans' running and intermediate passing to cover some shortcomings, and our struggles the last two weeks compared to earlier in the season might indicate defenses have figured out how to counter what we're doing. Everyone's saying the team didn't come to play today, but I think it's just as likely that in mid-November, other defenses have caught up to what we are in offense.
No complaints here. We're way ahead of where I thought we'd be, and this season has been fun. But some measure of our success might have been due to an element of surprise, which we've now lost.
Well that sucked.
Great when you're blackout drunk at 3 am, but only for the entertainment. The food is average.
A Portillo's char dog is the quintessential Chicago style dog. Also, they make the best Italia beef. (Al's is a close second.)
And the one in Lynn Garden has the giant angry dude holding the burger.
Disregarding their loses to us and Duke, UNC is undefeated in ACC play.
Peanut butter banana, but I prefer a Pal's shake.
Also, if you're ever in or around Chicago and like milkshakes, you must get the chocolate cake shake from Portillo's.
Excellent. Glad to see the pieces falling into place for his inevitable march toward the Heisman.
As some slightly older Hokies might remember, about ten years ago or so, ESPN did something like 24 straight days of college football. It was GLORIOUS. I think we were in there two or three times, on a Thursday of course, and I wanna say a weird random game on a Wednesday.
No matter how gorgeous she is, some guy somewhere is sick of her shit.
Newsome was hired in 2006. In '04, I think Stiney was the OL coach. I think JB Grimes left in '02 with Rickey Bustle.
Also have to add, very relieved to see Evans look so comfortable moving around after barely being able to take a step nine days ago.
Cause for concern? Absolutely. Coaches and players have their work cut out for them in the Techmo Bowl. Need a solid first half from both offense and defense to hold serve until we get Edmunds back in the second half.
Solid win when neither the offense nor the defense brought their A games on the road. Championship teams find a way to win, and we did today.
Between this and the NJ Bridgegate verdict, today was a day for landmark decisions.
This one is going to get studied in both law and journalism classrooms for years to come.
I'm sorry did you say something? I couldn't hear you over the sound of being World Series champs.
Welcome to the least productive workday in Illinois history.
All of them.
I'm gonna puke.
GT is not a good football team. Neither are we. Our play has been sporadic and uneven. Fuente's scheme is better than his predecessor's, but he hasn't solved the deeper issues this program faces.
The 2016 Techmo Bowl was hands down the biggest game VT has had since the 2011 ACCCG, and the first game with championship implications any current player on our roster has played in. And the moment was too large for our guys. The offense especially played tighter than I've seen them play since Bristol.
That being said, there are no sure wins with this team. We've been barely treading water above .500 football for too long to think we can't find a way to lose against anyone we play. That's who we've become. For every win at the Horseshoe, there's a 0-0 after 4 vs Wake. So far this season we gutted out tough wins vs Pitt and Duke. We couldn't do it for a third consecutive game.