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Brewer was the king of 1 score losses, having 5 out of 6 his first season.
Part of the reason we have him is because he's mobile. We seem to forget that early in his career here, he was almost expected to run the ball unless there was a wide open receiver. Weren't plays designed to mostly open one side of the field, lots of option plays?
Over the course of his career, we've been transitioning him to more of a passing QB where we just want him to be able to run on busted plays or designed QB runs.
8 wins at least with Brewer. Guy was the opposite of Pry and just found ways to win. Team wins 11 with Evans
We faired OK on one important offensive criterion, maintaining possession of the ball to rest the defense. Our time of possession was also greater than theirs.
We failed to achieve a 1st down on 3 of 11 possessions, 27%, which is acceptable.
How good do you think this team would be if it played Michael Brewer at quarterback?
There's a lot of positive things to take away from this game. But holy moly....
Will someone PLEASE explain to Pry that you need more points than the other team in order to win? I hate the whole "playing not to lose" mentality, even when we're leading. But playing that way when we're already losing is absolutely insane.
Hard disagree. Play Pop. There's no future with Drones after this season. He's shown us what he is, and that's a solid backup QB. Pop still has time. Let him play and develop.
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It is no surprise to me that with the 2 new Coordinators and OL that we had no real offense in Q1.
It did surprise me the drastic difference in the D after the first series.
I appreciate that, but it is absolutely not necessary. For the API access that I think I would need, its probably only $5 a month. The cost is more about whether I want to dedicate my Sunday mornings doing analysis than the subscription cost. It was just a lot easier to make that call when it was free. (There is a free tier as well, I just need to play around with it further and figure out the best way to do this stuff. Despite the fact that I am technically a research analyst, my skills are more public policy oriented than data science and so a lot of this is new for me.)
But, if I do continue this, are there things you would like to see more of? I kept it light today since it is week 1 and there are still a lot of unknowns, but I plan on diving in more around week 4.
Frank was wearing a VT pin below the SC logo, which seemed to me like an appropriate way to represent both teams.
Yes, he was, I saw VT gear and the announcers commented on it as well.
His shirt/jacket was sCar which was probably the most prominent but maroon.
A couple times Drones scrambled to the wrong side as well, right into the teeth of the end coming around the tackle. He should have scrambled to the other side, which had ineffective pass rush on that play.
Was he? When I saw him in the stadium is just SCar gear.
Frank was wearing gear from both teams. This is as expected.
The irony after reading some of Pry's post game remarks is that when he was asked directly about the end of the first half clock management he asserted that they were absolutely trying to score a TD to end the half.
What makes that worse than him not trying is that he so mismanaged the clock, in a worse way, on the way to score a TD that it makes him look so incredibly incompetent... Still.
I love Pry, I wish he was our guy, but he will not be here long term. It's more than recruiting. It's more than a gross lack of QB development. It's more than a lack of player development (although the hire of Jarret Furgeson might have been the best hire of the offseason based on what I saw last night). It's the fact that he cannot handle JV level things within the context of any given game.
This is fantastic analysis. Kinda helps us take the emotion out. How much is the paywall. We may be able to crowd source for you to get this type of analysis (know I'd be willing to pay my share).
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offense doesn't know what it wants to be and doesn't have the players to figure it out.
This has been the case since loeffler was hired. At least with Stinespring we knew we just wanted to run and we had running backs and an offensive line to do it. And honestly we had above average to amazing quarterbacks to do this from 1999-2011.
He can spar during USA regional wrestling training which just happens to be in our wrestling room.
He still has happy feet in the pocket it's crazy to me that he still doesn't look comfortable. I get our OLs have probably traumatized him but damn.
he just hasn't proven to be a very good coach at all
100%
It was a rational hire that we (understandably) thought could/would address a lot of our program weaknesses. The thought process was sensible. But sometimes sensible hires don't work out.
My dad, who I love but never texts me, texted me "Beamerball" right after the punt return TD. I just replied "I miss having it on our sidelines". Not that I want Shane or Frank on our sidelines at this point, but I miss that late 90s feeling of excitement every time special teams took the field because you knew there was an above average chance you were going to see something positive and most likely game changing happen.
Ok folks- looking at next year's destination. Anyone been to Fiji?
Grand cayman was really nice this year but also expensive. Thanks for those that gave Intel!