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I am Adam and I am one of the million software developers who works for government contractors in Northern Virginia. My most recent hobby that I have picked up is smoking meat in my Weber Smokey Mountain smoker. In fact, I am having something my college buddies and I call Smokerday for the UNC game. I am going to smoke a brisket, pork butt, ribs, whole chicken, turkey legs (like at Lane Stadium), baked beans and mac and cheese. Oh and this is all for only 7 people. We did it last year and it is just a day of gluttony, drinking and Hokies football.

Loved Matthews County, best friend in High School had a family house right on the bay.

Washington - Purple and Gold Y'all
UNC - Can FSU slow down Trubisky enough to cover?
UT - UGa has been more unimpressive
Michigan - Khakis
Memphis - Why not?
Louisville - Picking them until they score less than 50


Sticking with the all-time favorite this weekend.

Breadsoda on Monday's has the best chili dogs I have ever had. They are located on Wisconsin ave so I don't know if you are willing to venture into DC. However, if you do make it up there, they also hold trivia night on Mondays. 1st prize gets $50 off their tab. Second place gets some sort of swag (full bottles of whatever liquor sometimes, sometimes its glassware, really whatever companies give the bar to hand out), and best team name gets 10% off their bar tab. And damn is it a good dog.

Name's Tom. I live in tiny Mathews, Va on the Chesapeake Bay. No surprise, I am a fisherman and a long time Hokie (since '67, the year before I started at VT). I am retired, last couple of jobs were mountain surveying and then fishing guide on the New River, but I have held a variety of jobs in my life. Hate loluva with a passion, love chocolate cream pie over all others, and can eat fried shrimp for every meal. Unlimited supply of almost any beer sounds like almost heaven to me, and I hope to eventually make my way back up to the 'tains for a game, have been invited to the Miami game and will hopefully get there. If so, I'll look you guys up in Lot 18 and see what we can do about that beer surfeit.

I'd have the first 4 ahead of him for sure at this point. I mean to this point Phillips has 2 500ish yard seasons. Unless he has 2 stellar seasons I would just see him as a solid #2 or even #3 guy on a pass heavy team.

Stanford
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It's impressive that Joe has been able to build this site using the limited internet in North Korea

Exactly. Now every team will have to keep a backside edge defender and a backside safety in their space to account for those plays. That leaves two less pursuit defenders to stop inside zone and the speed option. If a team overpursues, Fuente can come back to those throwback/reverse gadget plays. If they are being disciplined, then the bread and butter plays should work better.

I am going to spend the offweek working on UNC. My bandwidth is limited because of work travel.

I will say, what ECU does in terms of run blitzing is not something we can expect to see from anyone else on the schedule. The biggest thing that will improve the running game is improved tenacity and block engagement from the entire offensive line group. Against ECU though, there were a bunch of well blocked plays where ECU had a stunt that just left one more defender than blocker. I can recall a Sam Rogers counter where every OL guy absolutely killed a defender, yet ECU stunted a safety right into the gap. Rogers got tripped up despite a huge initial hole, and he pounded the turf in frustration.

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