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Vegas is... line moved from VT -7 to -12, now at -11
LOLUVA 3.5 dogs at home to Directional Michigan
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# | GIFTORY: Frame-by-Frame Highlight Reel of Virginia Tech's 49-0 Thrashing of Boston College TELLER...
Also, Jerod throws fades like a boss. It's been said a million times but I can't remember ever having a VT QB that threw a consistently good fade.
Samesies
Uh, how about our game against Stanford, the Natty Champ we played in? Both those teams had MORE talent than we had.
his interception this season... was in no way, shape, or form his fault as it went off the receiver's hands and up for the DB to grab. I think it's time for a new statistical category to be created that's an IBR, or interception by receiver, that would take that disparaging mark off of the QB's stats. Yes I realize how subjective this is, but I really think it's necessary.
I think it evens out long term... there are also plays where the db tips it to the receiver, drops a bad pass that should be a pic, etc.
...to the clinic for some penicillin.
That. Is. Friggin. Sweeeeet!
I wouldn't leave any DE with our line so thin...
Sadly, I'm boldly predicting Tennessee will lose their next 4 games. At least 3 of the next 4.
If they were any good, a P5 conference would snap them up.
They're better than 3 ACC teams in NC. In the past, they were better than all 4.
They're good. Politics and academics are the problem, not talent.
No. l'm never excited to play against ECU.
I'm doing all in my power not to get hyped up at our team's performance last week. After Ohio State 2014, I can't let that heartbreak happen to me again.
NEEDS MORE LEGS
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# | Vintage Virginia Tech Performance Exorcises Demons in Win Against Boston College http://virginiatech.sportswar.com/article/2016/09/19/tech-talk-live-note...
Ability to break Boston College out of man press coverage
"Basically, Boston College centered their defense around loading the box, putting more people around the football than you can block, to eliminate the run game. On the outside, they didn't play zone coverage, they played man coverage, so the corners cover the widest guy to the field. They didn't play off of them either. They had these big corners, so they played this press man, right up there next to you when the ball is snapped. It restricts some of the things you can do offensively. If you can't get people out of it, the combinations, the fun stuff you get to do on offense is really, really limited. It's hard to run the ball. That was our primary focus heading into the game, how can we mess with them a little bit in man coverage. Can we line up a tight end at tackle, which is what we did on the touchdown to Travon (McMillian). We went quick and had our tight end lined up at tackle so now there's a guy over there covering someone who's lined up at left tackle. We had our left tackle lined up at right tight end, those sorts of things to try and mess with those things, get the ball out in space and we did that. Then the real chess match began. They started moving fronts and blitzing, they started doing things they hadn't shown before, it was up to us to try and adapt. Heading into East Carolina, another team that likes man coverage, another team that gets to it a little bit differently though. They don't play quite as much press but they will. They load the box in different ways. They move the front, they move guys around, which creates a whole other issue of trying to get them out of that to get them to their secondary calls."
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# | Vintage Virginia Tech Performance Exorcises Demons in Win Against Boston College I think the possibility of sitting/competition is helping these guys. Last year guys were playing iron man even when clear backups could have performed better, due to injury or otherwise.
That is so odd. I could see it on multiple devices, including ones I wasn't signed into my imgur account.
I changed hosts. Let me know if that does the trick.
Twitter trolling commences when? Thursday? #beateasterncarolina
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# | Marshawn Williams Works to Put Lengthy Rehab, Brief Suspension Behind Him Ahead of ECU Matchup Juice really looked good Saturday. Bummed when he got hurt in 2014 but then
getting hurt again last season, things didn't sound too good.
He looks really natural and his size seems to be a benefit out there.
I agree. And the optimist inside me gets me excited for every game, regardless.
^^^This!!
This is the toy we couldn't have that we now do have! All teams we have played the past few years aren't going to grasp this fact well this year. This is the advantage we have every week for the rest of the season (with diminishing returns as the season moved forward). How the team grows along the way will be the difference maker in close games.
I'd like to say it's a trap game, but since they won the last two, you can't really call it a trap. VT has shown it has the ability to play well. In the Tennessee game, VT played well, but in the end beat themselves on turnovers.
VT should win this one, but given the history, I'm cautiously optimistic. Until VT develops a solid lead:
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# | Vintage Virginia Tech Performance Exorcises Demons in Win Against Boston College I noticed the same thing. Seems a little risky, but it certainly gives Jerod at least a step head start.
As much work as Ford does with the JUGS machine you'd expect him to make that catch. Nobody is perfect and it ended up not hurting us. Ford will be harder on himself than anyone else probably
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# | Vintage Virginia Tech Performance Exorcises Demons in Win Against Boston College I hate to nit pick the master, but on the 1st clip you said Cunningham wasn't able to maintain his block. Unless I'm looking at a different Cunningham, he not only maintained his block, but he drove the LB all the way outside and into the edge defender! Cunningham seems to be doing a great job of blocking on the plays that are successful. I wonder if the opposite is true on some of the negative plays?
Also, on the highlighted 3rd and 10 pass play, I wonder if the reason Bucky didn't explode off the line at the snap was because he was supposed to delay to allow the inside receivers time to run their defenders off? At any rate, he still looked open late but Jerod may not have been able to see him because the right side of the line was collapsing on him.
As always French, your reviews are both entertaining and very educational. Thanks for putting in the time and effort! Go Hokies!
And when has that ever been the deciding factor in college football?
I don't see how that's relevant. We have tons more talent than ECU but that's hardly translated to wins in the past few years.