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I really don't understand this sentiment - not singling out you, a lot of folks share it. This is SL's year to prove he is the sort of guy you suggest, because up to this point there's not much data that backs it up.
1/2 the kids in the top 100 are uncommited but how many even have VT in their top 5? Looking at #'s is great but when we are not even in the top 5 for the top 150 recruits that doesn't say much for VT as a whole.
PS.. Here's the answer--> Landon Dickerson
TEAM PRY
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# | B1G Challenges in Western Indiana: Previewing the Purdue Boilermakers To be fair, by pointing at anOSU, Oregon, Auburn and Bama, you also pointed at some of the most talented teams in the country. You don't really need a thick playbook when you line up a team that is top to bottom better than almost every other team they face.
Something I picked up in the box score/highlights was that Purdue didn't sustain many drives.
1st TD- busted coverage, 5 yard pass for a 50 yard TD.
2nd TD - deep bomb in 1v1 coverage, 50+ yards.
3rd TD - hail mary.
4th TD - fake punt leads to a huge play that gets them to the 1.
I didn't see the final td, but it seems like they had a few big plays but really couldn't sustain a drive against the Sycamores.
I think short-yardage defense would be a better measure of whether going for 2 every time would make sense, but I can buy in to going for it on 4th almost every time.
A few things...one, I wasn't buying 98% as particularly accurate in the first place. Purdue is no powerhouse but that's giving them roughly the same odds as Furman. Computers have since had one or two games to start improving their ratings and it fell about where I would have expected it had Brewer not been hurt (I'm too lazy to look it up but I think I predicted high 80's in the comments).
Realistically even the 87% is likely too high given Brewer's injury...using the spread instead of computers (almost certainly more accurate at this point), we have a 67% chance of winning.
I love how the QB does not move in the pick 6 play.
There is a huge difference between being schematically competent and over-scheming. It is no secret that for year's Virginia Tech has has one of the thickest playbooks out there, and instead of being really good at executing a few plays is often not great at executing a whole bunch of plays.
Look at the highest-rated offense at http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaaoff2014 - Ohio State, Orgeon, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Alabama...these are not complicated offenses but rather rely on a few core plays, adding small wrinkles and often using movement and route options to expose weakness in the defense and allow the QB (or RB) to make the right read.
I cant tell if this is sarcastica or not, but if it isnt, then I don't agree with the "nowhere near' part. Peyton will go down as one of the greatest QB's of all time, stats and field general speaking. if he had any decent to good defenses like past super bowl winners, he would have a lot of SB's than just one imho
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his passes were looking wobbly all night and I was worried about it since hes on my fantasy team but that last TD pass to sanders was as good as it gets, so it put some of my worry to rest
I tried to refrain from responding but found myself coming back to this most of the day. I don't create threads to gain popularity or turkey legs or friends. If you would notice most of the threads Ive started dont get up votes. I did this to discuss what I was seeing in a QB playing a live game. Who/what am I hyping? If I wanted to create a thread for people to click on it would look like this:
peyton got me 20 last night but if Tyrod gets over that, I might consider picking him up, even though I don't want to waste my #1 waiver on just him
In theory it was an interesting idea.... until someone got hurt the very first time they did it.
I think a 40 yard dash between the fastest players on each team would be interesting way to handle the coin toss.
I could see Purdue taking the first drive straight down the field for a TD, then Foster adjusting and Purdue struggling for the rest of the game. It seems to be our MO the past few years to give up an easy score right off the bat, lulling our opponent into a false sense of security.
I'm a Patriots fan, but I'll be cheering for the Bills this Sunday!
Over the course of the season, I just hope T-Mobile's Hokie attitude(work hard, humble, prepared, grateful for those who helped him) isn't poisoned by Rex Ryan's brash cockiness.
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# | B1G Challenges in Western Indiana: Previewing the Purdue Boilermakers Guilty of looking forward but geeze where does Pitt get these running backs from? They are all studs and typically fair very well on the next level. Look for special teams to play a roll against Purdue. CFB can surprise teams we have never played before with some form of beamerball esp if they use outdated punt formations. I predict we see our first blocked punt of the year.
Darrell Hazell still doesn't get it.
agreed.. our issue lately is not getting these top kids in but being able to find them a position to play..
You just made me want to go to Austin for my next trip.
Yup. That nice 1 yd toss to Ford that Motley made off the run fake would most likely have either been 6 feet too high, or blistered the receiver's hands with LT3.
Motley really impressed me with that pass. Perfect placement, and great touch.
What will you do when #BigChicken comes for you and all that you hold dear...?
Sean Glennon received a lot of hate when he was here. In fact, far more than Logan ever really received if you ask me. And yet he still does a podcast on Virginia Tech Football and comes back to campus pretty often it seems. Players know that they are targets for both praise and blame depending on the outcome. And the closer you are to the ball, the more you will get both swings of emotions from the fanbase. I highly doubt that would factor into anything down the road.
OK. Lefty's playbook is very large. But, they all execute the same core concepts; in the passing-game: triangle-receiver packages, screens and picks...everything required to get play-makers open; in the running-game: zone runs, zone reads, and counters. I'm in favor of him reducing the size of the playbook, it could easily be a quarter the size. If he does, the offense won't be near as flexible, but should be more dangerous. That being said, he is moving in this direction, he is constantly having the slim his play-book down, due to injury, inexperience, and lack of talent. Given he didn't do it will-fully, but the play-book is now used differently. They run what the guys are good at, and focus on those plays. The added flexibilty of the concepts being the same, and being able to change the specific plays to still execute the things the guys are good at, from different plays, more suited and comfortable to the next man up, showed last week, even though they were running everything to get a grasp on the guys' execution. I would submit. the issue isn't really the play-book, or the plays, its the disorganized method of dissemination.