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As a Buckeye fan, this reminds me of Pat Narduzzi and Mark Dantonio's comments before last years game. However the Hokies have much better corners than 2014 MSU

With all due respect, that's not a valid comparison. VT will bring a schematically distinct defense to the field compared to what you saw vs Michigan State. While the formations might appear similar, assignment and scheme will be completely different, as french can illustrate way better than I ever could.

There's a reason why our defense was the only one able to stop your offense last season, and it isn't entirely inexperience at QB and OL on your part.

I like to think of our defense as controlled chaos, much like the Philadelphia Eagles were under Jim Johnson. You know there will be pressure, you just don't know where its coming from. Get complacent and get your face smacked in. Take a chance and pay for it. Its an aggressive defense that is schemed to completely take advantages of the opportunities that the pass rush will provide.

But yeah... bend but don't break definitely isn't us. We don't give up many yards, and we don't allow teams to move at will. We play a field position game where our defense puts us in good enough field position to score.

Foster and Wiles always talk about "twitch" in terms of initial reaction - quick first step, identify what they're supposed to do. Some might call that quickness (as opposed to speed), but that's why you'll often see us with a "light" D-line: those guys are strong and twitchy, e.g. they disrupt and get to the ball very quickly. I believe Wiles also likes to say that our line will have their foot in the neutral zone the instant the ball is snapped.

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