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Season Prediction: Yeah, I do think we step out of the gate, at home, and win against #1 OSU, and get ranked top 15. Then we drop the Furman game, too tired to compete, unprepared, and unmotivated, and losing that top 15 ranking. We'll be motivated after that first loss, but still lacking offensive confidence, so I fully expect to see us squeak by Purdue, ECU, and Pitt, on the strength of a pass-happy and inconsistent offense, a good return game, and defense playing at national championship levels. We'll be in the top 20, and lose by at least 10 to NCSU, who then leaps into atlantic contender status, having beaten Louisville the game before. Fortunately for us, Miami is the next game, and we always get up for Miami. Even more important, Loeffler concentrates on making the running game the staple of our offense, following the loss to NCSU with less than 25 rushing attempts. In a battle of grit, we stand up in the fourth quarter and run past Miami. Witht the offensive focus now on the running game, and getting the oline to push instead of pass-block, and extra time to prepare for GT, we win out, get re-ranked, and seek revenge on the Wolfpack in the ACC Championship Game.
Regular Season Record: 10-2
Key Matchup: Pitt Yeah it is that game. They really are a bad matchup for us. Fortunately, Bud knows this and fixes the MLB tentative issues one way or another. Unfortunately, it's a draining game, before a short week to prepare for the dark-horse atlantic team. They won't let us run, but we have the receivers to win.
Breakout Player: The entire Oline. Whenever the coaches stop trying to make this offense exclusively about keeping Brewer alive (he is elusive enough to not get destroyed you know?), and tell the OLine to lean forward, the big guys up front feel better about what they're doing, run blocking after-all is much easier than pass blocking.
Yeah, I didn't make the chart...just grabbed it off BUD FOSTER'S Twitter page!!!!!
And it's in response to:
Every team in the country uses those basic blitzing schemes you described.
Maybe we do, but we seem to get more out of it, because Bud.
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To be fair, the end-of-year record is always ifs and buts before the season starts...
All I know it, we definitely have 5 starting o-lineman. Better than we've been the past couple years. Regardless we have swing tackles and guards. I'm sure he's giving Gallo every rep he can.
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Who said it was a threat of bench time? There are many scenarios on why Teller was switched out. He may have been struggling with the mental aspect, maybe Parker was playing really well, maybe it was truly a depth exercise. Of all the things it could be, threatening to bench him, outside of the reason someone is playing better than him, is the least likely.
Case study- watch the 2nd half of the Military Bowl. Watch which side Coleman runs to when he has success. Then proceed to question the logic in any punishment-intended demotions.
wouldn't it make more sense to plug the guard/tackle combo from the second string in for that game?
I understand your point, but you wouldn't (for example) yank a 1st team all american LT out for the 2nd string LT because the 1st team LG got hurt.
What is great for me is that I get paid in dollars and then it is converted to rubles on payday. My salery has more than doubled in the past 18 months.
That worked because Jack Tyler was in the right gap at the right time to make like 60,000 tackles. AM has a problem with this.
Let the record show that not a single staff member is taking the under on our Vegas predicted win total...
You can certainly find plays in which he made half of the defense miss over his last few seasons. Aside from that, if they're going to assign a spy to him, good luck and let the Zeke train roll. Otherwise, Meyer's entire offensive premise is to create mismatches by creating numbers advantages all over the field...be it on the interior or out on the perimeter. Miller wasn't just the most elusive quarterback I've seen with the ball in his hands in the last several years...but the most elusive player regardless of position. Personally, I'd make him prove he can make the transition and not assign spies or anything. Play to stop Elliott just because Braxton's adjustment to getting the ball in different spots is more so of an unknown compared to what we know Zeke and the o-line can do. If it becomes a legit issue, you have to pick your poison and adjust. But don't discount Miller's ability to make multiple people miss, both in space and in a crowd...along with his ability to read/cut/run off of blockers. Just hope they can't effectively get the ball to him.
I love this response. The ever-evolving strategies of warfare.
per the author's comment about northwestern. Could it be that a lot of northwestern students just don't want to put that they go there on facebook? Not sure what the reason for this could be, but if only students/alumni are fans and there are more fans than reported students, it would follow that some of those fans are actually students/alumni.
Nows a really good time to buy pie and get rid of all your cake.
Yes, the middle of the field is open to slants and crossing routes (quick and slow-developing, respectfully.) But the DBs can disrupt this by playing inside leverage and keeping the receiver from crossing in front of them. The result is a sometimes a route that's broken off or run too shallow, meaning a tough throw for the QB to make with pressure coming straight at him.
Same prep school as Drew Harris
Hopefully, there is not a decline/lack of improvement w/Teller, but an improvement/push by Osterloh.
wasn't he QB in the game where we had to have the largest comeback in school history to win? I mean, in the end a win is a win, but statistically speaking, it almost looked like a loss.
PIE!
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# | Thoughts after Watching Virginia Tech's Second Open Scrimmage of Fall Camp I think Hansen's ankle/foot/leg injury may have something to do with Nijman being used so frequently. Perhaps it's one of those lingering injuries that make coaches pull their hair out. The need to get Nijman up to speed is paramount, so I think that might be what's going on there. Teller/Osterloh, I have no idea.
LOL point taken. Crazy days wish I had a crystal ball. Thx for letting me vent.
The world needs structural reform instead all we get is cheap money. How bout we elect a person who doesn't like lawyers and paperwork? Burning half the rules and regulations handed down over the last 20-30 years by repubs and dems alike would pretty much do the trick for us. The Greek thing is dangerous because Greece is bankrupt eventually everyone will say yes.... we shouldn't be making them sell the Parthenon we should just take a loss on the debt and move forward hand in hand.... or they'll say we hate you and you hate me and screw us all. Then the light shines on other socialist states such as the PIGS, and lets not forget all the damage the French folks have been doing to their economy while the Greeks are gettting proctolized? If the dollar gets pummeled and reserve currency status comes into play... watch out. If Eurozone breaks up there will be a mad rush to get trade zones set up.... dollar status will almost certainly become "should we use" instead of "we gotta use".
USD has much to do with this. Cheap money has fueled massive carry trades. The fed has been telling these hedge fund managers to get out of their carry trades. Methinks there are a few who are probably facing massive redemptions and gambling their days and dollars away. Yet I think it is probably limited in their impacts. Who in their right mind would be doing highly levered macro stuff these days? The world has gone off its rocker... little historical data to use to guess what will happen.
Europe is not that bad unless Greece goes out. China has been letting their citizens gamble on markets etc and they as a society are not ready. Wild west, no rules, lots of fraudulent companies.... people losing life savings, levered up etc., etc. The big question is how bad things are in China. They seem to have bought ALOT of gold, then somehow have sold alot of it...so they seem to have gone from aggressive about their future to completely lets just defer it and sell the gold, work this out.... the Yuan devaluation seemed to be a shock, but most who saw the gold reversals believed something was about to happen. Noone knows what the next shoe may be to drop in China.... hopefully its picking up the pieces from their stock market bubble popping and nothing more.
Then there is our president's foreign policy. Last time we had a president who favored Iran over Saudi, same sh** happened... Saudi's cut prices to cut legs out from Iran. Since Iran deal was signed crude has been pummeled ALMOST every day. WW output decreasing? Mebbe, but mebbe the Sauds are voicing their displeasure. The US OIL debt crisis at $30 oil is estimated 5-10x the subprime. Yes Sauds want electric vehicles, fracking deferred.... but they are more afraid of a world where Iran has allies in China and Russia, Sauds are shacked up with the Jews who we are also giving the Heisman to. Say what you will about this policy... but it sure ain't traditional foreign policy. Why did traditional foreign policy prefer the Sauds? Its not oil you undereducated numnutz. Its the dollar clearing of oil. Whoever is willing to produce quality weapons for the Sauds may get oil cleared in their currency and that could be a very serious shift, perhaps the seminal economic event of most of our lifetimes. Yes it is unlikely, but I don't know how long the Sauds can wait before taking a deal. Not sure they can wait til the next election / january inauguration. There will likely be more aggression in the oil patch as countries make deals or countries get taken over on account of their cheap energy supplies.
Then there is Russia. Cornered. But we've ceded Ukraine to them. How long til Russia does a deal with Greece or Saud? Does he go after something more strategic (than Ukraine) before or after that deal?
Anyway, could go on and on.... what a freaking mess. Politicians used to come and go, the professionals did their thing. Now it seems politicians come in and professionals cower. When everything is run by narcissists, nothing will be stable for long because they don't have any principles. Repubs and Dems alike are narcissists... so I'm not necessarily for one party or the other, though I wish we would make friends with the Sauds and Israelis again.
Sorry if a couple of statements could have been interpreted as inflammatory or racist. Other presidents have tried shifts in foreign policy... not a black white thing....and the Sauds have done a number of things that have showed their "independence from the US" in recent years.
Bottom line is I think things recover, but the wild card is geopolitics... stuff like North Korea, Russia, Iran, Saud, etc starting wars over natural resources etc. I think that is why things have dropped.
I don't think that anyone on the defense, staff or players, would be too keen on an offensive guy holding the lunchpail.