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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations 
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations 
Absolutely. We were ranked 122 out of 128 teams with explosive drives, at a rate of 6.7 percent.
As a reference, the 4 teams that reached the playoffs had explosive rates (rankings) of 24.6%(6th), 25.9%(5th), 17.9%(27th) and 19.2%(20th). (OSU,UO, BAMA, FSU)
In terms of methodical drives (ie. the percentage of each offense's drives that run 10 or more plays), those four teams were ranked 97th, 31st, 64th, 26th. Significantly worse.
If you expand to all of the NY6 teams you get explosive/methodical ranks of: 16/68, 34/84, 14/110, 36/56, 10/6, 29/7, 23/43, 30/106.
So 10 out of the 12 teams that played in the NY6 were more explosive than methodical. The two exceptions were GiT, which is obviously designed to be methodical. And Baylor, which still had a top 10 explosive offense anyway. So the bottom line is if you want to win, you can't not be explosive. Our 2009 and 2010 seasons follow this precisely
With the 3 TE's, plus Sam and lets say JC, you could run anything from a single back jumbo formation, to a four receiver shotgun formation and never change personnel.
Plus, Sam gives you the ability to do some trick FB throw back pass plays like in the Military Bowl.
So this could be the rolling-ball-of-butcher-knives offense we've all been longing and waiting for?
Hey, the flag was wrapped around a girl in a bikini.
I may have found a learning aid that actually works for me.
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations Or maybe just the carrot of "winning games".
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations My thoughts exactly.
If someone really good gets passed up on the depth chart, that means you have 2 sombodies who are really good...
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# | Blacksburg listed as Location on Brad Paisley's Crushin' It World Your Tshirt Not a country fan but thought maybe I could find an upbeat/pump up song or two. I listened to the top 5 or so most viewed songs on YouTube. They all seem...slow. Anyone got any recommendations on ones that will be appropriate at a football game?
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations It's almost as if someone dangled the carrot of being headcoach from within the current staff or something..........
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations It's so...
... unusual.
Self discipline is not a concept at UT. Hence, Fulmer Cup.
Hence, this article. Totally agree with you though and I apologize if it came through condescending but the article was definitely worth reading. A friend mentioned to me that Ted Ginn used to sleep in a hyperbaric chamber while at anOSU. That's extreme. Maybe that's what Lefty needs?
PIE!
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# | Teller Demoted? OL Shuffling? VT Football Practice Monday 8/17 Observations Perhaps the half-way-through-camp doldrums have set in and this is Searels way of shaking things up a bit. No complacency.
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IMO, the most important stat for this offense will be "Explosive drives", drives in which the average play earned 10 yards or more. Tech needs to start stretching the field vertically in the pass game as well as having their running backs explode for big gains rather than settling for 5 or 6 yard carries.
I think the reason the 3rd down conversion percentages fell at times last year was due more to the offense's inability to keep defenses honest than anything else.
SET THE TONE!
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# | Over $10,000 Contributed: TELL-a-thon 3.0, The Key Play Requests Your Financial Support Didn't the Saints get in trouble for something like this?
Heard he will be ready to take over at wide receiver as soon as Drew Harris gets here to take over at running back.
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# | Hokies' Starting Center Eric Gallo Leans on Current and Former Teammates to Adjust to New Role touche
Yeah, Peoples is a football player. He is going to be a fan favorite by the time he leaves Blacksburg
I think with Ford and Phillips on the outside and our stable of TEs I'm really interested to see how our conv % is on 3rd down this year. We have the tools to sustain drives and keep our defense fresh, which I have seen as a problem in the past few years, so here is hoping!
Having a highly touted defense is great unless they have been on the field for 30 mins by the 4th quarter.
we have a young offense....with the increase in talent I believe that bodes well for us.
Last year (before the season) I pegged either 2015 or 2016 as the break out year for this team. After our win over OSU I thought we came out a year early...and then we plummeted.. :( but I do think we'll see our offense take steps in the right direction this year (and maybe even help get to 9 or 10 wins) and then become a seriously troubling offense for teams to deal with in 2016
My prediction? I think we go 9-4 (8-4 w/ bowl win or 9-3 with bowl loss) this year and 11-1 in the regular season in 2016
So you are the guy that actually reads playboy for the articles.
Hey look, nobody said there was going to be a quiz afterwards!!!!
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# | Hokies' Starting Center Eric Gallo Leans on Current and Former Teammates to Adjust to New Role It would be futile and wrong-headed for him to try and ignore Wang.
(Just when you thought you could forget about Wang for more than 5 seconds...)
Agree to disagree. Glennon would have been sacked at least 10 times in the OSU game last year. Looking forward to seeing what Brewer can do this year.
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# | Bitter blog - 'Big baby' Tim Settle a camp curiosity, although role this year might be hard to find That's good stuff! Highly recommend.
Wow, you are old. All the cool kids left MySpace when Zanga came out!