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I strongly dislike the NFL and it's fans. Totally different breed that college football fans. I play fantasy football but watch as little NFL as I can.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line They played with the hurry up, no huddle last year a little bit. Not enough in my opinion, but maybe now it's a full time thing. I hope so.
Perhaps with Brewer having a full year of experience you'll get the no-huddle and hurry-up offense you and Bud were hoping for.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line I've been the most high on Marshawn. I think we need the heavy, brutal back that he is, and it seemed like most of the bigger runs, before he and Shai got hurt, came when he had the ball. He simply blew through tackles.
dems the breaks?
great, now can Joe just delete the post and we can pretend this never happened?
I think he gets off the line very quick, which was definitely evident in the spring game, but as soon as a tackle puts their hands on him he loses too much power
Looks like he'll be fine in time to face off against the Hokies.
So you're saying he still can't catch a break.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line No real choice last year.
I only have one word for this poor kid:
Man, getting the foot right after issues for 2 straight seasons only to break your collar bone? Bad break after bad break.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line I like the fact that beamer acknowledged the ridiculous rotation that has been going on since 2012. This has been my biggest criticism of the run game in the past few years. None is able to get their feet going because after one or two series they are pulled. The players have even said they need to get in a groove. I hope this isn't just coach speak and they shorten the rotation.
lesson learned
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line Shai is clearly our most talented natural running back. Marshawn isn't explosive/fast enough to be a star but is still a solid college RB and situational runner. MacMillan is a total unknown at this point but has athletic upside. JC is being overhyped to an uncomfortable level as the #1 back – he can be a good role player but he has only ever produced in spurts – I hope I'm wrong. Trey has potential if healthy but still less upside than Shai and Marshawn.
Long story short – no real horse in this mix. Welcome to another year of Shane Beamer playing 5+ running backs and nobody sniffing 1,000 yards.
UVA could go winless for ten years and I would still take a cynical enjoyment out of it. It sucks for Thorpe, but as far as UVA goes
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line It really seemed, from a novice's point of view, that we just rushed to the line and then checked out of it to look for the signal. When I think hurry-up, no-huddle, I think you're getting to the line and snapping the ball within 12 seconds of the play clock starting. But again, that's a very low level understanding of it that is mostly based on the style you see schools like Oregon and Auburn last year run.
so...much...hair...
r/eyebleach
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you just couldnt leave well enough alone could you?
SET THE TONE!
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line They played with the hurry up, no huddle last year a little bit. Not enough in my opinion, but maybe now it's a full time thing. I hope so.
I totally agree to your points. I just don't want to package the win like we kept pulling miracle 3rd down conversions out of nowhere all night. We were 9-17 (53%) on the night, which was a lot better than our season average of 39%. If we maintained 53% all year, we would have been in the top 5 nationally. 39% put us around 77th. It was a good performance where we executed well and stepped up when we needed too. I think the bigger statistic is that our defense held OSU to 4-16 on third downs. If we can get close to those totals this year I really like our chances. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need a 3rd down conversion because we would score on 1st down. Not gonna happen, but we need more big plays this year.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line I'm assuming he meant because of injuries at one point he would have been the starter before a guy like Jerome wright would have. I thought i'd seen comments from shane that trey is the most complete RB right now and playing at the highest level.
I saw this on my drive this morning. Not a good way to start the day. And we're in Maryland, and it has MD tags.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Sift Through Stable of Now-Healthy Running Backs, Develop Continuity on the Offensive Line "I think about it all the time, how you handle it," Shane said. "Travon, our staff was probably split going into the first game, do we redshirt him or do we not redshirt him? And we decided to redshirt him, but hindsight being 20/20, he probably would've been our starter if we'd played him."
Strong words. Wonder if he means due to all the injuries or simply because he's that good. If its the latter then I see no reason not to shirt Shai and Marshawn.
Yeah I wanted to respond to that post but it reads like an 11 year old wrote it so I thought better
C'mon Motu, we need you!