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Wa salaam to both of you!

Don't look now, but UT is up 51-49 on the Hokie Bird!

Nah, Herbie has integrity. Values his job more than his Buckeyehood

Sorry I meant passing from under center. I agree he can receive a snap and hand the ball off clearly.

Is there a chance we decided to basically go all shotgun so as to not tip of a play was run (center) or a pass (shotgun)? I don't know, I'm just throwing stuff out there trying to make sense of it all...

Thank you for posting asian chicks this time. Gi-gi-gi. >Thud!< giggity.

This is just... perfect.

There are 13 QBs with more passing attempts than Thomas this year. All but one have fewer INTs than Thomas, and the one with more INTs (Connor Halliday) has a better Attempts/INT ratio. All but one have a higher completion percentage as well. 9 of the 13 have higher YPA. He has been sacked 16 times this year, so subtract those and he has 104 rushing attempts. That puts him at 404 touches, which is less times than Halliday, Sean Mannion, Derek Carr and David Goff have thrown the ball. There may be other QBs with more touches, but it's after 1 AM. My point is that of the high-usage QBs in college football Thomas is among the worst at protecting the football (WKU's QB has a worse INT/attempts rate).

Thomas is asked to do a lot because he's a 5th year senior in his 3rd year of starting and the most talented player on the roster. If the offense took the ball out of his hands, we'd complain that they weren't using the most talented player enough. He makes the offense go. Unfortunately Thomas continues to make mental errors that less experienced QBs don't make. Physical errors are one thing- even the best QBs miss passes. You can live with those if he's making the right read. The mental mistakes are the ones that cause fans to either a) scream for Leal or b) fire up the Logan Thomas Excuse-O-Matic to explain why somehow it's not Thomas's fault and it's really the fault of (pick whichever apply) the backs/the receiver/the line/Loeffler/Stinespring/the weather/Flying Spaghetti Monster. Neither of those are healthy choices. If Miami fans wrote similar things about Stephen Morris (that they likely repurposed from the Jacory Harris era) we would laugh at them. At this point in his college career, what you see is what you get with Thomas. So far this year he's a 55.7% passer who averages 6.9 yards/attempt. For his career he's a 55.2% passer who averages 7.1 yards/attempt. This is who he is.

Even Heisenberg and Jesse lost control of their meth business and eventually had to give it up. Very true article though. Although I wouldn't like to think or hope that Beamer has a similar fate to Bowden and Paterno (in terms of wins-losses obviously).

#BEATDAU, that will fix everything. :)

Well, looks like I won't be attending any home games this year but I'm thinking about going to the VT LOLUVA game if it's 330 or later kickoff!

Miller said hes never had anyone say anything to his face bad about Thomas.
That was probably smart on their decision, he said. But I know last year when I had to sit out those games, I visited my first home game and I was on the sideline, it was very depressing to see how much trash-talking that went on in the stands beside me.
But most of the people are very supportive, our fans are. But you get those few that really when somethings going wrong, point fingers. And Im not one of those guys.

So true. Good thing that doesn't happen here though

There are other ways to attack the defense with the short pass without having the Quarterback go through five progressions.

thanks. Clears it up for me. I think the issue is just how much the run game can be relied on to be even a sell for opposing defenses. They need to bite on it as a real threat. As you said below, the lack of run game is most concerning and the most indefensible part of our game plan.