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The offense didn't get humiliated. The offensive line had their best game of the season. Trey Edmunds was effective running the ball. Several receivers made nice plays, and the play design was getting them open in the second half.
Thomas had a bad game, and a couple of times where the receivers got their hands on the ball, they didn't hold on. Loeffler is correct. Those mental errors (progressions, alignments, making a catch in traffic, game management) cost them a game where physically the Hokie offense dominated Duke. He is dead on.
What exactly do you expect him to do, kick everyone off the team and round up a bunch of students to put on the pads next week? About the only real option he has is to bench Logan and put in Leal. Whether you like it or not Logan is both our most clutch player on offense as well as the biggest liability.
I'll restate my comment. What pieces are missing (or need to improve) to get this offense going?
edit:Now my edit to my previous comment shows up?
I want to get it down on paper, I think Ford will be the guy next season.
You mean details like a receiver staying set before the snap?
Leal will be the starter, with Ford and Motley competing for the backup job in the spring. If Leal doesn't play well, I expect that Ford has more upside than Motley, but Motley was far better than any of the other young QB's in scrimmage work.
agreed. I am not a fan of the spread in general. I miss pounding the rock, and then popping play action.
What is your technique while fishing for deserts?
Boom, there you go.
I think I've just blocked out any memories of UVA beating us. Too painful and sad. Sort of like a lot of our bowl games.
Been lurking for a while and finally decided to take the plunge. I'm proud of how level headed most of our fans are and this seems to the best concentration of those types.
Looking forward to some fantastic Turkey Leggage!
I would much rather lose to Dook. Why? Because, for one, unlike national-media perceptions, I've been watching Duke's steady rise under Cutcliffe and have respect for him and what he has done at that program.
Also, Muck Fiami. There are four teams I never want to lose to and hate when we do - Miami, GT, FSU, and Dabo Swinny. I would hate to lose to UVA, but I don't remember what it feels like so I can't rate it accurately, but let's say it would surely top the list.
Watched both plays just now (55 seconds in, thanks VTphreak4evr), the 3&11 call wasn't as deep as I remembered, but it was well covered and only had receivers on one side of the field. The 4th&11 play had a wide open Cline on the left (the linebacker barely notices him), but Logan never looked his way. Don't know if this is a good interpretation, but it didn't seem like he was expecting the ball at all so it could just be a decoy route. As a side note, LT had a crazy pocket on both these plays and probably could have held the ball longer, but I don't know what the timing on these routes is supposed to be.
Look back at past Hokie backs. Darren Evans was a big power guy, but he was at his best when he got the edge and turned up field. Same with Branden Ore. Meanwhile, Williams was smaller, but he was more effective cutting back into those inside holes. Even with Humes and Imoh... and KEITH BURNELL (who I don't feel were anywhere near as talented as Edmunds) the Hokies found a way to effectively run the football at least some of the time.
I think Trey can be a top level back at VT. I don't know if the running back rotation is the result of the play calling, and if so, is Shane or Loeffler responsible for it, but I didn't like the rotation last season and Shane is the common thread. Trey had been excellent in pass protection, and he has run hard and made some plays, but the one thing he has not improved upon is his over-eagerness to cut back inside when the edge is sealed. Sometimes, that hole develops on the edge and you have to go where the hole is. Is that Shane's teaching? I don't know.
As for Coleman, I just don't see that special talent on film. He is a pedestrian back, small, quick, but not elusive and certainly not a guy who can push the pile. He can contribute, but I don't forsee him as a star "little back" like he was originally hyped to be, ala a Ray Rice or a Jaquizz Rogers.
I get what you're saying and I begrudgingly acknowledge all that Peterson (sp) has done there (I can only imagine what he could accomplish if he was coach at Tech). However, I had spoken to a number of fans from big time programs and they were FULLY expecting (and in a way supporting) us to be the stopping point and the team to expose them. Therefore, it is, consequentially, another loss and ultimately another failure in the history of our program and Beamer's coaching tenure with us.
^^This...1000 percent. Pound it with Edmunds, and Mangus on the edge and in space. Football is not rocket science.
Very well said. Welcome to the site.
Pay with $100's my man. Pay with $100's.
The band being in the VPI right then was my idea. Figured it'd look cooler than reforming a block like the drill staff originally wrote. And damn did I call that one right.
Thoughts on Shane as a running backs coach? I realize that DE, RW, and DW were all very special backs; it's unfair to expect inexperienced players to play at that level, but JC and Trey aren't as successful as those guys were early. Are JC and Trey not as talented, not as well coached, in a worse situation, or some combination of the three?
So, I'm a weirdo that has actually been looking forward to the BC for a few weeks now...ever since I watched the Eggos play Clemson. That is one physical squad.
Combine that with the fact that the Hokies have gotten their ears pinned back by the Dookies, and Saturday could turn out to be a real snot knocker.
Agree?
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Just found out that the Navy is gonna let me post in this thread. Got service assigned pilot!
I'm a fan of Logan's "X factor" but he takes WAY too long to progress thru his reads and often misses the obvious choice. Now I'm not out on the field and I know the game is a lot faster out there, but he is killing us with his decision making. I'd like the coaches to implement a count to four, then run plan. Often he has running lanes open that he misses because he's progressing slowly thru his reads. It's MADDENING.