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Yea. My wife's Logan Thomas jersey will someday be stored with my Bills JP Losman jersey in some remote closet to never be opened again.
You read that correctly. I have a JP Losman jersey.
[hangs head in shame]
On the same replay, the receiver on the left running a straight go route looked wide open too but Logan never even looked at him.
I haven't looked up the stats but I'm pretty sure almost all (if not all) the teams we've played this year have had their worst offensive game of the season against us. Sadly, they've probably all had their BEST defensive games of the season.
How many times has a throw hit a defender right in the chest and he dropped it? And please don't blame the WR's for dropping Logan's fastballs; if you're expecting a ball at a certain speed and it comes in 2X faster, you won't have enough time to react. If human's could react that quickly, baseball would be the most useless sport of all time because players would hit homeruns every at bat.
For a group of people that have watched him play for 3 years, it amazes me that people haven't realized the simple fact that Logan is just an streaky player. There's really just no other way to explain how inconsistent he is. You can roughly break down his career into a mere 4 periods:
-sophomre year, first 5 games: poor
-sophomore year, next 7 games: great
-sophomore year, last 2 games all the way until the 4th game this season: poor
-senior season, next 3 games: great
I feel like his legacy as a VT player will largely be determined by how he finishes. Let's just hope it mirrors 2011.
The way he kept going on and on about things was extremely annoying. He'd say something, repeat it, rephrase it, then say it in the original manner one more time, just to make sure he got his point across. Then, after a couple minutes, he'd SAY IT AGAIN!
So annoying. I was practically yelling at the TV, "Shut up! We get it already!"
That's why. And it's not just looking at a different receiver, it's HOW you go through progressions, which one comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. and having route designs set up so that progressions make sense and are effective. It's not something you can just pick up on your own. You have to be taught and on the same page as your QB coach/OC. There's a very good reason O'Cain was straight-up fired, a very non-Beamer move.
Fucking orange fucking pants.
They need to stash those motherfuckers in the top secret Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse. (Along with the black ones from the Boise game.)
This being the Orange Effect, I suspect you looked a lot like this:
When was the last time you said/heard this statement..."if we ONLY commit 3 turnovers we probably win"?
They've played us real tough ever since Cutliffe got there. It paid off this year, after almost getting us in 2012.
I saw that as well if anything it should have been a no call as there wasn't enough to warrant a pass interference call on that play.
And despite all of this, the Hokies win the game IF
1) Journell makes his kicks, which is why he is on scholarship
2) Thomas plays an average game
Keep in mind, Duke played hard, not well. It was their worst offensive performance of the season, against a defense that was essentially playing three guys in every down roles for the first time (Dadi, Clark, and Exum.)
Looking at the replay on TV, it appeared as though the hold on Ky came as he was falling to the ground because the receiver pulled his jersey down. So he fell to the ground grasping for whatever he could. I initially thought they would call an offensive pass interference because it seemed obvious to me that it happened, but such was our luck that game.
Logan himself has said this, so I don't see how we can refute it. The mental aspect of the game is the biggest hang-up for him. His first year, all he had to do was find Coale or Boykin, one was always open and the other could catch anything thrown within 10 feet of him. Last year was a whole different series of failures, but he still wasn't being taught anything besides, "chuck it as far as you can to the guy you can see clearly."
Good info, Thanks. Hope it can happen.
yeah pretty close just kept looking at the field and scoreboard in disbelief as the stats showed up on the board.Such a disappointing feeling.
Well...on a positive note, the media is giving TKP some justified praise:
As usual, a great breakdown RT @thekeyplay WHEN EXPERIENCE FAILS BY @french60wasp http://t.co/vwmYJ62yEU #HOKIES— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 28, 2013
I could have murder kelly stouffer, he was so F'ing annoying during that game.
At least he wasn't like Dez Bryant yesterday.
As a long time fan, and watching college football all around, every team is susceptible to such games. Every year we see big time programs lose to teams they shouldn't. It still sucks.
For me, it's primarily disappointing knowing that it all seems to be there, it's just never all there at the same time to be able to make the run for NC. We can still win out and go to a decent bowl game, and hope that some time in the next year or two everything can line up perfectly to make that run.
I had a friend tell me once that Beamer would never win an NC, at least the way it's currently run, because VT inevitably blows one game a year. Unfortunately, he's right. Except for 1999 (which the WVU game was close to being that blown game), we have blown a game by poor execution or whatever each year. It sucks to think that's what even people who respect Beamer as a coach think. "He's great, but he'll never win a National Championship."
Anyways, just venting...sorry if I changed the subject a little.
Can you please stop with the "he's just not being taught to go through progressions" argument? The other stuff I can agree with, but I'd hope to god that a college level QB wouldn't have to be taught to look at a different receiver if the primary one is covered.
Against the team that played FSU and Clemson tight? I would change "expecting" to "hoping".
We're still competing for the exact same championship that we were after week 1. With the first loss, any wild notion of a MNC was out the window, and it was a complete fantasy anyway. We still control our fate. Had we won against Duke, I'd probably be pretty nervous going against BC like I was two weeks ago. I'm still hesitant, but I too am excited to see how our guys respond. We've got something to fight for, even harder than we had to before, and that makes it even more interesting to me.
I agree. I am also no expert, but even on the long completion to Knowles down the sideline, I thought he threw to the wrong receiver as it looked like Byrn was wide open running a deep post.
Here's a question, if you were Cody Journell's coach, what would you do to correct his faults?