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Since French seems to be currently distracted by fish, I'll address the first part of your post for now. I've noticed that too, and it seems to be in stark contrast to what I saw against Alabama. Against the Tide, I noticed Trey hitting holes like they had personally wronged him and exploding through gaps and through contact. He certainly does seem a little more tentative now and I'm not sure why. Maybe an increased playbook load is tying up his feet? Maybe he's just struggling with reads/footwork out of certain formations? Guess we'll just have to see how he progresses through the season.
Remember our offensive staff was handed an Oline and backs that they didn't pick. It will take a few years before we can "impose our will no matter what the defense does."
Although I agree. Not yet sold on Shane as a running backs coach.
I will always award turkey legs for the Drager Bomb
Is.... is that the best you can do?
Tailbacks run with their eyes, both pre- and post-snap. As French noted above, the difference between a 6 yard play and a 15 yard play is as simple as Edmunds seeing which side of the defender the blocker has his head on. Same type of deal for Mangus on that wide run against GT he should have cut up. You read where your guy is blocking their guy and make your cut to keep the blocker between you and the defender.
Point of all this: I agree that it takes a lot of setting up blocks, etc. but don't discount the value of the tailback seeing where the hole is/will be and getting there.
If she were a president she'd definitely be Baberaham Lincoln
Lol, this sounds like the idiot that sits behind me in section 3...
Am I a terrible person for just loving this? I don't care either way, just curious...
Because he was a good QB in a crappy system.
Though I would not down vote this, as it is your opinion, I respectfully disagree. If a kid comes to the realization that VT is the better place for him, then I say, good for him. That shows the ability to analyze the situation and make the correct call. And why would we not want someone like that?
I love this football team. I will root for them no matter what and although they have not (yet) exceeded the expectations I had for them this year, their game playing as a complete package has impressed me to no end. I think the OC and the rest of the new coaches are doing a fine job with what they have to work with and the amount of time they have had to work with the players. Every time Logan Thomas completes another pass I just feel like yelling 'take that haters'! The games I have managed to watch (being up here in B1G country) I see them playing with drive and determination that I have not seen for many a year.
Having said all that I still get apprehensive every time we start looking forward to the ACCCG, because we are not there yet and we need to take this season one game at a time.
Pitt....watching previous games always made me want to beat my head against the wall. They seem to always have our number.
Boston College....they had our number a couple of times and we need to watch out, they play above their level when it comes to VT.
Maryland...No clue which team will show up.
Miami....is Miami and they don't want VT to upstage them as the premier team in the conference so they will always play us tough.
Duke....If I remember right they put a scare into us a little while ago.
And strange things can happen in a rivalry game.
I guess I don't want to fall in the same trap I fell into the previous years and start believing that we are destined to win just because. Take this season one game at a time, keep improving every game, smash the football down their throat every single play and when we do get to the ACCCG we will know we played the meanest, nastiest, smash mouth football around and we by god earned our way there with no apologies.
ShaWINNGgg!
If it came down to him or Nnadi.
Nnadi
David Wilson sees your David Wilson double backflip, and raises you a David Wilson 21-backflip.
They'll have a tough time battling dodgeball for time slots on "the ocho"
My favorite part of this GIF (aside from Wilson making gymnastics actually look bad ass) is definitely the ref's mesmerized reaction in the background.
Yes, yes I did.
You said this to me, and if I'm not mistaken, you said the offense was "worse"
It's nice to have an OC with a good track record.
Yeah I wanted to believe he wasn't being serious.
It was amazing! I want to see more!
Yes, there may be a bias...but there is also the fact that whether they were "biased" into the championship game or not, they won it on the field. Seven straight years. In a row?!
UVA football, at least they beat the traffic