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Wow. No doubt.
At lease there's one good sports journalist out there, thanks Andy!
And I also like the phrase "The Hokies gobbled those up quick after that..." somehow I don't think that was done accidentally. Gobble Gobble, bitches.
I think he uses everything as practice.
I was - and still am, to a degree - prepared for this to be a transition season. New OC/QB Coach, New OL Coach, New (Old) Offensive Philosophy. As we announced new coaching hires, I cautioned myself and others repeatedly not to expect miracles straightaway. These guys would need time to get comfortable with players already on the roster. These guys would need time to recruit their guys into their system. Time. So, to find ourselves 5-1 with a loss to the top team in the country and 2 wins over ACC Coastal Opponents who aren't Duke and UVA? I'm very pleased.
I think we will.
Whoever downvoted this just had the sarcasm go right over their head like a paper airplane.
Yea, they won't be in Miami. But we'll probably be the night game still because LSU-Bama is gonna be CBS.
Well, if you qualify your comment with 'at Tech,' sure, we are a lot harder to scheme against than we were before. But you know, in the scheme of schemes, I'd say Oregon's and Baylor's schemes, for instance, keep DCs up at night. When we are hanging 40-50 on the opposition using our current scheme, ours will too.
So, basically, you believe Loeffler is even using revenge games for practice in a way?
Caleb is actually close to Edmunds, size-wise.
You're right about improving week-by-week though. Every week several of us lament how, for some reason or other, Loeffler doesn't run much at all out of singleback or I-formation. Yet as I recall, each week he's done it a bit more, to pretty good success. Can't wait until he really does release the hounds. Miami, perhaps?
One thing that hasn't been mentioned on the blocked PAT and the missed FG's is that we have switched snappers before this season. Eddie D'Antuano is now the snapper, a r-Fr. He's 6'6" and 263 lbs, went to Bishop Ireton and is majoring in Finance. Seems like a nice enough lad. Maybe we moved him into this role because he's OL sized.
Because last years snapper, Joe St. Germain, is only 6'0" 220lbs. He's only a r-Jr and snapped punts, FG's and PAT's last year. For some reason, he was replaced by D'Antuano.
D'Antuano just never saw the guy who blocked the PAT. Most of Journell's early misses were due to snap issues throwing of Gresh's placement timing. The last couple snaps were better but I think Journell is thinking about the snap. Now, he's probably thinking about whether anyone is going to block the guy right in the middle of the formation.
#notsogoodat1stand2nddowns!
Ha ha ha. Friggin turkey leg.
Al was hired on my birthday. What a great gift. Only gift I have ever had that was the same for 10 years and never disappointed! Let's hope we can get 10 years out of Paul Blart, I mean...well you know!
I think they think CFB's going to get fired, and so they should pick him up when he's unemployed?
Yeah, let's pull a Maryland and fire our coach when we're 5-1 and 2-0 in conference :P
It doesn't matter how many schemes there are. Even if its just one scheme it still needs to be executed well by the players. By having multiple looks it causes DC's to shortchange their defensive planning against us. Typically you only have 1 or at max 2 weeks to gameplan against an opposing team. With multiple schemes you just don't have enough time to plan and teach your players how to play against it.
The beauty of Lefty's planning is that if one scheme gets shut down it moves into one that works. I still believe he focused on running the ball in the 2nd half because we were up on points and he wanted the team to have more game experience run blocking. It was a completely different look from the 1rst half.
Must not be a hokies engineering grad. Did that analysis in my head and got the same answer.
i'm not gonna click on that but i assume they mean shane? i mean do they really think frank would leave to go to cville?
Mangus should be on Kick return IMO. My coaches would never let a WR return because we had no idea about reading holes in blocking. Granted that is not always true but I tend to agree that a fast H back or RB would be best. Harvin, Wilson, etc type player.
Bill & Mary, why didn't you win that game
The best thing I'm seeing from Loeffler is the fact that he seems to have a solid counter for every play an opposing defense stops. He doesn't continue to beat his head against a brick wall trying to make a play work that even a 2-yr-old can predict. Additionally, he's taking whatever opposing defenses give us - and lately, opposing defenses have been giving us the pass and LT has been making them pay. I look forward to the ACC opponent who tries to stop the pass - should be entertaining!
Thanks for the well-written analysis!
Maybe they'll meet in a bowl ga....
BAHAHAHAHA...I almost got it out!
I think he has the number of timeouts confused with the number of downs. It's an easy mistake.
How many times did the long snapper send the ball sailing over the punters head last year? I remember worrying every time we had to punt. That might be why he was replaced.