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This is glorious.
He convinced uva to pay off the media to omit it.
Entirely different situations......
Mike London got scared and never ended up going to SAM ROGERS' house!
It's because he watched the 30 on 30 about them. You know, the one he uses to recruit the 757 kids. He found the secret to their "swagger" and realized that there is no "U" in "back".
I think they were auctioned off to support the Wounded Warrior Project
Yeah- somehow Mike London has managed to own Da U, an utterly inexplicable 3-0 against them.
Admittedly that Florida defense will probably be the toughest they see until they run into us. Miami was able to put up points last year so I suspect their offense will be at least good enough.
It baffles me that if those were player favorites, why they would go completely different this year.
Another positive note about the offense against ECU - the WRs are actually blocking well downfield and running good routes. Additionally, and probably most importantly, the drops have decreased since that horrendous showing against Alabama.
Serious question - how many OLs in the 2-deep who played against ECU are either currently dealing with injuries, rehabbing old injuries, or have never reached 100% since their last major injury? I know about Wang, Benedict, and Miller - are there any others? Shuman didn't play at all because of his injury situation. Our offensive line is basically a MASH unit.
Final comment - we left 7 points on the table against ECU - two missed FGs, and a missed extra point. By all rights, the final score should have been 25 -10. There was another FG missed late in the game, but that play was negated by a roughing the kicker penalty against ECU. Moving forward, I'm confident Journell will be able to overcome whatever caused him to perform so badly against ECU.
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# | Bitter blog - Beamer confident Journell will find kicking stroke & more Monday notes Okay Chip Kelly
Geez- the Kline play where Logan was late... that ball delivered on time has Kline enough time to turn up field and head for the endzone against a 190lb DB. The little things.
I think each approach works for their side of the ball. On offense, show them nothing so they don't know what to expect and can't figure out tendencies. On defense show them all these players doing everything so that you have to try to plan for something that may not happen which may play into the defensive game plan. Also the QB in real time won't know which player is blitzing or what coverage you are in because you've shown every and any thing. Foster is a genius. Loeffler is on the path towards it.
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# | Bitter blog - Beamer confident Journell will find kicking stroke & more Monday notes He's just got a bad case of the shanks.
(some adult language, for those of you at work/still in middle school)
I'd torn between the two schools of thought:
1. Keep it Vanilla so opponents don't know your full capability - Lefty
2. Show them a whole range of stuff so they have more to plan for -- Bud
What do you think about those two approaches? I for one like Lefty's approach better, but Bud is Bud and he's a lot better at this than I am.
Thanks :)
"That Kat Banks is one piece of ace"
-Chris Farley
I rarely missed a softball game, and it wasnt because of the nice field. Wouldnt hate to have any of those lovely Hokies take me on a tour of campus
It really is a lot more fun to watch the games this year, even if the offensive production hasn't been stellar.
Spot on. Between TKP increasing my football IQ and this I haven't enjoyed a football season like this since I was a student. I feel like we are FINALLY on the right path. I'm excited for the future of Hokie football; something I haven't said in a LONG time.
I'm still amazed by us actually having a game plan and being able to make adjustments and not just run bubble screens all day.
It really is a lot more fun to watch the games this year, even if the offensive production hasn't been stellar.
And you are almost certainly right about Loeffler not using the full playbook. That's the only explanation for the lack of counters in the rushing attack.
Appreciate this writeup. One mild difference of opinion--I feel like we (fans) are making too many excuses for Logan's performance. Nothing against Logan--he's a first class kid and I badly want him to be the QB that he was once hyped as--but I actually think the conventional wisdom that he has a high QB ceiling is totally wrong. I think his ceiling is low because of inconsistent if not poor accuracy, and poor decision-making (exacerbated by receivers that can't separate). He is in his 3rd year as starter, and after three games ranks 105th out of 113th NCAA QBs in pass efficiency (http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/8/p3).
I think wisec4g has it right--we should walk away happy with a 58% completion rate from Logan and hope that D, o-line, and special teams can help make the difference in big games. Understanding that, I fully expect that every team we face from here on out will put 8 in the box the whole game and see if Logan and the WR corps can make anything happen downfield (if they do that I sure hope that we find ways to get run-after-catch guys like Mangus and Carlis Parker the ball in space instead of just our current group which rarely breaks a tackle). I also really hope that Loeffler plans to start running Logan on designed plays. To not do incorporate this legit threat into the game seems crazy, especially given Logan's passing problems. I hope Loeffler is just "saving" LT running for games like Georgia Tech and UNC, but Logan said in an interview that there are no designed run plays for him.
Sorry feeling pessimistic this morning...thanks again for a great writeup...
I've thought a lot about the game and I think we are discounting Loeffler's smarts. 1) He knows how to game plan as shown vs. Bama 2) He knows how to make adjustments and setup plays for later in the game as shown throughout the games. Obviously execution KILLED us vs. Bama and is slowly getting better, but I think he is staying pretty vanilla against these non-ACC foes. As French and others have mentioned he didn't run many (if any) counters against ECU which I think is purely by design. I think he wants to put certain things on film and come ACC time have everything setup for him to open up the playbook. I think he's doing something similar (but opposite) to what French pointed out that Foster is doing, putting what he wants to put on film in order to mess with opposing coordinators.
I'm still amazed by us actually having a game plan and being able to make adjustments and not just run bubble screens all day.
VT has a group called the Lunch Pail Ladies. Many of them are other athletes including Bailey Liddle and Kat Banks from the softball team, Johnna Dominick from track, and Katie DeTuro and Kelley Conheeney from soccer. They are the ambassadors for the football team and recruits on campus.
I love these. It would be very nice if the run game comes back, then TDs in the red zone would be back, too.
Really great analysis (although that's become the standard here on TKP).
It was great to see Logan settling down and completing short passes on Saturday, especially given the lack of a running game or push up front from the O-line. The triangle concept that you discussed in previous articles and highlighted here looks almost impossible to defend, especially given how the ECU D was attacking the line of scrimmage. Lets just hope we can get the running game sorted out and rolling against Marshall.
Technically it was a "running into the kicker" penalty good for 5 yards. I think a "roughing the kicker" would have resulted in 15 and automatic 1st down. Semantics.