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Both of them had a helluva game. I'm so excited for the lil one's future and I'm really happy to see Kyle back in his usual form.
Yeah I loved that. The Fullers were even on blowing up though, because Kendall got rocked a second later. I think he may have been admiring his brother's handiwork.
I sure hope you are right! Thanks.
Overall encouraging. O-line played better than expected, which is great. Coles was a huge disappointment, Knowles too. Didn't see any tight end passes; could they have been worse? D was terrific but got no credit. Per ESPN it was because Alabama didn't execute or their O-line was "decimated" by the draft. No mention of our youth or injuries, just Alabama didn't play well. F'em! The coaches just need to say "what could have been" if the whole team showed up, and challenge them to do just that.
It always its.
Good game by your guys tonight. I will be cheering for the Tide to wipe that stupid smirk off of Johnny Moneybags' face.
Can't wait to see what VT does the rest of the season. That team is much better than people realize.
Let it go please... Let it go!!!!! We win as a team and we lose a team. I agree Corey was a track guy, but he isn't here anymore now is he? We have to deal with what we got right now?
I agree fully. The scoreboard doesn't look like it, and the pundits won't say it, but the game seemed at all times than the score indicated.
Thank you, sir, and thanks for your service for our country.
Congrats
I think were saying the same thing in different ways. I agree what your saying. The freshman played there asses off. But we lose as a team and we win as a team, the freshman didn't win this game and the defense didn't win this game, because they played good. When one part of our team is weak its a weakness to our entire team. And its something that's going to get better as the season goes on!
Let me address your comments.
Offensively: Loeffler made some headscratching calls early in the game, but when he realized that Edmunds is pushing the pile, he started to give him the numbers. The problem is dropped passes from the receivers, mainly from Knowles whose hands are simply not reliable and Coles is playing as H-back/wide receiver. Moorehead is going to address the dropped passes. Did you go to the August scrimmage where Moorehead went off on his receivers after dropped passes? I'll have you to know that the offense are finally being held up to the same standard expected from the defense. Loeffler is not simply going to brush this off. Grimes, according to some tweets, called out players who missed their blocking assignments.
Special teams is what did in this game. Using heads/shoulders to "tackle" is not an ideal way to bring down a runner, and that is either going to be fixed or not. According to Bitter and Barber, Beamer is going to bring the veterans and starters back on special teams like it used to be. In other words, maybe tonight Beamer's eyes were finally opened.
This team didn't do anything to win? I disagree. Alabama is simply loaded to the gills and Virginia Tech dominated them in the stat line except the scoreboard. I'll take it.
This game provided a glimmer of hope that finally, for the first time in a long time, the offense will be evenly matched with the defense. Give it time.
Why not hold offense and special teams to the same standard as defense? The defense had more depth and youth issues than anyone else to contend with. Blown tackles and assignments on special teams shouldn't just be shrugged off. These guys have been in practice all summer. Someone should have gotten them ready to tackle in week one.
On the WR front, I don't even know how to respond. 80 flat out can't catch. 18 doesn't want to try. These guys are veterans. If they don't want to be on the field against the #1 team in the country, they shouldn't be on scholarship. The coaches could have recruited some men who would have loved to take their spots and probably would have put up a more serviceable performance than they did, like Fuller and Facyson did on the other side of the ball.
The bottom line in my opinion is the team isn't doing everything it can to win. If they were and it didn't work out, I could accept that. It happened in '99. That's just life. This is fundamentally different and that's why I'm angry.
If Beamer can't prepare a special teams unit, regardless of whether there are a handful of freshmen out there, he should swallow his pride and let someone else do it who can be successful. If WRs aren't giving the bare minimum effort required of a scholarship athlete, give their scholarships to someone else.
Quick! Send Mr and Mrs Fuller a bottle of wine and a Barry White CD!
I hope so! I know the VT is allot better then people give them credit for. You guys will have a awesome season. I can't wait for us to put Jonny football in his place!
Wasn't Corey Fuller a track guy, too? He didn't have these problems.
I'm somewhat optimistic, but for the fact that the problems are clearly obvious and fixable and yet they weren't fixed. Why assume they're going to be fixed now? Why assume there's not going to be a similar issue at the start of next season? I think it's reasonable to want some accountability at this point- especially given how long we had to watch the program put up with some obviously sub par members of the staff. I don't want mob rule, just a healthy level of accountability.
Best of luck, Soldier. Excellent game!
Thank god for our defense and special teams cause our offense was doin to well.. It was a hard fought game though. If any of y'all are here at the game be safe traveling back. As much as I would like to see the people who excepted this bet pay up I'm not gonna hold my breath. Good luck in your season. I'll be pulling for y'all when I see y'all playing! Best of luck to y'all
You can't blame moorhead for the personnel he inherited. You can only coach some one up so much to catch a ball and run routes, when you convert rbs to wrs, it is the same thing as converting a te to a lineman
Well ... At least Kyle Fuller got to blow someone up. God I wish we had Exum and RVD though. Maybe another turnover somewhere in the mix
Know what? I think that Alabama is going to destroy Johnny Manziel. I watched the game this afternoon and Rice's offense was giving aTm fits all afternoon. How are they gonna contain Yeldon and the rest of the stallions? LOL. I can't wait to see Bama wipe the smirk off Manziel's face.
Which kids that had real problems. Coles or Knowles cause they aren't freshman. They've played in big games. They had the chances to make plays. The freshmen played their asses off
I'm wondering the same thing. If Caleb is as good as I've heard, we really missed him. Hopefully Moorehead will point at the guy and say, "Look. Look how much we needed you." Whatever he did, hopefully he gets his mind right.