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it was right off his fingertips, and he didn't even bother to jump so that is on hughes.
the snap wasn't good, but it hit him in the hands. Gotta make that play.
I do agree he did well for a true freshman punter, otherwise.
Even though it wasn't a sack, that play got me so hyped. Washington got himself JACKED.
That is a freaking sweet pic
I took my Keydet dad to watch his first game at Lane in 35 years. We witnessed the first OT from row X of section 9 in the East. What a game! The D played their asses off and didn't give
up the usual huge GT run. Hell, their QB didn't rush for a TD this year. I expected a tight game, but not going into OT. Thought we'd finally exploit the field position the D slugged it out for so many times, in the Second Half.
Yes, the offense looked ragged, but I didn't expect them to pickup where they left off. I do see great things coming from our new HBs and WRs. Knowles' first reception was a deep TD pass! Wow!
I firmly believe that the best this team has to offer will be seen in October and beyond. The rest of our September schedule is manageable and we should be able to iron out some major wrinkles.
That's 3 feet over your head.
Demitri Knowles TD with the defender on his arm?
any other nominations?
Good work. While you were mostly responsible for the field position that led to GT's first touchdown, you did a commendable job punting in Lane, especially considering you played High School football last fall. Need to work on hangtime, though.
Ditto about the playcalling. The final drive of regular time when LT3 throws the ball to Ryan Malleck for gains of 3 and 1 yard when we are trying to march down the field? WTF was that?! Since when is Ryan Malleck a threat to break down the field for a big gain when he is blanketed in coverage. No disrespect to Malleck but seriously, WTF is that?
In other news, JGW nearly decapitated Tevin Washington and it was nothing short of awesome. A job well done to Knowles for catching that ball; what a way to record your first collegiate catch.
Kyshoen Jarrett deserves bigtime kudos, as French pointed out. The kid lays the wood, although I could do without the extracurricular celebrations. You made the tackle, that's your job. Now stop pounding your chest and act like you've done it before.
Finally, great job by the Fuller Bros. Corey Fuller was, without a doubt, the most valuable wide receiver. Between big catches, YAC, and falling on the MD7 fumble, I was equally impressed and surprised. Kyle Fuller, save the one play in the 1st quarter (I think. 16oz budheavy bottles are deceiving), did a bang up job.
Coaches: Watch the tape, make adjustments, and GET YOUR ISH TOGETHER!!!
I agree that Logan looked shaky out there.
As far as the audibles, could it be possible that on certain offensive plays and formations, he was told to just run the play called and not audible? Not because of his abilities, but perhaps because the rest of the offensive is getting used to the system under game speed. Just a thought.
do you think they moved away from the no-huddle in order to eat up time of possession?
If I'm not mistaken, didn't O'Cain spend games in the booth last year and Steinspring stay on the sidelines last year? Last night we saw them both in the booth. Play calling last year was at times bad, but better than last night. I'm wondering if having tweedledee & tweedledum together gives you the lowest common denominator in play calling.
And a side note...I hope Luther Maddy's girlfriend lays a big wet kiss on the big fella, cause he deserves one.....he played one heckuva game. Outside of a couple of plays, nice job on D guys!
I will have to go back and track the plays, but it seemed like they were around 40% pistol in this game. The no huddle and quick to the line stuff was what was missing, and early on, even though they were moving the ball, I thought Logan was making poor reads deciding to keep instead of give to the dive man. Before the GT defense started shutting things down, the dive back would hit the hole and there would be miles of acreage in front of him. Holmes and Coleman should be combining for 25-28 carries a game, especially between now and the UNC game.
Agreed. You could defintely see the wear and tear on Tyler. On the DL, the tackles may have been worn down (Maddy got dinged, and Antoine, Harley, and McCray were ineffective, so you had a one legged Maddy and a beast yet dead tired Skip Hopkins down the stretch.
At end, Wilson, Marshall, Gayle, and Collins went about 50-50. They should have been ok. Expect to see a ton of the ends standing up against Clemson this year.
Knowles catch was an absurdly beautiful throw, especially after Logan had underthrown a couple of deeper passes and it was in a high pressure situation.
The defensive line was tremendous against the run. The lack of a 4 man rush was a bit of a letdown, especially from my guy The Million Dollar Man (but boy were him and Maddy wrecking it against the dive.)
I think the stamina issues with the D was more of a result of our O not being on the field enough. I think i heard we had -7 yards of offense in the 3rd quarter. Throw in that 7-8min drive by GT in the 4th...thats a ton of time on the field for them.
He would run forward, and then just seemingly let the guy block him. It made no sense. You are the fastest guy on the team. Shed the block and make a play. If he needs lessons, he should watch Kyle Fuller on every play. Even though Fuller missed a tackle or two, you did not see him getting blocked.
They were excellent at those screens last year, and they basically told the D when the screen was coming by lining up in the I with twins to the wide side of the field. The reason the screens were so effective is that the blocking receiver also could fake a block and blow past the cover guys, who are flying forward to cover the screen. The deep threat had to be respected.
Last night, O'Cain didn't test Georgia Tech deep except on 3 throws. GT's DB's stayed in zones with the safeties heels 7 yards deep. Because that threat was not shown (fake screen, over the top), as soon as they went twins, the entire secondary was coming forward. It just wasn't there.
Run middle either from the I, ace, or Pistol. Preferably quick veer dives. Then go play action. As soon as O'Cain saw what GT was doing, that should have been the game plan. When he finally woke up (the Journell missed FG drive), it was almost too late.
17 carries between Coleman and Holmes all night, and they were excellent EXCEPT when Logan didn't audible out of a wide run that was going right into a blitz.
I think everyone is being kind of light on Logan. Yes, the receivers did not get much seperation, but he was still throwing high frequently (he is lucky that he didn't kill Davis on the skinny post completion in the first half.) And, last season we saw Logan repeatedly audible out of plays when teams showed blitzes into that zone. Last night, he seemed oblivious to it. I kept looking at my girlfriend saying "they are blitzing strong side", always outside the tackles. Logan looked at them, and then ran the play anyways. With the OLB out wide, the OL has no angle to handle them unless it is a kickout play. The speed option was really the point where I thought to myself "he looks like he is in a fog."
Luckily, when they got into the 2 minute offense, everything woke up, including Logan's arm and head. Perhaps because they run their top 10-12 plays that Logan is comfortable with? BREAD AND BUTTER FOLKS!
In a perfect world, fridgen would be OC. Key phrase being "in a perfect world". I think the destined OC will be shane unless he becomes HC first (different topic altogether).
That being said the biggest offensive worry I have is the amount of QB sneaks we keep running. Yes, I know LT3 is our focal point this year and he is 260lbs, but every man has his (physical) breaking point. I would rather have a healthy LT3 running our offense at the expense of a more conservative QB sneak percentage, then keep trucking him up the center 50-60% of the time and risk Mark Leal running the offense due to injury.
Agree on all points except one -- Boise was two years ago haha.
I loved the defense. Without the front 7 not allowing any big plays by their option, except for the QB counter draw that allowed Washington a 20+ yard gain.
Also, I loved the Knowles catch. It was a beautiful pass and catch. I was so frustrated with the game up to that point and so tense that when I saw the replay of Sweeting practically tackling Knowles and him still making the catch, my reaction was as follows:
*jump off couch*
*proceed to put up middle finger*
F**K YOU BEES!
my gut reaction is that i am pissed off that espn3 decided to black this game out. i had to listen to the entire fucking thing on 106.7.
it *sounded* like the defense played well, except letting the second coming of reggie ball drive in the 4th and that the offense kept fagging off.
I have to say for the first game I am not really surprised at the outcome. Part of my hoped because of the hype on defense and LT3 being back with good receivers we would blow them out. It is hard though to do this when we don't have a set running game. How can we expect for anyone to get a ground game going when are swapping out the backs? At the most we need to play 2 backs and we need to set the times we use them so that they are prepared for those specific circumstances. I thought we were opening the playbook this year? Did we only move on to page 3? There were some obvious issues on D with cardio and players playing without focus but I know Bud will have that all ironed out. Biggest thing to me is that when something was working on offense we started to change it up and call the wrong plays. The offensive play calling issues need to stop.
I feel like I've been beating a dead horse on this since the 07 Orange Bowl but the play calling repeatedly has taken the team out of games. It doesn't matter how well you execute if the strategy is bad. For two solid quarters the team abandoned what was working and the results speak for themselves. The ability to call a balanced game that capitalizes on a defense's weaknesses just does not exist in Blacksburg and some serious decisions have to be made if that's going to be fixed. It might mean losing a friend or two for Beamer, but he's a highly paid professional not a rec league flag football coach. And the stuff about continuity being important to recruiting is bogus. Winning is important to recruiting.
And to preempt the coaches blaming lack of execution for the offense's struggles, how about they also look at the insanely awesome execution at key moments that led to the win. They can't blame execution for their failures in this one.
I also feel like the team's preparation is lacking and has been for a long time. Last year against Boise they simply weren't ready to play. Most of the team looked like that tonight too. Frank changed his bowl prep when he realized it wasn't working and I think he has to do something similar with the preseason.
The team deserves a lot of praise though. They were intensely gritty. The defense was literally eating bags of sand like cereal they were so goddamn gritty. Logan Thomas is a leader and had the confidence to bring the team back even when he had had a shaky performance. WTF did Fuller come from? He will be an NFL receiver. Knowles got one at bat and knocked it out of the park. That was one of the best catches I've seen.
If you're going to hate on someone, at least know what the hell you're talking about. The man's name is Stinespring. And as of last season, Stinespring does weekday offensive scheming and coaches from the field while Mike O'Cain is play calling from the booth.