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that MTD guy has a TON of those cut-ups for different games, awesome.
Committing on Sunday at noon on ESPN 3
It sounded great to me. Informative, and you give the site the southern cred that I can't. There'll be more podcast related news coming soon.
next time, i'll be better and a bit less nervous.
Well done..
I enjoyed it! It's hard to give a lot of information in the 5 minutes you got on the show but you did a good of explaining what you could!
Until we see otherwise, I am calling it the John Doe offense. No identity.
Not sure how reliable it is, but I have been told that the Hokies blitz pickup key for running backs is to watch the lineman's head. If his head goes right, you go left gap and vice versa. Miller defintely turned to the right side gap on the snap, so if my understanding is accurate, Wilson should have filled to the left center gap.
Whatever their key is, they need to get better at it. The Hokies have struggled mightily with interior ("dog") blitzes ever since trying to modernize the offense in 2003.
And, after you watch that, watch the Logan Thomas throw to Danny Coale with double coverage at the end of the first half vs Georgia Tech...
http://youtu.be/x5D6z92KvEM?t=5m32s
Then watch this flag route throw to Chris Drager for a TD against UNC.
http://youtu.be/w16RA0gcZrM?t=7m13s
Folks, I love Tyrod Taylor, but he doesn't throw the ball into those spots in his wettest of wet dreams, and if he does, he isn't completing them.
Logan is a special special player. If they can get a running game and the OL plays on par with last year (not a huge task if you ask me) you will see great things from number 3 this year.
We certainly have fond memories of Tyrod. His performance against FSU in the ACCCG in 2010 and the bowl win over the Vols will be two of my fondest football memories in peron. But he was defintely a very flawed QB. His biggest flaw was very similar to Marcus Vick, in that if he was pressured, he couldn't throw in rythym to beat a blitz. I went back and watched most of the Orange Bowl against Stanford, and VT had receivers open constantly, but when Stanford blitzed, you could tell Tyrod was looking at the line for escape routes instead of beating the blitz with hot reads.
Granted, the OL was dreadful in picking up those blitzes. So, in my video review for a future French on the Bench series on how the Hokie offense has changed since 1995, I came across this film. It is every play the Hokie offense ran against UNC in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuoMazEhs48
This was a game where VT really struggled but got just enough offense to win, and Tyrod's weaknesses were on display for the whole world to see. Under pressure he made poor throws, and even with time, there is no way guys were not open down field on some of these plays where UNC's defense just lets him stand in the pocket for an eternity. Remember, the same receivers with Logan Thomas were making a ton of deep catches on rythym throws. See Danny Coales touchdown against Georgia Tech at the half. He took way too many sacks, and, he had the sloooooowest release, especially on bubble screens, that I can ever recall.
Watch the film. It doesn't lie.
but it's hard not to fondly recall Tyrod's senior season efficiency and the way he dominated in the ACCCG. How many 3rd down conversions in a row? I think it was 10, that is is demoralizing as well.
"Even into his senior year, Tyrod was frustrating to watch how many times he passed up open guys..."
French, I agreee with you, and what I touched upon briefly in my post yesterday. Even more frustrating to me was his tendency to run out of bounds to take a small loss instead of throwing the ball away... That drove me crazy. All in all, I think Tyrod turned out to be a really good quarterback, but people tend to overlook his flaws and point to the wins (which I get, cause that's all that matters at the end of the day). And let's not forget, he had quite the stable of running backs as a safety net.
Looks like Miller picked the right guy to me.. Via tried to block 2 guys - the blitzing LB and the the DT (#43) who was lined up over him - one with each arm. As a result Wilson froze, watching the partially blocked DT barrell towards him and didn't see the Safety blitzing up between Miller and Nosal.
In that scenario, Via should take the DT, Miller takes the blitzing LB, Wilson steps up to truck the Safety, giving LT time to get a good pass off to Drager.
Maybe Via was trying to chip-block the DT so Wilson could clean him up, and expected to be able to shove the LB laterally across LT's face while Miller stonewalled the Safety... but yeah. If you're on the line, you block the guy in front of you and let the RB clean up the overload.
I'd take Logan over junior year Tyrod until perhaps the Peach Bowl. Tyrod really didn't start doing things IN RHYTHM in the passing game until the bowl game. Even into his senior year, Tyrod was frustrating to watch how many times he passed up open guys when he planted on his drops and instead most of the Hokie passing offense came on broken plays. Luckily, he was talented enough to make those plays happen.
Right now, I regard Logan as a much more dangerous passer and just a demoralizing if not as explosive a runner. Tyrod has the advantage as far as running the offense and getting the Hokies into good plays and sets, but that came with three years of playing time.
"At the same stage in their career"... What are you considering? I mean, Tyrod split time for two years with Glennon, so are you saying TT after 1 year as QB (frosh) or are you saying TT after 2 years of splitting with Glennon (soph) *or* are you saying TT after 1 year of being the (exclusive) starting QB (junior)? Cause junior year TT was pretty effing good, too.
We need OL and secondary players ... but I'd be willing to bet that the players we're hearing from don't fit that mold...one, sort of, but not really -- no
I agree with Beer Control on Logan passing Druck. Logan is the bigger, stronger, faster version of everything Druck was, with a better arm. My rankings?
1) Michael
2) Tyrod
3) Logan
4) Druck
5) Randall
6) Deshazo
7) Glennon
8) Marcus
9) Clark
10) Noel
At the same stage of their careers, I would take Logan ahead of Tyrod, who really never impressed me until his senior year with his leadership and management of the team.
Funny you should mention that, the same idea popped into my head a few weeks ago. Having one that's actually tangible would be pretty awesome.
a football advent calendar?
His tweets rival LT3's to the wahoo idiot (38-0 bro!)
http://www.gobblercountry.com/2012/7/25/3187263/james-gayle-virginia-tec...
disturbing on several levels....eww!
Can we speculate on who the players are and who we need the most from PSU?
On an unrelated note, Vegas has EJ Manuel as a top 10 contender for the heisman. What in the name of God has that guy done to impress anybody? His stats are average, his leadership skills are below average, his consistency is below average.....I guess just beat Notre Dame in a bowl and then you're loved. Logan didn't make the cut.
39 days to go...better than Christmas
tons of talent at least.
I did see what you were talking about though - holding onto the ball forever, getting happy feet even when the blocking was excellent. He did beat a blitz for a TD to MD7 though.
And how many times did RW34 slip and fall trying to make a cutback.. I saw at least 3.