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Time your running by cover 3 with a corner giving 15 yard cushion you have some jets
Stick it in.
The keep-away.
King TOP (time of posession).
TOP dog.
TOP ???
Time gobbler.
The yellow brick road.
The yellow submarine.
The blue lagoon.
oops.. got distracted.
7 MO (Maroon & orange)
Welcome home, Javon. Either a top target for Bucky/Carlis or another stud addition to D-block.
He gets the ball at the highest point. He blows by guys who are playing way off. For a sophomore, he looks like a good route runner. He looks like a willing blocker and stays engaged. This looks like a tremendous signing.
He commented on that (unsolicited) during his event with the NOVA Hokie Club. He's lost even more weight since then. Good job, coach!
Inside the 10 yard line I suggest "Scared to thr-O"
That 50 yards rushing is a misleading stat as well. Clemson ran the ball well against the Gamecocks based on the film. However, Boyd was ineffective in the passing game thanks in a large part to an overwhelming pass rush. South Carolina also took an early lead, which forced Clemson into straight drop back passing. Sacks late in the ball game made the rushing total look worse.
I am researching defensive keys for beating this style of offense, but the fact is, it is the perfect style offense for countering what the Hokies do best. I think the biggest thing the Hokies can do is play well offensively and get a lead. That limits the variability of the offense so the defense can attack rather than read and react, and it keeps the defense fresh. It is worth noting that the Hokies did very little substituting against Georgia Tech's option and Clemsons misdirection because Bud Foster didn't trust his young players against those looks. Those kids will need to take the next step this year.
for our defense against the new kid on the block (Fedora@UNC)?
answer is boyd played like shit and they had under 50 yards rushing so play action that French mentioned goes out the window
I have not watched the NC State game, but as I recall, NC State scored a ton of points. If you get ahead of Clemson, you take them out of their running/play action game, which really limits their offense. Clemson looked incredibly flat in that game as well. I will watch when I have a chance and try to offer feedback.
The first play each video shows is what is referenced in the document. I think that the option/read component takes you out of a bunch of blitzes because the QB can read the blitz and option away from it. Up front, Clemson's scheme gives VT problems. While it doesn't fix everything, the defensive tackles must maintain gap integrity. If that doesn't happen, everything else falls apart. Clemson was even able to run effectively against South Carolina at times, who had a much more intimidating front than VT. In the back, talent won.
I know we don't always recognize this, but VT is still in rebuild mode talent-wise on defense. After the 04-06 bunch, there was a major drop off in defensive recruiting. The recruiting is now back on the upswing, but there isn't a top level recruit either starting or backing up in the secondary besides Manning. Elite corner recruits (which they have been able to snag) and defensive tackles (which hopefully Hand and Brown will start the trend) are the keys.
Do you think Bud will have to change his bread-and-butter D (a la post 2003 insight bowl) to account for this? Or, perhaps he wants the Hands and Browns of the recruiting world to come to Tech so he can indeed blow up the Clemson OL?
Also, how did NC State beat Clemson then?
Miami has completely destroyed GT the last few years (if i remember correctly), and they do that by blowing up the GT OL at the LOS. So, I don't think having our DL being smallish gives us a good advantage to counter the GT offense (a la moving our DE in as a DT and then replacing the DE with T. Wilson), since Miami has prototypical NFL DT's and absolutely mauled them at the LOS. Thoughts?
a handful of plays from the videos above and it seems that most plays we brought just 4 and got completely manhandled. The plays we brought extra blitzers which were few and far between we stopped the bleeding some why did we stop being aggressive was it the fear of getting burned deep because even when we dropped 7 into coverage we still got toasted. Im optimistic about the coaching moves as I trust Torian but from the selection above I really hope Bonner is going to play a lot more aggressive than he showed in the acccg
Sneak Attack!
Considering it seemed like LT3 averaged 10+ yards per QB sneak last season, why not sneak on every down?
Even if they were in the 540, they have NO offense, therefore they cannot stake claim to the 540ffense.
this is good, but wont be relevant after either this or next year. we need one that will stick
Cville is in the 434
but everything I came up with was incredibly hacky.
I settled on the "Please Be Good Vinston Painter, Nic Becton, Laurence Gibson, David Wang, Brent Benedict, Andrew Miller, Matt Arkema, Caleb Farris and Mark Shuman Offense."
Thanks! Graves certainly was an outlier as far as his girth, along with Jim Davis, but the vast majority of VT tackles are shaped like trashcans. Nekos was pretty average size for a Hokie DE (McCray is the biggest it seems like we have had since Chris Ellis), but neither Brown nor Graves fit the new prototype of NFL type 6'6 265 DE's and 6'4 310 3-4 DE's or 4-3 DT's that we see in the SEC. UNC had those guys, FSU has those guys, and that is about it in the SEC.
Watching film of South Carolina against Clemson, South Carolina absolutely manhandled the Clemson OL, the same OL that manhandled the Hokies in the 2nd half of the ACC CG. Size, strength, and explosiveness were huge factors in that variance. More to come in my next post.
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Maroon Monsoon
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Turkey Legs
Remember that UVa is 540 as well.
Were tallish and relatively lean. I think they were 6'2 or so and 270-280 lbs. Have no idea how that played into Foster's defense, but he has played and started taller more slender DTs.
As for NFL caliber lineman. You can't develop an NFL caliber lineman. They have to have the frame and natural instinct. They've only had a few with an NFL frame, and none of them worked out. I'm pretty sure, if VT could land Hand or Brown, Foster would develop them into 1st Rd D-linemen, even in a gap fitting scheme. While it's currently a knock that VT hasn't developed NFL linemen, it's more of an inability to recruit them onto campus than anything else.
Great write up. A very enjoyable read.
Pound it. Pound it. Pound it. Punt it.*
*unless the punting doesn't improve then all territory is four-down territory.
referencing the 50 yards rushing total against nc state not south carolina. Regardless a key to stoping clemson as you have mentioned is stopping the sweep action runs to negate play action waggles and floods