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Virginia Tech also seemed to take a step forward in run blocking, recording one of the better performances from the offensive line this fall during Saturday's loss to North Carolina.

According to Pro Football Focus, three of Virginia Tech's starting offensive linemen recorded run blocking grades that were the highest of the season in Week 5: Johnny Jordan (79.0), Kaden Moore (64.6), and Jesse Hanson (67.8).

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These are the little victories we can celebrate.

"He'll be remembered as a guy that changed the way @HokiesFB was viewed." 🦃 𝗔𝗖𝗖 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 🦃 📺 Tonight 9 PM ET pic.twitter.com/wkIfDUa4ui— ACC Network (@accnetwork) October 3, 2022

Thought I'd share this for those who haven't been made aware of it. Premieres tonight @ 9 pm EST on ACC Network

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Pat Narduzzi lost to Georgia Tech

It's the end of an era, as we are in the final ACC season with divisions. I don't know if that means next year's wheel of destiny will be more or less crazy.

A month into the season, and everyone except Miami has played at least one conference game. Both divisions are up for grabs, but for different reasons. The Atlantic has a few teams that look like they could compete with Clemson, or at least be able to jump in if the Tigers stumble. Meanwhile, the Coastal is . . .the Coastal. It's probably going to be a game of hot potato all season long.

This is where I'm at.

I KNEW THIS REBUILD WAS GOING TO SUCK. BUT IT'S ONE THING TO PREPARE YOURSELF BEFORE THE SEASON AND ANOTHER TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH IT.— THE KEY PLAY (@thekeyplay) October 1, 2022

I guess this is a regular segment now, which I love.

I do not love 15 penalties however.

May he unleash his full hate and fury on the traholes.
Here's to 25 sacks/tfls and holding them to no more than 25 yards the whole game.

I thought I'd start this for anyone watching Shane. Why in the hell go for an inside kick in the first quarter after converting a 2pt conversion. State must have pissed him off or something.

This is really a fascinating matchup:

• VT is the 119th best offense, going up against the 113th best defense (per SP+)
• UNC is the 10th best offense, going up against the 23rd best defense (again, per SP+)
• SP+ also says UNC is the 10th best special teams unit, while VT is the 29th best

Vegas has UNC winning by 9, with the over/under at 51.5. SP+ says UNC wins 31-25. I'm tempted to take VT to win outright at +260.

What do y'all think?

It's that time of the week again. Seems like Pry feels that the defense pressed a little in the second half causing some of the penalties, similar to what others have said on TKP.

We've implemented some sort of punishment for penalties now that includes a review process from the captains and coaches. At least that's how I understood it.

William Brown is ashamed of his first name

When I first saw this, thought it might be about realignment, but it appears to be about Geoff Collins after Saturday's performance.

AJC story on GT Athletics Board special meeting

French and other expert analysts, I would love your thoughts on this.

Rewatching the condensed game. Specifically watched the 3rd and 4th down sequence in the first quarter where we got stuffed in 4th. The sequence starts at about 7:23 in. There is a lot of call for more misdirection and window dressing and running outside the tackles. Both of these plays feature all of that. The commonality is the QB seems to be making the call on what to do with the ball. Problem is the mesh point isn't fooling anybody. Watch the LBs and Safeties. Everybody sticks with the ball and nobody respects the options. Is this poor execution by Wells? Or do we have a tell?

Hey, c'mon guys

Other games are still happening.

Let's discuss

With all the bashing of coaches and bemoaning the talent level that's come a quarter into the season I just keep coming back to this. What will turn it around faster? NIL, be it the portal or on the radar for HS players HAS to be at the top of the list.

I don't even know how to start this comment, so I'll just get right to it. We don't have a good team this year. Our years of poor recruiting under Fuente and an Early Signing Day happening a week after Pry was hired have pretty much torched whatever talent and depth we had over the last couple years. And games like last night are probably going to be the norm for the next couple years. Pry has a mess to clean up, and we're just not realizing how awful the program that he inherited had become.

But

I was going to put this in the "Vent" thread, but thought it deserved it's own forum topic.

Anyway, I know we're all disappointed with the on-field performance of the team last night, but here's another thing that I was hoping we'd never have to vent about: the Lane Stadium experience.

Don't get me wrong, it's impressive that we can get 60,000+ to show up for a bad team, but boy the stadium experience is just not what it was.

Penalties. No running game. Anemic passing game.

Honeymoon over Pry. Figure it out.

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