“We’ve got a lot of younger guys and we need them to play older, sooner.”
-Virginia Tech offensive coordinator, Scot Loeffer post-game-
Well, yah, that’s one way of putting it …or maybe we just need better guys, period?
And sadly, each part of the problem is a hindrance to the other. It ain’t the classical chicken vs. the egg. It is rather, two chickens that have now officially laid two eggs.
As it may have taken me getting towards 32 odd total games, though I have finally riddled this one out; and the fix is gonna be a painful one, or a very delayed one, when the O&M rubber does finally meet Spring Road.
As this once proud 10 win football program is precisely 2 games north of .5oo in its last thirty-two (17-15)!
Or just plain Jayne, average…
1Q 14:58 remaining:
IF you like viewership made for TV violence? Do thyself a favor, and find #14 (Trey Edmunds) on the Virginia Tech KO coverage or suicide squad –hint: he’s right beside the Kicker. Now follow fourteen down-field, see: one-four attack, see: someone from the other side get stroked! And I do mean (bleeped) up more often than one. As Trey Edmunds (white ellipse) is a one man pain committee and his committee is in session indeed. Lord this kid freight-trains peeps! Just ask #44 (orange arrow) of Georgia Tech; as Trey totally stole him right over the dog-pile at the end of this one!
1Q opening drive remaining:
Notice the use of an old-school Dooley era true Ng, and with Barron (not Marshall) from Bud Ultra on what amounted to a odd or 5-man front.
1Q 3:42 remaining:
Poor David Wang, as the stout or spark-plug looking #76 needed this like the kardashian’s need more tweets!
Just watch as Seven-Six -who has been enjoying an all-A.c.c. caliber season thus far- gets his right-leg (ankle) accidentally rolled up from behind as he pulls left-to-right on the even or right-hand side C-Gap kick-out block. Man-o-man, what a talented and pure textbook genius level one-man technical blocking clinic #76 is; who just can not catch a break. Dang. Godspeed @76! (big PIC link)
2Q 14:51 remaining:
Observe Bud Ultra’s first true counterpunch of the day; as coach Foster moved his 2nd-layer into a Linebacking triad or inverted arrowhead set with Chase 7 yards off the LOS (line-of-scrimmage) and the Whip and other ILb about 5 to 5&1/2 off the LOS. The game’s afoot indeed. (making it tougher for the Georgia Tech oLinemen to scrape or fold block to the next level)
2Q 11:53 remaining:
Just follow blindside-Ot Larry Gibson on this one folks, as Gibby literally goes human ping-pong ball and totally steals #92 of Georgia Tech on a de-cleating hit –to subsequently only be stolen himself about 2 strides later by the hard charging #1 of Georgia Tech as payback is indeed a bitch in a terminal-contact sport. You can break tape for 10 years and never see a pilfery driven game of human Ping-Pong erupt such as this one sport-fans.
2Q 10:38 remaining:
Michael Brewer is a lotta things and a open-field blocker just not being among them as just one pivotal (see the pun) block on the Jacket’s boundary-Cb from #12 and this one would have gone for 6!
2Q 6:40 remaining:
Defensive play of the Year anyone?
As yah; I’d say a judo kick to break up an otherwise perfectly thrown pass right on the money counts. (unless you count this as a Kicking penalty that is?)
2Q 3:34 remaining:
Hate to say this, as this will not read well, however … the real culprit in this Michael Brewer interception? Self-protection as one-two appears to be attempting to get rid of the ball and A.S.A.P., just to try to turtle and get under the hard-charging blitz of the Georgia Tech Linebacker who came free unchecked; or self-preservation mode 1o1.
p.s .in case you are not getting this, this is NOT a good sign…
2Q season remaining:
Poor Dadi! How much more is his already damaged right-wrist gonna take???
2Q season remaining:
#98 needs to go on our P.A.T. and FGA teams over on the right-hand side, as the next guy he blocks will be the first. However, this is what you get when you put a defensive-lineman in there to block.
2Q :o2 remaining:
Boy does Trey hit people on kicks! You could hear this contact in Bluefield Wv, 61 miles away.
Longfield Management (Lo.FM):©
Virginia Tech: Σ =24
positive: |||| || (1 GT penalty)
Swiss: |||
negative: |||| |||| |||| (1 INT return for 6 points, 3 VT penalties)
Georgia Tech: Σ =25
positive: |||| | (1 4th down conversion)
Swiss: ||||
negative: |||| |||| |||| (1 GT fumble, 3 GT penalties)
Did we just iterate our rote, same as the E.c.u. game that we could have or maybe even should have won or what? Gotta start getting outta our own way and stop leaving plays out on the field. The Lo.FM avers a close, tight, combative football game and a close, tight, combative football game is exactly what we got. Just like someone else said pre-game…
However, the one O&M pick-6 in reverse and the one 4th down conversion late in the game were Coastal Division deal-breakers indeed in what was otherwise a 1-play Lo.FM game that ended in a perfectly symmetrical 1-play outcome up on the scoreboard’s final tally -albeit it the ‘rong way- in this essential A.c.c. clash.
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Did the better team win this one? Meh, I’m not want to answer that, although I am growing more and more certain that 2 highly vanilla, pedestrian or middle-of-the-aisle teams just participated in this game. Yes, that includes, both, Tech’s men.
Odds-n-ends:
- this ’14 Hokie offense has 1 play that’s o-n-e play, north of 39 yards! (can you say “inert”)
- we have precisely 1 Tb averaging more than 3.8 per carry
- conversely, Jarvion Franklin Rb of Western Michigan would lead VT in rushing, in just 70 minutes of play (with 542 on the year, already!)
- we are a 58% FG team since 2012.
- Michael Brewer would be a 82% passer with no drops and no deflections; and if my Aunt Kim had nuts and a bolt she’d be my Uncle Tim …I’m jus’ sayin’
- my home slice Dadi is on pace for ~16 Sacks and a staggering 24.5 TFL!
- VT has 373% more Qb-hurries according to HS.com, than our opponents do.
- VT is being out-scored (by 10 points) in the first quarter while winning every other quarter on the year | and yet VT is a .5oo team?!?
- GT now effectively holds a 2 game Coastal advantage due to the head-to-head tie-breaking element.
Loading ...Applied Sports psych 1o1:
I typed this out to Chris Coleman on the TSL pay-message board earlier on Sunday…
Scot and Bud and Frank…………..ALL making a K.Kong sized applied sports-psych misQ in their “acceptance speech” post-game interviews…………after taking an L.
i.e. since half past when did we just become this accepting of getting beat?
They don’t sound a drop pissy after getting beat; anymore to me.
They sound outright accepting, maybe even outright, resigned, to such.
^That’s^ just not the way to be men…
…you need not ooze talk-a-good-fight signature wannabe alpha-male (note the l/c) machismo. You need not forfeit any and all composure and say things that are non Disney Channel savvy or publish remarks that you will have to later recant. Though where is our salt, where is our mud, where is our bite back when we get beat? I don’t know about you, though the next game can not possibly start soon enough when you do get beat. Unless…
Now, and that being said,……………maybe they (the Staff) know that this is just not a good football team any more, deep deep deep down, in their heart of hearts and they just can’t afford to come right out, and tell the O&M truth.
So boil it down for us b.street, spit the truth and say what are you really seeing on film??? I see two inescapable intractable things…
- For the very first time since about 1992, Defensive talent, is, well, down. And in no small way, as all those top-15 defenders in the last several recruiting classes who Virginia Tech whiffed on, who went outta-state, or went to uva, has finally caught up to the legendary Bud Foster. As try as he might, Bud Ultra just doesn’t quite stock nationally ranked top-20 parts any more. (hence the 41st ranking in total D) –and the Maddy, Dadi and secondary dings and dents are only unmaking this lull or outright dip in pure stop-unit talent all the more.
- This is a 1-trick defensive pony folks. It needs to play fast, play in a hurry, and make use of the two things it does proffer………….a no less than top-2 secondary (when healthy) in island coverage Atlantic Coast terms, and then simply blitz the hell outta the smaller front-7, where the aforementioned recruiting misses are really showing their ass.
Or in other words –maybe .5oo is all we gots? As the most recent 32 games would seem too quantifiable objectively agree. And if you are bristling based upon what I just wrote?!?
Good on you!
I am, too!
Virginia Tech possessions=12, Georgia Tech possessions=11
“LETS GO!”
“Hokies!”
bourbonstreet**
Without throwing a kid under the bus I would love for you to elaborate on the parts that are missing on defense. We may have a couple that are subpar but we have never had 11 superstars at one time. I will give you that our depth is inexperienced but I’m not seeing this as being once of our worst defenses. Seems to be a focus or leadership issue but not talent to me.
DLine is down. (at least 1 starter, and little depth)
Lb is way way down. (starters and no depth)
Secondary is off a bit (more so due to injury; than raw talent).
b.street