E.c.u. Eye in the Sky (part I):

TSL Surgeon General’s Warning:
If you are a P.A.T.T., or feel you are or may soon be preggers with a P.A.T.T., this may not be the first-half for you.

And I can only assure you, as naughty as this first-half truly was, this first-half could have been worse.

As all less one drive from 11 point homesteading favorite Virginia Tech, not much went right in the first 30 minutes and several plays that could have gone right went Exit Stage Left. As you surely have to play in a Rush, when you fall behind by 21 points in 12 minutes and 16 seconds of blitzkrieg play.

1Q 14:58 remaining:
Talk about your harbinger of doom, and I never thought I’d type this one out, as one-five is NOT who you wanna pick a fight with or draw for Bull-in-the-Ring. Though none other than my boy #15 Joel Caleb got totally pancake crushed on the opening E.c.u. KO return. Damn. 15 pwned

1Q 10: o1 remaining:
Oh did great Scot have this one in the bag; if Newsome’s speed had not gotten out in front of his patience on this old-school End-a-round!

Scot must be biting the film-projector as he runs this one back-n-forth; as Virginia Tech left a game-changing momentum swinging score out in the field if #80 had only waited, then bounced this one to the outside to help his teammates seal E.c.u. up!

"...is a virtue."
“…is a virtue.”

1Q 3:13 remaining:
Here is the Bonner left-knee injury, as his left-heel caught in the Worsahm Field turf and the result was not, I repeat, was not a pretty looking hyper-extension on-film. Godspeed @8!!! (big PIC link)

EDITOR’s note: NEVER ever have I seen this tally before (and I prolly never ever will again: the Time To Throw box-score after 15 minutes of scrumming you ask???

E.c.u.
Sacked=1
Hurry=1huh?
Pressures=8
Qb hits=9

total Conte play
PEACE-out nine-three!!!

And yet East Carolina was up Ace-10 or twenty-one in Vegas Blackjack terms during the first intermission?!? How the (bleeeeeeep) is that possible???

2Q 14:51 remaining:
#41 for Virginia Tech (DiNardo), keep your coverage team head on a swivel son; and/or “…defend yourself at all times”. As DiNardo just absorbed one of the softer knockdown open-field steals ever on (punt coverage) tape.

2Q 12:12 remaining:
Conte with an awesome undertaker ‘esque pancake steal at the end of this pass-play that simply buries the left-Dt #93 of E.c.u. Conte ain’t no pussy-cat men, and #72 can drink from my canteen any day. (see: top pic)

Need I say more?
Need I say more?

2Q 10:o9 remaining:
“Don’t stain your name son.”
-Coach Eric Taylor-

You never ever ever ever stop giving …chase!!!

Since half past when do Hokies ever let up?!?

2Q 4:o4 remaining:
See Dadi land pronate on his left-shoulder at the end of this Qb sack and then reach up under his left-shoulder pad in pain afterwards. The Eye in the Sky never lies, it’s official, he has a wrist dent and now a shoulder ding as well. (as kids like Dadi do not reach for a mere hangnail scratch, and he barely made it off-field post-play) (big PIC link)

2Q o:oo remaining:

  1. A 4th and goal Incomplete
  2. a Carden fumble on our 5-yardline
  3. and a third possession from our own 22-yardline on top of  ^that^

As this one could have been anywhere between 30-nil and 42-zip at the half! (some would have me say “should have” at that)

 Season remaining:

 Dear coach Scot Loeffler:
“Please take better care of our child.

He is getting plum killlllllllled on film, and we actually do want him, to, live.”

sincerely, two dissatisfied customers,
-The Brewer’s-

Texas Tech pass protect
caption the pic……………

(READERs note: watch how many times M.B. hits the turf nearly or entirely defenselessly, I’d say this kid is taking a shellacking on film for good ole V.P.I., though that’s not fair to shellacking’s everywhere……………i.e. how much more can he take? What is the O/U on how many hits my poor boy M.B. has left???)

Longfield Management (LoFM):©

Virginia Tech: 29 total
positive:  ||||  |||| (3 ECU penalties)
Swiss (neutral): ||||
negative: |||| |||| |||| (2 VT INT’s)

East Carolina: 31 total
positives: |||| |||| | (1 VT penalty)
Swiss (neutral):
negative: |||| ||||  |||| |||| (1 VT Timeout, 1 ECU penalty)

Blocking really was not that bad for coach Stacy’s boys when we had a 5×5 match-up, or better. No really folks! I’m not making that up.

i.e. when E.c.u. rushed 5 or 4; or even 3, in a modified Dime-Set. As this is precisely when Michael Brewer began click and then began to find his 2nd Q rhythm and go 7 for 8 to close the first-half of play. Or in other words, if I am any of the remaining 9 opponents left on our 2014 regular season docket? I am blitzing Michael Brewer, right, damn, now! Soon as he sets foot off the team bus here comes at least 6, each and every time. As I’d blitz Brewer with almost a reverse Foster agitator/aggressor defensive look, and just try to rough him up all game long. Never ever yet a pure passer get into a passing grove gentlemen. Why?

Because Brewer ain’t tall enough to see over the top of my blitz, we know his release point is a very shallow one as he literally knee-inflects and sits down on his throws. This brings deflections, plural, into play, and that might just bring a tipped INT into return.

As I doubt he can see any more than one-side of the field well or should I type quick enough on the short stuff, and if Virginia Tech’s oLine can suddenly pass-protect for “3-Mississippi” to thereby enable the medium to long-stuff? Well, I guess I’m just plum beat. Because I’ma gonna take my chances that coach Stacy, can’t hold my peeps off for that long, or for long enough for the great Scot offense to make enough calender plays to actually win.

How many shots can he take???
How many shots can he take???

Two other Lo.FM quickies… did anyone else get the feel of great Scot v.2013 all over again? With the very best Pirate plays being front-loaded right onto the very tip of the E.c.u. script? (as was last year for Tech under Scot)

And, even though the Pirates barely won the Lo.FM count, look at the amount of help they provided us/Virginia Tech on Pirate penalties in reverse, and look at how we were our very own worst enemy with two critical O&M bed-wetting turnovers when we were chasing the chain gang. (basically the living bane of Beamerball itself)

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Defensive Savants:

  1. Why the on-going toggle between the former base 4-3 with a short-side over-shift and the newer double-eagle quasi 5-3? What did E.c.u. do or show that did not allow us to make up our defensive mind?

    eagle drill hip turns
    FREE the old-school: Eagle Drill!!!
  2. Why were we so misaligned defensively in our coverage’s pre-snap? This is (mostly) an experienced and uber talented secondary,that is very well known for possessing a cum laude football I.Q. In particular at Fs and Rover where the coverages  should be set. p.s. since when can our 12 not take their 11?!? (we tried this twice on the E.c.u. game winning drive, remember?)
  3. How did E.c.u. force/created so many downfield hip-turns in our 1:1 coverages??? (this is code for leverage being forfeit, as our  Cb has his back turned to the Qb, this is a kiss of death)<——that one really baffles me???

Frank Beamer: “…I thought our guy, if he just looked back and went for the ball had an interpretation on the first two really.”

So then Will Stewart himself says we are playing the man.

And yet, Frank Beamer says we  should play the ball.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, hell if I know, you be the judge……..

Did the better football team win last Saturday???

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Virginia Tech=44 minutes, East Carolina=16 minutes

LETS GO!

Hokies!

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  1. They are not the better team, but they were the better team Saturday. That game was won on want-to and coaching, not talent. ECU was much better in both those categories, especially in Q1.

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