Virginia Tech=42, Furman=3

Remember folks, I do not come to fix solutions. As this is the website where real men congregate and speak truth to the power!

That being said, I spoke at length down below, so let’s hope right to it as more than a few interesting things revealed themselves on film-study versus the nearly totally over-matched D-1aa Furman Paladins.

As I saw some good things here and I saw some things that could stand to improve a bit in regards to beating Purdue up in Indiana this Saturday.

3Q 14:46 remaining:
Yah-yah, so what if Travon Mcmillon -or N.O.S.- has a breath taking extra gear of instantaneous nitrous-oxide Fast-n-Furious acceleration He may be our new Dee.Kay or Drift King. Maybe he should play more, (he should).  Maybe he should start (he may).

However the hit the Field Judge put on the ESPN3 unsuspecting cameraman was just epic!

As this Field Judge totally trucked this guy from Bristol. Ouch, and whatever Bristol Connecticut is paying this cameraman, it just ain’t enough.

3Q 12:52 remaining:
Everyone is calling this a Tim Tebow Florida import(ed) play; however, what I really liked was the crossbuck line action. Watch as everyone collapses from right-to-left, whereas w.Teller seemingly pulls from left-to-right. Talk about a play-fake on what was a flat-footed old Naval Academy jump-pass to Ford on the narrowest of skinny Posts’. +1 at the whole oLine for selling this run!

3Q 12:43 remaining:
First time for everything; I suppose, and you be the judge here; as this one is right on the edge of being suspicious looknig, as in very. Watch as the left-Te for Furman lo-lo’s (not the illegal hi-lo), he lo-lo’s the Tuaman thereby collapsing #54’s pinned from below left-knee. This is an odd odd odd one, and it is so unusual, that the oddity of the attempt alone prolly kept the flag in the Umpire’s pocket.

Maybe this was an accident? Maybe it was not? Tough one to be sure on in fairness to the left-side Te of Furman, though I am sure that the Tuaman is a very blessed guy to have probably survived this hit and live to play another game; even if that’s code for October. As the Tuaman must be one of those very flexy, naturally yogatastic Gymkata freaks.

That being said, the replay made this look like a cheap-shot … or an inexpensive accident, at best. As that odd-side or left-Te does a seat-roll and then what amounted to basically a collapsing leg-whip inwardly on the 100% prone and likewise fully defenseless Tuaman. See what I mean?

Just like Vegas, the first-half taught us that each week will be a crap-shoot, and same as in Vegas, we will have to make our point(s) the hard-way. Here’s why…

The Motley-crew:

Motley sure “sounded” much better post-game with Burnup. You could hear the relief/smile on his face. And you would too if you finished the game on a 12 for 13 tear when completions negated by penalties are corrected for. Dang! That’s 93% last time I checked! And he was a real-time 5 outta 7 to end 2Q prior to that; that men is showcasing some real live A.B.C. potential. As sports is the same as salesmanship …Always Be Closing.

dLine:
Is it possible that we are deep in C+++ to good guys though not exactly tall on mano a mano whip your ass greats? Is there a coach Brown in this midst? A J.C. Price? Or do we really only have four quality starters, each one of which can and will excel in a particular match-up –and yet none of which are epic enough to dominate week to week? As it sure seems to me that this pre-season talked-up great of a front-4 should be better than 78th in Tackles for a Loss and 75th in Sacks. That’s actually less than average or about a C-, statistically speaking.

Now and in all fairness to coach Wiles boys, some of this does have to do with playing so much even frontage in what is nearly amounts a quasi sixty-one  or 6-1 look. Not a lotta room for guys who ain’t exactly big as hell to work with in there when you have the opposing G-c-G covered nose-to-nose, head-up or at least outside-eye-to-outside-eye; is there? Still yet, when you field 3-all-Atlantic Coast Conference preseason guys upfront, would you have expected 78th in T.F.L. and 75th in sacks level production? Me neither; and I’d wager dimes to nickles that coach Wiles would agree on that.

So as rjh4vt asked me on the TSL.com pay-message board, what can Bud Foster do now?

The thing is… and as talented as this Top-11, well Top-10 defenders may be, there are just not a whole lotta organic alternatives here. In particular when you consider what the above even or 6-man front truly represents. Because here is what Bud can realistically all the time do…

1. Pray for health,
2. play for time. Not much more he can do that I can see on film.
3. (barring unless you wanna de-shirt the Settle kid and play him as a true Ng in a certifiable Fifty-Two or 5-2 look)

However, if you did view coach Wiles d-Line as being deep enough to roll hard and roll strong with 8-10 keep ’em fresh guys in the very down-lineman needy 5-2 set … how do you account for Settle at Ng lack of preassigned Gap integrity? Unless you slant him left or right each play or go Joe Green and align him cockeyed in an angular o or 1-technique to demolish at least one A-Gap per play and therefore continue your intrinsic ability to spill said play left or right to the unblocked spillage defender. Now would Foster ever do that? No, no he won’t. Though he would have the island Cb’s to do it –as I thought Fuller moved noticeably better this past weekend. And he would have the substituting d-line depth and at least 1 true-Ng to do it in Settle. Clarke and R.V.D. would be good enough as Inside Linebacking twins here and you could almost eliminate the need for a truly industrious home-position born and raised Mike.

So what does this leave Bud Bock to do?

• Time=Frye @Rover matures improves. And Fs is getting there quicker. (Clark is gonna be good, 169% more stops than anyone else says so!)
• Health=return of Fuller’s knee, Facyson shakes off rust, Tuaman gets his left-knee right (in ~4 weeks, coach God wiling)
• (…and everyone else stays right; meaning healthy) That’s about it.
• that or go back into more of his home forty-three set (4-3) which he did at 5:40 of Q3 with our pseudo ILbacking twins look with Clarke.

Why does Bud not have much left to try? Well, because beyond the true Ng set we discussed up above; Bud Foster=The Federal Reserve with 0% interest rates.  Or in other words, he’s all outta stimulus package bullets; and he’d better hope China don’t start speaking Greek and get all hopped up on metaxa and ouzo! Because where do you turn when there are so precious feel O&M alturnatives, left?

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film-study Techbits:

• Wr Phillips has improved, he is no bad edge blocker. Ford=ankle diver, he’s just not gonna be very physical on sealing the edge.
• Peoples likes to try to hit people. I like him, he’s actively (at least) looking for someone to hit in-play or on ST’s, he may miss a few though the collision is wiling.
• Motley’s play-fakes ain’t half-bad. He’s got a nice old-school Roger Staubach freeze or hesitation move to his fakes which helps his salesmanship.
• Motley throws a pretty decent pass; once he settles in. He has an underrated arm, and surprising touch on the ball at times. An near-side hashmark to further sideline Out pattern throws are easily in his wheelhouse, with something to spare. His wind-up and release however are not the fastest, and I’d like to see him work some non-play-side or back-side progressions. Hopefully that will come in time. Has a oddly forward release-point which slows the release down all the more, almost like a pub-player trying to guide a dart to a horsehair board. (this does help him keep the nose down however, any pass catcher likes that)
• Joey on the Iso’-lead to the Mallack seal-side is at least +1 on blocking! They are gonna threaten for all-conference honors on blocking alone.
• The left-side (Nijman and Teller) run-blocking push is pretty dang spanktastic! Coach Stacy just might have 2 bell-cows on his hands here men.
• Accordingly, Teller only had an all-time coach Stacy record of 19 KD-blocks (knockdowns)! WOW! Just, WOW! He folded better to the 2nd-level as well. Makes me wonder how long he stays?
• 23rd best in Tackles for a Loss (T.F.L.) allowed! As this is a much more physically eager fist-movement offensive-line. i.e. tough to get any penetration when the stronger/meaner man gets there first.
• segueing here, did like the V-cup look for Lawson/Motely in pass-protect. (recall: c.News had that for Tyrod) It did however V or lane-open-up play-side, a bunch. Might be a tip of the hand here on a late Safety read.

  

• Lawson: the long striding, still somewhat lankish looking rookie all-world recruit… he did however hit it up in there and move that damn pile, didn’t he? More physical than his leaner looking southern-hemisphere would connote. And he sure gets low at the waist, almost has a parallel to the ground forward bend to not only run low, to also reduce his target profile to incoming fire.
• Lawson however does need some passing work, as he either throws a dart with a very long-arm –the kind that can get away with a few things, and the kind that might just go Oct.31st and trick him into forcing a few things as well. As his misses seem to be a bit low, which posits a lower release point, or a late release.
• He also fights short as we say in boxing, as he has quite a leg spread inside-heel to inside-heel when he sets up. Which lowers is towering self unnaturally; as there are some set-up footwork foibles here to clean-up. | Lawson also goes swinging-gate to the the throw-side and basically throws from a hook stance to his left, to mix my golfing sporting-metaphor.
• Lawson has better field-vision and 1st-down marker needed yardage awareness than I expected. Helps to be 6’7”, don’t it?
• Durkin sure looks like Jim McMahon out there with the double-glove look. Don’t hardly ever see that outta a Qb.
• has coach Stacy’s MORE blatant mentality infected our Qb’s as well? As not one of the Top-4 is ‘fraid to stick their nose up in there carrying the mail.
• Looked to me like McMillian hyper-extended the top of his right-foot as his toe got hung up in the Worsham Field turf. The dreaded lisfranc part of the foot.
• the legacy Woody Baron kid had himself a nice Gap-jumping day; and boy-o-boy is he strong or trunkish looking in the upper-arms. A 5oo lb. front-squat and 315 lb. power-clean would seem to agry.
• Rover, d.Frye starting to forward-face and spill to the ball just a little bit better; and he’s not a bad form-tackler when he gets there; either.
• One point for Sean, as Mister Huelskamp sure does tackle well when uncovered. Someone really schooled him on textbook tacking on the way up.
• My boy Shai McKenzie ran hard and he ran strong, still some hit in his pad-level and (sadly) still something of his hitch in his hinged right-knee step running wide.

 The forecast:

This team ain’t dead.

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Virginia Tech=medium, Purdue=medium
(gonna be a tight, ugly, football game up @West Lafayette)

“LETS GO!”

“Hokies!”

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