Virginia Tech=4o, Miami=38

Virginia Tech football is 2 up vs. a stunning 3 down.

The Hokies we fear are approaching the proverbial brink. As they surely expended a lotta bullets and burnt a lotta calories to a doneski crips down in Coral Gables only to come up :o3 seconds short on a brutal overuled jump-ball call right at the end. That’s a tuff dang punch right on the beltline to take folks. The kind that no matter just how damn gamey, gritty, and gutty we truly were? That’s the kinda gut-punch that could leave a Cardinal coloured… mark.

1Q 4:20 remaining:
NASTY play here. As po’ C1, b.Moore takes an accidental so-called: “Hi’-Lo'”. Albeit in reverse, as his knee was totally and entirely defenseless, AND weight-bearing being held in place up-top by the Dt1 of Miami. YIKES. Sad. And may St.Nikon bless.

2Q 9:32 remaining:
This is my seventh decade, that’s (7th) in this sport, see?
And Eye’ve never seen a 1-point stance b4!?!

In point of fact— Eye am not even sure if there is a ruling here… is there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stance_(American_football)

Well… ‘and upon further review’… it does not appear to be outlawed, outright…

…oh well.

2Q :25 remaining:
Fo’ all the hand-wringing over 17+17=a penalty…

…carrot-top seems to get it… he even gets on Pry who tries to let one slip by. Which it most successfully did. And with no TO’s, do you really wanna much with Love’s Rhythm Method, here?

3Q remaining: 1st wo plays:
So, we begin the game with a 1oo blocking play. Hard even for the Lombardi: Krammer, Gresgg side to do. All 6 guys went 6×6 on their odd (left) side goals. Sweeping King-Tut’ away.

Yet the very next play we went -3 for 3 on the even (right) side goals. Every single Crook’ got totally pwned play-side.

This is what inconsistent; or, uneven teams do, oddly enuff.

Though the overall point is … +1oo -1oo = whats? 2-3?
That and a ≤1oo or prolly not even 9o-cents on the dollar Tuten is even better than in ’23. WOW.
St.Nikon help— as he is visibly limping on the left knee

on-again off-again all nite long.
Now understand the diff’… the diff’ being… between average+++ to average’ish compared to
below-average and: “LOOK OUT” {sic: ‘blocks’} from L-to-R.

3Q 3:28 remaining:
Ja.Jones with the rare tho’ possible got his left hand/wrist trapped in the jersey of the Rb1 of Miami down along the ‘cane sideline. St.Julia help.

3Q :52 remaining:
B.P. and French will prolly have some coolio-modern basketball on grass era “concept” term to lexicon this one for all of yah.

Though where Eye come from?
King-Tut’ must be a stud.

’cause he got 3-yards on the Toss-Sweep here -and then he got hurt- all while his Te1 and odd-G1 pulled the opposite -if not ‘rong- way! LOL. You can ‘crossbuck’ this in O.G. terms if you catch Linebackers keying your G’s or Dt’s gettin’ in their hip pocket. Tho’ our even-G1 blocks the Miami Dt1 into, that’s INTO our play side guys who look like they are going the ‘rong way!?! What in the ‘Wide Wide World of Sports’ this is Eye just to not, know?

4Q 15 remaining:

“You can talk the talk— can you walk the walk?” —Full Metal Jacket
“Barkin’ dog don’t bite.” —Carpatho Ruso Mountains façon
“Don’t sing it, bring it!” —’big’ Scott Hall
“Acta non-Verba.” —Latin motto

This is what expelling talk calories you might just need later on when you will and you did get… touched… up. Dum’. Catty. Sissy. (Shoulda been a double foul too… a strange game from these Zebras… uneven… not codified).

4Q 9:39 remaining:
Dreaded (left)-knee gimp on the pass-rush by #17 Cole Nelson’s Koufax side just gives on the pass-rush upfield. (St.Culbreth help).

4Q ’bout 5’ish remaining:
A curious toggle into a 2o-set here by Marve. This was after Delane cramped up and had to be helped off. Don’t know if that was the thinking or the necessitation here or not? Although, MiaFla did (suddenly) get their big-back the Rb1 from OR.State on track at this juncture. Not real unsurprisingly at that. That, and Boomfield was sat down with Keller and Law’ double-teaming the lightweight tho’ shifter ILb-twins with the Fs1 gone high-Cf1 M.L.B. behind that.

Here… the Dolphins Lyte just big-dawgged us. They out-physicaled us. Larger-hat on medium/smaller-hat crime. The game clock afforded them enuff non-rush-hour tictocks to do so to. Like leaving work 15 minutes early.

Finally, all data… and… Ward and the Te1 and Wr3 of Miami just made **** and ***** plays to close vs. our mostly *** guys. Constellation Class vs. a shuttle-craft.

As astrophysics and Occams Razor won a close shave here men— plain-n-simple.

’cause try as we might… this still ain’t rocket-surgery.

💯

Time To Throw (TTT)©:

Virginia Tech:
Qb pressured=11
Qb hurried=1
Qb hits=12 (with 2 BIG TD’s)!!!
Sacked=1

Miami:
Qb pressured=9
Qb hurried=3!
Qb hits=13 (with 3 circus throws and 1 TD)!!!
Sacked=3

TTT Analysis:
Portents, avers, and connotes a pretty even-steven contest don’t it? That… or someone get that H’town Qb-coach his money. As both his kids got th’ bag and make kra-kra-throws all nite long.

Drones contacts… up, down, or nearly ground-round from last year?

Well, last year once he got all kinda: “Strike hard, strike first, strike often…” shots in on Daniel-son. And less the what difference did his season nadir (17) make @wet tissue paper hooVa you asks? 26 contacts per game at the min. 29 at the Mack Truck(in’) max’. All while we/VeeTee went on an end-of-year ’23 close-of-business tear.

This year?

• @Vandy=17.
• Marshall=19.
• @O.d.u.=22. (His one kinda hardened mo physical Olivia Newton-John or belligerent day).
• Rutgers=16.
• @MiaFla=13.

Pocket protectors and Randolph EF 1oo6 (do not) rejoice. (With no word yet from quarterly Doc’ Will, Dr. Harrison, or the great Dr. Teskie; Godspeed gents).

As this is way way way way, dooooown. ’bout 17.4 contacts/game on average this season compared to 28 last year on average. ’bout a –37.85% reduction in boomstick production. So, do you see any trend(s) there gents?

Now for you coaching the verb honks: he is NOBODY’s pocket-protector or pure-passer of a Qb1. Which is bizarre… as he is a 4.o v.P.i. G.P.A. carrying kid. Eye racked my mind– could not find a straight-A baller with bad court vision. (Not @Fs1 or Qb1; the two spots you must literate and see the whole entire field on every single play-calling play).

Odd… most… to the point of being nearly… unique…

Meaning… this is not only a pocketing or Sundaying increase… it is a manifest destiny Physicality decrease. And quite possibly a Cultural downvote to boot. Or, surely not a Cultural increase, eh?

Or, rather… Queen To Queens Level Three…

“…check.”

(o) (o)
V

Tackling:
Was, jus’ fine for the 1Q and the 2Q alike.
Very dang clean here to their Marvelous credit.

3Q and 4Q and it went to pot with constipation.

A laxative effort at times as Miami surely inflicted their will in boxing terms upon breaking the final 25-minute or so tape. And it only loosened all the mo’.  And this was not so much the ill run-fills we’ve seen misdirected so oft’ in the past.

This was the same as getting 2-hands on the rock and you gotta make the catch. Here we got 2-hands on guys and sometimes 1-shoulder to and could not execute the halt. In good enuff position to finish and did not stop or seal the deal. That’s on the baller; they were there and there is where they got did not wrap-up beat.

💯

FREE!!!

Longfield Management (Lo.FM)©:

Virginia Tech:
positive: |||| ||| (1 U foul, 1 TD!)
Swiss (neutral): ||
negative: |||| |||| (1 U foul, 1 VT fake fail)

Miami:
positive: |||| | (1 TD!)
Swiss (neutral): |||| (1 VT foul)
negative: |||| |||| || (1 fumble! 1 INT!)

Lo.FM Analysis:
Here we see that… both were pretty dang clean threw most of 1Q. Tho’ it did take Tech twenty to tally their first positive Lo.FM and that is typically not a willful sign.

Then the ‘canes really plum got after us and adjusted and staggered their run:pass mix to more of a pass:scramble mix in-game and they started to turn the dial in their favor. As Ward went Gen. Montogemey (Ward) and sparked us with ’bout a handful of hero plays. Then Cobra-Ky exhibited a bit of maturity and rallied. Then Ward went rally-cap. Then Cobra-Kay went dorasl-fin. Rinse-recycle-repeat. As both Pivots went Atlas and carried their teams on their back down the stretch. It is rather that Ward’s Talents and improvs proved mo’ sandlot savvy before the “HOOOOOME” call from mon beckoned and before the sun, set.

As there was Wyatt Earp on Doc Holiday crime to be found here as friends (H’town buddies off-field) shot it out down to the very final slug.

…guess this Back Judge is for Miyagi-Do not Johnny?

(o) (o)
V

Blocking:
See: below:
(Though do see here that our rag-tag-fleet went Scottie and gave you all she gots… though you do gotta wonder what we would got had MiaFla finished the contest at 100% medicine down-low up-front as opposed to a rather dilute fiddy or 5o% down in the dirt?)

As we did finish a nearly mind-boggling +8 plays above water on a downright
Heleneically brutal nite.

🌀

🏈 👁️.Q. Award Winner:
Miami Staff. They took what they were given; stayed cool enuff and patiently just barely made enuff plays.

Big Lick:
Spence’ plays with at least some measure of shoulder at times. He had one real tight crossing route knockdown hit from boxing on Friday nite.

Bad Cat:
King-Tut’.
Helluva a nite.
And an even better nite for having exited light not less than 3 times on a triune set of dings. Makes you wonder what Tut’ be at ≥1.8 good wheels?

#2o, Caleb Woodson has some measure of scrapper or Willie Wallace in him as well. Bit of salt in his blood; some mud in his eye.

Sky Hawk:
Green. That was a dying lame-duck than can handcuff due to the plummeting lack of velocity on the 6’er endzone snag. Messed with his textbook: ‘spider-web down’ on the jump to boot.

That, and the negated penultimate blocking-out N.B.A. -esque 1-hand-snag at the very end was an incredible reception. Green’s hands=good, very.
✋🏼

King Hokie:
Not Pry.

Though Crooky’s guys graded every bit as average to average+ that they had any right to be. C1 out, left-Ot1 twice dinged this year, and –1 game already. Best backup/part-time 3o4 guy not even dressed out. Shuffling all around and a Cunningham sighting of all the things. This vs. the #1 Sacking D and the #9 T.F.L. (tackles for a loss) D is well mo’ than anyone coulda rightfully expected. Neary vastly at that.

TECHnique:
QBR.

As in… Cobra-Ky’ just tallied his season-hign on the far mo’ Pro savvy QBR metric of: 83.4. The mo’ realistic parts being: his Comp% is only up ≈1% for the duration so far. That, and his INT% is now at just south of 3%. (Compared to: 1.o5% for ’23). Basically 3:1 to the worse… vasty. Additionally, he and we vicariously are down a whopping –4o spots in Passing Efficiency this year. While he is also down just under –11%/rush. wow.

Harsh as that annually reads… under the F.N.L’s… Drones’ looked vastly mo settled in here— if not outright composed. That, and, he also completed 3 maybe even 4 just down right tuff throws with ‘canes dropped all over him. Blackout curtains indeed.

However, where he goes from here needs to show itself out… as this is something of a sophomore slump a year late. Or, right on time in his second season as Qb1.

Eye can ghost to you that where he goes we/VeeTee are nearly entirely likely to… follow.

comBUSTable:
The po’ TSL message boards in-game and post-game alike.

wowowow… Mrs. Pry, Mrs. Bowen, and Mrs. Marve fair warning here.

***

xxx‘s & ooo‘s:

On the one hand… this was a not-so-hot-to-trot on the T.O.’s or temporal mechanics. As the year no.1 mulligan little to medium-sized game-management things rose back up like St.Lazarus from the dead and slayed us again.

Very poor nite in chronotron or Temporal Mechanics terms.

On the other hand… and likewise… we found the substitution patterns to be; well… hard to figure. We asked a lot of our *** 2’s vs. their ***** and not less than **** 1’s or 2’s. A Vincent Van Gone not so starry nite.

Eye do get the sour-pus catcalls here… not unreasonable. Granted even.

 

On the third hand… and however…

Soooooo, it was Thursday nite and Eye had one medium source tell me…

pre-game: “They {sic: ballers} really love playing for him {sic: Pry}.”

I found that most interesting for a now .413 coach.

Or, rather, how many .413 coaches can (still) legit say that?

🤔

formulae football

Soooooooo… VeeTee is plagued by slow starts in ’24 you say?

Yah; you’re not ‘rong as the Aussies taught me to say… however…

VeeTee is plagued by slow starts that actually manage to sllllloooooow dooooown— of all the things.

Check it…

Do you see(s) what Eye… means(s)?

As we actually not only get worse… in the 2Q by quite a retarding bit… then? Then you ask? Well then -and of all the things- we finally loosen up a bit and get nearly twice as good 4Q better. Thereby giving new meaning to quarter-bounce itself.

As that almost reads like a pitcher who needs to warm/loosen his arm up a bit… tho’ it also speaks to the greater reliance on junk calls and crossbucks and misdirections after intermission.

A most strange game this oblong spherroid; n’est-ce pas?

The “Hisssssssing” booth:

…here in the hisssssssing booth… we hear the following…

…never-ever, never-never, Foxtrot with momentum itself. i.e., always take the points and do NOT injure emotions no matter nuttin’.

Eye don’t care how many Marlboros and flannel shirts you smoke, I don’t care how many Brawny Towels you refuse to wipe anything with for the sake of whoremoans everywhere.

You do NOT mess with Big-Mo’.
“Football is an emotional game.” —THE Fb1 and Mike1 of the V.P.I. 1940’s.

And you supremely nevvvvvver Foxtrot with emotions as a Road-dog.
You just don’t.

Now, we did call for a Trick-Play to try to amp them up early on… (EARLY-ON)… and for a strategic Point-of-View. That has nothing to do with failing to take the points with ≅20-minutes left in the game where by you coulda nudged this just north of a 1.5-play game.

Again… this was an antsy-looking game at times… catty, nearly, even.

–oOo–

Techbits:

• Clemments… having him on the opposite side of FG/P.A.T.-protect… and asking a kid who can not Pass-Pro’ (even-side) Pass-Pro’ (odd-side) makes what Faux-news sense, again?!? LOL… since amateur hour @Squires way way way back when.
• Ward -for all his cockeyed enemy of passing Qb textbooks everywhere- sure hit some jus’ high degree of difficulty throws off of just whacko mechanics— is kinda impressive in a way…

Where’s the τau ∑igma λambda I used to know?

…not that Eye may not know… though I do know that I gots “THX @Proff God” 36 hours of calc’ and stats and that they know the following…

“The Rest of the Story...“

The rest of the story is also found in running the laps… not thy lips… or in running the maths… not thy moufs.

As things ’24 stand today… VeeTee is gonna prolly depart right at ~16 1’s from the ’24 team, see?
Now if Drones AND King-Tut’ also kick-rocks?

Dat’s at least 75% of a currently .4oo squadron.
Dat’s 81% if you count K’s/P’s too.

Meaning you firebugs might wanna hold your ’24 H2o…

…’cause ’25 figures to be straight propane and gasoline.

The sportlight…

Here in the sportlight we see that…

You had your chances… Pry bar & Co… don’t cry for me Argentina… just do the matemáticas.

Timeout this time out that… Hokies gassed at the end… yah-yah… none of that helps… granted. Mea culpa even.

Nonetheless, Miami was hurtin’, see. Down 27.28% of its 1’s, see? This while being up over a centennial (+1oo-yards) in ∑ or Total Yardage. (Which means they shoulda won by 1.5 plays). Or, we were fortunate to be this dang close on a N.B.A. jump-ball at the end. That close after a –3 Turnover Margin nite where the ‘canes did way mo’ than anyone predicted -self included- to help our cause.

We did not see this so much as 'bad calls' as we saw it as... reachy calls.

Waaaaaaay too elastic, too much of a stretch.

Or, signals/calls from a very antsy looking Staff. A phobic-Staff, so we four… “fear”.

We had our chances… as the Brit’s say…
it’s all in the maths.

the takeaway…

…the takeaway here is that… C2 and the rest of the traditional media may have circled the BIG-X black-n-blue O&M arm-punching contest with Rutgers as their serial ’24 measuring stick.

Here, however, and we measure things by…

…and we measure them by…

This is not just code for roadie-max’ (since @aTm) and S&C max’ (on basically 1o-straight work weeks)…

…it is now code for MUST have game max’!

Or, maybe even .4oo Culture max’ and .413 Tenure max’ too boot.

And Frankly ^^^those^^^ are some fearful only 33 Century-21 shopping days remain, maths.

That, or being 311st best in 1-play games!

“boo!”

🎃⚰️🎃

#JustSayKnow

#wimps!

Virginia Tech=4o, Miami=38

“LETS GO!”

“Hokies!”

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