Virginia Tech=37, Old Dominion=17

Virginia Tech football played and won/survived another game of Quarter… bounce.

The Hokies were up a whopping four, that’s (4) whole entire points at the 35-minute marker as a significant road favorite vs. a significantly very lowly Nationally rated O.d.u. team. (Recall the following incoming Monarch metrics, please… …of the soon-to-be 134 D-1 teams (with Kenshaw State reclassing as Eye type)… here is just how princess-looking these usurping Monarchs are… twenty-six, that’s (26) of ’em are suck-city population Norfolk, Va. itself. These usurping Monarchs are… twenty-one, that’s (21) of ’em are worse than worse or 1o1st best or worse!! These usurping Monarchs are seven, that’s (7) of ’em are within ten, that’s (X) of being bottom-1o or 1st-worst!! Do you see any trend(s), there? ’cause if this is all we did vs. not-so-princely charlatans— what happens in the next 18o-minutes of scrumming vs. not less than two teams who really can hold, court? Do you hear what Eye mean TSL?

1Q 6o remaining:
In the pre-game, we found then suffered the following…

…Chip {sic: Tarkenton} is NO relation.

This set of TailGateHers, are…

This game is a conTextual one…

Then, Chaplin got hurt (said: rolled up, accidentally, friendly fire) during warm-ups, and yah… it was that flavor of a day from the jump. (UPDATE: foot/ankle, negative X-rays).

St.Nikon help!

1Q 14:59 remaining:
#12 stole not one; he stole two Hokies on the opening tip! Brutal hi’-lo’ near peephole takedown that could expense us at least one, knee. yikes!

1Q 12:06 reaming:
Where oh where did Eye see this play, this pre-season?

Eye wonder who ghosted this formation???

1Q 6:46 remaining:
Do you see what Eye (so not), see???

1Q 5:55 remaining:
Then, well then, you ask?

As these 2 dildos from o.d.u. stole each other!

ROTF!

2Q 13:13 remaining:
Thirteeen-thirteen remaining… on Friday the 13th +1 no less and we see this jabroni…

…yet again; try as we might… you jus’ cannot make this oblong spheroid, up!

 

2Q 5:o1 remaining:
King-Tut’ got out-Sphinx’ed and spun out on the same twig we showed you he dinged up last week. On this bone-on-bone Cheech & Chong “over the (right) Shoulder-boulder-holder here. St.Nikon help!

Game Duration:
O.d.u. is a salty bunch if nothing else— they took their shots on us in and around or well outside the play all day. Not technically illegal; or cheap… just penny-pinch inexpensive here-n-there.

3Q 8:07 remaining:
This is how you play hell-by-damn Bully-Ball ‘men!

What did O.d.u. do to our back-up odd-Ot2?

They went total “Eee.Cee.Dub!!!” 3-way-dance as they little beat the S outta j.Garrett here. Total reverse pancake just so you can (attempt) to shake him up now for… later! WOW!!!

4Q 4:13 remaining:
Tuff nearly wasteful injury for one #0 my 1% boy Lawson here.

As he was just pressing the backside of the play and suddenly went down holding his left lumbar/hip-flexor area. Yikes… and why is he in the game (here); again???

Time To Throw (TTT)©:

Virginia Tech:
Qb pressured=1o
Qb hurried=1
Qb hits=22, (2=U.c.l.a., 3=’pop’)
Sacked=zero!!!

Old Dominion:
Qb pressured=6
Qb hurried=nil.
Qb hits=16
Sacked=5!

TTT Analysis:
Well, and yes Eye knows, wells are for water… though this sack well did NOT run dry. Not at all. As winning this tally 5-o is nearly unheard of. Drones and Qb2/Qb3 may have to take a few contacts on Qb-keepers; granted. Tho’ a five-zip rating on sacks is how your O gets overthrown! BIG time categorical win for VT & J.C. Price and Co. here men.

That… and we finally saw Cobra-Ky strike hard, strike first, (strike again on the sideline jaunt), and sorta redeploy and strike at least a bit often after intermission. He loaded his boomstick for the first time ALL year only. Only took 1o Q’s of scrmming to do so. This is not the manliest look… although the 3rd stanza was way way more parts Y-chromosome than girly before and that is a fine thing. A thing he MUST do to dismount these BIG-X Scarlett Knights…

(o) (o)
V

Tackling:
This is the one-time P.F.F. may have some sizzle to their steak… some pulp in their juice. As it was really good 1Q. Clean in point of fact. Then O.d.u. stretched us horizontally nearly the full 53.33 yards off their twice-twins stacker look and this reallllllllly opened up our soft underbelly just like WWII Europe once nazi knife suffering did.

Further, it is the 2nd layer that is either foibles or failures— take thy pick. As Safety halting
-although not perfect- has been far less shallow and therefore far less dangerous thus far in this now 25% complete ’24 campaign.

As the 3Q was just downright leaky… as our guys broke shapes and filled way way northwards; or, missed by 1-Gap L or R and O.d.u. was off to the nobody home Dixie Chunks “wide open spaces” races.

Be very very very very sure… the rest of ’24 was watching… be on the lookout for East-West
max’ stretches from here on Marvelous here on in…

FREE!!!

Longfield Management (Lo.FM)©:

Virginia Tech:
positive: |||| ||
Swiss (neutral): |||| |
negative: |||| |||| ||| (1 VT foul)

Old Dominion:
positive: |
Swiss (neutral): |||| |
negative: |||| |||| | (2 O.d.u. fouls).

We O.D.’ed on ourselves, in particular in our N.f.l. Films passing fancy football follies. We/he missed peeps, we dropped timely well-done throws, we checked down poorly and ended up like the teeth on a chainsaw’s chain or disjointed for it.

Or, to put it a mo’ objective Coach Spock science-fact way… how much worse does O.d.u. need to be? Look up above at those lowly Natty D-1 Rankings. They are a couple of loft wedges removed from being D-1aa (again) and yet we gave ourselves, wedgies…. plural.

As our Qb-Progression(s) were good for the initial 1o+ minutes and downright jagged ever since. That, and there are catch-corps ‘whispers’ of dissatisfaction here. Keep and Eye or three upon that if/when we really do need to go cardiac or dorsal-fin rally-cap comeback kids in the next 12 Q’s of work.

Or, in final words… gaffs on a disturbing 23.o7% of our airwave attempts might get you past O.d.u…
tho’ it will prove to be a no-passing zone coming up soon enuff…

(o) (o)
V

Blocking:
➕: 41%
Swiss: 23%
➖: 36%

Blocking Analysis:
So, here we see that in all candor?

For having to court a backup odd-Ot2? (i.e., blindside).
An Ot2 who did not even suffer having his name sown on his threads?

Eye guess… maybe this is not as bad as it looks vs. dweeby, dinky, little, nobody O.d.u.?

Though do understand folks… a reduction in good/positive plays is never a positive in itself. The only possible spin is that most of those reduced well-blocked plays laned in the neutral or Swiss pile; as opposed to sucking outright. j.Garrett did a little better as the day wore on. He is better in run-shapes and yet got his feets all kinda tied up in Pass-Pro’. Not a footwork maestro to be sure. However, our roly-poly G-c-G bugs on the inside still do not allow many negative plays every bit as much as they do not inflict many positive getting a good push plays alike. The catch or negation of the same is on the edges. Ot’s Eye’ma looking at crooked azz you. As you at home needs to file away a quality of oppsogin De check from here on out. A good opposing dLine will give us trouble and two good opposing De’s will give us fits. Very plural.

the takeaway…

…the takeaway is that it is hard to be serially taken with this 2 up against 1 down Tech Team at the moment gents.

Don’t believe me? Ask C2 who landed a straight boilermaker on our (lack of) aerial chin…

As you can R.A.T.T. see (assonance intended)… most of our grades are average; dull-average or less than that in National Ranking terms.

We are not really good at anything. Every bit as much as we are not horrible much of anything to boot.

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The O&M caveat being… this affords Ty.Bow’ and Marvelous very few Beamer Way avenues upon which to turn or pivot to.

Eye mean… what do you emphasize here? (1o3rd best in Sacks allowed O and 127th best in T.F.L. allowed O!… oh-my!!!) The oLine grades pretty suspect in passing V-cup or pass-pro’ and routinely gets at least one guy “blown-up Sir” on about every other running play. Or, they have yet to earn their ’24… stripes.

The D is a pinch north of the O; though still has second-layer ills and unsafe Safety fills.

Ergo, therefore, to Whit… there are very limited alternatives here; we just got five, that’s (5) of our 1’s or starters three-hole banged up and that could very well code for… headroom.

Or, the lack thereof if not a ’24 ceiling outright.

💯

🏈 👁️.Q. Award Winner:

Big Lick:
This one was one that O.d.u. won. They stole us; they stole each other and looked the all your lunch-money belongs to us part.

Bad Cat:
When 57.1% of your tac’s are sacks dats a BAD cat. Antwaun Powell-Ryland wins here. BIG time too.

Sky Hawk:
VOID. Never saw a super-snag here.

King Hokie:
Could very well be A.P-R.
Eye’ listen to that 25/8.

And 21-n-change per carry is a very quality revenge game from: (Bryce Duke).

Although Drones at just a smidgeon under 1o/carry and dropping two shoulders on one sideline carry when we really needed him to run: ‘mad’ just nicks this one here.

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xxx’s & ooo‘s

1. Q: win: out rushed ~4:1 and out passed O.d.u. virtually 10:1!
2. Q: got out-rushed by nearly –1:3 with passing nearly even.
3. Q: outgained and literally shut out O.d.u. 114 to zilch yards!!! (Nadda, none, nil) Gooseegg here!
4. Q: back to near even overall. Up 21′ for the 9th inning if you are keeping score @home.

Now, if you ask me -and you did via reading these very words- if you ask me?

That reads like a quality (pre)-game plan. And solid enuff halftime adjustments. Granted…

Albeit with not much in-game. LIVE. Under-fire.

…not much as coaching the verb, all.

📋🏈📋

 

formulae football

If, our Drones is deploying in aerial warfare diminishment vs. 3 seemingly impoverished teams… how do he deploy vs. anyone, real?

• @Vandy: 162.6 RTG,
• Marshall: 134.4 RTG,
• @O.d.u.: 119.5!

You do not need my 36 hours of McBryde Hall calc’ or stats to say that that is a negative slope. His rise hath been over, run.

His completion percentage has dropped every week; his long throw (completed) has dropped every week and yet his sack counter (against) has also (favorably) dropped every week. (With his rushing bettering all the while… kra-kra).

You tell me and then we will both know on dat?

Go fig on this oblong-spheroid; yet, again…

The “Hisssssssing” booth:

Here in the hissing booth, we put to you the following… interrogative statements used to test, knowledge…

1. Do you understand (now) why the oLine 2’s do not see one minute of (real), time?
2. Further, how much do you R.A.T.T. trust our vegan odd-Ot2 and our even-Ot1 vs. any real live carnivorous De’s? Or, would such only be code for a Owens Dining Hall smorgasbord in bleaksburg?
3. Is the Drones sandlot, mad-lib, ad-hoc O the only really pseudo-balanced O we, gots?
4. Where have all his Veer^-1 (inverted), keepers, draws, and boot-plays gone? Or, even just his basic R.P.O.?
5. Are they Sunday grooming him or N.I.L. agreeing to him?

–oOo–

“The Rest of the Story...“

Where’s the τau Σigma λambda I used to know?

That Eye may not know… though Eye do know that (actually) good’ teams do NOT do the following things…

• Their heightest Wr does not drop a major (i.e., TD) toss right in the breadbasket.
• They do not muff punts on what coulda been called punt interference in a friendly-fire sense if such a call existed.
• They do not leave their most Talented Lb1 (physically) out there in a meaningless Lee Suggs moment vs. UConn or vs. O.d.u.
• And they sure as hell do NOT let the mighty 1o9th ranked rushing attack in all the land only come up 45′ short of their very own rushing total when said pitiful 1o9th best ground-round is sans their Qb1 for the duration.

The sportlight…

…here in the sportlight, we are left R.A.T.T. wondering out loud…

…would we now be o’fer three if either Marshall or O.d.u. had a legit Qb1?

As in… we four found it most disturbing that O.d.u. thought they could (physically) punk All Charmin Conference us.

(Hence the twice-twinning max’ East-West sets).

⚔️ 🌀 🌲

’cause if they are even entertaining the out-root-hog in-sinew us thought?

Just how ajar do you think Rutgers (no.3 Rushing-O); Miami (11th ∑ or Total O) and
maybe even Stanford’s (15th best Run-D) will be?

😱🏈😱

Tech Thoughts:

…when Eye thank about it for a spell… -and we all know jus’ how dangerous that can Holden Hall what happened in that Lab to the skylights was really and: ‘accident’, be- when Eye thought about this team for a spell… Eye attended to two psi-op’s typea (word-association) words…

Clunky and Clunky.

As in… this is one clunky carburetor hokiemobile.

• 2nd half @Vandy? Not ½ bad.
• 2nd half vs. Marshall? Mo’ physical— even better.
• 3Q @Old Dominion and it was jus’ startin’ (pun intended) to blow all that S out da pipes.

The rest?
Well, the rest and not so much… left-turns @Albuquerque rejoice.

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As such a fuddy-duddy view of consistency is characteristic of compliancy itself. Such is cognitive when you have virtually literally everyone ’23 back with bonuses, upgrades, and depth-builders at a handful of spots to boot.

And we four assure all of you… you will find that to be looney and outta-tuney vs. arm-punching Rutgers, @uber-Talented Miami, and possibly even in the massive let-down trap-game erstwhile known as a roadie and fatigue max’ out  2,688.8 miles @Palo Alto, Ca. (Almost like it is still just a few parts fu’-fu’, hygienically… clinically…)

Ot–G–c–G–Ot

As we found it quite conspicuous that Cobra Ky’ his ownself was want to muse regarding: “headroom” post-game…

Though the thingy is… heads do funny things and play games with all of us…

…that, and their worst play is post-mortem.

Which is what happens when you leave your head(s) press-clippings, darkhorse play-off, and All-Championship Contender: “ajar” and therefore… ‘available‘, as before.

Think if it this way… we are 2 up against 1 down when everyone else thought these openings to be… easy… breezy… cover girls.

That from 2 brand new staffs @Vandy and zero’s on their Learning and Experience Curves alike; then 3 Marshall Qb’s— not one of which could hit the broad side of a barn with a tractor; then 2 Qb’s @O.d.u. who hit for a whopping six, that’s (6) total completions! LOL… what are we .667 waiting fo’?

The only calculus for you is… what kinda garaging (the verb) is, this???

🧠🏉🧠

#JustSayKnow

#wimps!

Virginia Tech=37, Old Dominion=17

“LETS GO!”

“Hokies!”

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