Virginia Tech=23, Rutgers=26

Virginia Tech football fought the good fight.

The Hokies just came up ½-a-play short and did not win the nite. Eye say this… as this squadron coulda let go the rope. Spit the bit. Wet the bed. Picked up the… soap. As a lotta lesser teams and men woulda done just that. And yet there are NO moral victories— only immoral ones. That, and Pry Bar and Co. must now leverage this team back-up after nearly going asexual and beating themselves all day long. As the All-Championship Conference Standings say… this is no better than a .5oo club right now folks. No how upset you gets and no matter how poorly that reality sits with some of, you!

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4Q o:oo and 8 games remaining:
Interestingly, Pry’s contract calls for an increase in his budget for staffing where he will be able to possibly create new positions, based on the amount of wins he leads the team to. Eye DNK that; did you?

Approx’ ≅$11-large (or mil, when including incentives).
That’s yah’ll firebug’s magic number.

“Ante up and kick in…”
—Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins

Time To Throw (TTT)©:

Rutgers:
Qb pressured=7
Qb hurried=2
Qb hits=11
Sacked=3

Virginia Tech:
Qb pressured=7
Qb hurried=2 (1 for –2-points)
Qb hits=16 (1 fumble)
Sacked=2

Time To Throw Analysis:
Well, and yes Eye knows… wells are for water b.street!

Well… what did you expect?
That’s a pretty close TTT in a pretty close game.

And frankly?
Seeing how they have 3 oLine starters @Tech and we may not have any oLine starers @Rutgers?
(Plus our gimpy and sickly kids?)

Hell’s-bells… that’s not really all that insufferably bad… to be such a crooked-looking unit upon breaking tape… with:

• 3 okay/decent roly-poly bugs on the inside (G-c-G) who are every bit okay at everything as they are not bad or not great at anything.
• 1 Ot1 with a lotta measurables on a bad twig and another Ot1 with not many measurables on much of anything that nobody behind him can seem to sit down and beat out.
• AND, and, and, kind like what c.News courted most years… a very mixed heterogeneous hand. Not a homogenous 5-of-a-kind blocking set. As no side is really run-behind great; not odd=left or even=right). Neither side is pass-pro’ deploy Drones out our way great…

…and well, just how great or even how average should you R.A.T.T. expect them to, be?

As in… there is NOTHING to play to or emphasize here.
Nadda. None. Nil.

Blocking:

positive: 42%
Swiss: 18%
negative: 4o%

Graded pretty poorly to begin… we were really taking on halftime water… 1:1:2 (positive:Swiss:negative) is a Bill Walton “turrrrrable” ratio when you know the snap: ‘count’ and where the play is going.

Though it did improve a pinch later on… still a suspect day and an insalubrious day on top of that. As 4o% of our Top blockers were dingy, denty or jus’ plum: “OUT”.

RU did a good job toggling their defensive spacing to reverse-‘chip’ our guys when we tried to reach. The only calculus for you is… is this all the blocking an illin’ unit had in it?

IF ‘aye’ that is all she @Miami and @Stanford wrote.

IF ‘nyet’ we hope to have at least .5oo Miami and Standford answers yet to come.

(o) (o)
V

As we four found the longer 3rd and any/all Rutgers 4th down calls to be squirrely indeed. NEVER, as in never ever never never F with momentum! Never. Twice double out on the road as a road underdog. Which they did several times…

Which gleans us two clean things…

1. Eye guess… they musta seen sompthin(s)… upon breaking tape their ownself and that sompthin did not hit in this instance(s). Eye guess… as they were pressing at best… and just missing at worst…
2. Eye know… they kept us in this game. Several times. Staling if not killing their very own line-of-scrummage momentum though NO credit of our own. Gilly, Fuga and Peeps made a few plays and hung on/in as best they could… tho’ RU was generating mo’ push than they were.

They were also crossing us up and crossing our wires our loaded for rushing-bear run-fills with some surprising so-called: ‘crossbuck’ or triple-mesh point passing fakes. That’s scheming the verb. And they were a schemey step ahead of us here. +1 or +2 at them.

The fact that all data drained the play clock and limited VeeTee to a mere 54-“hikes” is strangulating, the end.

(Though you would rather dare them to beat you threw the air than on the ground,
which they surprisingly did… as that Qb1 is not all data and a ‘snap’).

Longfield Management (Lo.FM)©:

Virginia Tech:
positive: |||
Swiss (neutral): |||
negative: |||| ||}| (1 INT! 1 bonehead Safety!)

Rutgers:
positive: |||| || (1 VT foul)
Swiss (neutral): |||| (1 VT foul)
negative: |||| |||| |||| (1 RU foul, 1 VT foul)

Lo.FM Analysis:
Here we see that, same as above… this Lo.FM posits, connotes, and avers a push, even, pick ’em game. Although it also hints at our D out-coaching our O. Which is what all the National Rankings have been hinting at since Pry and Co. arrived; n’est-ce pas?

Though as you can see above… the Hokiebird played a fowl Lo.FM game here. Not only did we get into our very own way we got into our very own way at the worst time(s) to do so.

off–season Culture >>> in-season Composure???

See: below fo’ mo’…

…though to (as the rest of the 4th-estate alleged), be our best seasonal look in a decade…

…we sure do not look the Bo Derek part. We look antsy in the panties, in a word.

βeta Analysis:
The B-side says that our pass-pro’ is -3oo% worse than our run-shapes! WoW.
Eye won’t ever lie to yah; as you need not be St.Joseph the Carptnder to know that lying is fo’… rugs.

Though Eye’d be lying like a rug IF I thought we should emphasize that. Drones is not so aerially developed to bandwidth support that.

So, what’s a ’23 playbook already downloaded, hacked, and figured out Ty.Bow’ to do?

(o) (o)
V

Tackling:
As in… stop-making?
Continues to be not too shabby.

It is the coverage or getting to the tackle point that is illin’.
The RU crossbuck looks from their Te1 going into the grade or against the play grade flummoxed our hind-7 on discipline or ‘who has: Qb1, Pitch, Te’ over-n-over-n-over again.

Now, is this bad play-calling? (Marve has already admitted as much and did grass drills to punish himself). Is it lack of court vision (which encodes for: dum’ jocks, basically)? As this is happening right in front of them… with good lines of sight… it moves the onus onto the blindness of the baller(s). It further moves the onus onto them in that they are the same sucky guys vision-wise since DAX was close to 2o-2o as a non-r-shirt Sr. The only ’24 toggle is Mike1. Who has been okay.

So, he is coachable -or, not: blind- and the rest are not? You sure ’bout dat???

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the takeaway...

…the takeaway here is that… this is a very needy-looking Staff both upon tape and in the Box Score alike.

We are supposed to be the favorite, right?
A Darkhorse Play-Off entrant or at least an All-Championship Contender, right?

Well, we don’t act or play-call like it. We act needy. Ovulation. Whoremoanal.

Why???

As we are 113th best in 4th-down conversion O.
HOWEVER, we are a mind-boggling 21st most on 4th down calls raw/itself.

Now, how does any of that encode for being the favorite or the u.dog to you?

Or, does that codex for a team that is feeling some kinda something? Pressure, compulsion, durress? Call it what you deign. Just do not call it acting the Play-Off or A.c.c. title game part. As the plot only grew mo’ viscus the deeper Eye dug… Check it… most of the 4th Down top O’s (or, at least the fewest 4th play-calling O’s) are the bad-azz D-1 schools. Georgia, ‘Bama, or P2 et al. The really BIG boys act out BIG here. In point of fact… when Eye drilled down even mo’ -with only a few (hot-seat) exceptions- most of the Top-4o is still unbeaten or 3-1 at worst. wow.

“Act like you been there.”
“Dress for success.“

Whereas we don’t know where we are going and look the disheveled/shabby program, part.

🏈 👁️.Q. Award Winner:
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Big Lick:
This one was one that did not have one.
: (

As the best one was a RU boundary side stick.

Bad Cat:
Keller.

For his killer all-out run-down efforting along the sideline reception and he ran that Wr down from behind at a suspect acute chase angle. Something most Lb1’s are basically not supposed to Wr1, (un)do.

Sky Hawk:
Not (memory; gone forgot) Lane.
And that drop hurt. With no word yet from Bart ‘butterfingers’ Simpson.

King Hokie:
X!!!

This kid sure looked doneski at: 4Q 14:o6 remaining.

Only to return and execute *the* downhill roadgrader gone aircraft carrier seal on the right-De of RU when the Hokies went Saint Lazarus and came back from the deal.
St.Nikon help.

Man’s game; son!!!
Took a lotta sack to suck it up and get back up and take mo’ than one fo’ da team.

X Chaplin can drink from my canteen any day.
An Apocalypse Now baller to be sure.

TECHnique:
Pry’s… Pop1?

Does anyone know if Jim was this much of a cheerleader1?

Is Pry from that kinda: coaches must “YELL” to be coaches Verbose/loquacious, Tree?

comBUSTables:

As Cobra-Ky’ sure picked a ruff time to lay a stinky sulphuric Hokiebird egg?

• 83.4 on the easier RTG,
• and 32.3 on the stricter QBR,
• are both season lows and lowly lows on the drop at that.

Whereas the so-so to middleocore Rutgers Qb1 went No Individual L’s allowed with a third from career-high QBR and a very sport RTG out on the underdog road. wowow.

An even further compound fracture to the brain when you consider the RU Greek1/Qb1 had possession of the ‘ball +2oo% mo’ than our very own Cobra-Ky’!

Or, this one could prolly been at least a little worse than it R.A.T.T., was.

xxx‘s & ooo‘s:
RU 1st-down calls…

…as they and their Greek1/Qb1 pwned us here. Truly.

≅+352% in the top of the 1st-inning assays so.

Tho’ we did manage to cut this down from right at +1,ooo% to the suck at intermission. So, there is 1st-down dat.

A strange game this oblong spheroid yet again(s) gentlemen.

The “Hisssssssing” booth:

…here in the “Hisssssssing” booth… we still want to know…

Where’s the τau Σigma λambda I used to know?
That Eye may not know… tho’ I do know thus…

I know that:

• The: 4th run-O, 16th O and 23rd pass-O with their 33rd D and 11th pass-D…
• just beat the 71st O with its 84th pass-O complimented by its 6oth D and 112th run-D.

LOL… what part of any of R.A.T.T. ^^^that^^^ says VeeTee should win anything here? Are yah’ll high? Drugged-out? Krunk?

"Where you stand is where you sit."
--Coach Miles's Law

They coulda -and maybe even shoulda- sat on us by at least 10 mo’ points… maybe mo’…

And yet as things stand now– yah all kinda pissy as hell…

…why???

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…LOL.. as chinny and feckless as #FireBug ever!!!

’cause try as we might… we still cannot #FireTalent!!!

LOL… some… mo’… so predictable… so tired… so played.
’cause there is this… and all you Terminate Some Loosers…

Riddle me thus…

What is the difference between coaching the verb and capping the nouning???

‘please do ‘splain… stick thy tongue to the TSL mantra pole… Eye dare yah!

“The Rest of the Story...“

’cause here, here on Planet Earth you ask?

Well, terrestrially here… we credibly, measurably, and objectively see the following…

• We see… the #1 Returning Production D-1 football team outta 135 ’24 D-1 teams!!!
• We see… the no.1 Returning Production 95% (1st-best) O.
• We see… the tweleveteen Returning Production 77% (12th-best) D.
• Do you see(s) what we, mean(s)?

What we means is headroom.

Or, the (science fact) graphical lack their of…

Check it…

…look at all the: ‘old-heads’ …^^^there^^^.

They are (very likely), cooked.
Past-tense.

Over. Done. Finished. Through.
Utenciles… plural.

As still developing goes… they be who they be… who they have been. Or, has been in the finest colloquial terms.

As their headroom is (pretty much) called a ceiling as remaining eligibility short-timers go. Ceiling kids for the few who have some metrics/Talent(s). And roofing kids for those who do… not.

Think of it this way… the final Packer team to hoist the Lombardi under the all-time Alpha same? Slipped to 9th-best on O and 4th-best on D. They had NO headroom left. Nadda. None. Nil. Zilch. Zero. Zip.

’cause at this stAGE of their career chart it is very tuff to toss the Hokiebird salad outta Hokie… S…

Aging like milk ¦ not like… wine.

Or, did that just make too much, since❔

The sportlight…

…here in the (now) .5oo sportlight we see the following for what they R.A.T.T. are.

We see that we now face one of the two most Talented teams in their So.Beach backyard. After which we face a team ‘on the come’ in their backyard on our longest roadie of the year and mutually our fatigue max’ or R&R min’.

We see an entire Program that is about a skulled bump-n-run putt removed from officially being ‘available’ as several thingy(s) still appear to be… post-Rutgers… ‘ajar.”

Though and a tip of the hat to the few sane coaching critics…

there is this little Tech-Tid-Bit…

We also see this football team for who they… are… not…

Not any longer anywho… check it…

Drones has 2 maybe 3 boomstick-hits on runs threw 33.33% of ’24, why(s)❓

We knew his passing was unlikely to improve… we told you so… we told you he was LAST place long and then we showed you that he was the same on everything in ’23 (53.4%) when you subtract out the increased ≤9-yard throws and the behind: the line-of-scrummage throws. Or, he was a ~58% passer in ’23 and he is a whopping ~59% passer in ’24, right?

Then he missed two Dixie Chunks: “Wide Open Spaces” on HR throws on Saturday… again…

...tho' why such a soft touch on runs???

As do recall… his very 5th play in ’23… well he just had to ‘inflict his will’ on the helpless even-side Cb1 of Purdue? Hommie got boilermaker sideline… served!!! Punked. Trucked. Ginkgo, dat?

Ot–G–c–G–Ot

As this massive physicality from one of two primo in situ Leadership positions in pigskin terms (Mike1=other) is what broke the ’23 back… we told you he was the team and the Culture his ownself… over and over and over and over… like Atlas, carrying the same on his very own Doan’s damn back.

Now?

Well, now, and not so much on the physicality…

We four can understand that this may just be a ‘capped kid as passing-fancy goes. (Recall: nobody @Baylor shed a departing tear here… gotta be a reason(s) for dat, too). Tho’ this team looks to you Cobra-Ky’ to set the load the damn mule uber physical tone— not to make a Not For Long or Nobody Imitates Loosers ass of thyself.

As in… his –7% passing @home might just be an (over) pressurization, hint!

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formulae football
After this Saturday as a home 5-point-fave at kickoff out on the Vegas big board… this Staff is 1-9 in one-score games and o-13 when trailing at intermission.

Or, if that does not read a bit soft to you now… when would it?

When the Stuka dive-bombers begin to form up and circle… Pearl?

–oOo–

You coaching-honk guys do win that round 10-7 on two knockdowns… and with two more consecutive hard hard-azz visiting rounds as the traveling team immediately on tap…

…you do gotta wonder if the Ref’ {sic: A.D.} will be forced to take a good long hard look at this O&M fighter…

’cause the only people who are sayin’ 1-22 combined is anything north of an unacceptable look are… NO people, see?

Even Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Marve, and Mrs. Pry must decry…
Even Maytag cannot spin-cycle that for those she-pronouns…

Or, when will they be forced to consider throwing the towel in and stopping the fight?

“ALLLL aboard“… The Little Engine That… Kan’t, all kinda ajar here we go, again…

As this remaining ’24 docket has precious few available exit ramps if it has any at all.

#JustSayKnow

#wimps!

Virginia Tech=23, Rutgers=26

“LETS GO!”

“Hokies!”

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