Virginia Tech=38, Miami=35
Helluva a thrilling last second Hokie win folks!
As that one prolly had your Hokie heart in your Hokie throat as Virginia Tech nearly came from ahead to choke; or at least let one get away from them that they sure seemed to be in control of for the opening 40 odd minutes of scrimmaging more and less.
That said, and it pains me to do this after seeing all the despicable ‘Cane sportsmanship in full effect and large and in change in breaking tape … gotta give Miami a little credit -although not much- for taking VT right down to the final play. Thank Coach God that coach Golden did not attempt to run a muck, over, around and through and extremely insalubrious looking and beat all to hell Virginia Tech stop-unit from the word go. Or this one might have had a vastly different final outcome as Bud Lite nearly had nothing for Miami in the closing 20 minutes of play.
That said, Bud Lite is truly left muddled in a personnel shortage upfront as this VT dLine can not get much thinner at Dt before Coach Foster’s hand could possibly be forced into a de facto or need based 30-set oe Nickle look full time. If you know a solid Ng who is outta work, or a Ng who can do work, please give Coach Foster a call A.S.A.P.!
3rd quarter, 12:20 remaining:
Hate to rain on the 92% passing parade and such an otherwise fine looking L.T. day, though #3 and Miller definitely need some extra shotgun reps after practice this week. This makes three dropped shotgun snaps on the year for one reason or another. Makes you wonder if Miller and or L.T. did much of this in High School, or not?
3rd quarter, 11:54 remaining:
Splash yet another boggy for someone’s sources who said that Branthover would punt for VT this season way back during last spring. Dood has a big ole leg, and a surprisingly quick and downright confident looking release. This kid is not only an improvement; he could become an outright field-position changing weapon with this kinda bionic leg, given time. Dood also sports that 70’s Show Eric Foreman middle-class pasty fro’. I bet he even has an old wooden electrical wiring-spool that calls his basement home.
3rd quarter, 11:11 remaining:
If you are momma Bruce Taylor reading this one, don’t. As your son just got totally stolen at the end of this run by #63 for Miami who ate B.T. up like breakfast, lunch, dinner and burp. B.T. is luck his right knee did not get pinned on this one when he was falling out of control backwards at the end of the hit. For a change, this one was a legal hit, a nasty hit, and a scary hit, all rolled into one.
3rd quarter, 7:02 remaining:
How in the hell did my preternatural hommie manage to remain upright after effectively do a no-hands round-off along the VT sideline while breaking no less than 5 freakin’ tackles on this play?!? “Four” is having a Gumby moment indeed and you have got to be kidding me! I only have one word for this kinda run: “HEISMAN!”
3rd quarter, 20 minutes remaining in the game:
Hate to say it; though Miami simply pawned us upfront from this point on men. Makes you wonder if there is a brain in Coach Golden’s head or not. As you have to ponder why he did not simply ram it down VT’s throat from the get-go? To put it mildly, The U simply physically manhandled Bud Lite so abusively, that Bud Lite had to turn to the offensive Guard otherwise known as Courtney Prince to close the Dt show. YIKES!
Wanna throw a Game Duration shout-out to #17 Kyle Fuller and his team leading 6 solo stops in this one. Kyle really sacked up and played a much more physical game vs. Miami than he just did vis-à-vis Clemson last week. Note the cracking good hit he landed on #5 James of Miami at the 14:45 remaining mark of the 4th quarter. “That’s what it’s all about.”
One more Game Duration shout-out to James Brooks who simply blocked his ass off vs. Miami along the line-of-scrimmage and fold-blocking to the second layer downfield; his career long forte.
4th quarter, 12:36 remaining:
Watch #36 of the Miami KO return team simply headbutt #40 Willie Brown at the end of this play for no rhyme or reason in the world.
“Miami, where ethos goes to die.”
To put it very mildly, this one only got worse from here on out as South Beach Sportsmanship goes, as composure is simply not Miami’s middle name.
4th quarter, 11:28 remaining:
Watch Bruce Taylor as he clearly was a man on the mission on this one and was not to be denied. Not even a chip-block by #6 of Miami could slow fiddy-one (#51) down on his hard charging blitz right into the grill of J.Harris of Miami. This is just a irresistible object kinda effort outta B.T. Now, do be clear; this was one of our very few good defensive plays to close the show.
4th quarter, 8:25 remaining:
Second down and about 1.89 inches for a first. Let’s see? What to do here? Think this might be a good chance for an aggressive play-call or for simply taking a shot at the endzone with 2
remaining downs to pick up the aforementioned inch and change? Watch senior year Qb J.Harris (who is wide open himself) actually hand-signaling for Phil Dorsett to go ahead and throw this one into the endzone to the double wide-open Lamar Miller. Bait-n-switch 101, or hook-line-n-sinker, as you had to feel that ole sinking feeling starting to creep up on you at this stage of the game. (see: above pic)
4th quarter, 8:18 remaining:
MEMO to #26, if you wanna have sex with Wilson why not ask him out on a date? Geez, give me a freakin’ break.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot is #26 of Miami trying to tell us about his sexuality on this one? Why in the world would you dry-hump or tea-bag David Wilson if you are straight? Get the frack outta here twenty-six and go get a bathroom attendants job at the Twist Club down in Miami. Now note the Referee who must be about as Blue State as they come to let something this vulgar and this vile occur and do nothing about it. Shame shame shame on you Mr. J.Magallanes, as this just gave new meaning to: “letting them play.”
- Stud-De, Ty.Wilson=219 lbs.
- New starting Whip Lb ‘zo.Tweedy=189 lbs.
- That’s an average of 2o4 lbs. when they line-up on the field or wide side of the playing-field.
- Jus’ sayin’.
4th quarter, 1:36 remaining:
Yah; I know we had 2 timeouts left. Though 4 read-option or scripted runs to close the show may or may not have been predictable, and yes I do get trying to run out the clock or at least leave 3 timeout Miami with precious few tics left on the game-clock. I mean L.T. was only 92% on the day after all. He had only completed 6 in a row and was nothing short of sizzling hawt to close the show. Guess he needs to go 24 outta 25 before we trust him and his golden arm with the keys to the O&M car; as I’m not real sure I would have taken this one outta his hands at this stage. Or at the very least; let him take one stab at the endzone or downfield as you did have one timeout to burn which means you could cross Miami up and throw over the middle at least once.
4th quarter, 0:52 remaining:
Epic back-field shield-block by Brooks to just barely crack-open an internal left-side A-gap or 1-hole seam for L.T. on the “46-rabbit” keeper up the gut (see: above pic). Pancakes or knock-down blocks are tasty indeed men, however, a shield block is every bit as effective in the final analysis as Brooks just barely managed to use #54’s own momentum against him and torque the upper-body of #54 of Miami which effectively blocked #58 as well. Then wham, bam, thank you ma’am and L.T. was suddenly off to the game winning races.
4th quarter, 0:05 remaining:
A 5 yard pass with five seconds left and 55 odd yards to go to pay-dirt? Really? Is there such a thing as a 5-yard Hail Mary? Yup, I suppose there is. Nice decision J.Harris; and an even better open-field tackle from Tweedy who is nothing less than an open-field tackling savant.
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Virginia Tech:
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hurries= zero
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drops= || (1 Hosley INT)
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* record setting low count on VT Qb pressures allowed all-time!
Let’s cut right to the chase; and for a change we are not actually guilty of having to rip the proverbial Band-Aid or yank the proverbial tooth. Simply and directly put: best day ever as the Time To Throw metric goes for C.News and his formerly much maligned oLine!
If you see Coach Curt Newsome around campus or in town this week, how about giving him (and his oLinemen) a collective pat on the back, a: “job well done”. Instead of the normal collective kick in the can; as it was his boys that just blocked their ass off for all of you. Before we get into all of that; recall that 3 of C.News’ top-8 offensive linemen are playing lame or simply out of commission. Via has a bad knee and is playing well outta position at right-Guard, Lanier still has the M.C.L. and Wang –who is quite possibly our best run-blocking Guard- is done; at least until late November. Now, note that Miller is playing every single snap at Center, that Nosal is playing the whole game at left-Guard and that DeChris and his affinity for “Grizzly” Adams is playing from start to finish at right-Ot. According to my 36 hours of Calc’ and Stats that’s 60% of our starting oLine that is never ever getting a single snap off and nary a moments rest. Think they might just be getting’ a little tired? Yup, me too, though you gotta give Miller, Nosal and DeChris credit for going the distance in a 12 round championship fight week after week after week. (note: do monitor fatigue and the associated performance of our three iron-men going forward; as you have to wonder how fresh they will be in mid to late November)
That’s what C.News has to work with, 7 guys that really should have been code for no less than 8 rotating blockers back in August; possibly more. 3 of those 7 had to be dead tired at the end of the Miami day; and 2 of those 7 are lame and gutting it out as best they can at something south of 100% health.
Now we are ready for some real-live analysis.
L.T. was actually only hit twice in the pocket, the rest of his contacts were via carries downfield. L.T. was never
hurried, and he was only pressured five times on the afternoon. Stop me if you’ve heard all of that before. I suppose you could stop me, if you only looked at the first quarter of Time To Throw data alone. In terms of an entire football game? Get outta here! No way in the “wide wide World of Sports” is that one even remotely possible much less on-film plausible in days gone by.
Though that is exactly what happened on Saturday down in the New River Valley. Yes, the half-rolls and the couple of full roll-outs did help move the pocket and create some backfield spacing/separation, or a comfort zone for L.T. to throw in. Recall that he has struggled with pressure right in his face when he has pulled the string on his passes in the past. It is indeed tough for that to happen with nobody in front of L.T. in a moving or rolling pocket. Splash one boggy each for Qb Coach Mike O’Cain and Offensive Coordinator Stiney on that one folks. Sure hope we see more of that in the future, as L.T. easily has the six-million dollar or bionic arm that is necessary to engineer such throws. Additionally, having “three” roll-out negates the W.T.A. hottie awaiting a baseline serve choppy footwork right before L.T. launches one in the pocket as well. Those of you who play or watch tennis know what I mean. As it is difficult at best to get your feet set to throw when you are in grass-drill perpetual motion inside the pocket on a normal drop-back pass. Passing a football, same as throwing a baseball begins (or ends) downstairs. In civil engineering terms, it is tough to build that sky-scrapper indeed, sans the structurally sound and altogether proper supporting foundation. When L.T. rolls out his lengthy strides cover bonus ground and his rolling footwork seamlessly and effortless falls right into place. Such was a thing of beauty and L.T. had nothing short of a great-looking day on the roll and on the move vs. the Miami Hurricanes. A career best day for #3 mind you, and hands down career best at that!
On the other hand, VT won the TTT metric by precisely 3 Qb pressures; and yet again (same as the Lo.FM) won on the scoreboard by precisely three points. Bud Lite did not really get after J.Harris with much in the way of exotics or pressures until the fourth quarter when we recorded our twin Qb sacks and when we recorded nearly all of our Qb pressures. I will be most curious to see if this changes any at Wake Forest vs. their (now) pass-happy attack. Further, I am likewise very curious to see if Bud Lite will launch Tweedy and his game changing speed up-field vs. what appears to be a less athletic Deacon offensive squad on film.
In one week’s time, Bud Lite has dropped from 2nd vs. the run to 13th in rushing defense. That metric may not move as much this weekend, presuming Wake lets Tanner Price throw it all around. Although you do have to suspect that record-setting Hb Josh Harris will want another crack at Bud Lite; after having gone totally off on VT for 241 yards if you need him last season. Finally, I am also quite intrigued to see how L.T. does vs. the 50-set defense down at Wake. Recall that the 3-4 base defense is really the immediate offspring of the 50 (or 52) defense that Bud Wilkinson ran at Oklahoma. Which only won 47 games in a row; the all-time D-1 college football mark just in case you were wondering.
(Wake Forest SPOILER alert: and oh by the way … guess who does not field a single defensive starter who weighs in north of 259 lbs.???)
“LET’S GO!”
“HOKIES!”
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