For the Few Johnson Critcs....

I didn't realize CPJ made that adjustment.

“He’s a very smart man” ~ Forest Gump
 
I wonder how they accounted for the DE? Were they dropping with the pitch man (was there a pitch man) or were they getting blocked by the tackles? Its still a good adjustment by CPJ. Definitely won the game.
 
Yep, the mid-line was there the whole game, but PJ didn't go to it but in the 4th. I love this quote:

Dwyer had carries of 2, 1, 4, 3, and 1 yard in the third quarter because of Jenkins and Johnson, and they looked eager to stuff him on Tech’s drive in the fourth. They were baited and erased.
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Read the CU boards. They still don't understand that PJ used their strength against them to get his way in the 4th. Nesbitt ran, and ran, and ran... all the way to the tying and winning FG's.
 
stinger78 said:
Yep, the mid-line was there the whole game, but PJ didn't go to it but in the 4th. I love this quote:



Read the CU boards. They still don't understand that PJ used their strength against them to get his way in the 4th. Nesbitt ran, and ran, and ran... all the way to the tying and winning FG's.
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Let it stay that way. The more ignorant opposing fans are, the better!
 
I can see us running the midline a ton this year, because defenses didn't see it too much last year.
 
stinger78 said:
Yep, the mid-line was there the whole game, but PJ didn't go to it but in the 4th.
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Do I understand you to mean that we could have run the mid-line all game and had success with it but chose to keep getting cha-cha-cha'd until after Clemson took the lead?
 
I read this article yesterday....but I only JUST NOW actually figured out what the adjustment was..

Dwyer had carries of 2, 1, 4, 3, and 1 yard in the third quarter because of Jenkins and Johnson, and they looked eager to stuff him on Tech’s drive in the fourth. They were baited and erased.
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PJ KNEW that they were just gunning for Dwyer. So he let them, and not only that, he LET THEM THINK IT WAS WORKING.

God I love our coach.
 
GiveEmHellJackets said:
Do I understand you to mean that we could have run the mid-line all game and had success with it but chose to keep getting cha-cha-cha'd until after Clemson took the lead?
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It appeared to me that the mid-line and the keeper were open all game long. The DT's and MLB were crashing the A gaps hard all night, and the DE was stringing out the pitch, leaving a hole inside. It looked to me that they purposely were making Josh beat them with his legs or arm... that that was their game plan.

PJ only called the mid-line about 4 times earlier, and Nesbitt passed up the keeper several times when he had yards ahead of him. It's up to PJ to call the mid-line, but Josh has to make the read on the keeper. I was yelling for it from the upper north the whole night. Maybe he heard me during that TO in the 4th. :p

I have no idea why he waited. You'd have to ask him that.
 
TechinItEasy said:
I read this article yesterday....but I only JUST NOW actually figured out what the adjustment was..



PJ KNEW that they were just gunning for Dwyer. So he let them, and not only that, he LET THEM THINK IT WAS WORKING.

God I love our coach.
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I don't know if I'd get too drunk on the Kool-Aid just yet. I don't think CPJ would just let us get handled to the point of us losing the lead just to have a play in the back pocket.
 
I think one person said that in the 4th quarter Johnson might of called out Nesbitt on no choosing the keeper when he should of. At the time it really sounded like something that could be genuine because I know Nesbitt knows that he has 9 more weeks of football without an off week. I think that if the midline was called before but Nesbitt didn't run through it then it might confirm it a bit.
 
Enuratique said:
I don't know if I'd get too drunk on the Kool-Aid just yet. I don't think CPJ would just let us get handled to the point of us losing the lead just to have a play in the back pocket.
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Yes that is very strange...but the fact that we have a coach who has ANY answers for something like that is amazing.

A Gailey coached GT team loses that game, no question.
 
Enuratique said:
I don't know if I'd get too drunk on the Kool-Aid just yet. I don't think CPJ would just let us get handled to the point of us losing the lead just to have a play in the back pocket.
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Yeah, I don't think PJ purposely tanked the 3rd quarter just so he could spring his trap in the 4th. I think he wanted the dive to work to set up his option, but CU insisted on committing the players to shut it down, and the DE to help shut down the pitch. This presented the "option" to burn them with the mid-line. I do think he waited to do this until he knew it was time. How he knows this is a secret bound up in PJ's ample brain.
 
stinger78 said:
Yeah, I don't think PJ purposely tanked the 3rd quarter just so he could spring his trap in the 4th. I think he wanted the dive to work to set up his option, but CU insisted on committing the players to shut it down, and the DE to help shut down the pitch. This presented the "option" to burn them with the mid-line. I do think he waited to do this until he knew it was time. How he knows this is a secret bound up in PJ's ample brain.
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We only had 3 drives in the 3rd quarter.

In my mind, that is still 1 to many to wait to make an adjustment, but nobody will ever know why he waited as long as he did.

The(my) point is that he actually did it. That more than anything gets me excited.
 
OK. I asked some Navy folks this question. We'll see what they think.

I can't stand it! Football is so fun again! :biggthumpup:
 
TechinItEasy said:
We only had 3 drives in the 3rd quarter.

In my mind, that is still 1 to many to wait to make an adjustment, but nobody will ever know why he waited as long as he did.

The(my) point is that he actually did it. That more than anything gets me excited.
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I think part of the reason was some of the injuries we had on the OL. When Bedford was at C we could move the ball some. When he was out it was more difficult for example. To think that PJ magically adjusts on a moment's notice is expecting too much I think. It take a little time to figure out why something isn't working and what the correct counter is.
 
ncjacket said:
I think part of the reason was some of the injuries we had on the OL. When Bedford was at C we could move the ball some. When he was out it was more difficult for example. To think that PJ magically adjusts on a moment's notice is expecting too much I think. It take a little time to figure out why something isn't working and what the correct counter is.
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Agree...although from what everyone else who has had PJ as a coach before says, he adjusts a good bit faster than others.

Dabo took a full half to really adjust to what we were doing, it took PJ a quarter to adjust back. I THINK that he normally adjusts faster than this, but there were some various extenuating circumstances in this particular game(huge momentum change, our OL going down, etc)
 
I can safely say I have never seen someone get outcoached as bad as Dabo in the first quarter Thursday. Out of all of the coaches on the sideline and 10 guys upstairs, not one person sees Thomas and tells anyone to call a timeout? And everyone in the stadium knew it was a pooch kick out of their field goal formation. Just punt from the regular formation and it is probably not 6 (regardless of Dabo saying he told the guy to kick it out of bounds).

http://www.youtube.com/group/georgiatech#play/all/3/QNINS5kVI_E

reminiscient of this:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...hUOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3XwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5935,3576413

both links from the hive
 
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i don't understand how anyone can be a critic of him after what he's done for 15 games.

He's won 11 of 15 without his actual players that he caters to in recruiting.

He's a helluva coach, motivator, and mind in the game of football in general.

Not to mention a F'n Winner....which is something that we haven't had in a long time.

he's not happy just competing and going to a bowl....he sees the bigger picture and guides the young men to that common goal
 
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