Here is why we can beat both Boston College and Virginia Tech

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LLTW

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To me, these games are pretty much identical. Our Offense will be going up against stout defenses, particularly the defensive lines. On the flip side, our strong defense and its line will go up against good opposing lines, but overall impotent offenses. Although Glennon has much more starting experience, I'm no more threatened by him than the BC QB. I don't see either offense manufacturing more than one touchdown drive against our defense. I think we are good here.

The spotlight will, of course, be on how our offense performs. To me, Nesbitt is the X-Factor, and the reason why I believe we can win both games. We are all expecting some breakdowns from our O-line, and Nesbitt's improvisational skills will be important. I know a lot of people are worried about his throwing abilities, but after the first drive, I thought he settled down pretty well and most some good throws. I really like his arm strength. But the thing I love most about him is that you feel like he can make a positive play when there isn't one apparently available. Dwyer is a nice luxury to have, too.

Of course, we have to worry about fumbling the ball. The exchanges and handling were not crisp in the first game, and I'm hoping that it was just first-game nerves. We will fumble the ball a few times though, and I'm already counting on the offense to compensate for spotting BC, hopefully at most, 10 free points off of turnovers.

Special teams is also of concern, but I don't think this is actually going to be a huge problem. In field goal situations, I think PJ will go for it or punt it unless its a layup field goal. He's not going to put too much pressure on the kickers with long field goals. And I like our chances to convert on 4th downs. Our special teams won't cost us a game... for now anyway.

Overall, I'm excited about our chances. I think we can all agree that regardless of what the outcomes are, we will play iin 2 very, very competitive games.
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If we don't improve our exchanges and our guards are slow to the point of impact, then BC's DLine is going to completely devastate us and that will give their Linebackers the ability to mirror our backs. They were #2 against the run last year and they're a BETTER line this year. Their defensive line will be one of the best we face all year.

On offense, BC's QB better scare you because he has the ability to run and throw. He's a 5th year senior and a back-up to Ryan his entire career. He's a very athletic QB who can make something out of nothing a lot like Nesbitt. He knows how to run the offense too.

I'm more scared of BC than VT. BC's weakness is their secondary and their freshman running back. But their RB will be running behind one of the bigger lines we will face. And our guys have historically gotten torn up by big physical Olines.

I don't see BC scoring many points on us. I can see us making mistakes, fumbling the ball, and basically giving them good field position to beat ourselves.

We will win or lose this game based on our kicking game, which showed itself to be complete crap.

If we win this game, that tells me we are a very good and a very dangerous team. We could make some serious noise this year if we can prove to beat this BC team. This is a very tough team.
 
BarrelORum said:
They were #2 against the run last year and they're a BETTER line this year. Their defensive line will be one of the best we face all year.



If we win this game, that tells me we are a very good and a very dangerous team. We could make some serious noise this year if we can prove to beat this BC team. This is a very tough team.
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BC has one of the best front 7 on defense in the country....

I also agree, IF we win this game, we may be in for a special year, but may have a hard time climbing in the polls, because of the bad press the ACC has gotten. Why I wish we had 2 very good OOC games in exchange for The Jax State and Gardner Webb games, at least one of them anyway...
 
I like playing the smaller teams this year so we just get the offense more learning time. But after thay i would love to start up the auburn series again.
 
BC has the best defensive line in the country, imo. I wasn't impressed with OUR pressure last Thursday.

Virginia Tech has the best special teams in the conference. Ours looked like complete horse cakka.

I'm not exactly thrilled with our chances in either of these contests.
 
What are you guys talking about. Polls always award teams with good records regardless of the bad schedule. Last year LSU completely trashed VT, as if VT was from FCS, but they were still ranked NUMBER 3 in BCS pre-bowl rankings with 11-2.

Part of it is the love affair everyone has with VT, they get overrated. But still, in the same ranking BC and clempson were 14 and 15.

If we beat BC,Clempson and VT, it's a top ten ranking before we play Ugag.

As for the original purpose of the thread, it's 50-50 I say, but we are definitely going there to win.
 
Have to agree that BC is more scary than VT at this point. I do remember what their offensive line did to us last year, and it still makes me want to puke. I could have sat back in the pocket and looked like Joe Montana if I had as much time to throw as Matt Ryan did last year.

Can't say I know much about BC's QB. Had no idea he was a duel-threat QB, which makes me a bit worried with our inexperienced linebackers. Still think the defense will be fine overall though.

I'm counting on the surprise factor of our offense to carry us through these next games against the defenses we are about to face. Hopefully, they won't have too much of an idea of what we are trying to do. Hell, our own players might know what we are trying to do. That's what makes this so much fun. Who knows what the hell our offense is capable of. Wouldn't be surprised if we hung 40 on BC, and I wouldn't be surprised if we fumbled it 5 or 6 times and scored nothing.
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Most recent memory; Jayson Foster's first year running the option at GSU in 2005, took about 4 games before he was solid on handoffs, pitches, and reading the D. But we had Sewak making the calls, Johnson is the better triggerman IMO.
 
Neither is particularly good? Based on what body of data?
 
GoldZ said:
Neither is particularly good? Based on what body of data?
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http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard


Not saying we are exactly stellar at this point, but VT only scored 2 offensive TDs vs East Carolina, and I'm 100% positive our defense is better than theirs. If we hold VT to 14 points, we'll assuredly score 21. Same argument goes for BC. They only scored 21 points, vs Kent State, and if our D holds them to 14 then we've got a great shot at a win.


I'm not guaranteeing victory or anything. We've got just as many holes as those teams do. But clearly, yeah, neither of those two is particularly good. Nor is Clemson particularly good. If we can ever learn how to run the option, we'll cruise.
 
Can we beat BC and VT?: YES
Will we beat BC and VT?: MAYBE
Will we beat BC and VT if we play like we did Thursday?: NO
 
GTKyle said:
I don't know. I'd take 490 yards of offense and 41 points against BC.
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The point is we wouldn't rack up that yardage against BC if we played like we did. BC will eat our oline up and our runningbacks will get killed by the slow exchanges.
 
I have a good feeling about the O-line being better this week. We finally have a real football coach again who knows how to get the message across.
 
LLTW, It's going to take time. These kids have a ways to go. I don't discount their desire but they are making some stupid mistakes (not my comment but a reliable sources comment) These guys need some nads and need some soon.
 
refrigeratormover said:
LLTW, It's going to take time. These kids have a ways to go. I don't discount their desire but they are making some stupid mistakes (not my comment but a reliable sources comment) These guys need some nads and need some soon.
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Dude, your last year at Tech you guys tied Furman, WTF.
 
Don't call me Dude, asswipe! If you don't have anything relevent to say on the topic then keep your piehole shut. No wonder why half the people on here want to bitch slap you. You're an idiot!
 
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