It's Thursday...Vad Lee

[Liberty]

JT5 was 5’7? Boy y’all can embellish on here

Justin Thomas | Combine Results | RB - Georgia Tech

NFL Scouting Combine and Pro Day scores, percentiles and metrics for Justin Thomas, RB, Georgia Tech.

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I really like JT, but he's got short & has short arms & his vert leap is poor. He is fast (4.35) and he's a playmaker/winner. RB was likely his best shot.

Maybe things didn't work out for him in the NFL, but being one of GT's favorite athletes of all time is quite a feat in itself.

 

[KrazieJacket]

We beat Clemson 28-6, held them to 190 yards, scored twice on defense and had another turnover that set us up inside the 30 to kick a FG. That win had nothing to do with the QB or offense.

The Georgia game JT was 6/16 for 60 yards passing and 34 rushing. His goal line fumble was a 14 pt swing, and his fumble at the end would have cost us the game if not for a miracle. Our offensive success was running the dive 42 times right up Shaq Mason's backside. Another win that wasn't based on the QB.

Our offense was better in the 2013 UGA game than the 2014 UGA game (though UGA may have been better on D; would have to look).

4 of our losses in 13 were because we gave up 55, 45, 41, 48 points; not because our QB play was terrible.

His goal line fumble was a touchdown.

 

[StraightFresh]

It's crazy how hard Vad Lee lives rent-free in this fanbase's head. He's a P5 washout from 10 years ago, get over it. Holy öööö

 

[QuadF]

That’s pretty much right. CPJ wanted to integrate more pistol/gun/spread passing concepts. He recruited guys like Luallen and Vad Lee with that intent, he sold it to them that he would evolve his offense and that’s what he intended to do. Ultimately we couldn’t execute well, and CPJ reverted back to what would work/win games (as a coach he prioritized winning). And Vad transferred out because that isn’t what he was best suited to do. He had a lot of success at JMU and JT was great for us — so think it worked out for all.

Iirc, it was actually bohannon wanting to open it up more hence why he has done that at ksu.

 

[rghoae]

Lots of historical forgetfulness here. I don’t understand how anyone can talk about VL and our attempts at a passing offense without talking about the Diamond.

CPJ never gave a passing offense a real chance. Instead of basing it out of the base 3O option, like Niumatalolo did successfully at Navy (and CPJ had done successfully at prior stops, especially Southern) he created the Diamond, something that was so drastically unsuccessful that no coach at any level ever tried it again.

It was an experiment, and a badly failed experiment at that. However, CPJ’s takeaway from it appeared to be that passing sucked and he doubled down on the 3O using the pass 7-8 times a game more as a trick play than anything else.

Which worked! Until the rules changed and our OL couldn’t cut block at the second level, and our Abacks were prevented from cut blocking at certain angles and defenses realized that as long as they allowed no big plays and made sure we went 15-20 plays per drive we would invariably turn the ball over and/or have a single negative/no gain play which would make getting 10+ yards on 2 downs extremely difficult.