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http://georgiatech.blog.ajc.com/2015/09/27/8-takeaways-from-georgia-tech-duke/
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This caught my attention:
By yards per carry, it ranked fourth from the bottom in Johnson’s 98-game tenure at Tech.
Year Opponent Att. Yds. Avg.
2008 Gardner-Webb 47 79 1.68
2009 Miami 39 95 2.44
2011 Miami 48 134 2.79
2015 Duke 60 173 2.88
Not to diminish how the offense played, but the chart goes to show that games like Saturday’s aren’t new. The Jackets offense has been stopped before and will be again. Those two Miami teams came at Tech with excellent players and a good plan. Tech was deficient in various ways. Thorough defeat ensued. (The Gardner-Webb game will remain the strange outlier.)
That said, given the returning experience of the offensive line and Thomas, it didn’t seem likely that a sub-3.0 yards-per-carry game would happen this season, obviously.
“I’m not shocked,” Johnson said. “I told you two weeks ago. You guys might be shocked, I’m not. I’m disappointed that we didn’t play better, but we weren’t playing great in the first two weeks. We had people overmatched.”
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