mm42 and the rest of yall got to give me credit.....

[BarrelORum]

Ok so I got a big pile of poo on my face. Yeah, alright, my prediction sucked. Of course it sucked last year too when I said we would upset VT and then we got our clocks cleaned. But deep down, I remembered all too well the ass whipping in Blacksburg and frankly, my post was as much to submit a challenge to prove me the idiot as it was to give a decent VT analysis.

That said, I did say this:

VT eats this stuff up. The only way I see GT being able to win this game, is if we can utilize our short passing game. If Reggie can take three step drops and dump off passes in the flats or over the middle which is not his specialty. The longer Reggie has to sit in the pocket, the more likely you are going to see our Olineman crumble and start holding. Nix needs to line up in Power I and prove a running game and mix it up with quick strike formations out of Shotgun.

We hit JJ over the middle, we hit Calvin out of the slot on short passes that he turned into magic, we lined up in the power I and got it done.

All in all, I guess Nix must have used my comments as bulletin board material. When he called me last week asking me advice on how to attack VT, I didn't think he would take it literally. I especially had no idea he would motivate his players based on my comments. :p

 

[GTWannaBee]

First play of the game and the one that got the momentum going was a long pass to JJ. Are you taking credit for that one too? I think the poo is clouding your vision a little.

 

[BarrelORum]

Absolutely. I said we needed to get the ball over the middle. Nix made his notes and did just that. Next time I'm charging him a consulting fee.

 

[Leatherjacket]

Give it up, BOR. You ought to know that teams change throughout the course of a season. Some for better, some for worse. But nothing stays the same, not even football teams. Therefore, you should know better than to judge a team from one game, or even 3 or 4 games. An awful lot of fans never seem to learn that lesson.

 

[ncjacket]

Where were the 3 step drops and short passes in the flat and over the middle? Give it up BOR. You're getting as bad as 20%bulldog.

 

[floridajacket]

I also thought our offense would look a lot better against ND and that the GT-ND game would be an offensive shootout.

At this point, I'm very glad to see our OL's improvement with our defense remaining very stout. It's too bad ND got out of BDS with a win, because this team is honestly capable of beating every team remaining on the schedule, with the possible exception of Clemson.

 

[mm42]

The Power I is a short yardage formation like this:

I don't think we've lined up in that formation since the Curry years.

 

[beej67]

...and why would we, with speed backs and midsized OLs? The Power I telegraphs your playcall.

 

[Bogey]

Absolutely. I said we needed to get the ball over the middle. Nix made his notes and did just that. Next time I'm charging him a consulting fee.

BOR, your ego sounds like the Stingtalk version of Buzzoff's Bunger. Are y'all the same person? :laugher:

 

[BarrelORum]

BOR, your ego sounds like the Stingtalk version of Buzzoff's Bunger. Are y'all the same person? :laugher:

Ok Ok, I'll stop. No need to be insulting. I was just being tongue in cheek, but apparently that point was lost. I post on emotion and my post last week was in frustration to watching the same critical errors from our OLine that I saw in years past. That and knowing we are coming up against an opponent that completely embaressed us last year. I was happy that I was very wrong.

mm42, I thought that was a version of the flex. What I meant is the I formation with two TE's. I thought that was a power I. woops. My bad. I haven't seen a Power I then in a long time. My highschool team ran something like that a long time ago.

 

[GoldenTornado]

It is not really apropos but we did line up in the power I under O'Leary. I remember something like Wilder, P. Rogers and Burns stacked up in a power I in the backfield.

 

[mm42]

It is not really apropos but we did line up in the power I under O'Leary. I remember something like Wilder, P. Rogers and Burns stacked up in a power I in the backfield.

I should have known. I remember Ralph also used the wishbone and the flexbone. Did he ever have us in the Wing-T?!??

 

[ncjacket]

Wing T is about all I don't remember us running.