Officially Official Avenge Calvin Pack Small Sack Game Thread

ScionOfSouthland said:
They started the game talking about how we were #2 in playing the most starters this year and NC State was #1 and they brought it up several times throughout the game.

I posted it because I've followed Chipper since he created a Twitter account and this is the first time I can recall him posting about Tech. Spreading the ball out seems to be attracting attention from outside the fan base.
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Well when you are the only college football game on TV, people are gonna watch that like watching college football.

I wasn’t referring to Chipper specifically here, but that I saw someone mention elsewhere in this thread that they were talking about NCSt injuries as if they are the team at a huge disadvantage. They were better than we were on offense yesterday, but our guys came out and punched them in the mouth to start the game, and overcame some really avoidable turnovers to scrap our way through and win the game.
 
coit said:
Well when you are the only college football game on TV, people are gonna watch that like watching college football.

I wasn’t referring to Chipper specifically here, but that I saw someone mention elsewhere in this thread that they were talking about NCSt injuries as if they are the team at a huge disadvantage. They were better than we were on offense yesterday, but our guys came out and punched them in the mouth to start the game, and overcame some really avoidable turnovers to scrap our way through and win the game.
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Yeah but to his other point... we've played on Thursdays every year for 2 decades now and Chipper has never commented on it.
 
Architorture23 said:
Yeah but to his other point... we've played on Thursdays every year for 2 decades now and Chipper has never commented on it.
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Well I haven’t followed Chipper all that closely but I’ll take your word for it.
 
BuzzFeitenSystem said:
If a fan doesn’t like Patenaude for any reason at this point in the season, they don’t know sht about football.
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Not true. What if I don't like him for how he dresses, what does that have to do with football knowledge. Or maybe I don't like his French-sounding name.
 
BuzzFeitenSystem said:
If a fan doesn’t like Patenaude for any reason at this point in the season, they don’t know sht about football.
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Obviously, you are gonna catch the bigcry for your "I know more than you" attitude here, but I tend to agree with you. I can see where he's worked to make the most of what he has, and Graham is looking much more comfortable at QB these past few games, ignoring the VT game. That roll out pass to Oliver for the TD was really nice, and he put a nice touch on several other balls. Missed a few wide open receivers as well. And the OL shows the same mix of real progress combined with total whiffs and missed assignments.

I think next year will be the real gauge of his capabilities.
 
coit said:
Obviously, you are gonna catch the bigcry for your "I know more than you" attitude here, but I tend to agree with you. I can see where he's worked to make the most of what he has, and Graham is looking much more comfortable at QB these past few games, ignoring the VT game. That roll out pass to Oliver for the TD was really nice, and he put a nice touch on several other balls. Missed a few wide open receivers as well. And the OL shows the same mix of real progress combined with total whiffs and missed assignments.

I think next year will be the real gauge of his capabilities.
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It’s pretty obvious that neither TO or LJ were hitting the mark for quarterback. And Graham was working on limited reps due to academic issues. So we had the QB carousel until Graham knew enough to take the job. The old adage “if you have 3 quarterbacks you have no quarterback” turned out to be true early season. Except for the VT game, things have been much better with Graham getting all of the snaps.
 
Deke said:
Definitely some good ones. This might be my favorite:
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Damn that looks dangerous
 
coit said:
Obviously, you are gonna catch the bigcry for your "I know more than you" attitude here, but I tend to agree with you. I can see where he's worked to make the most of what he has, and Graham is looking much more comfortable at QB these past few games, ignoring the VT game. That roll out pass to Oliver for the TD was really nice, and he put a nice touch on several other balls. Missed a few wide open receivers as well. And the OL shows the same mix of real progress combined with total whiffs and missed assignments.

I think next year will be the real gauge of his capabilities.
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Graham is an option qb. That much is certain by now, and last night I noticed we reverted back to the option quite a few times to bail us out on sticky downs. That was Patenaude doing what he knew would work.
 
Great to get the win. We came out real strong. Graham played great except for the 2 WTF fumbles he lost. Defense started strong and started wilting but did enough for the win. The offense only got the one TD in the second half but gave us a mini death march at the end when we needed it.

Patendude's play calling seems to be improving (with improved execution) but he is still calling too many deep passes IMHO. We were moving the ball and you try one of these and if you don't hit it its time to punt. I'd like to see more short passes to setup these long shots. Pass blocking was definitely better.

But the main thing is we did not quit!!!
 
ramblinwise1 said:
Great to get the win. We came out real strong. Graham played great except for the 2 WTF fumbles he lost. Defense started strong and started wilting but did enough for the win. The offense only got the one TD in the second half but gave us a mini death march at the end when we needed it.


Patendude's play calling seems to be improving (with improved execution) but he is still calling too many deep passes IMHO. We were moving the ball and you try one of these and if you don't hit it its time to punt. I'd like to see more short passes to setup these long shots. Pass blocking was definitely better.

But the main thing is we did not quit!!!
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we are throwing long passes because we have 2 rockets at receiver who can outrun the coverage. Graham is hitting them about 10-15% of the time with huge gains.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
thats about right. So 80-90% of the time thats a drive killer.
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These passes feel like they have a higher shot of connecting than that, whether that's the case or not I don't know. But it seems like more often than not the play is there, but the pass is a hair overthrown or the receiver let's it slip between their hands. But I do remember feeling that way back under Nix, where the deep pass felt like a true loss of down and rarely close to a completion.
 
MidnightJacket said:
These passes feel like they have a higher shot of connecting than that, whether that's the case or not I don't know. But it seems like more often than not the play is there, but the pass is a hair overthrown or the receiver let's it slip between their hands. But I do remember feeling that way back under Nix, where the deep pass felt like a true loss of down and rarely close to a completion.
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I think part of the problem may be that Graham is throwing to the deep man a lot of times when a better option would be a mid route or dump off in the flats. He throws a lot of deep balls into coverage.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
Great to get the win. We came out real strong. Graham played great except for the 2 WTF fumbles he lost. Defense started strong and started wilting but did enough for the win. The offense only got the one TD in the second half but gave us a mini death march at the end when we needed it.

Patendude's play calling seems to be improving (with improved execution) but he is still calling too many deep passes IMHO. We were moving the ball and you try one of these and if you don't hit it its time to punt. I'd like to see more short passes to setup these long shots. Pass blocking was definitely better.

But the main thing is we did not quit!!!
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The long passes open up the running game. Teams can no longer load up in the box.
 
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