One position and a special teams play....

BarrelORum

BarrelORum

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Reggie cost us 10 points for the opposition today and our special teams cost us another 7. Score should have been 31-6. All you people bitching about coaching need to get a life. Our QB and special teams killed us tonight. We had a good game plan. Tashard Choice is the hero on offense.

Calvin is just Calvin.... super freak.
 
Choice is the hero on offense.
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I was wondering what we had gotten ourselves into after the first couple games of the year when all Choice did was bounce around left-to-right, but, man, has he really come on strong in ACC play. Proud to have this guy on our side :biggthumpup:

BarrelORum said:
Calvin is just Calvin.... super freak.
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Wow, do we really only (possibly) have one more time to see him on the flats? :bowdown:
 
BarrelORum said:
Reggie cost us 10 points for the opposition today and our special teams cost us another 7. Score should have been 31-6. All you people bitching about coaching need to get a life. Our QB and special teams killed us tonight. We had a good game plan. Tashard Choice is the hero on offense.

Calvin is just Calvin.... super freak.
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Reggie made some bad plays....but you have to give him credit for FOUR TD's!!!
 
wierd day for Reggie. Had some GREAT throws and just made a couple of poor reads. Some of those great throws were off his back foot. They were putting HUGE pressure on Reggie all night. If he can get healthy by Dec 2 we will be ok.
 
RB still did not look healthy last night...hopefully TB will be able to take some snaps the next two weeks
 
BarrelORum said:
Reggie cost us 10 points for the opposition today and our special teams cost us another 7. Score should have been 31-6. All you people bitching about coaching need to get a life. Our QB and special teams killed us tonight.
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In general, I agree with you, BOR. But you have to admit that, with the exception of a few bright moments like the VT game, our ST and especially kick coverage hasn't been our strong suit. I agree that coaching during the game didn't affect that, but you would hope that by this time in the season we would have figured out how to cover kicks.
 
That may have been the worst 4 td passing performance of all-time. His completion percentage is down to 47.7%.

A four year starter with a 47.7% completion percentage in his fourth year. Not only that, but that percentage has become progressively worse every year.
 
non-gineer, I think you kick off covergae is our only real "coaching issue" with this team. Our field goal kicker himself is the other. Don't know how you coach that position without screwing yourself.

knox, I agree. Early in the season I thought reggie had really shown me something. I thought he was a different QB and was excited that he had the ability to win a ballgame instead of not lose it for us. Since then I have to say that Reggie has gone back to being Reggie.

Love him or leave him he's going to finish out his career as our starter.
 
Myself, I don't give a crap about comp %! Reggie throws away ALOT of balls away to avoid sacks. I'd much rather him do that then to try to force the ball.

Just about eveyone I talked to coming in to this year said that they could live with Reggie's comp % about where it was AS LONG as his TD to INT ratio improved. Guess what???? It has. Reggie is on his way to becoming 1st team ALL ACC. He has 5 more TD's than any other QB in the ACC.
 
BarrelORum said:
Reggie cost us 10 points for the opposition today and our special teams cost us another 7. Score should have been 31-6. All you people bitching about coaching need to get a life. Our QB and special teams killed us tonight.
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Yikes BOR! You need to have some shedded wheat and prune juice this morning.;)

Reggie put us in a position to win against ND. He didn't have anything to do with our LB and safety play against Clemson. He has not made the mistakes this year that have been a factor in the past. He made some bad reads last night. He made some great one and the throws to match. Give him a break. You make it sound like we are struggling through a 5-4 season. We are 7-2 baby!:biggthumpup:

Some other thought about Reggie
With 231 yards of total offense, Reggie Ball topped the 9,000-yard mark for career total offense and moved into the top 10 in ACC history. He now has 9,173 yards as he passed No. 9 Ben Bennett (9,061, 1980-83) of Duke and No. 8 Spence Fisher (9,110, 1992-95), also of Duke.

With four touchdown passes, Ball raised his career total to 54 to move into second place on Georgia Tech's career list. He passed Shawn Jones (51, 1989-92) and now trails only Joe Hamilton (65, 1966-99).
 
knoxjacket said:
Well, now that we've got the pollyannaish viewpoint out of the way...
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Here's some more pollyanna for you....Reggie's injury is keeping him from running. This hurts our offense in 2 ways.

1 - the designed QB draws significantly decrease the amount of blitzing from opponents. That's why we were seeing a "different" Reggie earlier in the season. Defenses had to leave an LB back (spy) to account for Reggie's running. Now they know he's not going to run and are pinning the ears back going after him - forcing more incompletions (which don't look good on paper but they do keep drives alive much better than sacks)

2 - when they are getting through (via blitz or standard rush) Reggie doesn't have the same escapability. Give NCSU credit - they were ready for the bootleg. Almost every time we ran it, their DE kept Reggie in containment. Healthy Reggie would elude a single DE more often than not - hurt Reggie was forced into incompletions (and a bogus intentional grounding call).

Reggie is finding other ways to make plays - he's still making some silly mistakes (VT, Maryland, Miami, NCSU) but the mistakes are forgotten by the next time he is under center - and he's making plays to atone for his mistakes.
 
signalmtnjacket said:
With four touchdown passes, Ball raised his career total to 54 to move into second place on Georgia Tech's career list. He passed Shawn Jones (51, 1989-92) and now trails only Joe Hamilton (65, 1966-99).
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A very big * needs to be inserted here.
 
The sheer number of games played for one. Of course, stats are for losers.

I am not bashing RB, but to mention his career in the same paragraph as Jones' and Joe's is just wrong.

Reggie is what he has always been, and that's OK.
 
pocket_watch said:
The sheer number of games played for one. Of course, stats are for losers.

I am not bashing RB, but to mention his career in the same paragraph as Jones' and Joe's is just wrong.

Reggie is what he has always been, and that's OK.
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Games played should be pretty close between the 3 of them - they were all 4 year starters. However, Reggie was the only one that started as a true FR (no RS).

I thought you were saying that Joe and Shawn didn't have Calvin. Well, Reggie didn't have Ralph and the others did.
 
ContactBuzz said:
Games played should be pretty close between the 3 of them - they were all 4 year starters. However, Reggie was the only one that started as a true FR (no RS).

I thought you were saying that Joe and Shawn didn't have Calvin. Well, Reggie didn't have Ralph and the others did.
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It looks to be 50 to 43 in favor of Reggie over Joe Ham if we still make the ACCCG.

Reggie has two twelve game regular seasons under his belt, this year and his freshman year, in addition to always going to a bowl game and potentially playing 14 games this year.

Of course, Reggie has to average 2 TD's in his remaining 5 games to catch Joe. So it's not a given at all.
 
pocket_watch said:
The sheer number of games played for one. Of course, stats are for losers.
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Shawn Jones
31-15-1
1990 ACC Champ/Nat'l Champ
Joe Hamilton
30-17
1998 Co-ACC Champs
Reggie Ball
28-18
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Yeh, I see it now. There is a huge difference once you forget the stats and just look at team performance (sic).

It is natural to have affection for the good ol' days. But come on, we could be watching something special this year!
 
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