Well, first time ever that I do NOT have any video play back. As such screen caps will be limited; though I did take a couple during the game.

Per such; this week will only be a I parter, if you will.

However, I was happy with a good portion of what I saw.

Well, with the exception of a downright abusive 26 carries for R.Will in the first half. R.Will ran hard and ran for a beat up 3.8 yards per carry on the day. He had 2.3 per carry in the first half if my Ginko is working. We will examine his decline below. However, lets look a a few keen or funny plays then hit up an abbreviated Lo.FM and Time To Throw before I start making fun of le` team!

1st Quarter 13:39 remaining:
Talk about on a Wing and a Prayer; that old WWII song had nothing on T-mobile on this play. Some will say he should have just eaten the sack. Some will say he was already down and the Ref could have blown the play dead. Either way; this is one helluva a freaky athletic play by TT. Very possibly his very own personal play of the year; as D.Coale breaks-off his sit down Curl pattern vs. the NC.State Zone defense and trickles towards the sidelines on a improvised Down-n-Out. I do not know how; yet this O&M throw was hauled in for a sensational First Down.

1st Quarter 11:30 remaining:
Watch #52 for NC.State and his post-play total freak-out meltdown. I could not tell if he took a sucker punch; got some nasty “verbal smack ” run on him or some manner of maternal relative. However; dood went postal and ballistic all rolled into one post-play.

1st Quarter 6:02 remaining:
Poor Virg’ suffers just what Virg’ does NOT need on this play. A mild to medium -meaning: I have seen worse- accidental leg-whip right on the edge of the pile at the end the of the play. This accounts for Virg’ only having 2 tackles on the day.

1st Quarter 0:56 remaining:
This was an epic catch for 6 Hokie points. Well, that is it would have been if we had been playing on a Canadian Football League (CFL) field up in Bob and Doug country where the 65 yards wide.

2nd Quarter 10:19 remaining:
Check out the steal vs. #52 for NC.State as he gets blown up on the Hosley Punt-Return. Our Pride and Joy punt-return unit has really been taking some scalps this season. Even approaching General Custard levels at times.

At this point in time on the ESPNU broadcast, Paige Greenberg told us that there are 15 Gargoyles on the VT campus. Mmmmmmk. I don’t remember that; however I do recall this one time when I took about 15 beers down into the VT Steam Tunnell(s) and this really nice freshman year girl and … oh wait? This is a family program? So it is. Though I personally have no idea where those gargoyles are? Maybe one of them can come help Seth shore-up his Interior defense in the Key? ; )

2nd Quarter 4:57 remaining:
Check out T-mobile getting crushed on this play. This was the first game in a while that TT really got cracked. How did we respond to such? By leaving TT in until the final two series of the game, and on his very last play NC.State dang near took his head off. FREE Ju-Ju!!! And when we do; let Ju-Ju actually throw the football. He does not appear to need any work on handoffs to me.

2nd Quarter 1:49 remaining:
I like #49 for NC.State, one A.M. Cash. Mr. Cash just had to hit somebody on this play; as there were no Hokies conveniently around; he decided to make change by destroying #21 for his own team! You gotta love a football mentality like that folks.

3rd Quarter 12:29 remaining:
This play will remind you of Earl Campbell’s epic Monday Night football run where his now illegal tearaway Jersey did just that. It was shredded up the gut vs. the Oaktown Raiders.

Check out R.Will’s jersey and the raw savage determination that it took to get into the endzone with this many Wolfpac ballers nipping at his heals on this carry! Unreal! Simply unreal.

3rd Quarter 2:33 remaining:
Watch “Boooooooone” simply get detonated upon upstairs on this Wild Turkey left-side Keeper by Greg. Greg does run downhill. However, his acceleration is positively Ion-Drive ‘esque in astro-physics terms. Or rather impoverished. It takes the big man several strides to build up enough momentum to put all of that mass to forward moving forceful use. If you get to Greg early on, Greg will fall down and go “boom”.

4th Quarter 14:14 remaining:
Watch the extraordinarily rare double-steal towards the end of this play on the Baker 3-yard gainer up the gut. Couple of Hokies and a couple of State players mutually knocked down right as this play ends. Making this one of the more cumulatively violent plays I’ve seen a long long while.

Longfield Management (Lo.FM):®
Virginia Tech:
+ + + + +(NCS penalty) + + +(NCS penalty) +(NCS penalty) +(TD) +  +
-  -  -  -(VT penalty)  -  -  -(VT penalty)  -  -  -
neutral (TO), neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral (TO),

NC.State:
+ + +(TD) + + +
-(fumble)  -(NCS penalty)  -  -  -  -  -(fumble)  -  -  -  -(INT)  -  -  -  -  -  -
neutral, neutral,

As you can plainly see … despite both teams hitting Lo.FM touchdowns, NC.State never meet a Pass-Interference call against themselves that they did not like. To make matters all the worse the Wolfpac committed two short-field fumbles on LoFM’s that lead directly to 17 gift Hokie points and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. In fact, I have to say I’ve never seen a team panic on LoFM’s quite like NC.State did. No wonder Coach Tom O’Brien was so hot under the collar.

I also like the use of Timeouts by TT to get us outta bad per-snap looks when neither of our check-downs appeared to possess a high probability of success. Holding NC.State to only 6 positive plays on Lo.FM’s while manufacturing 200% more (12) positive plays on Lo.FM’s and one touchdown is not only how you wins games; it is how you blow people out. For 12 straight Quarters of football we have pretty much dominated the Lo.FM metric. The outcome? 3 Hokies wins on 90-22 cumulative scoring. That’s what I call taking care of your business folks.

Limited access film-study X’s and O’s:

• Interesting use of entire DLine Slants by Wiles this week folks. That was at least new and it gave NC.State’s zone blocking scheme fits.
• Note the massive external exoskeleton looking ankle brance on Graves right ankle folks. Graves is feeling a little better; though he man not be 100% until the spring.
• However, at least Graves, “Taco”, Taylor and company are finally getting into opposing backfields via finally begnining to make some A-Gap noise. This has had a twofold effect.
• First up, it is keeping bodies off of ‘Quell and Gibby/Jake. Well, if Jake had played that is. Odd after such an epic Maryland game to log no P.T.?
• Second of all, this is pushing the so-called “Cup” or pocket back into an opposing Qb’s face. This is no small part of our 10 sacks and 17 Tackle for a Loss (TFL) in the last two games folks.
• Boykin is adjusting to the in-flight ball like no other VT Wideout in a long long time. Very reminiscent of Hall of Famer John Stallworth of Pittsburgh Stiller lore.
• Are we predictable on offense? If you were at the Mountaineer Sports bar in Bluefield WV you head me correctly yell out “INSIDE ZONE” 8 outta 8 times on Saturday afternoon. We nearly can not run (pun intended) any other play on 2nd and short or 3rd and short. No matter our field position. No matter nothing. Why not try for a Flea-Flicker with R.Will on 2nd and short at or near midfield? There is no reason in the world to expect this; might just catch france with their pants down. Though they might actually like that.

Time To Throw (T3):®
Virginia Tech:
Sacked=2
Hurried=0
Pressured=9
Qb Hits=10
Tipped Passes=2
Drops=4

North Carolina State:
Sacked=4
Hurried=0
Pressured=9
Qb Hits=10

We hit Wilson 10 times. Only once (or 10%) of the time did he connect on a positive play. 90% of the time he messed the bed and 20% of the time he turned the ball over when we made contact with #16. Only accounting for 10% positive plays is a new record low. This posits to me that Wilson is contact-adverse, a finesse player if you will. Chris Drager had his second real quality game on the season in relief at Defensive End (De). Friday continues to camp out near the opposing Qb from his De spot. This is encouraging for next year with the Lopez kid on his way to campus; as Hokie Qb pressure has reached a boiling point over the last three games. You gotta love seeing that again.

However, that O&M love rightfully bestowed, I really did not like the amount of contact TT took on Saturday. Playing him late in the 4th Quarter while leading by an insurmountable 38-1o margin is asinine, reckless and inviting of disaster. Have we officially -in a heretofore unpublished way- completely given up on developing Ju-Ju the thrower? I suppose it must be his Qb rating which stands at a bewildering 220.40 on the year; despite only being a 20% career passer in D-1 games. Ju-Ju has not attempted a pass in 20 quarters of football. What’s up with that when we’ve had three straight games in the bag??? No wonder our Qb’s are slow to … or simply never develop.

Also note that our T3 vital has really gotten significantly better in the last three games. Via is part of that. Via has a mega Wingspan or Reach advantage that allows him to engage the given Defensive Tackle (Dt) before the Dt can get his hands on Via. This is a major pass-blocking advantage. Further, note the darting forward then ducking backward move that TT has invented to rent an extra second or two of throwing time; while keeping his eyes locked downfield! This creates opposing DLine congesting as they all swarm to the apparent running departure spot of TT. This creates a bottleneck of sorts which makes our pass-blocking so much easier.

Finally, note the near absence of the early-season Half-Rolls to get TT just outside the Ot-Box where his line of sight improves and he clearly has the option to run. TT is doing work from mostly inside the Pocket since UNC folks. Which means you are witnessing TT take the next-step in his development as a Pivot (Qb) and possibly as a Pro.

R.Will’s decline???
Are we wearing R.Will down then out in the finest; or worst possible Cyrus Lawrence fashion? Study the graph below first; then I will point out a couple of things…

First up note that R.Will has not enjoyed more than one bettering game in the last 6 contests. By that I mean putting up a better yards per carry on average than he did the week before.

Now note the near steady-state decline in the last two months of play. The exception being East Carolina.

Finally note that R.Will has been dropping vs. two straight very poor football teams. that are soft as Charmin on defense with nothing left to play for. You be the judge.

Up Next: Le` Game!

french-toast, french-fries, and a bonnie french lass even doing Russ the dorky Grizwald kid a lascivious favor and putting him out of his first time misery. Viva la` france!

Hell, I may even do an entire ESPNRadio segment in french this week. Pourquoi ? Puisqu’il n’y a rien que la france peut faire à son sujet. Au moins pas en termes du football.

Hows that taste france?

So up next we face the maginot 3-4 Line. The wanna be Spread-Offense. And there is not much else to see here folks. france is…

• 118th in Scoring Offense (i.e. next to last at 19.91 per game)
• 115th in Passing Efficiency Offense
• 112th in Rushing Offense

Decent defense; 47th overall; which is to be fair slightly above average; and that’s about it. Word is DeGroh has 60 minutes left to coach. Which leaves me wondering if france will simply let go the rope for their lame-duck Head Coach? Or could they rally le` troops and try to make one final stand in the role of spoiler? They must be tired of getting beat by us; as they only have one win vs. us since 1998. That said; it could very well only take 15-18 Hokie points to put france down with such a putrid offense.

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Which has me ready to make a way too premature prediction. This just in … rain is rumored to be wet and we will beat france yet again in the only (team) sport that truly matters and there won’t be a damn thing they can do about it.

“LETS GO!”

“HOKIES!”

b’street

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