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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 173070" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Now, what this disagreement should be about is not nerd-ism -- I have a lifelong GT grad friend I call a nerd, though he is retired Army as a battalion commander so clearly I don't know what a nerd is -- or esoteric Baltic references. It is whether one wants more completions, higher percentage, for fewer yards, the spread passing game of Mike Leach for instance -- dink it 10 yards and hope the back can run a bit -- or like Johnson, pass it like you mean it: fewer passes, but vertical and thus lower percentage to keep the safeties and corners back to open up the run game. (That is my understanding. I stand to be corrected because I am not, as I said, a nerd of any kind, including football.) If the latter is your preference, as it has become mine, then take the 51% and run like a thief because those A backs and Thomas are getting the edge for a reason. I think I recall Johnson saying early on at Tech that if he wanted five or six yards, he would run for it. Though this particular discussion is held every few months it is never resolved. Except, of course, by Johnson, the vote that counts. While one may pick at particular games to criticize Thomas -- he is fair game, have at him if it pleases you -- VT is not one. 4th and 15, a late TD pass, and a final, winning FG drive completion kind of destroys that argument, and I am of the mind that it was this game that made Thomas as the QB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 173070, member: 2175"] Now, what this disagreement should be about is not nerd-ism -- I have a lifelong GT grad friend I call a nerd, though he is retired Army as a battalion commander so clearly I don't know what a nerd is -- or esoteric Baltic references. It is whether one wants more completions, higher percentage, for fewer yards, the spread passing game of Mike Leach for instance -- dink it 10 yards and hope the back can run a bit -- or like Johnson, pass it like you mean it: fewer passes, but vertical and thus lower percentage to keep the safeties and corners back to open up the run game. (That is my understanding. I stand to be corrected because I am not, as I said, a nerd of any kind, including football.) If the latter is your preference, as it has become mine, then take the 51% and run like a thief because those A backs and Thomas are getting the edge for a reason. I think I recall Johnson saying early on at Tech that if he wanted five or six yards, he would run for it. Though this particular discussion is held every few months it is never resolved. Except, of course, by Johnson, the vote that counts. While one may pick at particular games to criticize Thomas -- he is fair game, have at him if it pleases you -- VT is not one. 4th and 15, a late TD pass, and a final, winning FG drive completion kind of destroys that argument, and I am of the mind that it was this game that made Thomas as the QB. [/QUOTE]
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