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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 351857" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Well, sure.</p><p></p><p>Other teams have been, as I pointed out in another thread, setting their Ds to stop the sweep and the pitch on the TO. Why? To force Marshall to carry the ball, of course. Why do that? To hit him every play and hope for the best in terms of injury, (again) of course. The temptation is great when you consider that TQ is rather small for a major college QB (apparently nobody was looking at JTs weight and height all those years). We'll see more of this as the year goes on; hope springs eternal in the hearts of DCs facing our run game. The same idea has been the common thread in defensing the academies too; there's a reason that Ricky Dobbs and Keenan Reynolds were so effective as runners.</p><p></p><p>Problem = at Tech the idea has worked a grand total of one (that's 1) time: last year when JT was forced to sit out the VT game. (Nesbitt broke his arm too but that wasn't due to the D, it was when he tried to make a tackle after a turnover.) True, JT was slowed down a bit by other injuries at times, but he was only forced out once. This is because a) you very seldom get a straight hit on a TO QB (most of the hits are from the side as he's headed up field) and b) most tackles are arm tackles; i.e. the QB gets dragged down.</p><p></p><p>The BIG problem = TM is probably the best running QB we've had since Nesbitt. He's an AB who can throw, extremely fast and a great broken field runner (sorta like Reynolds and Dobbs). That means that forcing the ball into his hands is, ultimately, a losing strategy in most instances. But what if they succeed and he's forced out? Then things get, arguably, worse: we are extremely deep at QB. Matthew, who would be next up, is a Nesbitt clone and we suddenly become a slam-bam football team instead of a finesse one.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line = I'm not worried about what opposing fans would like to see happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 351857, member: 265"] Well, sure. Other teams have been, as I pointed out in another thread, setting their Ds to stop the sweep and the pitch on the TO. Why? To force Marshall to carry the ball, of course. Why do that? To hit him every play and hope for the best in terms of injury, (again) of course. The temptation is great when you consider that TQ is rather small for a major college QB (apparently nobody was looking at JTs weight and height all those years). We'll see more of this as the year goes on; hope springs eternal in the hearts of DCs facing our run game. The same idea has been the common thread in defensing the academies too; there's a reason that Ricky Dobbs and Keenan Reynolds were so effective as runners. Problem = at Tech the idea has worked a grand total of one (that's 1) time: last year when JT was forced to sit out the VT game. (Nesbitt broke his arm too but that wasn't due to the D, it was when he tried to make a tackle after a turnover.) True, JT was slowed down a bit by other injuries at times, but he was only forced out once. This is because a) you very seldom get a straight hit on a TO QB (most of the hits are from the side as he's headed up field) and b) most tackles are arm tackles; i.e. the QB gets dragged down. The BIG problem = TM is probably the best running QB we've had since Nesbitt. He's an AB who can throw, extremely fast and a great broken field runner (sorta like Reynolds and Dobbs). That means that forcing the ball into his hands is, ultimately, a losing strategy in most instances. But what if they succeed and he's forced out? Then things get, arguably, worse: we are extremely deep at QB. Matthew, who would be next up, is a Nesbitt clone and we suddenly become a slam-bam football team instead of a finesse one. Bottom line = I'm not worried about what opposing fans would like to see happen. [/QUOTE]
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