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[4shotB]

So we are more confident that a team like Clemson can replace both of lines than our Abacks just get in the way of a defender in the alley?

I promise you blocking at the Aback position is not Calculus

It may not be as difficult as calculus...but there is no Word available, curved grades, or "easy" (in the Georgia Tech sense of the word) professors either.

 

[AE 87]

Exactly. Especially when it took the last crew 5 years to get good at it.

What's your measure for "good" because I have a completely different impression?

Or is this another example of simply stating your subjective opinion as objective fact?

 

[dressedcheeseside]

What's your measure for "good" because I have a completely different impression?

Or is this another example of simply stating your subjective opinion as objective fact?

Let's see, my absolute, concrete, Webster approved definition of good is...

Not bad.

 

[AE 87]

Let's see, my absolute, concrete, Webster approved definition of good is...

Not bad.

Real mature

 

[Skeptic]

So we are more confident that a team like Clemson can replace both of lines than our Abacks just get in the way of a defender in the alley?

I promise you blocking at the Aback position is not Calculus

"Get in the way of a defender"? I'm going to write this one off to hyperbole, because I in turn can promise you that an Aback whose goal it is to "get in the way of" is about to be pancaked. Again, see FSU, MSU. (First play MSU, if I recall. God, they were celebrating like Christmas came late.) If he comes in too late he will be tossed aside like a sack of flour; too early and he looks ridiculous being stepped on or over; wrong angle and he lands on his head. Worse, posterior. I have assumed all those positions and that was just against HS guys, not a Division 1 recruit in the bunch. Nobody argues it is calculus, though what it had in common to me was that I could do neither -- but it is part geometry because at some point two lines intersect, and both are moving; kind of like a firing solution a sonar chief will offer up to the boat driver -- but that it is hard. Real hard. It is not see the ball, hit the ball. August is going to be a very trying month for several 18-year-olds and we should not be surprised or disappointed if it lingers. They were recruited for a reason and they will learn. That's all.

 

[deeeznutz]

So we are more confident that a team like Clemson can replace both of lines than our Abacks just get in the way of a defender in the alley?

I promise you blocking at the Aback position is not Calculus

Yup, so many people look at our holes as insurmountable, yet they just assume our competition will reload and be just as good. Clemson and FSU both lost WAY more than we did over the offseason on offense & defense. I look at our team and see us in a very strong position for maintaining last year's performance.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Yup, so many people look at our holes as insurmountable, yet they just assume our competition will reload and be just as good. Clemson and FSU both lost WAY more than we did over the offseason on offense & defense. I look at our team and see us in a very strong position for maintaining last year's performance.

Who said insurmountable?

 

[UgaBlows]

Exactly. Especially when it took the last crew 5 years to get good at it.

But in 2008 they got it in one summer

 

[SidewalkJacket]

"Get in the way of a defender"? I'm going to write this one off to hyperbole, because I in turn can promise you that an Aback whose goal it is to "get in the way of" is about to be pancaked. Again, see FSU, MSU. (First play MSU, if I recall. God, they were celebrating like Christmas came late.) If he comes in too late he will be tossed aside like a sack of flour; too early and he looks ridiculous being stepped on or over; wrong angle and he lands on his head. Worse, posterior. I have assumed all those positions and that was just against HS guys, not a Division 1 recruit in the bunch. Nobody argues it is calculus, though what it had in common to me was that I could do neither -- but it is part geometry because at some point two lines intersect, and both are moving; kind of like a firing solution a sonar chief will offer up to the boat driver -- but that it is hard. Real hard. It is not see the ball, hit the ball. August is going to be a very trying month for several 18-year-olds and we should not be surprised or disappointed if it lingers. They were recruited for a reason and they will learn. That's all.

I'm not saying that AB blocking is easy, but you do know the guy who posted what you're responding to played, don't you?

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Just as a caution about the excessive optimism

Optimism, sure. Excessive? I beg to differ. I think most of us are basing our assessment on the simple fact that in the entire time CPJ has been at Tech we have not had a total collapse at the A-back position. Even in several years where we were almost sure that would happen. And unless we have a total collapse, we should see some good yards produced by this group.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Yup, so many people look at our holes as insurmountable, yet they just assume our competition will reload and be just as good. Clemson and FSU both lost WAY more than we did over the offseason on offense & defense. I look at our team and see us in a very strong position for maintaining last year's performance.

EXACTLY!

 

[Northeast Stinger]

But in 2008 they got it in one summer

But according to some they may not have been good at it.

 

[Skeptic]

I'm not saying that AB blocking is easy, but you do know the guy who posted what you're responding to played, don't you?

Don't have a clue. As long as posters are respectful and civil, I don't have a problem.

 

[Skeptic]

Optimism, sure. Excessive? I beg to differ. I think most of us are basing our assessment on the simple fact that in the entire time CPJ has been at Tech we have not had a total collapse at the A-back position. Even in several years where we were almost sure that would happen. And unless we have a total collapse, we should see some good yards produced by this group.

Again, Stinger, my argument isn't yards. It's blocking.

 

[Skeptic]

But in 2008 they got it in one summer

I really wish I had some stuff from 2008 and I won't argue the point, but note with a team of Nesbitt, Jones and Dwyer, that team averaged maybe 70 yards a game less rushing than the '14 team. But as a man once said, let me be absolutely clear: I hope you are all right, each and every one, and next season corners and ends and linebackers are sprawled on their fannies from end zone to end zone, side to side, end to end. I think I will be cautious about it. We won't know a thing until ND and even then it might be a bit early.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

But in 2008 they got it in one summer

The teams we played in '08 had less of a clue of what we were doing than we did.

Also, we did a lot less with our Abacks back then than we do now, a lot less.

 

[AE 87]

The teams we played in '08 had less of a clue of what we were doing than we did.

Also, we did a lot less with our Abacks back then than we do now, a lot less.

Please list 6-10 of the lot more plays, blocking assignments for A-Backs in 2014 not run in 2008.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Please list 6-10 of the lot more plays, blocking assignments for A-Backs in 2014 not run in 2008.

In '08, our offense was mostly Nesbitt, Dwyer and Thomas. The Abacks weren't nearly as integral as they are now.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

In '08, the Abacks averaged 8.7 carries a game. Last season they averaged more than 15.

 

[Ibeeballin]

In '08, our offense was mostly Nesbitt, Dwyer and Thomas. The Abacks weren't nearly as integral as they are now.

Revisionist history a bit?