Rolling Stone's Take on the ACC Championship Game

[GlennW]

Georgia Tech's three-card monte offense left Florida State defenders grasping and missing. Quarterback Justin Thomas performed so much sleight of hand the refs kept checking to make sure they had their wallets. In one play in the second quarter, a receiver started in motion in one direction, then went in the other, then Thomas faked a handoff to the left, took off to the right and faked a pitch to the outside. He fooled half the crowd, three-quarters of the press box and the two defenders in front of him so completely that neither one of them made a move toward until he had already split them.

Now, let's be fair: Georgia Tech's offense does that to a lot of opponents. Every play Tech runs has so many moving pieces you expect the subs to bring a can of WD-40 with them to the huddle keep the whole machine lubed-up between plays.



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[B Lifsey]

Quarterback Justin Thomas performed so much sleight of hand the refs kept checking to make sure they had their wallets.

Pretty cute write-up but I think they have the team reputations crossed up

 

[vamosjackets]

In the writer's mind, that article sounded better than it was.

 

[LarryMunson]

To quote Charles Barkley, "that was turribl. Just turribl."

 

[DTGT]

Georgia Tech's three-card monte offense

Can we get some people to change our official offense to this on all websites?

 

[MidtownJacket]

haha why do we have to hate the guy.. he wrote an article in ROLLING STONE.. it isn't exactly supposed to be a sport's wonk piece.

 

[GlennW]

@ChrisYandle: .@GeorgiaTechFB leads ACC in 15 major categories, leads nation in 3rd down % and blocked kicks, and ranks Top 3 in FBS in 7 categories

 

[GTech63]

haha why do we have to hate the guy.. he wrote an article in ROLLING STONE.. it isn't exactly supposed to be a sport's wonk piece.

I thought it was funny and expected from Rolling Stone. I sensed a lot of respect for us in the write up. I too like the three-card monte offense title to our O. I wonder what CPJ thought??

 

[MidtownJacket]

agreed GTech

 

[deeeznutz]

I thought it was complimentary of us in a very back-handed way, as if they should have blown us out and the fact we kept it close is a sign FSU isn't very good. I thought that game just showed the world that we aren't that far behind the FSUs of the world, not that they are weak.

 

[GTech63]

How we and other ACC teams do post season, especially against the "mighty" SEC will either enhance or dispel the myth. I think we are going to dispel it.

 

[swampsting]

Be careful of what you get accused of in Rolling Stone.

 

[stylee]

(Someone say that we raped FSU's defense now.)

 

[GTNavyNuke]

(Someone say that we raped FSU's defense now.)

There is indisputable video evidence of the rape. It will be confirmed in court ...

This is great publicity. But I would have expected KY Jelly rather than WD-40.

 

[LarryMunson]

 

[LarryMunson]

Welp. Gifs don't gif here!