Film Room The Summer Push VT Play 15

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Last one was a 3TO this one is a dive... The QB's eyes let you know for sure. MM was hitting the LOS hard! In complete honesty... effort play for the AB though.
 
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Longestday said:
Last one was a 3TO this one is a dive... The QB's eyes let you know for sure. MM was hitting the LOS hard! In complete honesty... effort play for the AB though.
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agree. Will gets the best of #60 on this one.

Who's got the backside Lb? Both Lee and Coop make great effort to get him but just come up short. Too much trash to wade through.
 

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dressedcheeseside said:
agree. Will gets the best of #60 on this one.

Who's got the backside Lb? Both Lee and Coop make great effort to get him but just come up short. Too much trash to wade through.
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Lee is supposed to I think. If the backside LB, in that kind of 4-3 set, is making the play on the BB for less than 4 yards that is when you are supposed to call the Counter option. He is getting too nosey at that point. He, the backside linebacker, is not here I don't think.
 

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High tide in a tropical storm doesn't get that much surge. I could watch the blocking on that play all night long.
 
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we should line up and run the ball right at them more than we do. They get a little too fancy sometimes and we should just block the guy in front of us and run the ball straight at 'em.

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I hope Will Bryan has that on replay on a monitor in his room.

And how about Jahaziel Lee. Couldn't quite get over to help on the play, and ended up right on top of a LB when everything came to a rest...so he hit him just for good measure.

If anybody wonders what people mean about receivers getting a lot of 1 on 1 opportunities at Georgia Tech, just show them this play. If the play was a fake to MM and then roll reverse back out of the pocket, we have a receiver down there off screen and a Virginia Tech DB and nobody else within 40 yards.
 
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GTech63 said:
IIRC we were doing much more of that latter part of 2014.
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We've always done drive blocking on the playside of the vast majority of our plays. The only cutblocking the OL do is on the backside, scooping a DT to cut them off from pursuit or if they're going for a LB or safety on the second level and don't have the angle to cut them off straight up. The AB's do more cutting, and that's also all on the second level. DL don't like to play against our O, and it's not because of cut blocks, it's because our guys are coming off the ball as hard as they can with low pad level to drive them 5 yards back off the LOS. Would you rather take that physical pounding or play against a blocker who is either pass blocking (ie wating for you to come hit him) or zone run blocking which is mostly moving laterally and just trying to stay engaged (and all with much higher pad level)? But, you can look at any film since 2008 and see blocks like this going on all game long. The cut-blocking OL being the foundation of our offense is a flat out myth, worse than a myth because myths can represent truth, it's fake-news.
 

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vamosjackets said:
We've always done drive blocking on the playside of the vast majority of our plays. The only cutblocking the OL do is on the backside, scooping a DT to cut them off from pursuit or if they're going for a LB or safety on the second level and don't have the angle to cut them off straight up. The AB's do more cutting, and that's also all on the second level. DL don't like to play against our O, and it's not because of cut blocks, it's because our guys are coming off the ball as hard as they can with low pad level to drive them 5 yards back off the LOS. Would you rather take that physical pounding or play against a blocker who is either pass blocking (ie wating for you to come hit him) or zone run blocking which is mostly moving laterally and just trying to stay engaged (and all with much higher pad level)? But, you can look at any film since 2008 and see blocks like this going on all game long. The cut-blocking OL being the foundation of our offense is a flat out myth, worse than a myth because myths can represent truth, it's fake-news.
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vamosjackets said:
We've always done drive blocking on the playside of the vast majority of our plays. The only cutblocking the OL do is on the backside, scooping a DT to cut them off from pursuit or if they're going for a LB or safety on the second level and don't have the angle to cut them off straight up. The AB's do more cutting, and that's also all on the second level. DL don't like to play against our O, and it's not because of cut blocks, it's because our guys are coming off the ball as hard as they can with low pad level to drive them 5 yards back off the LOS. Would you rather take that physical pounding or play against a blocker who is either pass blocking (ie wating for you to come hit him) or zone run blocking which is mostly moving laterally and just trying to stay engaged (and all with much higher pad level)? But, you can look at any film since 2008 and see blocks like this going on all game long. The cut-blocking OL being the foundation of our offense is a flat out myth, worse than a myth because myths can represent truth, it's fake-news.
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Yes, it is a myth partly attributable to opposing coaches complaining about our players. Witness the hullabaloo about the Athlon article in which an opposing coach is quoted as saying something along the lines of our team "being a nasty bunch" and that we push the limits of the rules. Since when is drive blocking with offensive linemen coming off the ball low and hard pushing the limits of the rules? In 2009, UGA beat us with power running behind an offensive line that came off the ball beautifully and really took it to us. This should be our identity.
 
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