Virginia Tech Postgame

[dressedcheeseside]

We are still 4-4. We are still 5th in our division, and the move fans have been begging Johnson to make for weeks makes it looks like sometimes the fans really do know better. At least for one game. It was a great game. But just that. A game. It'll take 7 wins probably for some people to start really coming back, and we'd probably have to win out before everyone is back on the train. Going 8-4 with a win at UGA would actually feel like we're building something. 6-6 and a low end bowl? Not so much.

Meh, every fan base of a struggling team clamors for the backup qb. I’m pretty sure a healthy TM would have had a field day tonight as well with the way our OL was moving the LOS.

 

[CuseJacket]

 

[Jacketman1]

Interesting thumbnail, especially with how the game played out...

 

[Buzz*The*Plumber]

Ummmm.... that was fun! Let's do that every game, shall we!

 

[Jacketman1]

This GT team would've beaten Pitt by 35+...need them to show up the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

 

[CuseJacket]

 

[swampsting]

I loved Hogans Heroes!

The best one is where he and Klink go back to London.

 

[Buzz*The*Plumber]

 

[ibeattetris]

Shout out to Brad Stewart who blocks his *** off every play and gets one target.

 

[RamblinCharger]

Ok, so queue up the , we need to pass the football idiots. When you rush for 7 yards per carry, no you don't. If we don't make stupid mistakes and don't fumble we can beat anybody.

When you have a QB that gets downhill, hits the hole fast, and breaks arm tackles you’ll have success. I have no doubt we would have beaten duke by 2 scores last week with Oliver at QB. We also would have beaten Pitt and probably USF. Sad that it took so long.

 

[AlabamaBuzz]

Meh, every fan base of a struggling team clamors for the backup qb. I’m pretty sure a healthy TM would have had a field day tonight as well with the way our OL was moving the LOS.

I agree that TM would have done well tonight also, but I do think TO gives us a "Nesbitt-lite" quality that helps. When he gets tackled, he usually gets another yard or so. When TM gets tackled, many times he goes backwards. If we are going to have to live with NO passing game, then I would rather have the guy who is stronger and can get that extra yard. Just me.

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

Hard to believe this was the same team that looked so bad against Duke just 10 days ago. It seems to me that Oliver is more decisive and faster to the line than Marshall especially on the midline. People watching on tv don't really understand how hard it is to stop that play and how much pressure it puts on the defensive tackles and linebackers. Hit this one? or that one? Uh oh, wrong guy now they are gone. The speed at which this offense was coming at an inexperienced defense is really tough to replicate in practice. Obviously, not one of Bud's better nights. I was kind of surprised to see them a little bit off the line of scrimmage and not up on it gambling with the safety like they have done in the past. Question: Should Oliver be the starter now or does Coach Johnson go back to Marshall? Quarterback controversy brewing or was it just TO's time and TaQuon gets his job back next week?

 

[Dustman]

Or maybe the O Line stayed with the right line calls tonight

 

[ibeattetris]

I agree that TM would have done well tonight also, but I do think TO gives us a "Nesbitt-lite" quality that helps. When he gets tackled, he usually gets another yard or so. When TM gets tackled, many times he goes backwards. If we are going to have to live with NO passing game, then I would rather have the guy who is stronger and can get that extra yard. Just me.

Sead Bedford said Oliver was reminding him of Nesbitt tonight. High praise coming from a man who snapped to JFN.

 

[ibeattetris]

Or maybe the O Line stayed with the right line calls tonight

Over 150 yards before contact. Oliver is a champ, but my game ball goes to an offensive lineman tonight.

 

[lauraee]

 

[steebu]

Idk know if TQM toe is still bothering him but TO plays at a faster speed and much more decisive than him. If the counter option looked better tonight.

Troof.

That reverse pivot out of the Over Green formation to the weak side was pretty. Well, other than that pitch he put on the ground. QB controversy?

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Meh, every fan base of a struggling team clamors for the backup qb. I’m pretty sure a healthy TM would have had a field day tonight as well with the way our OL was moving the LOS.

But we'll never know. Oliver shredded them. Maybe against UNC, TM is better. Let's find out.

 

[lauraee]

 

[steebu]

We ran double option, midline and load option too.
Definitely a pared down version of the offense.

I don't know that we ever run too much stuff against Bud. PJ knows stuff works, so he says, "let's just run 5 plays really, really well." Consider the Joshua-Broken-Arm game back in 2010: we literally ran nothing but zone dive and triple option the whole first half and were on our way to dominating them until The Arm.

Yah. I don’t recall any triple at all but I was chasing my 3 year old and may have missed it.
Fun game but hopefully the extremely limited playbook is more about just sticking with what works than TO’s inability to do the rest.

I hope so, too. I didn't see any triple either, and falling down on your first past attempt on national TV is a bit embarassing. But that aside, the plays TO ran he did really well with. We didn't have any explosion plays tonight, but you don't always need them when you can execute and not put the ball on the ground. We will definitely need some explosion plays down the road against Miami and UGA.