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Stick It In
Wish they would have announced over the PA system that open tryouts for kicker were being held on Sunday.
Wish they would have announced over the PA system that open tryouts for kicker were being held on Sunday.
Also I am probably in the minority here, Logan should have been benched well into the third quarter. He looked exactly like Glennon out there - overwhelmed and trying to do too much. Who knows what Leal can do in a game.
I do have a confession to make. I think the gods were angry with me on Saturday, my parents were in town, and my dad and I were out in the back yard for some beers, music and a quick game of cornhole before the game started....
well the people that live across the canal from my back yard had set up an event tent that morning, and a large gathering of people had started to amass. as dad and I were finishing our first beers, and the first couple rounds of cornhole, I noticed them speaking over a microphone. The part that I heard, "Devin, had I known that would have been the last day I would see you, the last time I would talk to you..."
Dad and I went inside at that point, but I think the damage may have been done, we were getting some perturbed looks from the folks at the memorial service.
My thing is though, if you're going to be doing one of these in your backyard on a Saturday early afternoon, shouldn't you let your neighbors know? What if I had planned some huge tailgate party or something?
You're not. At some point you have to do what gives our team the best chance to win. Running Logan, who was playing like absolute crap, out there over again, is not doing that. There were plenty of open receivers he missed just because he was late on his throws, or didn't throw the ball.
Also, it was only a matter of time before Journell was going to bite us in the ass. I just seriously can't believe that these are our two best options.
Logan had a bad day. He has managed to shine on some drives, though, so I guess he gets a mulligan. Journell, on the other hand, isn't getting his job done, and his job is a pretty well-defined one. What happened to Brooks Abbott? Given Journell's history, I would have tried to hang on to that guy.
Logan had a bad day. He has managed to shine on some drives, though, so I guess he gets a mulligan. Journell, on the other hand, isn't getting his job done, and his job is a pretty well-defined one. What happened to Brooks Abbott? Given Journell's history, I would have tried to hang on to that guy.
I believe Abbott transferred.
Logan had a bad day. He has managed to shine on some drives, though, so I guess he gets a mulligan. Journell, on the other hand, isn't getting his job done, and his job is a pretty well-defined one. What happened to Brooks Abbott? Given Journell's history, I would have tried to hang on to that guy.
FUCK WE LOST TO DUKE!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
“If we matched their intensity and played like those guys (the defense), we’d probably be the No. 1 team in the nation,” sophomore tailback J.C. Coleman said. “I know a lot of guys on our team know that. I credit the defense because they don’t blame us.”
im glad the players know this too, and its not just us
Tech has to bounce back quickly - Richmond Times-Dispatch: College Football
The "coaches know best" logic fails to deliver when you remember this is the same Frank Beamer that kept Stiney and Newsome in their jobs for years even though everyone in the nation could see they were in over their heads. Not calling you out specifically, but I see this stuff a lot in comments and such. No, coaches don't know best all the time. And its a known fact that Beamer is fiercely loyal to a fault. So it is what it is.
-I'm already seeing LT apologists, people touting how many yards he produced, etc. Just stop. He stunk.Yeah, he moved the ball but he made some downright dreadful reads both in passing and running (thought he kept it too much on a few plays). I just got done talking to a friend who was at the game and he said WRs were open but LT couldn't find them. He played poorly. I don't get why people just can't say it. They always want to put positives on things when sometimes a kick in the ass reality check is what's needed. There's more to being a successful QB than putting up yards. In crucial situations, he made very poor decisions and that's what separates the good QBs from the rest. It's something we've seen out of him throughout most of his career. He can make all the throws, but yet he can't make all the throws. By that I mean he's physically capable of doing it, but mentally in the heat of competition he fails to deliver consistently. There are lots of QBs like him and its what will keep him from being a successful NFL QB (but why he's a prospect).Really he is no different than Sean Glennon. Glennon put up nice stat lines too. But what plagued Glennon was he had an incredible knack for making mind numbing turnovers at the worst possible times. LT had himself a Glennon game today. Simple as that.
If Loeffler wanted LT pulled for Leal, I seriously doubt Beamer would have stopped him.
Don't confuse me with an LT apologist, though. You're right, above. LT just isn't that good. I mean, he can be great, and sometimes he is, but too much of the time he's bad. You have to be more consistent than this to succeed at QB. Hope I'm wrong, but I don't see him making it in the NFL.
I'm not sure I agree with the coaches decision not to pull LT for Leal, either, but they are privy to a lot more information than I am, know a lot more about the game, have a much better sense of what the repercussions of such a decision will be long term... I'll question them, sure, but I'm not going to come out and unequivocally say that they were wrong. In the end, as much as I may question them, I'm also glad they're making the decisions and not me.