I wanted to publicly disclose my thoughts on last Sat's Miami game before we play another game. First, let me give Mr. Much Maligned credit for actually calling a good game. It must be quite an accomplishment for him to get a passing grade from everyone for his playcalling for the first time this season. If you go back and look at past seasons, it is also rare for Stiney when he actually has a good game playcalling wise. Trust me they are few and far between. I am tired of looking up all of the stats right now. I will give Stiney credit where credit is due for the Miami game for sticking with the run and sprinkling in the pass. I especially liked the shovel pass play call because for all intents and purposes that is a screen! Also, props to the offensive line, which dominated the U in the trenches, Ryan Williams, Josh Oglesby, Tyrod Taylor and Jarret Boykin (who should be starting at one of the wr positions).
But, the offense was given quite a few layups by our defense and special teams (which I correctly predicted would need to chip in 2tds or more or setup the offense for a few easy ones in order for us to win the game on Sat). Props to Stiney and our players on offense for helping produce touchdowns in those times instead of whimpering into all field goals like in the past. I trust Bud Foster completely. Bud will always figure out what is working or not working with the different personnel he has each yr and make the defense work. He does a great job tweaking the defense and playing to the strengths of his players when he has to except for the 2003 season, but he gets a pass. Stiney does not. Stiney and O'Cain still try to fit a round peg into a square hole. Based on prior past performances, I expect Stiney to revert back to the mean of his offensive playcalling ineptitude. The lesson we should all learn from the Miami game is this: celebrate the win because we are all Hokies and we all love to see our team win, especially against a good Miami team, but, how can you trust Bryan Stinespring still when his OC resume says you shouldn't? I don't know about the rest of you, but Stiney will have to spend every game of the rest of his career at VT as the OC proving me wrong about his abilities as an OC. We might get a game like the Miami game last Sat every now and then against a good team, but I am that convinced Stiney still cannot perform his job as an OC even respectably...
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Yup yup I'm with you.
Agree 100%.
Stiney will have to give us 5 years of extraordinary performance to make up for the last 5.
Stines,
you are a joke after trying to make the Hokie Nation believe that you made the play.
Stines you are shit. You had no college experience when you got hird and it shows.
P.S. Great athletes can hide many bad coaching ideas
hey you have to give credit where credit is due. Stiney called a pretty good game against duke and it showed. Our offense had around 500 yards of offense. If anyone is to blame I would say it's the defense because they gave up so many big plays. Don't get me wrong I think Stiney is a bad play caller but the last couple of weeks he hasn't done too bad. If he keeps it up our offense will be pretty decent
Justin, I agree with you on the last two weeks (Miami and now Duke)... we've seen some improvement. I think you've noticed that in the grades that he's received in our polls on this site for the offensive game. If you see my comments on the other post, I give Stiney credit for taking what was given... yesterday, Tyrod Taylor had a great passing game (a career day, in fact)... Duke sold out to stop the run... loaded 8 guys in the box (give David Cutcliffe credit for making us beat the Devils with the pass). I gave Stiney a B for the week... it wasn't awesome, but the play calling didn't hurt our team and he stayed with the run and our depth eventually wore down Duke. Can we see improvement? Yes, for sure (Oglesby needs more caries... we need to commit to a two-back system... share the load... I like Oglesby's running yesterday... he was strong and hit the holes well... would like to see more use of the tight end... I think I mentioned the use of the tight end several times to Big Tony during the Miami game that we went to lol)... but the team was not hurt too bad yesterday.
You're right... the defense had a bad day yesterday... specifically, our pass defense... but I think Bud will get that worked about for the BC and Georgia Tech games (we are still get burned down the middle of the field and on deep routes for too much). Bud's good at making adjustments and will use the Duke performance as motivation... and then he will use the Georgia Tech game as an "it's all on the line boys... win and we are in the ACC Championship game" type of thing. But as, IH says, one game at a time and Boston College is next.
Apparently, Boston College is much better team (or F$U sucks worse than we thought) and, as EBJ from the BCO said on Twitter, they will game plan much better for us. Boston College, however, did not see a pass rush in the F$U game and they will see one in Blacksburg :)
Yep. It was about 40% "we need to use the TE's more" and about 60% "damn, that Miami receiver is big... isn't he big? He looks so BIG!"
Smart ass LOL
The offense against Miami and Duke looks NOTHING like what it looked like against Alabama or Nebraska.
Now, it remains to be seen if this is truly a fundamental change in the offense and great times are ahead or if Stiney tries to start out-thinking himself in games as he's done so often in the past. But just looking at the difference in scheme and in truly establishing a real identity (we are going to run the ball and set-up play action passing and run-pass options for Taylor) I give great credit to Coach Stinespring for making those changes and the results have spoken for themselves.
If you told me after the Alabama game that I would see a game this season where the deep passes would be to Coale, Boykin and Boyce instead of Roberts, there would be fade passes to Boykin in the redzone and Roberts would be used on the WR screen and quick hitting out routes/in the flat, I would have laughed and called you an idiot for believing in such hopeless dreams. Now that's a reality.
I still want to see Roberts on the crossing routes and slants, and more utilization of the TE but real progress is being made. I pray every night before I go to sleep that I'm not imagining all of this and that it continues going forward.
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