Tech’s Paul Johnson: The best playcaller in the business
PJ's adjustments haven't included sending this guy in motion -- yet. (Brant Sanderlin, AJC)
It was the night of Oct. 3. Georgia Tech was playing Mississippi State in Starkville. With 9:21 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Jackets punted.
I mention this for a reason. That was more than a calendar month ago, and the Jackets haven’t punted in a second half since. Not at Florida State. Not against Virginia Tech. Not at Virginia. Not at Vandy.
Eight quarters of football. Not one second-half punt. And you know what this says?
Paul Johnson is the archduke of adjustments.
We hear announcers talking about them all the time. We hear Erin Andrews and her sideline-reporting ilk ask, “Coach, what adjustments will you make at halftime?” Ninety-five percent of the time coaches wind up doing the same thing in the second half as they did in the first.
Not PJ. He tweaks. He brings a guy in motion from a different angle. He splits a guy a tad wider. He runs the same stuff, only slightly differently. And Tech’s offense goes from powerful in the first half to unstoppable in the second.
You might ask Willie Martinez about this. Last November Georgia went from leading 28-12 at halftime to trailing 35-28 — in the span of seven minutes and five seconds. The Bulldogs had the game in hand, and suddenly they were chasing it. (And once PJ gets ahead, forget it. Tech is 8-1 the past two seasons in games decided by five or fewer points.)
“He’s not really coaching,” says Wayne Hogan, the pithy Tech associate AD. “He’s playing a video game!”
And that’s it exactly. Johnson figures stuff out on the fly. Even if the opponent seems to havee a handle on his stylized offense, he performs his little ju jitsu. He wears a headset on the sideline, but it’s just for show. He could make the same mid-course corrections wearing earmuffs.
We’ve known for a while he’s an outstanding head coach, but what sometimes gets lost is that he’s the best playcaller in the business. Hogan again: “Our coach is pretty cool.” And that’s it, too. To borrow Bob Greene’s description of Frank Gifford, PJ of GT is always the coolest guy in the room — even if the room holds 80,000.
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cluett
November 5th, 2009
10:56 am
another good one Mark. and first
TechDan
November 5th, 2009
10:59 am
Crap. Beaten to the “first” punch. Grat article, Mark.
TechDan
November 5th, 2009
11:00 am
Oops. “Great” not “grat”
Mark Bradley
November 5th, 2009
11:00 am
Man, you guys are fast. We’re going to have to get away from just having a “first” to doing like the Olympics and having a gold, silver and bronze.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:04 am
You know you are going to be accused of being a Tech Homer, don’t you?
ColaJacket
November 5th, 2009
11:04 am
“He wears a headset on the sideline, but it’s just for show. He could make the same mid-course corrections wearing earmuffs.” This statement is not true. CPJ says he depends upon his guys in the pressbox to tell him about the alignments of certain defensive player on certain plays, so that he can perform his little ju jitsu.
reebok
November 5th, 2009
11:05 am
Didn’t realize that punt stat – amazing. But remember…this is a high-school offense that will never work against Division I teams. GO JACKETS!
Yellow Fuzz
November 5th, 2009
11:05 am
dog nation,
Great to see the jealosy that so many georgia fans (I hope you can hear me) have developed toward the new Tech Nation. Maybe you should have been kinder, gentler competitors in the past instead of obnoxious azzholes. But since that is your trailer park nature I say
1. Get used to it
2. Deal with it the best you can
3. STFU until you beat us again!
Bid Factory
November 5th, 2009
11:07 am
CPJ I would give him a bid.
Tech75
November 5th, 2009
11:08 am
I’m not quite sure he’s the best in the business; but he’s been running this offense for so long that he’s seen just about everything that can be done to try to stop it; and he has counters for each of those.
This is really gonna be scary about two years from now when his players are starters and he’s getting good execution.
This just feeds off of itself. Right now we’re hurting on defense and we lack depth offensively and defensively; now that the “high school” offense is proving itself to be reliable, the players will come; everybody better watch out!
Eastside Jacket
November 5th, 2009
11:09 am
It’s hard to argue with PJ’s results. No punts in the second half of four straight games? Are you kidding me?
If I recall correctly Navy led the nation in fewest punts the last two years PJ was there. That man HATES to punt.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:09 am
Wow Yellow Fuzz, it took less than 10 minutes for you to take this to the gutter. I don’t like the dogs either, but I try to let them start the crap first.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:11 am
Navy actually went somewhere around four straight games without a punt while he was there. I am not sure of the exact number but I believe it was four.
TechKen
November 5th, 2009
11:11 am
I was one of the skeptics when he was first hired and especially after the spring game in 2008, but I like you am now a believer…
This will be a fun ride for all of us TECH fans
buzz is wiser
November 5th, 2009
11:11 am
Mark, WTH says you might be considered a Tech Homer, don’t know if he is right but if he is welcome. Embrace your inner yellow jacket. See you at Boddy Dood on sat.
Hot Sauce
November 5th, 2009
11:13 am
I Love CPJ.
jacketbacker
November 5th, 2009
11:14 am
Its great to be a Yellow Jacket!!!!!….Beat the Deacs!!!
Navyfan
November 5th, 2009
11:15 am
PJ is the best. Hands down. He’s blundered before (vs. LSU last year), but I can count those games on one hand in the 8 or so years I’ve been following his success.
BTW, PJ does mental jiu jitsu vice ju jitsu… Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the current ground game being implemented worldwide, while ju jitsu is a defunct Japanese predecessor.
GoldenTornado
November 5th, 2009
11:18 am
@Eastside — Navy punted the fewest times in the NCAA in PJ’s last 4 years there. Total punts from 2004-2007:
Navy 147
Hawaii 149
Louisville 160
Texas Tech 163
Air Force 180
Interesting that this contains the two most pass-happy teams and the two most run-happy teams, huh?
Mark Bradley
November 5th, 2009
11:18 am
Oh, yes. I’m a famous Tech homer. That’s why I was dubbed Bark Madly on the Hive.
Ralph
November 5th, 2009
11:19 am
Mark, can you confirm that Florida is negotiating to have either Tech or Georgia State replace UGA on it’s schedule so they might have some competition?
William the Martinizer
November 5th, 2009
11:19 am
Adjustments? Those are what I get at my chiropractor.
Scrap
November 5th, 2009
11:20 am
CPJ is definately one of the best in the business, and time will tell if he is the best ever. I think the key is that he never looses his cool. He’d be tough to beat in a poker game.
What a combination the Jackets have. The smartest, and coolest coach, the aboslute TOUGHEST quarterback in the country, a Heisman quality B back, a fleet of top notch A backs, and a world class wide receiver.
No wonder this offense is unstoppable.
All we ask for is 5 more games of maximum effort.
Saint Simons
November 5th, 2009
11:21 am
Tenn Tech 77, Uga 0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uga accepts bid to Carpets of Dalton Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lefty fielder
November 5th, 2009
11:22 am
a very simple question: if the triple option is/was so great, why did almost everybody stop using it?
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
11:22 am
I wonder how Tech ranks in number of all punts compared to other teams. I bet Tech hasn’t punted much.
Mark Bradley
November 5th, 2009
11:23 am
Because, Lefty, it’s hard to sell to recruits. And it’s also hard to coach. It requires precision.
CW
November 5th, 2009
11:23 am
More support for Coach Johnson “coaching them up” at Tech. Link below to Birmingham News article comparing recruiting ranking with results on the field: USC and UGA – not so good. Ga Tech “No. 51 [recruiting] class but in the AP Top 10.”
http://bit.ly/4BmiO3
Delbert D.
November 5th, 2009
11:23 am
The man know his game. It’s incredible. Like telling Peeples, “The next time we call that play, take off down the field.”
Mark Bradley
November 5th, 2009
11:23 am
There are teams that have punted fewer times than Tech. (I checked.) But not many.
HPB
November 5th, 2009
11:24 am
Dead on the money Mark. I’ve not feared a halftime deficit since uGA last year. He (and GT) will have their losses, but we never feel we’re out of it now.
StingerSplash
November 5th, 2009
11:24 am
Come on, Mark, you know the headphones aren’t for show.
The assistants are telling him such pertinent things as where the free safety is lining up, if an A-back missed a block and asking such relevant questions as what do you want to do third and 3 and where are we going for lunch tomorrow.
lefty fielder
November 5th, 2009
11:24 am
MB: More precision than the spread and all of its options?
James
November 5th, 2009
11:24 am
I know that it’s also an indictment of our awful kicking this year, but I think if Paul Johnson had his way, he would eliminate the “foot” from “football” altogether. How many field goals have we attempted? We never punt in the second half. We go for it on fourth and four. We get two point conversions. I bet he would prefer that instead of kickoffs, he just runs a pitch play from the 20, and wherever the player is stopped, the opposing team gets the ball there.
It seems that Paul Johnson just wants to eliminate special teams and defense from football. And just play offense all day long. He’s a madman!!!!
But, Mark, you’re right. He’s the best.
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
11:25 am
Tech doesn’t run the traditional triple option, Lefty Fielder.
James
November 5th, 2009
11:26 am
I meant to mention also that the only thing that stops opposing teams from scoring is the fact that our offense holds the ball for the entire game…
GT93
November 5th, 2009
11:27 am
Thanks Mark. Good article about CPJ and his play-calling talents. His demeanor is EXACTLY what GT was looking for: heads down, focus on your task, take accountability … his “just win” personality is reflected in the team and that can lead to a long road of success. Its an exciting time to be a Yellow Jacket!!
Eastside Jacket
November 5th, 2009
11:29 am
lefty fielder I think you’re confusing the triple option with the wishbone. Pretty much noone but PJ runs the triple option like he does. The spread is similar (like Florida runs), but most run it out of the shotgun while PJ runs it from under center. The obvious difference is teams like Florida choose to pass more often. Why, I don’t know. Everyone knows when you pass the ball only three things can happen and two of them are bad.
78 DAWG
November 5th, 2009
11:29 am
Johnson, can’t compare to Bobo. He’s ok, but Bobo has the big stadium and high salary and 5 star recruits and the great fan base. It’s not really fair but, there’s just no way Tech can compete with the DAWGS! Johnson doesn’t even have a fake tan or a hair line that moves faster than AJ Green or that I just burned one look on his face.
Delbert D.
November 5th, 2009
11:31 am
CW – Thanks for that link. Stanford recruits for character, as does Tech.
Ralph
November 5th, 2009
11:32 am
Hmmm. MB passed on commenting whether Florida wants some state of Georgia football competition in Jacksonville. Maybe GA Southern is in the mix, too, and such negotiations are too sensitive for journalists to discuss openly.
UpwiththeWhiteandGold
November 5th, 2009
11:32 am
PJ is one of the best things ever to happen for GT – don’t be so hard on Willie. We like for him to stay in Athens for a very long time.
Tom
November 5th, 2009
11:33 am
Current NCAA punts per game…..
1. Florida 2.625
2. Stanford 2.75
3. BYU 2.875
4. (tie) Georgia Tech 2.889
4. (tie) Idaho 2.889
DMWC
November 5th, 2009
11:34 am
Admit it, “Bark Madly” was a funny, funny nickname. Maybe undeserved, but funny.
Knew it
November 5th, 2009
11:35 am
I am so glad to have been one advocate of summoning Johnson two years ago! No credit to me. I was just believing what Furman Bisher wrote.
GO JACKETS!!! BEAT WAKE!!!
hedge puller
November 5th, 2009
11:35 am
Johnson is a great coach: he is tough and it’s his way or the highway. His players fear him but they also respect him. When these players are older, they will love the guy.
Defense: Johnson has to know defense and how to defend in order to have the offensive success that he has had. When he says their defensive sub par performances are a team effort on defense, it makes sense, but every individual on the team has to do three things. Get off blocks and get off the ground when they are blocked; break down by cutting speed and getting butt down and being ready to tackle rather than running full speed, butt high, trying to make the big hit and whiffing the ballcarrier when he changes direction; and they need to be severely punished for not hustling when the play goes away from their side of the field. If they are not in the picture when the ball carrier is tackled on the other side of the field, they should run stadiums till they puke. It is amazing, even if players don’t break down and get in possition to tackle, how missed tackles seem to disappear when five guys are around the ball carrier. If the first one misses, no one remembers it because the second, third and fourth guy clean up.
And, while this old timer is getting cathartic, you players stop laying around on the field when you get a boo-boo. Why do you want to let the other team know that they have hurt you? Unless it is a spinal injury, get off the field: don’t give the other team the pleasure of seeing one our guys rolling around on the ground.
I cannot tell you how happy I am that Johnson is our coach. We have needed an in your face, spit flying coach for a long time.
m
November 5th, 2009
11:38 am
Thanks to God and Greyhound, chan gomer gailey is gone forever. Any Tech fan that contributed to keeping gomer for 6 long sorry years, whoever defended or supported gomer in any way, you suck as bad as he did.
We could have had Paul Johnson in 2002. Think about that.
Nativebird
November 5th, 2009
11:39 am
I’m a Jackets fan, but you have GOT to be kidding me? OPTION RIGHT, OPTION LEFT!
nuff said.
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
11:39 am
Thanks, Tom!
Flowery Branch Yellow Jacket
November 5th, 2009
11:40 am
I listened to CPJ’s radio talk show last night, wherein he discussed his personal input into not only the offensive performance, but also the defensive side of the ball. Assuming he’s being truthful, CPJ is pleased overall with his staff, including DC Wommack. I get the feeling that the only thing we really lack is DEPTH … and that’s true to some extent on both sides of the ball (with the exception of the running back positions). If you think that we make good adjustments at the half now, can you imagine how much more effective we’ll be when we actually have enough players to cover every position 2-3 deep? It’ll be more fun times at The Flats.
Sonny Clusters
November 5th, 2009
11:41 am
Clusters could always call plays that work. On both sides of the ball. We was instrumental in calling audibles and in setting defenses when we was playing ball. We was “like having a coach on the field” according to Stinky Wintes and he don’t praise lightly. We asked Jeff this morning if journalists do any eye-gouging when they is after a story but he didn’t answer. What about it, Mark?
GT Bob
November 5th, 2009
11:43 am
Is everyone as sick of Saint Simons as I am. Hey Saint, when you get old enough to shave you’re welcome to join in.
LJacket
November 5th, 2009
11:44 am
While I am impressed and extatic about his play calling, I am equally impressed with the self discipline our team shows. No wild celebration displays, fist pumping, chest beating, dancing, etc. They get really excited about touchdowns, but almost always politely hand the ball to the ref in the end zone. Then put their heads down and get back to work. I like it. That takes a lot of coaching about team, not self, and getting the job done.
Dean George Griffin
November 5th, 2009
11:47 am
Mark, Good article! Now, serious question: Do you think it’s going to affect Tech’s chances adversely, that Wake Forest keeps possession of the football for long periods of time like CPJ’s Tech does? Will our advantage there be cancelled out?
Harry B
November 5th, 2009
11:48 am
Georgia Tech is terrible.
Once again, Georgia Tech is an incredible lame place where the breed of college student is different than most universities. The kids that go there just suck. Whenever I hear these Tech fans talk smack on here, i literally laugh to myself and discredit their opinions because they are loser Tech fans!!
Its like, ok you are doing well in football this year, but you lose at the game of life because you are a freakin loser nerd from Tech. And that makes me smile.
Georgia Tech sucks in every way, i mean you can not dispute this factually. Honestly.
Flowery Branch Yellow Jacket
November 5th, 2009
11:48 am
I listened to CPJ’s radio show last night, wherein he discussed his personal input into the offensive AND defensive performance. Assuming he’s being honest, CPJ is satisfied with his coaching staff, including DC Wommack. I get the feeling that the main thing we lack is DEPTH. If we think the “adjustments” are effective NOW (and they are), just think how much more effective they will be when we have enough personnel to go 2-3 deep at every position. No more moving a cornerback to a safety spot (or vice versa). It’s going to be a fun time on The Flats.
Mark Bradley
November 5th, 2009
11:49 am
To Dean George Griffin: No. Tech has better players than Wake. (It had better players in the 2006 title game in Jacksonville, but that’s another story.)
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:51 am
Just ignore the idiots and they will go away.
XXXVII
November 5th, 2009
11:51 am
I can stand on the sideline and call for the option over and over and over too. I guess i’m a pretty good play caller too!
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
11:52 am
LJacket – when you get into the endzone as much as we do, understand know how to handle it with class. silly doggies don’t get there enough to know.
Sonny Clusters
November 5th, 2009
11:53 am
Wait just a minute calling people nerds. We was always one of the best students at our school and because of that some people thought we was nerds, but not so. Honor Roll was something we took for granted and then when athletic success started coming our way we was always humble, but we wasn’t nerds. Pocket protectors can be used in a variety of ways by athletes and non-athletes alike.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:53 am
Just ignore the trailer trash and they will go away.
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
11:54 am
Harry B, I disagree with your mindless rant. My wife went to Tech, so I take offense to your comments.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
11:55 am
XXXVII
Keep believing it is just the triple option. They probably run the option 50 percent of the time.
Gt4ever
November 5th, 2009
11:56 am
Triple Option, Good Grief. We do not run the triple option…..
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
11:57 am
Harry B, get back to your high school shop class and stop hanging out in the computer lab. you need to get busy learning a trade, boy.
Sonny Clusters
November 5th, 2009
11:58 am
They is a lot of name calling on these AJC blogs, more than on more polite blogs elsewhere. But these blogs have Mark and Jeff and they is worth the price of the paper (internet access). Soon, when the AJC moves to Dunwoody we will be accepting a paying position at the paper and may get a chance to do a little blogging of our own and when we do they won’t be any name calling allowed. Sticks and stones may break our bones but eye-gouging could make us blind.
Indydawg
November 5th, 2009
11:58 am
Ever seen Tecmo Bowl Mark??? Paul Johnson’s play calling resembles the following…
Pass 1
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
And oddly, STILL BETTER THAN BOBO….
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
11:59 am
at least we made it almost 30 minutes before the idiots arrived.
Indydawg
November 5th, 2009
12:00 pm
Hey Mark, Johnson’s playcalling is like Tecmo Bowl….
Pass 1
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
And yet still better than Bobo….
Harry B
November 5th, 2009
12:01 pm
Hahaha WTH maybe you and St. Simons can have a convention to discuss how incredibly lame your institution is.
Does it hurt you inside, just a little, to know that the standard of a fun, decent person at GT is so skewed?
I can rest easy at night knowing that Georgia Tech students suck. You suck, think about it, soak it in, and remember that you go to one of the nerdiest places around.
You arent real college football fans, you are Tech fans, who happen to play college football with the real people of the world.
Does this make sense to you? Do you admit that your school sucks?
StraightJacket
November 5th, 2009
12:03 pm
Another little tidbit re: Coach Johnson’s playcalling:
He does it WITHOUT the neat, polished, color-coded, laminated, and trimmed “situational play-calling” sheet in his hand.
Coach Johnson joked along the lines of saying that if a coach is spending all that time looking at his opponents’ past tendencies, he just might MISS what they’re doing TODAY! Worse, if the coaches calling the plays don’t know they’re offenses well enough that they have to resort to play-calling sheets, then maybe they should learn their offenses a little better.
Coach Johnson wears the headsets to get word from coaches upstairs on things he can’t see on the other side of the field. Things like “what did the backside safety do on that play”? Then, the next time he calls a play that may have failed, he’ll change one or two blocking assignments, and voila!… we’ll have a big play.
Check out our plays over 20 yards this year. Many of them come AFTER the adjustments you’re talking about,
Good observation, Mark. And it isn’t even basketball season yet.
-StraightJacket
Big Ten Sleeper
November 5th, 2009
12:03 pm
I heard Purdue is going to offfer PJ a huge contract to come up there. Word is he will accept!
MalibuGT
November 5th, 2009
12:04 pm
it is still fascinating to me that players like Josh, Dwyer, BeBe are thriving in an offense that is so different from what they were recruited for.
will be fun on Saturday. no team should be more prepared for us than Wake, since they’ve seen the option from Navy the past several seasons.
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
12:04 pm
I don’t like the idiots either. I hope they aren’t Dawg fans but I’m sure they probably are. I can assure you they probably didn’t go to UGA.
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
12:06 pm
Nice try big ten sleeper. we’re not biting.
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
12:06 pm
Purdue…LOL
richtfan
November 5th, 2009
12:06 pm
mark, what it says is that you are a suck up to Tech.
WTH
November 5th, 2009
12:06 pm
Big Ten (Dawg Fan probably HBTD),
I guess you have inside sources at Purdue, ESPN, SI, etc. How much is the contract exactly and for how long. I am sure you can tell us.
Larry
November 5th, 2009
12:07 pm
I hear people say that Tech has a ‘high school’ offense. In a way, this is true, but they execute it very well. Defending an option attack is all about assignment football, but even at the college level, most defenses simply arent disciplined enough and thus struggle with assignment football, and thats why Tech’s attack works. Nesbitt isnt a great passer, but he doesnt have to be. Thats the beauty of Johnsons offense.
I am a Ga fan, but i like to see Tech do well. They are fun to watch. But its getting harder to get behind them when the blogs are full of jackasses like St Simons and Yellow Fuzz. You guys need to learn how to support your team with pride instead of being such dicks.
Paddy
November 5th, 2009
12:08 pm
lefty fielder…. my guess on other teams opting out of the option offense is they could not run it with the percision of a PJ. In the last two mon. I heard 2 former college coaches say if they got back into coaching they would adopt the PJ option offense. To me that was quite revealing and a credit to what your opponents must go through to stop this damn thing!
WTH
November 5th, 2009
12:08 pm
See Mark, it only took a little over an Hour for a dog fan to call you a Tech homer although richtfan did not say it quiet that nice.
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
12:09 pm
UGA “Grad” says it all. I will always give a graduate the benefit of the doubt (including my own blacksheep/dawg brother). it’s the sidewalk fans that are usually the morons.
Big Ten Sleeper
November 5th, 2009
12:09 pm
Just remember you heard it here 1st!!
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
12:09 pm
Larry, you need to add “m” to the mix too.
Sonny Clusters
November 5th, 2009
12:09 pm
Coach said we only needed about three plays, run, pass, kick. Mostly we run. Sometimes we passed. If they didn’t work, we kicked. Football is not that complicated if you’ve been Honor Roll.
Bark Madley
November 5th, 2009
12:11 pm
Gotta admit Mark, Bark Madley has a nice ring to it. Nice article. Do you by chance have the stats for how many fail 4th down attempts GT has in that time frame?
RAMBLE ON!!!
November 5th, 2009
12:12 pm
You know, I had almost forgotten about that cold day in Nov. when Roddy Jones ran for 16.5 yards per carry while the team accumulated more than 400 yards on the ground while completing one pass in route to a 45-42 beat down in Sanford and Son Stadium.
Thanks for reminding me Mark.
Spot on as usual.
Tech75
November 5th, 2009
12:12 pm
Hey Larry – it’s a two-way street, pal. “People who live in glass houses”…..
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
12:13 pm
Sidewalk fans are important to the fan base. I’m just saying that I didn’t go to school with anyone who acts like the morons I see here.
Born2Buzz
November 5th, 2009
12:14 pm
Mark, that last jab about the ‘06 CG is going to get m all stirred up again.
m, he’s gone. We’re all thankful. Forget about it. Focus on the now.
And yes, we are all tired of Yellow Fuzz, St Simons and Ramble On and their gutter talk. I’d say they may not be real GT grads as real Tech men show more class.
Heard someone asked CPJ why he didn’t have a card with plays on it to review, like most other coaches. He said “Why? I know all the plays. It would just be something in my hands that I never look at.”
UGA Grad
November 5th, 2009
12:16 pm
Sonny Clusters – I just want to say that I’m sorry no one taught you how to write or master the English language. Big hug!
Tu87
November 5th, 2009
12:17 pm
Once again over reaction by Bradley and deception. To quote:
“It was the night of Oct. 3. Georgia Tech was playing Mississippi State in Starkville. With 9:21 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Jackets punted.
I mention this for a reason. That was more than a calendar month ago, and the Jackets haven’t punted in a second half since. Not at Florida State. Not against Virginia Tech. Not at Virginia. Not at Vandy.”
They have punted in a 2nd half since that game, just not those 4 he mentions. Punts in the 2nd half this year alone: Clemson-3 times, Miami -once, North Carolina – once and LSU last year once. (I didn’t check last years games – only the LSU game). Wow the media really is awful, all you have to do is go to ESPN and check the play by play recaps of any game. Took me 5 minutes
WTH
November 5th, 2009
12:17 pm
Hey Larry, why don’t you read the post by HarryB at 11:48 and tell us what you think about it.
hedge puller
November 5th, 2009
12:17 pm
CPJ isn’t going anywhere. He isn’t all about the money. His family is most important to him and the family loves it here.
RAMBLE ON!!!
November 5th, 2009
12:18 pm
I guess I won’t get invited to Born2Buzz’s next Zima party.
Gosh darn it!!!
Paddy
November 5th, 2009
12:18 pm
Native bird… you don’t like CPJ offense? What is not to like when you average 400 yrds per game on the ground and make the other team cry! Maybe you should find another school to root for. CPJ looks like he will be around for awhile.
Come on over to Athens, we can always use the fans. Go Dawgs
NVAJacketsfan
November 5th, 2009
12:18 pm
It is amazing how many folks don’t realize the play call is not just the particular “big”play (Option left, Option right…) but also the tweaking of the blocking scheme’s, the telling the a back to brush the defender and take off down field, the telling the WRs to cut back on this or that defender after the initial snap…
These are the places that CPJ makes adjustments at the half and they are why Tech’s offense has been significantly more commanding in the second halves so far this season.
GT JJ
November 5th, 2009
12:18 pm
Agreed that sidewalk fans are important and I’m not looking down my nose at anyone who cheers for the Jackets. Just sayin that more often than not, they’re the culprits for the idiocy on the blogs and elsewhere.
UGAIsSoLastYear
November 5th, 2009
12:18 pm
A few years ago we had the best punter in the country! He was good. Florida has kicked the fewest punts but you missed the most telling stat with regards to their punts. Through 9 games, not one has been returned for any yardage!!!