3 points regarding Georgia Tech, the first concerning Vad Lee
Vad Lee on Saturday's 79-yard non-scoring excursion. (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
1. Vad Lee might just be the top-end talent Georgia Tech otherwise lacks. Granted, it was one game against Presbyterian, but still: In the the third quarter alone, the redshirt freshman Lee authored the sixth-longest pass completion in Tech annals (82 yards to Jeff Greene) and the longest non-scoring run (79 yards) in school history. Lee isn’t apt to become the starting quarterback anytime soon — he’s still too raw — but he at least gives Paul Johnson a change-of-pace option.
2. For one night, the big plays were back. Tech’s longest gain from scrimmage at Virginia Tech was 22 yards. It had eight plays of 39 yards or longer Saturday night, four in the blowout third quarter. Again, this was against Presbyterian. But not since the record-setting Kansas game (66 points, 768 yards) of last September had the Jackets’ offense displayed such a separation gear (59 points, 712 yards). Johnson’s spread option is a different animal when the yards come in chunks.
3. The Jackets responded to the Virginia Tech loss in a mostly positive way. True, they fumbled four times (losing three), but you can’t have it all. Everything else was impressive enough to send this team into a key fortnight — home games against Coastal division brethren Virginia and Miami, both of whom beat Tech last season — feeling better about themselves. If the Jackets are to hang close enough to have a chance to catch Virginia Tech, they have to win these next two.
By Mark Bradley
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WnE
September 10th, 2012
8:47 am
re:
dagnabit
September 10th, 2012
3:01 am
wne: different quarterbacks all.
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It is the HC’s job to recruit decent QBs that can take advantage of talented WRs, also there was one year when all three were on the Team at the same time, that was Hill’s T-Fr. year, and after Bey-Bey left CPJ still had Hill & Cone, 2 outstanding physical specimens at WR on the same team and still didn’t throw the ball enough.
It is great to brag on how well those guys are doing in the NFL, but at the same time you would be remiss if you didn’t ask WHY our “Genius HC” didn’t get more out of them (Hill & Cone specifically) when they played for GT.
If you’re gonna brag on their NFL exploits you also have to ask why 2 of those guys didn’t do more at GT.
DOC 51
September 10th, 2012
9:12 am
GT offense won’t be awesome against big teams until QB can make timing pitch on the corner.Huge plays come when A-backs get open in space.Then the B-back can break open,and the passing game will work.
TechRon
September 10th, 2012
9:38 am
A win over a tune up opponent is not worthy of comment. I will be impressed when they beat someone decent — when they show some real character when the game is on the line. Unlike the VT game when they had it in the bag and then just laid down and let the other guy have it. I blame the coach. Here is the principle, very simply: It is great to have a killer running game, but when the other guy shuts down the run, you have to have an alternate plan prepared. You can’t just say “well, let’s just keep on doing what we do.” The alternate plan (in my humble view) would be to have an effective passer on the team and to use him.
Brave Hokie
September 10th, 2012
9:50 am
Beat the Wha-holes!
GTBob, Jr.
September 11th, 2012
1:43 am
Time to start Vad.
BV
September 11th, 2012
10:25 am
Seems like we Techies could develop a “Quick Read” QB simulator, whereby our QBs would be trained to make quick reads and decisions fot the TO. So our QBs would go to the film room and see a set up similar to Madden-13. There would be a quick flash of a defensive set or a defensive set put into game time speed and then the QB would be quizzed on what set he saw and what the correct TO decision should be. Our QBs need to be unconsciously proficient with their TO decisions. Malcolm Gladwell suggests that is takes 14,000 repetitions to get them there.
Build the “Quick Read” simulator boys…
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