FB: Georgia Tech 49, Duke 10
Okay, enough about the other teams in the Triangle. I don't want to talk about those games anymore.
Lets talk about how we can beat GT:
STEPS THAT WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH:
Step 1: Reach the end zone early and OFTEN. GT's weakness is the pass...its secondary is not so good. Check out the Florida State game for example. Duke needs to score a lot of points in this game because well our weakness is our Run D. Which leads us to...
Step 2: Prevent GT from scoring a TD on 50% of its drives. We aren't very good at stopping the run. We're not going to get much better at doing so with a week of practice. GT is GOING TO SCORE ON US. That's okay if we can outscore them. But well, its hard to outscore the other team when they're scoring on every drive. We should have a shot if on every other drive GT is limited to 3 points or less.
Step 3: Take advantage of any turnovers. This is the only way we'll be able to accomplish Step 2. Today we forced 2 turnovers (Blocked Kick and an INT). We ended up with only 3 points total. If we don't capitalize next week, we're going to lose.
Step 4: Returning to Offense, now, We need to rely on our best weapon: Our Passing Game. Thad Lewis and our receivers are far more effective than our rushing game. This means to win i would think our play calling should be as follows:
1. Don't be Afraid to Abandon the Rush Early. If we get behind by two scores, i don't care how early it is, we'll need to use thad each down to come back.
2. Stop rushing in the Red Zone. The last two games we've had momentum just plain die on downs in the Red Zone where we rushed and were inevitably stuffed. I like Desmond Scott and i think he's really talented. But our Run-Blocking is terrible. And GT is a POOR pass D team. They Average 220 pass yards/game after the Wake game. WE MUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS. We took advantage of NC State's awful D with screens. Do THE SAME THING HERE.
Step 5: Special Teams as usual. Easily the best part of our game today. DO IT AGAIN
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I suspect our WRs will be banged up (Conner Vernon especially) but they should all be ready to play on Satruday. Let's give the Duke home crowd yet another reason to come to games and get our shot at bowl eligibility BACK ON TRACK.
Honest Prediction: Georgia Tech 45, Duke 35
Best Case Prediction: Duke 45, Georgia Tech 40
<devildeac> anyone playing drinking games by now?
7:49:36<Wander> drink every qb run?
7:49:38<loran16> umm, drink every time asack rushes?
7:49:38<wolfybeard> @devildeac: drink when Asack runs a keeper
7:49:39 PM<CB&B> any time zack runs, drink
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