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To: SBerglowe who wrote (307)	10/12/2002 1:36:58 AM
From: gregor	of 1332

I have this gut feeling there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. It centers around the psychological and physical impact our offensive scheme is having on opposing defenses. 1. You have to admit that it is rare that a defensive coordinator has to prepare for an attack such as the running game of VT. Right there you have the opposition spending a lot of effort to formulate a game plan. When you play VT its not business as usual. 2.Fans are upset that FB says every week we are working on the passing game and expect to throw the ball a lot more. If I were FB and expected to pass once each half that is exactly the public comment I would be saying. It makes the opposition think they must prepare for the pass also,,, taking away from the effort in preparing the rushing defenses. 3.With the duo of Suggs Jones 1+1 equals more than 2. Its not like rotating in qb's tight ends or receivers. The fatigue factor almost necessitates that you keep pounding in there not giving ostensibly the defensive linemen the breather they might have taken on a drop back pass play. Simply put a defensive lineman would not be as obvious giving a 60% effort on a pass rushing play as he would on a running play where the fullback a pulling guard and Lee Suggs were all heading in his direction. 4.I cannot imagine the mental toughness an offense generates when they know they are going out and running 5 or 6 times for every passing attempt. 5.Last. Injuries. You would think that a running team where the O linemen are firing off the line of scrimmage would be more prone to injuries, opposed to pass defense teams where the offensive linemen are backing up::: but without any statistics to go on it seems that we have had the opposite happen...i.e. that is a decent year in our injury ratio with other teams. Simply put, again, it seemed to me last night that a lot more Eagles got helped off the field than Hokies.

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