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Game Thread tOSU @ Virginia Tech, Sep 7 2015 @ 8pm ET, ESPN

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I would be more worried about the Defense had Bosa played. Losing the best defensive player in the country and still basically locking them down, outside of gimmicky plays, is pretty good. They could have been a lot better and some guys seemed like they were looking to make big plays instead of staying home and doing their jobs. Gets a lot easier with Joey in there.
 
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First game of the season is always a crapshoot. All things being equal, we only shat the bed in the 2d quarter. Who knows how this would have gone had Brewer not been regrettably hurt, and that's something Hokies will cling to, but we won a national title with our 3rd QB; you're not viable if you can't plug your second option in and continue to compete.

Curious playcalling, but VaTech has an extraordinary DL (outplayed ours tonight, imo). I'd put them in the same neighborhood as ours and MSU's. I fear the loss of Brewer is going to dilute the value of our win over them if they drop a few the next couple weeks -- but we're hardly in the position in which we have to worry about opponent quality if we take care of business.

42-24? I'll take it.

The first one is under our belts, all, and it's a W. On to Hawai'i, and there's so much for JT to address.

Random thoughts:
- I don't want JT to be limited to Kenny G. duty. JT had all of last season to grow, and grow he did. That's not a knock on Cardale, nor is it me saying JT should have started today. Just saying we have two guys who drive the offense in pretty different ways.
- Zeke is going to run roughshod between now and MSU. Tonight was a one-off with the Bear front.
- We seemed to run a JT-style offense with Cardale, and then either asked him (or allowed him) to run more often than he likely should have. Cardale played Cardaleball at the end of last year, if he's not our #1a but our dedicated starting QB then I hope (and expect) to see us setting him up for his beautiful deep balls. Once again, this game was a one-off. Bring Jalin and Donte back, get more lateral action with them and brutal Zeke runs -- Thomas, Brax, Sam, Parris, and others will rip it deep. Not going to read too much into today, not much to read at all, really.
- DBs, the talent is there but they're going to take a few games.
- DL/OL, rough night. OL faced a serious DL, good trial by fire. DL will be different with Bosa.
- Love Zeke, trust Zeke, Zeke Zeke. That said, never want to see him have to return punts again. The first one just looked wrong somehow. Awkward. Was it the second one where he had to make a last moment adjustment and we all feared a fumble? When he did finally drop it, I wasn't shocked. Not his role, I'd have rather seen Miller doing it.
- Tom Herman was a force. Hard to replace. Going to take a while to settle into a similar but new identity. We have the padding to do that.
- 1-0!!! The National Championship defense continues.

Get some sleep, all.
 
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Blitzed a ton and a little too predictable the first half. I am all for aggressive Defensive calls, but we were coming nearly every dang pass situation and the blitz was picked up and we were burnt a couple of times. That, and I don't like Cardale on the option. Give me JT on the option all day every day. It is not a good thing for us when Cardale has nearly twice the carries #15 does.
 
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