A Tale of Two Halves: Greg McElroy vs Virginia Tech
by Todd on Sep 6, 2009 2:32 PM CDT
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With all the worry and hand wringing over how a first year starter working behind an inexperienced offensive line would fare against a veteran defense like Bud Foster's, Greg McElroy didn't do a whole lot to allay our fears in the early going. Though he wound up a with a reasonably decent stat line...
| COMP | ATT | % | Yards | AVG. | TD | INT | |
| Greg McElroy |
15 | 30 | 50 | 230 | 7.7 | 1 | 1 |
...his first half numbers were, to put it gently, horrible...
| COMP | ATT | % | Yards | AVG. | TD | INT | |
| First Half | 6 | 18 | 33 | 94 | 5.2 | 0 |
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...while the second half was a completely different story:
| COMP | ATT | % | Yards | AVG. | TD | INT | |
| Second Half | 9 | 12 | 75 | 136 | 11.3 | 1 |
0 |
Fingers crossed that we can expect McElroy to play the rest of the season like he did in the second half after he got his feet under him a little. If he can do that, this kid can be something special.
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The Ginger is a leader
If you heard his interview you could tel he is willing to not just be the qb but the leader
(Your Team Here) sucks
I came away from that game....
feeling pretty good about our qb and having just watched it again I have to say that I’m now excited. He had a poor first half; understandable considering it was his first start and it was against a perennial top ten defense. In the first half he wasn’t protected all that well either. Still he had flashes of quality. The second half our O-line seemed to gel. Mac was not just good, he was great. With one exception his incompletes were either dead on-target drops or passes thrown to the edge of a receivers reach in order to avoid interceptions. He was putting the ball where he wanted it to be.
I’ve found that I slip into an “oh no” tension every time a Tide qb drops back to pass instead of making the hand off. I think I might enjoy seeing us pass a bit now.
If it were up to me, I'd blitz on offense too.
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