Al Groh
Al Groh
Al Grohis an American football analyst and former player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1981 to 1986 and at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009, compiling a career college football coaching record of 85–92. Groh was also the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football Leaguefor one season, in 2000, tallying a mark of 9–7. He last coached as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Tech...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1944
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I would say in the last 12 minutes, we had the opportunity to make some plays and BC had the opportunity to make some plays. The game hinged on their ability to make those plays and the fact that we did not.
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On a play two plays earlier, Brad was blocking Mathias and cut-blocked him to finish the play -- in full view of the umpire,
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This was probably his best day of the spring. Perhaps the progress wasn't as fast during the spring as he had hoped, but this was like the final exam, and he made some real good plays today.
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The big issue with running plays are offside linemen cut-blocks, ... Cut-blocks, if done within the context of the move, are legal.
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They had two or three plays that we had difficulty with all day. We tried four or five different solutions.
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Another typical Marques play, ... Obviously, he made some plays that not too many quarterbacks but Marques can make.
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He was impressive on the tape, and he was impressive tonight, ... and that's what good players do. But most of his plays were underneath plays. There were some plays that I would have preferred that we could have gotten him on the ground faster, but in the long run, they weren't overly harmful to us.
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A lot of Marques' runs came on plays that, had a quarterback not had that ability to create, the ball probably would have been thrown to the check down receiver.
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Andrew gets open, and when the quarterbacks see him, they fire the ball to him. Ogletree has a little bit of that ability. Both of them have some of the better skills that we have. Both of them had one of those days today where they had plays of significance and plays that they could have made.
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We tried to emphasize with him and the team that things aren't going to go perfect,
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We try to be very thorough with it. We are very tuned in to those kind of silent circumstances that really can't be detected ... We do try to keep a closer eye on some of the bigger guys, especially during hotter days.
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We got more of what we wanted from him than we did from anybody else.
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We're very pleased about being able to really accomplish a lot of what we set to do. We had a very specific plan when we set out and tried to stay with our plan throughout. And we feel very positive about being on target in many areas.
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It would be nice to do; that's for sure,