Patience, people. Patience.

Everyone, please, take a deep breath. Calm down. Relax. Maybe have a cup of tea. Feel better? Good. All I'm hearing is a bunch of doom-and-gloom about the spring game. It's annoying. Yes, Logan threw three picks. Yes, the running game was underwhelming. What do you expect? It's been 15 practices since the end of VT Football's worst season in 20 years, with new coaches and only a fraction of the playbook installed. So, my message is this: chill out and have some patience. Things will get better. Here's what I saw out of the spring game.

1. Logan Thomas will be the starting QB, and he deserves to be. I counted 5 throws that were just not good throws. 3 were poor reads (1 completion, 2 pick-6's) and 2 were high (the other pick and one more towards the sideline). For the most part, I thought Thomas looked much improved mechanically and with what I've seen from him today and in scrimmages, I think he'll be just fine in that department this season. I have full confidence that his mental issues will get worked out once he's no longer focusing so much on throwing the football.

2. This defense is good. Tariq is back, the secondary (for the most part) looked solid, Jack Tyler is Jack Tyler and the defensive line is scary.

3. Dadi Nicolas is VERY good at getting to the ballcarrier. He was incredibly explosive off the ball and was consistently the first guy there when the play went his side. Now, he just needs to work on getting said ballcarrier to the ground once he gets there.

4. On a similar note, Josh Stanford is very good at getting to the ball. He's just gotta.... y'know... catch it. However, Corey Fuller had a small issue actually catching the ball over the middle this time last year, and he turned out fine. So I'm not too concerned right now.

5. This offensive line is getting better and will continue to do so. 15 practices can't undo an entire career of poor coaching (read some French if you want to know the results of poor coaching), but Grimes is doing a heck of a job anyways. Today, I saw some pretty good pass protection on most plays and mediocre run-blocking, with a few plays with some very impressive push off the ball. They'll get there. Might take a year or two, but they'll get there eventually.

6. We have a darn good punter. AJ Hughes was adequate last year, but he looks like he's gotten even better over the offseason. He'll get us some hidden yardage this year, no doubt.

7. Limited carries for the tailbacks, but no one really stood out to me in a bad way. I see Holmes and Edmunds as the two guys battling to be the every-down back, with JCC being incorporated as a playmaker somewhere in the offense.

That's what I've got. Please, people, relax. From what I've heard, the '99 spring game didn't go so well either. Neither did Bama's spring game this year. Don't take too much from this. There's work to do, but this is far from the team that we'll see on the 31st and this team is heading in the right direction.