yuenglinguy78
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First, I want to say I use to be very critical about Shoop. I consider myself slightly intelligent when it comes to football, but I am no genius by any means. My dad has taught me over the years a lot about the game more than just the final score.
I see a lot of people on here and other social media that complain about Shoop being the problem and there is a few things that I want too point out. I am not going to talk about every game because this thread would be 54835824 words long.
If you didn't watch the Georgia game and heard the score 41-0 you would say, "Jeez did Tennessee put a defense on the field?" If you actually look at it though it wasn't our defense that made it 41-0.
Lets start with the first play of the game, we throw a pick on our 27 yard line. So, the offense has already dug the defense in a hole and Georgia only has to go 27 yards. They come out and run 3 plays for only a total of 7 yards and get the field goal. Good defensive stand.
Georgia kicks it off and we go 3 plays for a total of 1 yard and we punt. Georgia fields the punt and their first play on that drive Vickers gets a sack and they go 3 plays for 0 yards and punt. Good defensive stand.
We field the punt and yet again go 3 plays for a total of 3 yards and punt. Georgia gets a good punt return for 18 yards and puts them about at the 50. This drive we have them on 3rd and 11 and they complete a pass to Godwin and Warrior forces a fumble that they recover and eventually get the TD on this drive. How wore out do you think the defense was by this time because our offense couldn't give them more than a 3 play break?
They kickoff to us and we run 7 plays for 28 yards and punt for a touch back. Our defense comes out and holds them yet again for 3 plays and only 5 yards gained and force them to punt. We field the punt and go 3 plays for only 7 yards and have to punt again.
2 plays into this Georgia drive Martin gets an interception for us on the Georgia 27. We come out with a great scoring opportunity only down 10-0 and 2 plays into our drive we fumble and Georgia recovers. By this time our defense has given us so many opportunities it is unreal that we haven't put 1 point on the board.
Even after Georgia gets the fumble our defense holds them to 3 plays for 0 yards and force the punt. Yet again our offense comes out and runs 3 plays for a total of 4 yards and has too punt.
The next Georgia drive is where you can start to see the defense is getting tired. They go 11 plays for 87 yards and a touchdown.
They kickoff to us and the first play of our drive is an interception and Reed returns it for 34 yards to our 26 yard line. Here we go again defense has to come out and stop them from going only 26 yards with virtually no breather.
Then it's halftime and I am not going into as much detail on the second half because this is getting so long, but the last two touchdowns they had they only had to go a combined 81 yards. So it is like they basically started on the 40.5 Tennessee yard line those two drives. We also made them punt two more times in the second half. We lost a fumble and had to punt 3 more times in the second half.
With all that said if you are still here reading this Shoop's defense isn't that bad. It's our offense that keeps digging us in holes.
Shoop isn't the problem, the offense is.
I see a lot of people on here and other social media that complain about Shoop being the problem and there is a few things that I want too point out. I am not going to talk about every game because this thread would be 54835824 words long.
If you didn't watch the Georgia game and heard the score 41-0 you would say, "Jeez did Tennessee put a defense on the field?" If you actually look at it though it wasn't our defense that made it 41-0.
Lets start with the first play of the game, we throw a pick on our 27 yard line. So, the offense has already dug the defense in a hole and Georgia only has to go 27 yards. They come out and run 3 plays for only a total of 7 yards and get the field goal. Good defensive stand.
Georgia kicks it off and we go 3 plays for a total of 1 yard and we punt. Georgia fields the punt and their first play on that drive Vickers gets a sack and they go 3 plays for 0 yards and punt. Good defensive stand.
We field the punt and yet again go 3 plays for a total of 3 yards and punt. Georgia gets a good punt return for 18 yards and puts them about at the 50. This drive we have them on 3rd and 11 and they complete a pass to Godwin and Warrior forces a fumble that they recover and eventually get the TD on this drive. How wore out do you think the defense was by this time because our offense couldn't give them more than a 3 play break?
They kickoff to us and we run 7 plays for 28 yards and punt for a touch back. Our defense comes out and holds them yet again for 3 plays and only 5 yards gained and force them to punt. We field the punt and go 3 plays for only 7 yards and have to punt again.
2 plays into this Georgia drive Martin gets an interception for us on the Georgia 27. We come out with a great scoring opportunity only down 10-0 and 2 plays into our drive we fumble and Georgia recovers. By this time our defense has given us so many opportunities it is unreal that we haven't put 1 point on the board.
Even after Georgia gets the fumble our defense holds them to 3 plays for 0 yards and force the punt. Yet again our offense comes out and runs 3 plays for a total of 4 yards and has too punt.
The next Georgia drive is where you can start to see the defense is getting tired. They go 11 plays for 87 yards and a touchdown.
They kickoff to us and the first play of our drive is an interception and Reed returns it for 34 yards to our 26 yard line. Here we go again defense has to come out and stop them from going only 26 yards with virtually no breather.
Then it's halftime and I am not going into as much detail on the second half because this is getting so long, but the last two touchdowns they had they only had to go a combined 81 yards. So it is like they basically started on the 40.5 Tennessee yard line those two drives. We also made them punt two more times in the second half. We lost a fumble and had to punt 3 more times in the second half.
With all that said if you are still here reading this Shoop's defense isn't that bad. It's our offense that keeps digging us in holes.
Shoop isn't the problem, the offense is.