Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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utvols88 said:
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I think the coaches learned a lot watching film on our team against WV and made some good adjustments as we saw yesterday. Hopefully, they see more things to adjust and tweak for this week to try out so that we are into more of a rhythm in two weeks. It will be good for us to be playing our third home game in Neyland after two good wins, that should help with the confidence and butterfly issues.
O line still needs plenty of work and I am just not sure if Richmond and a few others can cut it. The freshman showed a lot of promise and optimism and want to be out there, so that is something to look forward to-- Thompson and Banks definitely showed up yesterday. Gooden will continue to improve. Helton needs to open some things up and figure out a way to use our TE's more...Our secondary still scares the crap out of me, but hopefully we can continue to adjust and get better before FL comes in and we start our hellacious middle season run.
I just want to get through the FL GA AL AU SC crunch healthy, so that we have enough talent to truly compete at the end of the schedule and get to a bowl.
 
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HOT AND NOT
HOT
The red zone: Tennessee went 6-6 in the red zone Saturday with five touchdowns. For the Vols to be successful this season they have to turn red zone opportunities into points.
Emit Gooden: The junior college defensive tackle had a huge afternoon with 8 tackles, including a sack and 3 tackles for loss. Gooden pushed the line of scrimmage all evening and he had more tackles then the rest of the defensive line combined.
Jeremy Banks: The freshman running back had a nice home debut rushing for 62 yards and 2 touchdowns. Banks show his power and was decisive in in short yardage runs.
NOT
The first quarter run game: In Week 1, Tennessee -17 yards on 9 rushing attempts. Saturday against, ETSU, the Vols ran for -1 yards on 8 carries. Against the Buccaneers, Tennessee finished with 190 yards rushing, but the start of games have been ugly for the offensive front in the ground game.
Jonathan Kongbo: After recording just one tackle in the season opener against West Virginia, Kongbo did not record a tackle in Saturday's win over ETSU.
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GAMEBALL
Bryce Thompson: The freshman, who had a very good week of practice, was rewarded for his work by getting his first-career start. Thompson set an early tone defensively with a pass break up and finished the first half with four tackles, two for loss, two pass break ups and the interception. Thompson was clearly more confident and clearly more aggressive in his second college game.
BIGGEST CONCERN/QUESTION MOVING FORWARD
The biggest concern for the Vols has to be on the offensive front. Tennessee planned multiple combinations in the first half. They played 10 offensive linemen on Saturday overall and they struggled at the start of the game and never got a consistent push. ETSU had a sack and seven total tackles for loss. In two games, defenses have 19 tackles for loss and 2 sacks against UT.
If Tennessee is going to be a bowl team, they have to be better in the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball particularly on offense. Tennessee's coaches have one more week to figure out who their best five are and what combination is most effective on the offensive front.
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--Hubbs
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Slow and small brother. To elaborate further.

1. Zero push from DT
2. No pass rush unless blitzing safety
3. Linebackers are undersized and don’t wrap up
4. Safeties are pansies
5. DB’s only capitalize on errant throws. Lack physical play and are slow to react.

Worst Florida defense in 30 years. Worse than last years bunch.
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Did not get a chance to watch much of the Florida game, but the espn crawler had that the CeCe Jefferson and David Reece were sitting out last nights game. Did they? Aren't they starters? (Not contradicting Florida's suckatude but was curious). Florida losing could not come to a better team.
 
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LightningVol said:
Did not get a chance to watch much of the Florida game, but the espn crawler had that the CeCe Jefferson and David Reece were sitting out last nights game. Did they? Aren't they starters? (Not contradicting Florida's suckatude but was curious). Florida losing could not come to a better team.
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No. 96, if that’s CeCe, was definitely on the sideline with no pads.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Really happy for UK to be honest. Those kinds of streaks are nuts.

Yesterday was a good day of football.
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Watching that game last night, UK sort of reminds me of the 2015 UT team; A strong ground game complimented by a DT QB who makes it hard to completely focus on Snell, and who will have receivers get open deep as the game wears on because safeties will be creeping towards the LOS to help against the run. And a solid, but not great defense.

Stoops has slowly built a decent team. UK may very well be the 2nd best team in the East right now. I also thought watching some of the Vandy game yesterday that the dores are playing fundamentally sound football, and Mason has accumulated some pretty good football players.

The advantage that UK and Vandy have right now is that their players are not having to go through a transition period; their players are enjoying continuity, and those teams have been able to build some developed depth.

OTOH, UT and UF are in a state of flux with new coaching staffs and new systems; those new staffs are having to deal with the lack development of the older players, lack of decent depth, older players that don't fit the new schemes, and the stank and losing mentality that was let behind. And I am not sure what is causing UF's OL woes, but in UT's case, so many OLmen that missed last season with injuries, plus Trey's health issue that kept him out of spring and limited him in fall camp, so that the OL hasn't had time to develop cohesiveness.

But back to UK, yes I know UK fans felt like we did in 2016, times 2 1/2.
 
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omghulkhands said:
On paper, this is the most talented UK team ever (in terms of recruiting rankings).

I mentioned it yesterday, but they beat a decent MAC team by 15 despite being -4 in turnover margin.

I absolutely love taking UK catching 15 pts in the swamp. That is my stone cold lock of the century, of the week.
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I’m 2-0 on stone cold lock of the century, of the week.
 
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I like Jordan, but damn, hit the right hole kid! He had the opportunity for a huge gain on the first drive and ran straight into the unblocked defenders
 
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Vols2DaWall said:
Also, Banks is a stud. He truly is a heat seeking missile. True north-south guy. We haven't had a back like him in a while. Jordan has a lot to learn from him.
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I wouldn't mind if Banks got the bulk of the carries. He was trucking folks out there yesterday. I know Jordan has racked up some yards but I'm still not overly impressed with him.
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Slow and small brother. To elaborate further.

1. Zero push from DT
2. No pass rush unless blitzing safety
3. Linebackers are undersized and don’t wrap up
4. Safeties are pansies
5. DB’s only capitalize on errant throws. Lack physical play and are slow to react.

Worst Florida defense in 30 years. Worse than last years bunch.
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I'll take your word for it. Only watched the game in bits and pieces last night and the OP wasn't intended as some high praise for Florida's D.
 
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