Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

[bignewt]

I can see it. Their offense sucks and we basically shut them down outside of that 67 yard Catch and run. So don’t turn the ball over (obviously didn’t work) and have a good shot.

It was 23-3 close to halftime when we were driving. If we score right there then we got the ball at halftime and we’re down 13 and we have all the momentum. So as god awful as the first half was, it was still very much a game.

Its the mentality that sickens me. The staff has to know that part of the florida game and how we go into a shell every year for like forever. You gotta shock em out of it. Its not a normal game.

 

[SugarCC]

I respect this analysis. I just think we can still keep this mindset and not be predictable. Herm comes back to mind when he said, "you play to win the game." Do you just worry about yourself and try to win? Or, do good coaches scheme each game according to what the opponent presents?

On the safety play, we could have "spread" out the defense with a formation that is not the "spread" attack. The NE Patriots adjust all of the time to what the opponents bring to the game. You roll out, dink and dunk, and scheme around a below average OL. That's just me though.

I agree, we do need to add some wrinkles; but, we don't need to stray too far from who we want to be.

 

[Big Gucci Sosa]

 

[SugarCC]

Sounds eerily close to the Butch Jones mantra of a perfect offensive system that you force the wrong players into. It's the OL version of Justin Worley running a read option.

Butch had Josh Dobbs standing on the sideline both in '13 and '14, and still chose Justin Worley and Nathan Peterman to run his spread. Pruitt doesn't have the equivalent to Josh Dobbs on the OL, standing on the sideline.

 

[millst987]

I agree, we do need to add some wrinkles; but, we don't need to stray too far from who we want to be.

We need to do whatever it takes to win imo

 

[SSVol]

Its the mentality that sickens me. The staff has to know that part of the florida game and how we go into a shell every year for like forever. You gotta shock em out of it. Its not a normal game.

So should we treat it like any other game, and just play? Or should we treat it as different, and play different? Seems like we did the latter pretty well.

 

[Big Gucci Sosa]

UT Vols: How Tennessee football fans can cope with loser fatigue

 

[SugarCC]

We need to do whatever it takes to win imo

Turn the ball over 6 times, there is no "whatever".

 

[millst987]

Turn the ball over 6 times, there is no "whatever".

Ok, but good teams don’t do that. Stop making excuses

 

[Jimmy Football]

Out 2-4 weeks imo.

They say that, but you know it's going to end up being a season ender.

 

[Smokey123]

We need to do whatever it takes to win imo

Agree

 

[bignewt]

So should we treat it like any other game, and just play? Or should we treat it as different, and play different? Seems like we did the latter pretty well.

We saw different games. I saw a tightly conservative called game with tight players who got dominated in their heads right out of the gate.

 

[chargervol]

Just watching the vids, team looks to be going through the motions, JG is gimpy, and coach has been hanging out watching the O hoping they will magically transform into SEC players

Team looked lethargic and uninterested if I'm being honest.

 

[Nashvegas31]

Hopefully they are allowing Osovet to provide input on offense. He probably knows a thing or 2 about working with what you have from juco level and he developed some nice OL out there. King of the RPO. We need something. Lining up acting like we are tougher than you at working with these softies

 

[millst987]

Team looked lethargic and uninterested if I'm being honest.

100%. We are about to be blasted

 

[rekinhavoc]

Hubbs reminds me of Tippy the Turtle.

 

[SouthKnoxVOL]

Tyrel Dodson transferring?

 

[rekinhavoc]

UT Vols: How Tennessee football fans can cope with loser fatigue

Oh lord.

 

[chavisut]

Turn the ball over 6 times, there is no "whatever".

Start with not turning it over 6 times.

 

[SugarCC]

Ok, but good teams don’t do that. Stop making excuses

 

[SugarCC]

Start with not turning it over 6 times.

I agree.

 

[Catbone]

8 turnovers in 4 games. Feels like we have progressively gotten worse on offense.

 

[jakez4ut]

Assuming we hold on to everyone. That’s if we are going to keep advancing blindly into heavy enemy fire, recruiting is the ONLY thing that matters.

Butch held on to everyone his first full cycle. It helped that there were a lot of legacies. But if we start suffering from our results on the field in the 2019 class, and the staff keeps doing what they are doing with the scheme, then we are truly F’ed.

I don't think there's a whole lot of similarities between cjp and CBJ other than they both coached here.

I haven't once gotten the impression there are any correlations to be made between how the last staff recruits vs how this one does.

 

[volfanCLT]

On the Mullen vs Pruitt tenures to this point..

Neither team looks any better than they did last year imo

Take that however you want it

 

[SugarCC]

8 turnovers in 4 games. Feels like we have progressively gotten worse on offense.

Not good, especially when you don't have the talent to maybe compensate for them. This team has to do everything perfect when it comes to intangibles: turnovers, penalties, unforced errors...to even have a chance to win.