Unprepared coaching. No plan to win.

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Old Geezer

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It seems to me the coaches made no effort to scheme to win, but were interested in auditioning all players in a game situation. There was no scheming or creativity, Just vanilla plays and shuffling of players to gauge performance as a scrimmage. There was zero unit cohesion. GA State came with an aggressive plan with creative play-calling that exploited our lazy play-calling and lack of any unit cohesion or scheme. Frankly, the GA State OC was far better than Cheney today.
On defense, we consistently failed to set the edge or contain their very talented QB Ellington who absolutely abused our over-sized rushers with his quickness. Seems no significant adjustments were made to contain his speed with our speed defenders. Our heavy defenders were easily evaded. We seemed more interested in auditioning players than actually containing Ellington in our attack.

On offense, things looked very much like last year. No creativity, conservative plays, and JG holding the ball too long / indecisive. We did see some flashes from Eric Grey, but we were shuffling O-linemen and their was no real surge or cohesive O-line play to open holes or pass protect. Just a mishmash of auditioning players and freshmen as if we were scrimmaging.

Edit: On the bright side, we should realize the coaches made a huge tactical mistake overlooking Ga State. Further, we were basically beaten by a very talented QB, we didn't recognize or plan to defend. Ellington is no joke. We just didn't realize it or prepare for a serious fight.
 
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Pruitt has a history of fielding unprepared, uninspired, lethargic teams. It is what he does. The unexpected wins last year are the anomaly; the garbage is the norm.
 
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...shuffling of players to gauge performance as a scrimmage. There was zero unit cohesion.
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I texted a friend about this during the game. I understand what they were thinking by doing so, but they over thought themselves on this.

I’d venture to say JP learned a lesson on this one. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake.
 
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Specks said:
I texted a friend about this during the game. I understand what they were thinking by doing so, but they over thought themselves on this.

I’d venture to say JP learned a lesson on this one. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake.
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I agree. Hopefully, Pruitt learned not to treat openers as a scrimmage to gauge talent. This was a disaster.
 
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McDad said:
Pruitt has a history of fielding unprepared, uninspired, lethargic teams. It is what he does. The unexpected wins last year are the anomaly; the garbage is the norm.
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I hope you are not correct. However, we seemed to be prepared for a scrimmage, not a game. You're not exactly wrong : (
 
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All the Freshman especially Henry T were not prepared. It was a clown show.
 
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Old Geezer said:
I agree. Hopefully, Pruitt learned not to treat openers as a scrimmage to gauge talent. This was a disaster.
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+1

I meant to add this. They did treat it as a scrimmage. It’s as if they thought they could line up any combination and still walk away with the win.

They had to know, or at least I would hope they did, the best OL, DL, LB, etc group that was the best to play. Put the game away then experiment. This one is on the coaches.
 
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Specks said:
+1

I meant to add this. They did treat it as a scrimmage. It’s as if they thought they could line up any combination and still walk away with the win.

They had to know, or at least I would hope they did, the best OL, DL, LB, etc group that was the best to play. Put the game away then experiment. This one is on the coaches.
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That's the point in a nutshell
 
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Specks said:
I texted a friend about this during the game. I understand what they were thinking by doing so, but they over thought themselves on this.

I’d venture to say JP learned a lesson on this one. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake.
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An attempt to build much needed depth. Nothing like live action. They got Baptized today.
 
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Specks said:
+1

I meant to add this. They did treat it as a scrimmage. It’s as if they thought they could line up any combination and still walk away with the win.

They had to know, or at least I would hope they did, the best OL, DL, LB, etc group that was the best to play. Put the game away then experiment. This one is on the coaches.
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Dead on my friend. I think that's what happened
 
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You could see early Pruitt wasn’t concerned with GS. In the first qtr Had 4th and less than a yard and punted. Bet he wishes he had that back now.
 
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There is no reason Tenneessee should get beaten like they did today. You guys can try to justify and rationalize it all you want to but there is no reason or situation where Georgia State should be the dominate team in Neyland. Our thrid string players should be talented enough to beat Georgia State by two scores.
It wasn't youth, it wasn't vanilla play calling, it wasn' just lack of preparation. Today is one of the biggest embarrassments in Tennessee history. There was zero energy from anyone on our team not named Jennings. Every team we play from here on out is fully capable of beating us. What happened today is the start of the worst case scenario.
There is no justification for a 2-10 Sunbelt team to take over Neyland. There damn sure is no learning curve pass for Pruitt on this one.
 
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Third and short, qb sneak up the middle can't make it, that shows you how unprepared this team was for this game.
 
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