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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I’m so glad Jeremy Pruitt is our head coach. We gonna be aight
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Yep I just listened to his post game statement about how proud he was of all players. What they are having to endure to be able to play, quarantining, being tested 3 times a week and just all the uncertainty has to be difficult. Listening to Coach he just seems like a guy players want to play for and I think it bodes well for us.
Hope all the potential recruits listen to his post game statement..
 
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engineerVOL said:
65 plays is not enough. Average FBS is 72 plays. Some misfires on 3rd down didn’t help but it just felt like the backs should have had more touches. Hope we see more plays against Mizzou.
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Some misfires is an understatement imo. We were 1-12 on 3rd down. That’s why we only put out 65 plays. If we have more success on 3rd down this week then we should bust through 70+ plays.
 
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Atlanta VOL said:
I firmly believe we will play sec football this year.
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Atl, I will never doubt you again. I said you would be wrong on this one, and I really didn't think it was even a close call at the time.

Now, I still believe things could have gone either way, but it is now obvious that the powers that be were determined to make it happen.
 
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TrueVolsGBOInsider said:
Some misfires is an understatement imo. We were 1-12 on 3rd down. That’s why we only put out 65 plays. If we have more success on 3rd down this week then we should bust through 70+ plays.
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Dang didn’t know it was that bad. Bad third downs always point to QB deficiencies IMO.
 
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The Dog said:
@greazy1722, told us and he was right. I love bj7, led the team in receptions 2 years ago and showed what a team player he is, by taking a redshirt last year. He looks better and even a little faster, he will ball, this year
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Reminded me of North’s clutch grab against the Gamecocks down the same side of the field.
 
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The Dog said:
@greazy1722, told us and he was right. I love bj7, led the team in receptions 2 years ago and showed what a team player he is, by taking a redshirt last year. He looks better and even a little faster, he will ball, this year
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Led the team in receptions 3 years ago...2017.
 
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This is Bill Connelly/ESPN’s SP+ national rankings by unit and overall. September 1st was the last preseason ranking with all FBS teams and this week was the first in-season ranking that included the Pac-12 and Big-10 teams added back. A lot of non-playing teams moved up in the rankings this week so take it for what it’s worth. It’s a data driven analysis and obviously not exactly a pure on-field analysis.

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I’m showing the change in rankings for SEC teams from the preseason to after our first games. The SP+ clearly shows that Kentucky was the most overrated team in the conference based on preseason hype. LSU has fallen a bit and may fall considerably farther. Auburn I think is still overrated. Ole Miss doesn’t have anything that passes for a defense so I think Florida looked better than they are, especially on offense. I think most here were already convince that Georgia's offense and A&M's whole team were overrated. jmo.

I think we made South Carolina’s offense look better than it actually is. Overall, I thought we played hard but didn’t execute well on defense. I thought Chandler ran well. I watched HT’s pick six a few times because I really liked Alontae’s blocking on that play. I think overall we have a lot of room to improve, everywhere, and can do so if we can get guys back and healthy and get a lot more practice reps under our belt. jmo.

I thought Deandre Johnson had a good game but it was against South Carolina so we’ll see. I think Tyler Baron made some noise. If a QB has accuracy issues from what I’ve read it is futile to expect that to change in college. I do think it says something that Pruitt and Chaney apparently don’t think they have anything better. I read comments across the internet last night from college football fans and the consensus seems to be JG’s stats generally don’t look anywhere near as bad as his on field performance looks although I personally thought the TD pass to Palmer actually looked pretty good. jmo.

We played a lot of guys and I think it could be argued that Jimmy Calloway and Jimmy Holiday saved the game for us. Slaughter will be better with some more reps. Brandon Johnson shined. The Offensive line needs to get in sync with more consistency. The radio guys gave JG the nod for player of the game but I think I would have voted for about 10 other guys in front of him. jmo.

I think we’re going to be fine but we do need to close the gap between what we may have expected our team to look like this year and our first game performance. I think there’s plenty of opportunity to do that and we should take care of business this week against Missouri and then that test will come when we head to Athens to face Georgia. I still think we come home from Athens with a win but in order to do so we’ll need to be a bit more polished across the board than we were in Columbia. jmo.
 
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