On the Doug Matthews Show...

#27
#27
Matthews is a "Yes" man he will never disagree with the admin or program. He's only butt hurt at kiffin because he was actually taking the team somewhere then just up and left for USC. I quit listening to Matthews always sunny and no partly cloudy. Gray and the Oline were the only bright spots last night the D was for a while until they got wore out.
 
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Buddr said:
Matthews is a "Yes" man he will never disagree with the admin or program. He's only butt hurt at kiffin because he was actually taking the team somewhere then just up and left for USC. I quit listening to Matthews always sunny and no partly cloudy. Gray and the Oline were the only bright spots last night the D was for a while until they got wore out.
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D still only gave up 23 points. That is an acceptable number.

Bailey showed real promise.

The QB and kicker lost that game.
 
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DC_Vol said:
It would have happened several times over the last decade if we were playing an SEC only schedule. We are not currently an sec caliber team.
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You are correct that we are not an SEC team. It is not like we played Alabama 5 straight weeks. We had Kentucky and Arkansas in that five game stretch. There simply is no reason to lose 5 straight games by double digits at any time.
 
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Doug, has been and continues to be a supporter of Phillip. He no longer has credibility about activities at UT because he picked a side of the internal booster power struggle. He said this morning there would be no changes in the head coach this season regardless of record and most likely none next year. You see folks this not about the well being of Tennessee football, this is about power and influence within the program. As long as you continue to pay that hard earned money to the program all is well, because the athletic department wins, academics gets their cut and the good ole SEC pays that cash every year. It doesn’t matter if you win, it matters if they lose.
 
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hardesty02 said:
You can thank Pruitt for that since he thought he would be better in defense. Again just another reason Pruitt doesn’t get it
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He thought he would be better on defense because it it’s harder to fumble when you aren’t carrying the ball. Did you forget he was doing a pretty good impersonation of Arian Foster nearly every time he carried the ball? The poster child for fumbleitus.
 
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Chitlin&theDude said:
... he said "he feels pretty good coming out of the game. We're improving." Improving from what? Hey dumb dumb Doug- we're in year 3!!! We've lost 5 in a row!!! All by double digits! How is this acceptable to anyone?
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Mathews is right. We looked pretty good in every area except Guaranterrible. I mean he reads worse than an illiterate, one eyed with hillbilly with cataracts.
 
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He carries the water for Fulmer and Pruitt. In last couple of years very seldom lets fans talk on his show. Unfortunately, I think
his show is irrelevant.. way too much of a homer now I do think Fulmer will probably keep his boy Pruitt through next year.
 
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m1al said:
The spin here is amazing. I guess sacrificing ones integrity is a small price to pay to maintain status..



Whatever that is...........
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If its about maintaining "status" tho, wouldn't hiring a solid coach and getting rid of one that CLEARLY can't get it done be a much easier way to do that?
 
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#42
rikberry31 said:
Mathews is right. We looked pretty good in every area except Guaranterrible. I mean he reads worse than an illiterate, one eyed with hillbilly with cataracts.
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Outside of the blown coverage, I'd agree. If I'm anyone other than the QB coach, I see huge reasons for optimism. But QB play has been atrocious the past 5 games. Even the "good games" for JG have not been "good" except in that he didn't turn the ball over.
 
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utvols83 said:
It's pretty frustrating to see an o-line push around a decent defense in the second half just to see drives torpedoed by poor play from your QB that is largely ineffective in the second half of every game and poor playcalling that goes away from what's working. I think the team looked much more capable of winning than they did against Arkansas...and that's what is so frustrating. I think the talent is there but poor decisions by the coaches are killing the offense...including playing JG when he's obviously struggling.
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Tennessee is lacking talent at several key positions
TE
LB’s
DB’s
Receivers
 
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Chitlin&theDude said:
... he said "he feels pretty good coming out of the game. We're improving." Improving from what? Hey dumb dumb Doug- we're in year 3!!! We've lost 5 in a row!!! All by double digits! How is this acceptable to anyone?
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Honestly what else can he say? The Vols lost a game because of a QB mistake. While Gitmo was far from great, he was (before the pick 6) playing well enough to win. Blocking looked significantly better, WR play was the best I’d seen this year, tackling in the second half was improved, the RBs were running great, the DBs only had 1 blown coverage, the play calling was fitting what the team can do.

The team isn’t mailing it in and that impressed me. This season was shot the second the team lost to Kentucky and it would be easy to see them fall apart. Get QB figured out, build the recruiting class up, return a solid core of guys for next year and see what they can do. Next year is the time to take stock of what the future holds, not a Covid plagued year that saw no real offseason and too many off the field issues.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
Outside of the blown coverage, I'd agree. If I'm anyone other than the QB coach, I see huge reasons for optimism. But QB play has been atrocious the past 5 games. Even the "good games" for JG have not been "good" except in that he didn't turn the ball over.
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Totally agree. The thing he has hung his hat on the past three years is that he didn't turn the ball over, and that ain't the case now. He has had some of the most devastatingly bad turnovers in UT history. On the other hand, HB looked pretty good.
 
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igotworms said:
If its about maintaining "status" tho, wouldn't hiring a solid coach and getting rid of one that CLEARLY can't get it done be a much easier way to do that?
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For the program, yes. I was referring to Doug's status though..
 
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#50
Smokeyone said:
TE sure but the rest? Don’t confuse young with bad.
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The most inefficient positions this year have been QB, TE, Inside LB, and Safety. We think we have talent at QB(HB). I am not sure we have talent at LB, and Safety. I am sure we do not have talent at TE. We appear to have talent at TE in the 2021 recruiting class, QB, Safety, LB and other positions. We do not know very much about the talent in our current Freshman class because of lost time due to COVID. I think we have very good talent there, but it is not yet proven. We simply can not yet evaluate the talent of the 2020 class and may not be able to evaluate the talent of either the 2020 or the 2021 classes until next Fall when, hopefully, COVID will be coming under control. Time for everyone to do some rational thinking before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
 
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