The Official Tennessee vs. Purdue Music City Bowl Game Thread, 3:00 PM ET, ESPN

[DC_Vol]

The other team making a mistake is our best defense

Mistakes happen on both sides. Remember the maxims…especially 1, 2, and 3.

1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.

2. Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way – SCORE.

3. If at first the game – or the breaks – go against you, don’t let up… put on more steam.

4. Protect our kickers, our QB, our lead and our ball game.

5. Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle… for this is the WINNING EDGE.

6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.

7. Carry the fight to our opponent and keep it there for 60 minutes.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

I just keep thinking about lil’ Jimmy Hyams and his love of Jeff Brohm from a few years ago.

 

[Other_Guy]

It's like their QB is playing tense/nervous. Looks like Milton out there on his overthrows.

 

[BreatheUT]

we need a defensive-secondary All Points Bulletin cry-for-help to the transfer portal

Starting to look like it's worse than we thought.

 

[GoVols1961]

I would be watching for an onside kick.

 

[tbones0711]

No way we recruited good enough to fix this d

Need at least one lockdown corner and several good LBer's done been snatched up. I hope Willis makes a good LBer.

 

[Bigorange123]

Then I'm going to need more coca cola because my McDonald's cup of Coca-Cola is almost gone.

Don’t they deliver

 

[G0V0LS33]

We talk about our turf is terrible. This turf is horrendous at best and it is a pro stadium. I have seen more slipping and falling by DBs today already

 

[Incredible_duck]

Are they really trying to pretend that tourists stopped coming during the pandemic? That’s actually hilarious. We’re not a Blue state. lol

 

[chuckb1448]

We sure are falling down a lot in secondary

Field must be wet, I seen Banks slip earlier

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Is it me or does McCullough (22) avoiding contact or is he just lost?

If it's what I saw, he took a long time to disengage only to not engage.

 

[YNWAvols]

Yep.

Did you hear of a reason?

 

[DC_Vol]

"Stop".. dude was wide ass open lol

**** happens. Goes down as a stop on the books.

 

[chuckb1448]

Get the ball to Velus

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

"Stop".. dude was wide ass open lol

Duh. It still was a stop.

 

[jblank]

Boy looks like we just held them to only a FG.

Do you understand what stopping a team on defense means? It means keeping them from moving with ease downfield and scoring.
If you’re happy with the defense, we have fundamental disagreements.

 

[RockyTopJA]

This field is trash.

 

[I Love Lamp]

We talk about our turf is terrible. This turf is horrendous at best and it is a pro stadium. I have seen more slipping and falling by DBs today already

That stadium is notorious for being an awful field. They need to put in turf so bad there.

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

HAHA we drew the flag

 

[GoVolunteers]

We will take that penalty

 

[ButchPlz]

Pur trying to be dirty now.

 

[chuckb1448]

Flag em em Refs

 

[firestorm]

I don't disagree that a shared national championship is still a championship.

 

[I Love Lamp]

Hey, Purdue kept Tillman out of the endzone.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

2nd quarter… everyone start drinking…

Oops.