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

[Powder and shot]

Either win or lose this is s great measuring stick for our Vols. Second half should be good. This team needs secondary work and they are getting it. Should help with next year.

 

[volmoon]

Our secondary is what it is. Why should we expect them to be good the last game of the season? Hendon is the one not playing like he usually does. I get your point though.

Yes, I agree. Hooker played a bad half. Even his TD passes were off. But our defense is like Swiss cheese. We gave up 347 yards of offense, and if their QB was more accurate, they would be up by two scores.

 

[10cpride]

Disappointed but not surprised anymore

Life of a Vol football fan.

 

[I Love Lamp]

You mad bro?

You understood this? Haha

 

[VolsFan-TX]

The offense is great when you have tempo and are completing 3rd down conversions.

It sucks when you go 3 and out or have turnovers. Your defense is on the field too much.

Which is why I don’t think this offense will ever be championship winning. Keeps the defense on the field too much.

Most offenses suck when you go three & out and have turnovers.

 

[FlVols]

We need to man up and kick butt second half.

 

[Voltopia]

If the offense is so high-strung that it has to have perfect momentum and has to have no game delays from injuries and has to have big plays to be effective, you sort of wonder how durable the offense really is.

 

[Other_Guy]

7/11
176 yards
2 TDs...

Since this stat Hooker is 2 of 7 for 15 yards.

 

[MADISONGAVOL]

Or got a penalty

Penalties are ridiculous today. Our secondary looks worse than vandy

 

[BreatheUT]

We scored 21 easy then quit playing. Focus guys. Need to learn to play 4 quarters.

It appears we got careless and laxed. Purdue started playing harder.

 

[RavinDave]

I might have to drink a couple boilermakers if this keeps up.

 

[Volaholic320]

We need to run more

 

[Other_Guy]

You feel better now?

Do you see what I'm talking about now?

 

[sunnyvol79]

At least win or lose this we will still finish with a winning record.

 

[MeanOrange]

What QB in this universe is more accurate on 50+ yard passes than a 10 yard pass???

It sure is not Hooker. There is a bunch in the NFL that's why they are in the NFL.

 

[MurphyVol]

Unfortunately we've seen this, the offense goes dormant did long stretches and the D continues to go backwards

 

[BUCCnVOLfan]

People who want Milton instead of Hooker … must be smoking the ganja weed…..

Nahhh they’re smoking crack!!!

 

[vol.E]

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Neat??? You can screenshot stats… very proud of you.

Point I was making is that he’s thrown some uncharacteristic balls to nowhere land with receivers OPEN … Sitting in the stadium he doesn’t seem to be seeing the field as he was early in the game….

 

[1985Vols]

Wish we had some decent DB‘s. With Alontae out we look terrible in the secondary

 

[rcrrcr]

What is concerning he is in the second quarter people were still wide-open but Hooker wasn’t even close to completing the pass. He was way off in the second quarter. I wonder if he hurt his shoulder and one of those ruNSAID’s.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Purdue is taking the shorter passes away from us. Hooker is better with the shorties than he is with the bombs.

Which is what their defensive coach said this week that everyone got bent out of shape about.

 

[sunnyvol79]

We gotta recruit more playmakers on defense

 

[Redleg68]

Getting whipped at the line of scrimmage. Can’t get a pass rush without blitzing. Cant stop a big slow white kid running on a team that had the worst avg per rush in college football. We can’t run the ball or protect. Soft up front on offense and defense.

Need to change cleats at half time. We are moving like we are running on egg shells. Long time equipment manager not there today--wonder if the wrong shoe selection was made today?

 

[orangefloyd]

It’s those dang white uniforms. Stormtrooper my azz.

 

[hatingbamaisawayoflife]

I Don’t understand throwing 40 yards downfield on 3 rd and short

well he was wide open and hooker missed AGAIN