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#828
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greatest songwriter - Dylan and its not even close

greatest guitarist - Duane Allman, with Page, Gilmour and Hendrix behind

greatest band - Zeppelin with Floyd and Allman Bros close behind

last 20 years - My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, Avetts, White Stripes, Black keys, and many more that you will not hear on the radio. Hence the glory of Spotify.

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bignewt said:
greatest songwriter - Dylan and its not even close

greatest guitarist - Duane Allman, with Page, Gilmour and Hendrix behind

greatest band - Zeppelin with Floyd and Allman Bros close behind

last 20 years - My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, Avetts, White Stripes, Black keys, and many more that you will not hear on the radio. Hence the glory of Spotify.

Now...back to football.
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#831
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I think Tracy Chapman is pretty underrated in a lot of ways, but I think her songwriting is her strongest attribute. A few modern songwriters that I have high up my list are Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, & Tyler Childers.

So much music though, I try to be prolific in my listening but it's amazing how many artist I still find that blow me away and have existed for decades before I stumbled upon them. (The White Buffalo being one of the most recent)
 
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#836
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Jack Burton said:
Yesterday Swain was discussing Roman Harper’s “10-2” comment and said that he doesn’t think that’s realistic. Also said that if a Vol fan says “nah, I think 8 or 9 wins” then the fan police come out and say that they’re a NegaVol. Swain said that person is not being negative, he’s being realistic, and that’s better for the team. Ergo NegaVols are better fans FYI.

Also yesterday Tony B said the defense won’t be improved this year. Call in today to tell him why he’s wrong.

Happy Friday y’all.
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i agree with Swain, and i'll take it a step further and say the real reason Roman Harper put that out there was just good old fashioned Rat Poison from a bammer. he definitely has anterior motives. ;)

as for TB...i just can't care.

josh pate had the best take on TN football this year: "Tennessee is an 'any given saturday' team, not an 'every given saturday' team." and that's simply due to the the fact that no one knows how consistent we will be at anything yet to win every saturday, but everyone looks at the personnel, the offense, etc...and says "i wouldnt' be shocked if Tennessee beat 'fill in the blank team' ".



as for the defense, i think there's this notion out there somewhere that this defense has to get a whole lot better, fast. and to a certain degree that's true, it's still relative to what we were last year. we were well in to the bottom 1/3 of defenses in the country against the pass. that's because of 2 things. pass rush and db play.

we're deeper at CB this year than last, and the quality of that depth is better. what we don't know yet is if they're productive. but i think there's reason to be on the optimistic side right now.

as for pass rush, kind of the same thing....the edge players should be better, and the quality of depth improved.

so if we can go from bottom 1/3 in the country in pass defense to just fringe top 1/3 (ranked somewhere in the 40's vs. 120's), that'd be drastic improvement, but doesn't require us to be a top 15-20 type defense.

a lot will depend on the offenses we play too. last year we played some great offenses with great qb's. some of that has changed for this year, and even with the ones that may have some "names" at QB, there's still ?'s about how productive they will be in their new offenses (pitt, USCe, LSU etc...). another thing to consider is, how efficient is our own offense going to be this year vs. last? while we will run at a fast pace, will we see more drives stringing together 1st down after 1st down, or will we continue to see the quick 3 and outs we experienced some last year, putting more pressure on the defense? i think the offense being more efficient will help a lot. and i think it will be for the most part.

long story short, i'm not writing the defense off this year. partly because i do expect there'll be games that will frustrate us, this isn't a top 20 defense. they will give up plays/points. and partly because of the aforementioned reasons above.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Garbage...dude is the only artist in the Rock, Gospel, Blues and Country HOFs.

Go take a 💩 on some other hack. Elvis had a 3.5 to 4 octave range...and his voice was f'n beautiful.

For fun go listen to him sing "memories" and then "Tryin to get to you" from the 68 special...it does not even sound like the same person..that is real f'n versatility.
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You tell him McGill!
 
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jakez4ut said:
i agree with Swain, and i'll take it a step further and say the real reason Roman Harper put that out there was just good old fashioned Rat Poison from a bammer. he definitely has anterior motives. ;)

as for TB...i just can't care.

josh pate had the best take on TN football this year: "Tennessee is an 'any given saturday' team, not an 'every given saturday' team." and that's simply due to the the fact that no one knows how consistent we will be at anything yet to win every saturday, but everyone looks at the personnel, the offense, etc...and says "i wouldnt' be shocked if Tennessee beat 'fill in the blank team' ".



as for the defense, i think there's this notion out there somewhere that this defense has to get a whole lot better, fast. and to a certain degree that's true, it's still relative to what we were last year. we were well in to the bottom 1/3 of defenses in the country against the pass. that's because of 2 things. pass rush and db play.

we're deeper at CB this year than last, and the quality of that depth is better. what we don't know yet is if they're productive. but i think there's reason to be on the optimistic side right now.

as for pass rush, kind of the same thing....the edge players should be better, and the quality of depth improved.

so if we can go from bottom 1/3 in the country in pass defense to just fringe top 1/3 (ranked somewhere in the 40's vs. 120's), that'd be drastic improvement, but doesn't require us to be a top 15-20 type defense.

a lot will depend on the offenses we play too. last year we played some great offenses with great qb's. some of that has changed for this year, and even with the ones that may have some "names" at QB, there's still ?'s about how productive they will be in their new offenses (pitt, USCe, LSU etc...). another thing to consider is, how efficient is our own offense going to be this year vs. last? while we will run at a fast pace, will we see more drives stringing together 1st down after 1st down, or will we continue to see the quick 3 and outs we experienced some last year, putting more pressure on the defense? i think the offense being more efficient will help a lot. and i think it will be for the most part.

long story short, i'm writing the defense off this year. partly because i do expect there'll be games that will frustrate us, this isn't a top 20 defense. they will give up plays/points. and partly because of the aforementioned reasons above.
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Yes, I think the offense will be better and that might make things easier for the defense. Especially if we figure out how to milk the clock in a few choice situations. I know Heupel mentioned running the 4 min offense in practice.

I believe we were 2nd to last in the SEC in 3rd down defense in 2021. That’s still my biggest concern.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
Finally after a long day at work and then church, I get to sit down to catch up, and there’s so many pages! Imagine my disappointment when y’all are arguing musical taste…again. LOL I remember my college music professor saying after he went over how the Beatles grew in 10 years what it took classical hundreds of years, and they led the way for many others that came after them, that there were always those that had to make themselves superior to whatever was popular and find ways to put it down. He said we like what we like, and we can also study and appreciate what is excellent without having to mix the two. So someone can have an amazing voice that people love to hear sing because it touches them even if that voice barely goes over an octave. And you can appreciate a singer that hits 4 octaves flawlessly without ever wanting to play a song of theirs again. Y’all brought that back to my memory from 1984!!! 🧡 Music! “Rocky Top” is the best!
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Ok ok Soda wins on music taste. :)
 
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Jack Burton said:
Yes, I think the offense will be better and that might make things easier for the defense. Especially if we figure out how to milk the clock in a few choice situations. I know Heupel mentioned running the 4 min offense in practice.

I believe we were 2nd to last in the SEC in 3rd down defense in 2021. That’s still my biggest concern.
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me too. and it wasn't like we were giving up 3rd & 2. i can't remember how many times it felt like we'd do great work on 1st and 2nd down, get a team in 3rd and long...often...and still give up a 1st. really frustrating.

and yeah, that was really the only gripe i had with CJH last season was some of the time management deals to end halves/games. some of it left me wondering.....fortunately, none of it really mattered to the result of the game, and it's definitely something that can be corrected.

i think 10-2 is the absolute best case scenario, where everything we needed to happen to win big games happened, and nothing bad happened our way.

i think Bama and GA are still, talent/depth wise, way ahead of us. everyone else, i think we can play with, or flat out beat. that also means i can't be shocked if we lost a game to an LSU, FL, Pitt type team. the crazy thing about saying that is, individually, i would pick TN to win each game. but can i pick us to win all 3? make sense?

so i'm at 8-4, but if we get out of Sept 3-1 or better.......look out.....
 
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#845
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Man, reading through the last few pages makes me feel like I’m listening into the middle school debate I used to have with the other dorks at my lunch table—back when WIMZ was the only game in town and I didn’t even know anything outside classic rock existed.

Big Ears, folks. Every year Ashley Capps assembles the most amazing collection of out-of-this-world musicians right in the heart of Knoxville. It’s not always easy, and you have to be honest about that, but those 4 days will change your life.
 
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bignewt said:
greatest songwriter - Dylan and its not even close

greatest guitarist - Duane Allman, with Page, Gilmour and Hendrix behind

greatest band - Zeppelin with Floyd and Allman Bros close behind

last 20 years - My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, Avetts, White Stripes, Black keys, and many more that you will not hear on the radio. Hence the glory of Spotify.

Now...back to football.
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Bob Dylan may have been a good song writer but singing wise for me was painful to listen to. Singing through one's nose never comes out good. lol
 
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#849
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43rd in Team Sacks with 34.0
7th in TFL as a team with 102.0
68th in Turnovers Gained with just 16.0
99th in Total Defense
90th in Scoring Defense

That's a big difference in Sacks and TFLs, highlights that our defense was pretty weak against the passing game. Didn't generate enough pressure, didn't generate enough INTs. Honestly think if the front 7 just get a little bit better then we'll see enough improvement to move closer to an "every Saturday team"
 
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