Thoughts after game 1?

[Vols till I fall]

Overall report:

I believe the offense held their own and did a great job. As long as you have hooker leading this offense, I'm not concerned with that unit. Scale 1-10, I would give the offense an 8.

Defensive was kind of embarrassing tonight. If Ball state actually had a good QB and a decent head coach, this game would have been closer. Like years past, Tennessee continues to struggle Defending outside slants as well stopping third down convertions. That Defensive line tonight, very piss poor. Defensively, this side of the ball gets a 3. 0 sacks and Paddock had all day to throw, we were very fortunate that he was an inexperienced QB

Tennessee has a good team but not a great team. When you see Georgia or Alabama play against cupcakes, you can see the sheer talent emerge from multiple players, in Tennessee's case, I haven't seen that in a UT player besides Hooker.

Tennessee will compete against most of the SEC this season, still a year or two away from getting on Alabama's level

Go Vols! Beat Pitt!

 

[vol_in_ga]

Little rusty. Defense leaves much to be desired (maybe they didn’t want to show too much?). Don’t recall seeing a single sack. Would have liked to see Milton get another drive. Feel good about next week.

 

[sona]

Joe looked good minus a couple of heaters, Sampson is going to be fun, and I don't think anyone got hurt. It was the first game and played conservatively.

 

[Gandalf]

Offensively we were vanilla and still got things done very nicely. Hard to complain about anything in the first half.

Defensively, the lack of defense on the slant and the lack of penetration - NO SACKS TONIGHT AT ALL! - seriously concern me going forward. These are things we MUST take care of if we want to go 10-2 or maybe even 9-3.

 

[VOLS INC.]

Overall report:

I believe the offense held their own and did a great job. As long as you have hooker leading this offense, I'm not concerned with that unit. Scale 1-10, I would give the offense an 8.

Defensive was kind of embarrassing tonight. If Ball state actually had a good QB and a decent head coach, this game would have been closer. Like years past, Tennessee continues to struggle Defending outside slants as well stopping third down conversitions. That Defensive line tonight, very piss poor. Defensively tonight, this side of the ball gets a 3.

Tennessee has a good team but not a great team. When you see Georgia or Alabama play against cupcakes, you can see the sheer talent emerge from multiple players, in Tennessee's case, I haven't seen that in a UT player besides Hooker.

Tennessee will compete against most of the SEC this season, still a year or two away from getting on Alabama's level

Go Vols! Beat Pitt!

38-0 at Halftime

What more should they have done?

 

[theFallGuy]

National Champs

 

[PandamoniumReigns]

Overall report:

I believe the offense held their own and did a great job. As long as you have hooker leading this offense, I'm not concerned with that unit. Scale 1-10, I would give the offense an 8.

Defensive was kind of embarrassing tonight. If Ball state actually had a good QB and a decent head coach, this game would have been closer. Like years past, Tennessee continues to struggle Defending outside slants as well stopping third down conversitions. That Defensive line tonight, very piss poor. Defensively tonight, this side of the ball gets a 3.

Tennessee has a good team but not a great team. When you see Georgia or Alabama play against cupcakes, you can see the sheer talent emerge from multiple players, in Tennessee's case, I haven't seen that in a UT player besides Hooker.

Tennessee will compete against most of the SEC this season, still a year or two away from getting on Alabama's level

Go Vols! Beat Pitt!

Those "conversitions" are concerning.

 

[sunnyvol79]

We will be lucky to split the Pitt and Florida games. From what I saw tonight we aren’t beating both of them and it wouldn’t shock me if we lost to them both.

 

[LittleVol]

Overall report:

I believe the offense held their own and did a great job. As long as you have hooker leading this offense, I'm not concerned with that unit. Scale 1-10, I would give the offense an 8.

Defensive was kind of embarrassing tonight. If Ball state actually had a good QB and a decent head coach, this game would have been closer. Like years past, Tennessee continues to struggle Defending outside slants as well stopping third down conversitions. That Defensive line tonight, very piss poor. Defensively tonight, this side of the ball gets a 3.

Tennessee has a good team but not a great team. When you see Georgia or Alabama play against cupcakes, you can see the sheer talent emerge from multiple players, in Tennessee's case, I haven't seen that in a UT player besides Hooker.

Tennessee will compete against most of the SEC this season, still a year or two away from getting on Alabama's level

Go Vols! Beat Pitt!

Defense had 3 turnovers and a bunch of defensive stops.

Not sure what you wanted to see.

 

[fannwd]

I think Pitt will have their hands full next weekend.

 

[allstar34bd]

I watched like 12 mins of the game. I wish these type of match ups didn’t exist. Give me the 16 team playoff w/ 12 conference game reg season.

 

[DaddyChad]

A year or two?

Secondary wasn’t great we were very vanilla though. Probably press more vs Pitt and see what we have. Doubt it looks a lot better though.

 

[LittleVol]

We will be lucky to split the Pitt and Florida games. From what I saw tonight we aren’t beating both of them and it wouldn’t shock me if we lost to them both.

You haven't even seen Florida play yet, and Pitts defense is not close to last years.

I'm feeling good about both of those games if Heupel has another play selection chart versed on offense.

Bru, Hyatt and Tillman look like #1 WRs.
Need to get those guys running in stride moving forward.

 

[VOLS INC.]

Defense had 3 turnovers and a bunch of defensive stops.

Not sure what you wanted to see.

Anything short of a 20 sack 10 int shutout was gonna draw criticism from some posters.

 

[Volfan39]

Jesus Christ we won by 50. Can we all relax and enjoy the win

 

[Volfan39]

Anything short of a 20 sack 10 int shutout was gonna draw criticism from some posters.

If our defense doesn’t look like Georgia last year they are a disappointment

 

[vols 30]

I think Pitt will have their hands full next weekend.

They have their hands full tonight. 31 all in the 4th

 

[TNHopeful505]

This pitt WVU game is good.

 

[Vols till I fall]

38-0 at Halftime

What more should they have done?

Its Ball state, come on

 

[DD4ME]

Anything short of a 20 sack 10 int shutout was gonna draw criticism from some posters.

The lack of pressure is fair imo.

 

[Volfan39]

The lack of pressure is fair imo.

They held the ball for 1 second and had 8 people on the line.

 

[Nationdom]

Defense was much worse than I thought. Slovis will make them look even worse if they don’t start getting pressure

 

[Flipdaddy]

Too hard to tell against ball. We’ll know when they’re challenged. The good thing is we’ll have gradual challenges up to LSU.

 

[Vols till I fall]

If our defense doesn’t look like Georgia last year they are a disappointment

Are you trying to say Tennessee is on the same level as Georgia?

Horrible analogy

 

[sunnyvol79]

You haven't even seen Florida play yet, and Pitts defense is not close to last years.

I'm feeling good about both of those games if Heupel has another play selection chart versed on offense.

Bru, Hyatt and Tillman look like #1 WRs.
Need to get those guys running in stride moving forward.

I’m a nervous nellie of a fan.