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[bignewt]

I am agreeing with you. If we see it then our opponents see it to and will leave the middle open until we force them to defend it. Seems like that would be a good idea to make them do that.

seems like to me it would be good to use the entire route tree and make them defend the entire field. just saying its concerning when we play teams that have good dbs and safeties. not saying Pitt doesnt but...

 

[volfaninpa]

 

[bluegrasser]

SIAP, I enjoyed this one!

 

[Devo182]

A deep dive stat I can get behind.

Much better than those "first pitcher to ever throw a no hitter under a waning gibbous moon, while a Republican was in office, and over 65 degrees".

 

[SoilVol]

Cedric Tillman is on pace to have the most receptions in a single season, on pace to move to 3rd in career receptions.

He currently has 1,435 career yards. He's on pace for a 1,495yd season (#1 is currently Meachem with 1,298) and would move to 2,700 career yards - 2nd all time behind Joey Kent (2,814).

Tillman currently has 15 career rec TDs. 2021 put him T-2nd with 12 in a season. Cedrick Wilson had 12, and Nash had 13.

Tillman is only on pace for ~7 TDs this year which would put him at 22 (3rd all time). He needs 10 more TDs to tie Joey Kent for career TDs with 25.

 

[barrylee]

Not a Cards fan but saw where Pujols got #697. Hope he hits that 700HR mark.

Yep, I am a Cards fan and I can't help but think if he had stayed with St. LOUIS he would be well past 700..

 

[MoCo_Vol]

cool. one pass. and you see the result because defenses know he doesnt look there. he is going to have to start or our success on O is severely capped.

I don't think it's a "Hooker ain't doing it" so much as a Heup/Alex ain't asking for it. Cooper is a solid C, but he's not great and he's a tad undersized for the position. We see a lot of interior pressure because of this, it's why Fant & the RB both rolled inside on that one sack in the 4th where Fant basically watched the blitzer go by.

Now if a team spreads the field to try and cover us outside you'll see lots more passes and rushes right down the middle of the field.

 

[tn88volfan]

Mooring in Positano for a couple of days

 

[bignewt]

I don't think it's a "Hooker ain't doing it" so much as a Heup/Alex ain't asking for it. Cooper is a solid C, but he's not great and he's a tad undersized for the position. We see a lot of interior pressure because of this, it's why Fant & the RB both rolled inside on that one sack in the 4th where Fant basically watched the blitzer go by.

Now if a team spreads the field to try and cover us outside you'll see lots more passes and rushes right down the middle of the field.

its gonna happen in two weeks.

 

[itsme]

Single-Season Records:
Rec—Nash (76)
Yards—Meacham (1,298)
TDs—Nash (13)

He breaks one of these IMO.

He's gonna take them all down this year.

 

[Vol464]

Good list…you can go ahead and take Pittman and Aranda off the list though.

Why is Greg schiano left off of this list?

 

[Nash_Vol97]

Hooker HAS to spread the ball around. The left side of the field was barely looked at. Believe I heard Bru was only targeted 4 times. We can't rely on Tillman for everything. Hyatt and Bru played well, we gotta get them the ball.

Sounded like the high volume of targets was match up based, but yes, need to get Bru more involved.

 

[bigorange]

 

[SoilVol]

Hendon Hooker is on pace for 3,400 yds passing which would put his 2022 4th behind 2007 Ainge, 2012 Bray, and 1997 Manning.

It would also put his 2 year UT career at 6,345 yds and 7th behind Kelly (4 seasons), Dobbs (4), Bray (3), Ainge (4), Clausen (4), and Manning (4). But just in front of Guarantano (5).

And Hendon is 4 TD passes from moving to 6th in career passing TDs.

And he's 2nd in consecutive games with a TD pass (14) only behind Shuler's 18.

Hendon threw 2,894 yds 22tds at Virginia Tech. If you add his entire career he's already thrown 6,385 yds and 57tds. If he throws another 31 tds this season - he would pass Dobbs for 5th for his UT career alone. And he'd have 84 for his total college career. Just behind Peyton Manning's 89.

And remember - Hendon didn't play the second half of the Ball State game, and he was 2 yds from having 2 more passing TDs on Saturday. He could easily put up 35+ TDs passing this season.

He's trult on pace to have one of the best college careers of any UT QB. A lot of that has to do with Heupel. But Hendon's freshman year at VT was no joke.

 

[VolNash17]

Small sample size but Vols Defense is currently:
- tied 32nd in 3rd Down Conversion PCT (0.281)
- tied 64th in 1st Down Def (opponents are passing for twice as many first downs (24) as they're rushing (12) against us. Opp. have 2 first downs on penalties. Our opponents have had 38 first downs in two games. #1 has allowed 14)
- tied 106th in passing yards allowed (271.5 ypg - 10.86 ypc).
- tied 36th in red zone defense. 0 rushing TDs allowed, 2 passing, forced 3 fgs, 5/7 scores (bend don't break)
- we have 2 fumble recoveries and 3 INTs in 2 games.
- 44th in rushing defense (107.5 ypg - 3.26 ypc - 1 rushing TD)
- 4 sacks for 34yds (all against Pitt)
- averaging 5.5 TFL a game.

78th in Total Defense
- 379 ypg
- 4.95 ypp
- 4 TDs allowed (T-36th)
- 18.5 ppg
2021 ended the season 90th allowing 29.1 ppg, 98th in allowing 421.7 ypg, 5.4 ypp.

Conclusion: We are seeing improvement thus far with small sample size. I think we've said if we can get into the 40-60 rank range it would have huge results for our season. Should climb higher after Akron game but we will see where we are at the bye.

If we can keep that Yards Per Play Allowed number at or under 5.0 Yards Per Play Allowed that would put the Vols in Top 25-30 range defensively in that category. Also keep getting turnovers. We didn’t get nearly enough of those a year ago and it bogged down our offensive numbers because teams would just bully us and play keep away

 

[dwaugh]

Isn't it a lot more fun nit picking a couple of overthrows and a couple of drops on offense, a couple of missed assignments on defense after a win? I much prefer this to previous years of seemingly insurmountable issues after losses

 

[BigSteve09]

LOL

has us in the Citrus

 

[johnfnkelly]

Going to be a lot of these from the Florida faithful next weekend.

 

[Adam2014]

Damn, I forgot we would have played Army this Saturday had we not changed our schedule. That would have been a wild game.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Good one.

 

[Orange.]

SIAP, I enjoyed this one!

Did they show the safety and flatly declare that Bama lost on the field, but the refs stole the game for Bama again?

Or is this yet another (distraction) coverup by the league?

 

[Orange.]

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[volbeast33]

I just heard on the radio:

Texas AM has 56 4/5 star players.
App State has 1.

Jimbo is overrated.

The only position that matters is qb and they don’t have one

 

[Aesius]

Hendon threw 2,894 yds 22tds at Virginia Tech. If you add his entire career he's already thrown 6,385 yds and 57tds. If he throws another 31 tds this season - he would pass Dobbs for 5th for his UT career alone. And he'd have 84 for his total college career. Just behind Peyton Manning's 89.

And remember - Hendon didn't play the second half of the Ball State game, and he was 2 yds from having 2 more passing TDs on Saturday. He could easily put up 35+ TDs passing this season.

He's trult on pace to have one of the best college careers of any UT QB. A lot of that has to do with Heupel. But Hendon's freshman year at VT was no joke.

Makes me excited for Nico if he lives up to the hype. Ideally, he redshirts next season and we get four years out of him as a starter. We would have a roster almost entirely of Heupel's players by the time he starts. He could definitely end up owning every passing record at UT.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

One thing stoops and staff did is put the blueprint out on how to stop Anthony Richardson. They basically had Jordan Wright spy/shadow him esp in all the obvious pass situations but really the majority of the time. That’s how he got the pick 6. Dude was just right in front of AR and he never saw him somehow. But it completely shut down the whole offense. Now that game film is out there for the whole league to look at.