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MarcoVol said:
All the sudden Arion Carter and Edwin Spillman don’t have that?

Are you talking about them out in coverage? It was WRs, not TEs that beat us in the passing game.
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Our LB play has been less than desirable. AC has to play better. Telander isn’t quite athletic enough to play high level ball.

Spillman still young but he’s got talent IMO
 
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Vols2DaWall said:
Our LB play has been less than desirable. AC has to play better. Telander isn’t quite athletic enough to play high level ball.

Spillman still young but he’s got talent IMO
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I think this group ends up being the group that grows the most over the course of the season. I think the LB play has really held us back the past (seems like forever) but they have really upgraded the talent, I could see them being really good by the end of the year.
 
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MarcoVol said:
All the sudden Arion Carter and Edwin Spillman don’t have that?

Are you talking about them out in coverage? It was WRs, not TEs that beat us in the passing game.
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Those two do. Telander and Bolton do not. Burns and the true freshmen need to come along and Spillman needs to replace Telander as a starter.

That group didn't play well Saturday.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Those two do. Telander and Bolton do not. Burns and the true freshmen need to come along and Spillman needs to replace Telander as a starter.

That group didn't play well Saturday.
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Telander plays his tail off but he’s just not athletic enough to be a high level SEC linebacker.

There are so many plays where he’s right there but just doesn’t have the natural speed and burst to make the play.
 
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EastTNVol95 said:
Telander plays his tail off but he’s just not athletic enough to be a high level SEC linebacker.

There are so many plays where he’s right there but just doesn’t have the natural speed and burst to make the play.
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True. But Saturday, he (and others) were taking some bad angles, as well.

The tackling was lacking all over the defense. That's something that is correctable and should be priority #1 for this defense.
 
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volbabyvol said:
Go rematch the long run in OT both were chasing AC and Tellander wasn’t fast enough to make the play.
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Typically LBs aren’t gonna be able to catch a RB. Looks like Telander crashed in and if the argument was he took the wrong angle then I could believe it but idk his responsibility on the play. But once his momentum is all but stopped, he’s not gonna catch a RB laterally that has speed built up. Hardly any LB would.
 
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MarcoVol said:
Typically LBs aren’t gonna be able to catch a RB. Looks like Telander crashed in and if the argument was he took the wrong angle then I could believe it but idk his responsibility on the play. But once his momentum is all but stopped, he’s not gonna catch a RB laterally that has speed built up. Hardly any LB would.
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GA and Bama LB have been doing it for quite a few years now. Part is scheme, part is teaching & executing pursuit angles, part of it is Scott Cochran's "performa-ceutical" cocktails; but a lot of it is just that they've recruited more talented LB than we have over the past two decades.

Btw, our '98 LB corp sends their regards. Al, EW and Raynoch could all chase down running backs laterally and vertically.
 
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vol9799 said:
GA and Bama LB have been doing it for quite a few years now. Part is scheme, part is teaching & executing pursuit angles, part of it is Scott Cochran's "performa-ceutical" cocktails; but a lot of it is just that they've recruited more talented LB than we have over the past two decades.

Btw, our '98 LB corp sends their regards. Al, EW and Raynoch could all chase down running backs laterally and vertically.
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Seems like most of those 98 LBs were RBs coming out of high school
 
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"I knew they've been a good team, so I wasn't very surprised (by the game). I thought they were going to win. They should've won it. But it just shows what they're capable of becoming."

"(Tennessee's coaches) were just saying how much they wanted me and how much could see me playing on this stage in a few years. It was good to know that they believed in me."

"I got to meet with Coach Inge before the game, and what stood out (during the game) was how many linebackers played, so it's very encouraging that I could be able to get there and play early as soon as I'm on the team,"

"(Heupel) just told me how much he wanted me here and that he thinks this is home for me."
 
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Heupel will then head further west to stop in to see Cooper Witten in Texas before joining Kelsey Pope to watch Legend Bey’s game on Friday night.

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Tennessee linebackers coach William Inge will check in on some prospects in the Atlanta area while also making stops to check in on Kenny Simon and Cooper Witten.
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-VQ
 
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volKano said:
Don’t like seeing all those Texas schools listed.
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Hes spent all of his life there.

He’s dad is obviously a Tennessee boy, but he is not.

He’s a just as much a Texan as Cedric Benson or Vince Young was. It’s hard to jive with that because his father is a Tennessee boy and the greatest TE to ever play for Tennessee.

At least he’s giving Tennessee a serious look but I don’t know think he will sign with us. And that’s fine. Plenty of good LBs out there.
 
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LittleVol said:
Hes spent all of his life there.

He’s dad is obviously a Tennessee boy, but he is not.

He’s a just as much a Texan as Cedric Benson or Vince Young was. It’s hard to jive with that because his father is a Tennessee boy and the greatest TE to ever play for Tennessee.

At least he’s giving Tennessee a serious look but I don’t know think he will sign with us. And that’s fine. Plenty of good LBs out there.
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Money won’t sway him. His dad has enough and so do the other schools offering. I would love to have him but I’m not going to put much hope into it. Yet.
 
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