Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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#38,226
Quick thoughts:

1. Our lack of NIL/ recruiting commitment to safties is finally catching up to us. That room is one of the worst in the SEC.
2. Drops have to stop. MM, Staley, MK
3. Joey is a gamer, crazy to think we upgraded at QB
4. Clock management at end of 1H and 2H were abysmal
5. Don’t know why JH teams completely fall apart on the road. We make things incredibly hard on ourselves.

The Good: Dline, Brazzell, Hood, MM bouncing back after the awful drop.

But after 2010-2020 years I’m happy with winning.

Happy Sunday and Go Vols!
 
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It was a very weird game yesterday, I’m just glad we survived. Didn't think Heupel coached well at all, but it’s growth that the team still found a way to win on the road against a mediocre team despite all the sloppy play and mistakes.

Joey was elite. Hate that 5 of his 6 INTs are not even his fault really yet on his stat line. Brazzell is a baller. Staley had his first “freshman” game of his young career. Surprised at how easily State ran the ball on us, but hoping when we get Hobbs back it helps.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
It was a very weird game yesterday, I’m just glad we survived. Didn't think Heupel coached well at all, but it’s growth that the team still found a way to win on the road against a mediocre team despite all the sloppy play and mistakes.

Joey was elite. Hate that 5 of his 6 INTs are not even his fault really yet on his stat line. Brazzell is a baller. Staley had his first “freshman” game of his young career. Surprised at how easily State ran the ball on us, but hoping when we get Hobbs back it helps.
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Aguilar only has 5 ints.
 
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It's so bizarre to me that fans of teams that can't afford to buy a roster that can compete at the top of the SEC will never ever admit that lack of money is their problem. It's always the coach or administration's "approach to NIL."

As if there was a coach or school in the country afraid to use other people's money to buy players!
 
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Aesius said:
Is Vandy for real? I haven’t watched a second of any of their games but they are 5-0 and scoring a ton of points. Nico looked like a legit QB against them last year and our defense bottled up Pavia. But our defense is worse this year and their offense seems to be a lot better. Hopefully that won’t even enter “interesting” territory and we cruise to a W at home.
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Balanced team that plays hard. Similar to Miss St IMO. Could look similar if we don't play our best.
 
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I think we will have a good season overall, but I think coming up short w Ga is gonna keep us out unfortunately... even if we get healthy and our 'ish together, I just don't see us beating bama at home with the refs and their hype and confidence they may have by then... Who knows, maybe we are dialed in, they make some mistakes the ref's can't hide or fix and we pull the upset... we have huge games against oky, gump, maybe FL, and candy... Not being nega, but just don't see us winning all of them. Will be definitely fun to watch and we will hold our own in all of them, which is a huge move forward from the past... we just maybe aren't quite there yet...
 
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rocktopper16 said:
Mizzou, Vandy, Oklahoma, Ole Miss are pretenders.

A&M has a favorable schedule, Bama will likely be in the championship game.

Can we afford a lose to Alabama is the real question here in that scenario.

My 4 SEC teams in the playoffs currently are Bama, Georgia, A&M & Tennessee.
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Really needed bama to lose to uga.
 
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Checker_the_Shire said:
TN won’t make it in if it comes down to us plus those 4. Especially if it’s 2-loss us and a 2-loss UGA and/or Bama, even if we beat Bama in Tuscaloosa.

Basically, we gotta win out to get in.
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I don’t think we need to win out but it’s fairly important that uga and bama do (besides hopefully a loss to us at home). And need others to lose some games: tamu, Texas, lsu, ole miss, Ou (especially the first 4 listed since we don’t play them).
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Something not being discussed, Lebby knew how to slow down our offense. Part of why we didn't have a great day running the ball. He picked his poison and had there been a bit less drops probably would've been a bigger win. But first road game that sh*t happens.

And Coleman Hutzler also needs some more credit as a good DC.

I'm really hoping the schedule for Bama works in our favor, but after winning at Georgia I'm sure they'll jump us in the polls and we'll stay behind Georgia.

Bama is playing Vandy then going to Missouri and then hosting us with a trip to South Carolina the next week. They're likely going to lose at least 1 of these next 4 I just want it to be us.
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If they play like they did last night, especially the first half, they wont lose any of those games.
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
Listened to Volquest before I got to watch the replay.

Eric Cain said Joey had a so so game.... Um...he was elite. What a dumb take and I really don't blame him for the Kitselman drops. Yeah ball placement wasn't perfect, but it shouldn't have to be and it unlikely on those types of throws. If Joey wasn't able to make those throws we woulda lost the game. The game tying drive was some elite stuff.

Wouldn't trade Joey or Brazzell for anyone.

Mississippi State is 5 million times better this year, but my goodness the mental errors were egregious, we aren't getting enough penetration in the middle and Carter is the only LB playing at a high level.

I still think if everything that could go wrong didn't go wrong we would have crushed them. The first two drives they had, our defense was all over them. The only way they stopped us was refs, Stayley punt return and drops.

Like...I think we start up 14-0 If Stayley doesn't botch it. The Mike drop, Two deflected anomalous picks and the Brazzell bs PI call.

State was running the ball well, but had we gotten them in a hole early, they pass more and their pass pro sucked.

Time to polish things up over the bye. Joey won't be watching a UCLA game at the wilted rose bowl, it's a revenge game, it's at home and thus we destroy Arkansas next.
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He missed some deep balls he shouldn’t have and had some head scratching misses on would be 3rd down conversions. He turned up and came up big in second half but I wouldn’t say it was his best game.
 
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Adam Sandler said:
If they play like they did last night, especially the first half, they wont lose any of those games.
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Meh. I still stand by my assessment from last night. I think Bama is good, but I don’t think they’re great. And I don’t think this is the UGA of old. We let them beat us because we got scared, they are not as strong as they look. So I’m not overly worried about that Bama game outside of us getting there and playing like we do on the road. That worries me more than it being Bama.
 
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Man...if this DL ever gets to full health they are going to end up being pretty unstoppable.

Herring with 1.5 sacks in the same drive to close the 2nd quarter. West despite being banged up getting 2 sacks. Still waiting for Hobbs to return, Moi obviously not 100% yet... but all these younger guys are getting tons of experience because of it.
 
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