The Official #12 Tennessee vs. Arkansas Game Thread, 4:15 PM ET, SEC Network

[MeanOrange]

Syracuse though we gave up yardage.

Last year LOL.

 

[posivol]

we need tds

 

[mackievol]

The late afternoon and night games always bring out the best posters in a game thread.

 

[orangerush]

At this point I think it’s clear our defense is not good. At some point you’re going to need a new voice on that side of the ball.

 

[rocketskates]

? Is he watching the game? We are getting dominated up front. their big ass running backs are running down hill bc we get need no penetration.

He felt the need to tell me that we only failed to set the edge on one play.

 

[TN1111]

But but.. they had Two weeks to Improve

And its all because of injuries. Because as you're aware, no other teams suffer injuries. Just TN

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

How desperate does Arky have to be to hire his sorry ass to be their coach?

They let him back in the building after firing him before….

 

[CAVPUT]

Can’t believe how bad are defense is.

I’m disappointed we arent rotating more at linebacker especially with carter playing hurt.

And I wish our starting safeties could tackle like some of the guys on special teams.

No one in the secondary wraps up. They perform like a sleeping policeman and hope the guy falls/trips. When I look at Vandys defense,.I'm actually envious. They're light years better.

 

[FranklinVFL]

Not sure its the crowds fault, but it hasn't been an advantage, which it needs to be.

Personally, a couple of Arky motion penalties would have been a welcome site

Just would have made their 3rd down conversions that much more frustrating

 

[RAVOL]

Alright today has been somewhat weird with Miss winning by 3 against horrible Cougar team 34 point favorite. Sometimes football is just that way week to week. Hopefully focus is better. Go Vols. In CHRIST Alone

 

[barney]

This is where you tell players like boo good riddance when they start trying to haggle in a couple months.

When boo was trotting after the ball carrier early on I almost lost it. Anyone else see that?

I think he is a great player and I want the best for our home state guys, so it was just really disappointing to see the lack of effort.

 

[Volnbeers]

How many yards rushing will mateer have against us?

 

[Volfan2012]

Going to need a better defense to ever win the SEC or get to the National Championship game. Were not there yet and Banks has been here to long for that not to happen.

 

[CPVOL]

How desperate does Arky have to be to hire his sorry ass to be their coach?

Depends how bad they want to win

 

[DaddyChad]

Don’t know if we have that person. His name escapes me ( ) but he had 11 tackles last game.

But apparently he is out of position.
And Telanfer? Is it lack of individual speed, mental, or scheme?

Telander just doesn’t have the speed to match up in some situations

 

[SCRocket]

we need tds

I would settle for at least one d td. But dd tds would be better for sure.

 

[vol94]

Eh. Gave up 26 points and like over 400 yards.

Best performance of the yr. It wasn’t MS State, UGA, or the other two scrub teams.

 

[bpalmer28]

Going to need a better defense to ever win the SEC or get to the National Championship game. Were not there yet and Banks has been here to long for that not to happen.

tough to argue against this

 

[rocketskates]

Petrino has been very vanilla so far - nothing new.

Be ready for something 2nd half- some type of trick play, fake punt (if we get them to 4th down), on-sides kick, or defensive change.

Flame away but I’m concerned. We aren’t playing well and think Petrino has something up his sleeve. Hopefully I’m wrong.

Go Vols!

I agree. That first half went exactly how he wanted it to go. This next half he is going for broke. If we can’t get them down by a few scores then we are putting no pressure on them at all.

 

[teeball]

After seeing what Notre Dame did to Arkansas I was hoping for an easy, blowout game as well but it seems we're heading for another overtime nail biter. That'll make 3 straight SEC OT games. I sure hope that isn't the case and we get our act together in the 2nd half. Go VOLS !!!

 

[Orange931]

Petrino has been very vanilla so far - nothing new.

Be ready for something 2nd half- some type of trick play, fake punt (if we get them to 4th down), on-sides kick, or defensive change.

Flame away but I’m concerned. We aren’t playing well and think Petrino has something up his sleeve. Hopefully I’m wrong.

Go Vols!

Nah, if he has a chance to go up early and cause the game to get outta control he would’ve took it. We’ve just been fortunate that we made a couple of plays at the right time on defense.

 

[GrizzlyVol]

Dont think we'll get lucky enough for someone to hire Banks away, because JH surely aint gonna fire him.

You think he'll make some adjustments at the half

 

[Vol8188]

No. It was only one play that we didn’t contain and set the edge and that was the Green scramble. Just ask @Vol8188 he’ll tell you all about it.

When have we had issues setting an edge tonight? The big runs have not been outside.

 

[posivol]

2nd half is ours

 

[orangerush]

Didn’t Arkansas lose to Memphis.