The Official #11 Tennessee @ #6 Alabama Game Thread, 7:30 PM ET, ABC

[patrick]

Game is over.

TN to lose a few more.

Heupel not great and never will be.

His best coach is Garner. His offensive staff is trash. Clean house.

TN will fire Heupel before he fires anyone of his friends. lol.

And Tucker prices will increase next season.

 

[EastTNVol6240]

Terrible placement on that throw by Joey, that was all on him.

No it’s a terrible call. You run a fake when every blind person in the world knows you can’t run the ball there.

 

[orange_glory]

You’ll find out a lot about the character of this team in the second half.

Yeah it'll be the character that gets killed in a murder mystery

 

[JMSqb11]

At halftime, we are winning the time of possession battle and the defense has allowed 7 points and we are down 16 points.

 

[Other_Guy]

True. The biggest surprise is that the defense has only given up 14 points and the offense didn’t produce.

2 TDs, 2 punts (1 a 3 and out, the other almost). Just as we should expect lol

 

[joevol33]

I gotta get up at 5. Not staying up to get more angry

 

[patrick]

They never disappoint in their creativity in finding every way possible to kill themselves.

Pisspoor coaching.

 

[Volfan8282]

So many of you griping about the call is plain silly. The call was fine and if Joey executed it correctly, we would be down 2 at the half. That pick 6 is 100% on Joey.

There was no “executing the play correctly” given how the defender reacted. It was never going to work.

 

[volfan102455]

It's possible, but not likely. Not with this defense. Game over

The Defense has held Bama to 14 points - that should have been enough.

 

[TheVolsFrog]

My question is, do you not have any specially designed or trick plays? Is there nothing in your arsenal. Is that the trickiest of the trick plays that you have?
My concern is he thinks that's a smart play. When Womack knows what you're doing that concerns me

I was told here good teams don't need trick plays...but yeah we need misdirection plays

 

[CobbWebb71]

Analytics? That has nothing to do with analytics. Common sense says that you try to score a touchdown with 9 damn seconds left in the half and the ball on the one.

If we managed the clock better, sure. But you pretty much shot that wad with the clock management, which put you in a very predictable situation.
Common sense tells you to kick the damn FG.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Yeah it'll be the character that gets killed in a murder mystery

I mean whether they quit or not. That should tell us everything we need to know about our man in charge.

 

[ochocinco]

2 options there. Go 5 wide or run it if ya don’t get spike it and dealers choice on 4th. That formation in that situation having nobody else to throw to and then throwing anyway may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in college football

 

[NEO]

Need to dig in and set our jaws for the second half; game’s only over for the faithless.

Game is over.

CJH does not have the ability to get it done. Golesh loss has shown ever since.

That last play call sequence shows we don’t have an elite coach sadly. He is Les Miles 2.0

 

[MDsweetT]

Heupel ain't it. I said it.

Inexcusable end to the half. Defense has actually been passable. Offense has been stuck in quicksand. Team is playing hard but this gameplan is

It’s just hard to watch us play so hard just to throw it away

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

The Heupel stinker has reared its ugly head.

Vols going to lose this game and several more.

What a sh$$ show.

Yeah. OU, Vandy, and even UF are all on the table. Man if we go 7-5 after the way we started the season and almost beat UGA.

 

[Big Orange Captain]

This is the last game we lose. Shut up troll

no it won’t be , but keep thinking that

 

[EastTNVol6240]

That’s on Joey not Heupel.

It was an awful call. It’s on both.

 

[rocketskates]

He didn't see the guy, D spied the whole time and jumped it.
If we were in a passing formation he would've had a better view of the field and had other options

We ran a similar play last week and scored against Arkansas. That’s called good film study and coaching. They knew it was coming and just waited for it.

 

[Dougie_D]

When I saw the last play, I knew it was a pass to our TE. We’ve called that play numerous times

 

[peerless98]

The play was covered from the start and wouldn’t have worked no matter the ball placement, period. He had to throw that away. It was a horrible play call.

wrong, if the pass was thrown outside of the receiver the defender has no chance to make a play on the ball

 

[nomads-11]

Joey threw to the inside. He should've thrown to the outside. I didnt mind the call but he should've thrown it outside.

If thrown right, it's likely 6 points. But that's a throw with a pretty narrow window between feast and famine.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Put Joey in shotgun and throw fade to Brazzell, if incomplete kick FG. Stupid play call!!!

Yes. I'll even go with a 50/50 in the endzone. But you needed to get the field goal points.

The play call was dogwater.

 

[wmcovol]

Vols got what they deserved. Unforced mistakes on presnap, can’t line up right, then the stupid play call. Forget beating anybody playing like this.

 

[DaddyChad]

It was an awful call. It’s on both.

Play call wasn’t great but you can’t put that ball there. Worse case you get one more play