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

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

no it won’t be , but keep thinking that

Will you stop posting if it is?

 

[Go47]

I will have to say . . . I have been really hard on our defense . . . And though they gave up the 3rd and 18 to start the game . . . Only giving up 14 in the first half was a good job overall.

The offense is straight trash. False starts / poor clock management / terrible play call AND terrible execution on that last play.

 

[SamDaisyDuke]

UT came out in the same formation even after Bama called a timeout.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

So the Qb is blameless om a gift wrapped 98 yard pick 6. Got it.

These dudes are morons

 

[peerless98]

That’s on Joey not Heupel.

You are wasting your time with most here.

 

[Dergibvol]

Bama knew that ball was going to kitselman. Sitting on it. Crazy part is it's not an interception if it's a decent throw but it was so far behind him. Going to be down 23 after the first drive

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

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

I agree. I'm not saying RB pass or something.
Hell,run the play Bama did on us.
It's 1:1.
Just mind-blowingly unoriginal high school crap right there

 

[Matt2496]

**** Bama

 

[vavolfan6]

After that debacle, we just gotta try and win the 3rd quarter and see where that puts us in Q4.

 

[TNVOLnTX]

Yet a ton of fans including many on here had us going 10-2 or 11-1 and back in the playoffs

Yes, delusional ones

 

[Sudden Impact]

Pisspoor coaching.

Came to this conclusion as well. I love CJH but I am not sure he is a big game coach..

 

[rocketskates]

There was no other option. No way we run the ball there. Just a terrible play call

Personally I think we’re better off putting Joey in the gun there so that he can read the defense better. Tell him if it’s not there throw it out the back of the endzone and let’s take the 3.

 

[johnboyhunter]

I was at that GA game back in 90s with similar swing of fumbling right before we scored and they ran it back 96 yards. Forgot the year

 

[EastTNVol6240]

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

Not a good pass by any means. But it was a peewee play call. We lined up in a run formation to fake when Hellen Keller knew we had to pass there. Every Alabama player knew what was coming, but apparently our coach didn’t.

 

[StuckInBamaVol]

Heup does not even have the spine to fix his defense.

I’m one of the most critical on defense. But where is any of this their fault?

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

Better option was to get in an actually passing formation

Sure but we didn’t do that. Every qb we have played puts that ball on the money and it’s a TD.

 

[JMSqb11]

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.

No. We got inside the 5 yard line with 11 seconds left, first down and a timeout left.

Zero reason to kick a FG on any down earlier than 3rd down at minimum.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

That’s on Joey not Heupel.

Absolutely wasting your time. These fools will never blame a player

 

[jcvol87]

Better to have ran the ball.. even if stopped at the half would have been 16-7

 

[Volbrando]

UT came out in the same formation even after Bama called a timeout.

of course we did.

 

[Big Orange Captain]

Will you stop posting if it is?

never. Sorry you don’t agree with my assessment. i have been right more than i’ve wrong. I predicted 8-4 or 9-3 at best on here in August and got blasted for it

 

[allvols4life]

Fl, Vandy and Oklahoma arent sure things for this team.

Sure losses

 

[GhostVol]

Down that close, do we not have a RB that can go over the top?

Agree - but that is what is expected on this board. You throw it high there - either the tight end catches or you have a chance to kick a field goal.

We have moved the ball on Bama and we have stopped their offense.

No reason to not come away with 7 there...

One. Yard.

TN doesn't have a 250lb "hammer" right there?

Why are you throwing?????

 

[Bollweevil]

It was a bad pass behind the receiver. That's on the QB. The rest was just a Tennessee thing.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

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

Everybody in my watch party knew where the ball was going. The pass had to be pinpoint perfect to work. It wasn’t and the defender was right where he needed to be.