Extremely hard to beat a really good team on their home field

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TN QB make a mistake but is still outstanding. TN is just as good as Bama, but the noise and pick 6 was the difference in the game. and really turned it in Bama's favor. That's what a home field and wild crowd does for a team. TN has lots of 1st yr players who, in many cases, are playing against much more seasoned players. They will continue to improve. Every game TN plays is going to be tough. Everyone has very good players now.
 
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A football coordinator’s job is to assess the opponent, and build a plan to defeat them by leveraging mismatches in our favor and scheming to minimize the opposite.

Then adjusting to the flow of the game.

OC utterly failed.
- not working the run
- 8-10 pointless sideline passes when they have fast DBs
- the pick 6 call

DC did improve some. Got some key second half stops but O couldn’t capitalize

Cherry on top is the nonsensical CJH clock management
 
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Losing the game isn’t the problem. this situation is like a parent when a child fails a course. You understand as long as he they tried. You deal with it. But if they just skipped every class the whole semester it’s not ok. It’s failure. Unacceptable.
 
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volnighthawk said:
TN QB make a mistake but is still outstanding. TN is just as good as Bama, but the noise and pick 6 was the difference in the game. and really turned it in Bama's favor. That's what a home field and wild crowd does for a team. TN has lots of 1st yr players who, in many cases, are playing against much more seasoned players. They will continue to improve. Every game TN plays is going to be tough. Everyone has very good players now.
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EXCUSES, EXCUSES The main one being "they are just not good enough"!
 
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Remy said:
That pick was a 14 point swing. -7 for us and + 7 for them. Couple that with a 2 point safety and it’s hard to win with those kind of mistakes you inflict on yourself.
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We played undisciplined and coached not to loose as usual
 
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Our team looked scared from the opening kickoff. That's the only time I have ever seen our team look scared since he started coaching. Inexplicable. They were trying to get back on the bus by the end of the first quarter. The play calling was bizarre. And Alabama smelled blood in the water. They showed up ready to knock out block off. We need to quit thinking in terms of playoffs. I'm scared that the team is quitting on themselves.
 
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Play-calling and time management must improve. Aguilar’s awful mistake hurt for sure, but the offensive calls and time management let us down!! Got to reflect on that and improve so it is better next time.

I hate losing to the Gumps!! A close loss on the road had we played well overall would not have made me as mad as some of the self inflected mistakes biting us AGAIN. That is what stressed me so much, it’s the types of mistakes we made at key times along with Aguilar’s awful pick.

I am not saying we should have just run the middle and not even tried to get a TD but we came up small in some big moments… SMH. D is what it is at this point, limited. Getting McCoy back would help of course we know the D will not be what we would like this season, at this point like Auburn’s O, Georgia D, etc. halfway through the season we likely have what we have. But O has the potential to be better without some of these foolish mistakes.
 
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volnighthawk said:
TN QB make a mistake but is still outstanding. TN is just as good as Bama, but the noise and pick 6 was the difference in the game. and really turned it in Bama's favor. That's what a home field and wild crowd does for a team. TN has lots of 1st yr players who, in many cases, are playing against much more seasoned players. They will continue to improve. Every game TN plays is going to be tough. Everyone has very good players now.
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Tennessee isn’t as good as Alabama, that is just goofy but that doesn’t mean we are terrible. We needed a perfect game to beat Alabama at home at night and we got a C+ game offensively and a D defensively but the problem is unless we perform at a good to great level offensively there is almost zero shot at victory with a defense as bad as Tennessee’s which puts more pressure on the offense. It’s a real problem Heupel needs to address or it won’t matter who is quarterback because Banks couldn’t field a defensive performance when necessary even with Hooker at quarterback. He is simply not good enough
 
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For us to beat Bama in their house we needed to play virtually error free - and we did not. Great start in the first series only to be followed by a procedure call and we end up going 3 and out…drops, drops, drops…and other mental errors. We needed our best game and didn’t get it…
 
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Had that been a run play at the half and not made it, VN would be complaining why we didn’t pass it. Any play other than a TD (or FG) was going to be criticized.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
Had that been a run play at the half and not made it, VN would be complaining why we didn’t pass it. Any play other than a TD (or FG) was going to be criticized.
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It’s much deeper than that. He called the 1 pass play he couldn’t. A run fake when everyone abd the pope knew it wasn’t a run. Bama called a TO and we trotted back out in the same formation. They knew exactly what was coming. Heup was the only one that didn’t see it.

Furthermore, had Heup utilized his TOs properly(hasn’t all year), we still could've had the time for an extra play. If it falls short you call the TO and kick the FG. But he wasted time when he should’ve called TO at 25 seconds which cost us a play. Unacceptable at this level.
 
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Sarms58 said:
For us to beat Bama in their house we needed to play virtually error free - and we did not. Great start in the first series only to be followed by a procedure call and we end up going 3 and out…drops, drops, drops…and other mental errors. We needed our best game and didn’t get it…
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This 👆🏼
 
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djwes said:
- 8-10 pointless sideline passes when they have fast DBs
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I’ve been trying to figure out why we keep running this play. It rarely results in any meaningful yards. 9 times out of 10 the receiver is tackled immediately. After much thought it finally dawned on me why we still run it. The play works great in practice. Why? Because we are running it against our own defense and everybody knows our defense can’t tackle.
 
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MemphisVolFan1978 said:
I’ve been trying to figure out why we keep running this play. It rarely results in any meaningful yards. 9 times out of 10 the receiver is tackled immediately. After much thought it finally dawned on me why we still run it. The play works great in practice. Why? Because we are running it against our own defense and everybody knows our defense can’t tackle.
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And the hell of it is, all our opponents know it’s coming. I’m surprised it hasn’t been jumped for a pic 6
 
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The most disappointing part was that Bama’s strength is their defensive backfield and we went very pass heavy in this game. It felt like the coaching staff finally realized late in the third quarter that Bishop was running all over them and started pushing the run game more. It’s concerning. Did they not watch film at all?

I know that Joey had decent stats but it just felt like we should’ve controlled the line more and ran the ball.
 
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Either their oline is much better than ours or our DL is not what we thought. They had 4 sacks and pressured JA a lot.

We got little to no pressure on Simpson and had zero sacks.

Overall, they looked more talented on the LOS.
 
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