Recruiting Forum: Football Talk VIII

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#1,302
Catbone said:
Bama 10%
Mizzu 30%
Auburn 50%
Vandy 70%
Kentucky 90%
JMO
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I'm pretty close to this mark myself. I'd tick up Bama, Mizzou, and Kentucky a little.

Also, can you promise not to call the game over when UT gets down by less than 7? Come on, man. You're better than that.
 
#1,305
#1,305
Good discussion on the rest of the season. For the first time all year, I'm pretty confident we go at least 7-5.

Here are some quick reasons why:

(1) Knoxville is a clear homefield advantage under Butch Jones. Going forward under his regime, I think we can beat anyone in the country in Knoxville on a good day. It was clear to me watching the UGA and USCe games that our crowd affected their play and helped our defense tremendously. This should help us destroy Vandy and at least give Auburn a very tough game.

(2) The remaining ranked teams on our schedule are all at that point in the season where they are due for a letdown game. Happens to every highly ranked team every year - they always have that one or two games that either ruins their season or causes them quite a scare. We are scrappy enough to take advantage of that.

(3) I really don't think we've seen the full potential of this year's offense. Watching back through the USCe game, there were probably 5 - 7 passes Worley had that were great reads, and the throw was either just slightly off or the receiver dropped it when he could have had it. Almost all of them would have been 10+ yard passes (including the one to Blanc in the first quarter that would have gone for 50 yards). That's been happening all year. If Worley and the receivers connect on at least half of those, it would open up the running game more and the number of total yards and points this offense can put up would rise tremendously. I think we completely unload on somebody offensively in the very near future...

Here's my predicted finish:

Alabama - (L) - 34 - 10 (the last "bad" game of the CBJ era, but it's close early and we cover the spread)

Mizzou - (W) - 37 - 28 (Worley wakes up in this one...)

Auburn - (L) - 37 - 34 (lose a hard fought, high scoring nail biter - crowd is tremendous - this could go either way, I just give them the edge in overall talent)

Vandy - (W) - 34 - 13 (Crowd is amazing - this is the one that convinces Franklin to quit Vandy)

Kentucky - (W) - 28 - 17 (Mild letdown game that may be closer for a while than you think - but we out talent them)
 
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#1,306
vol2002 said:
Good discussion on the rest of the season. For the first time all year, I'm pretty confident we go at least 7-5.

Here are some quick reasons why:

(1) Knoxville is a clear homefield advantage under Butch Jones. Going forward under his regime, I think we can beat anyone in the country in Knoxville on a good day. It was clear to me watching the UGA and USCe games that our crowd affected their play and helped our defense tremendously. This should help us destroy Vandy and at least give Auburn a very tough game.

(2) The remaining ranked teams on our schedule are all at that point in the season where they are due for a letdown game. Happens to every highly ranked team every year - they always have that one or two games that either ruins their season or causes them quite a scare. We are scrappy enough to take advantage of that.

(3) I really don't think we've seen the full potential of this year's offense. Watching back through the USCe game, there were probably 5 - 7 passes Worley had that were great reads, and the throw was either just slightly off or the receiver dropped it when he could have had it. Almost all of them would have been 10+ yard passes (including the one to Blanc in the first quarter that would have gone for 50 yards). That's been happening all year. If Worley and the receivers connect on at least half of those, it would open up the running game more and the number of total yards and points this offense can put up would rise tremendously. I think we completely unload on somebody offensively in the very near future...

Here's my predicted finish:

Alabama - (L) - 34 - 10 (the last "bad" game of the CBJ era, but it's close early and we cover the spread)

Mizzou - (W) - 37 - 28 (Worley wakes up in this one...)

Auburn - (L) - 37 - 34 (lose a hard fought, high scoring nail biter - crowd is tremendous - this could go either way, I just give them the edge in overall talent)

Vandy - (W) - 34 - 13 (Crowd is amazing - this is the one that convinces Franklin to quit Vandy)

Kentucky - (W) - 28 - 17 (Mild letdown game that may be closer for a while than you think - but we out talent them)
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I really just don't think we match up well with Missouri. I think we can beat Auburn and the game is a toss up, but we may be a little banged up. I honestly don't know why anyone thinks we lose to Vandy this year. We match up well with them and the crowd will be rocking that game. I totally agree about the homefield advantage, it is great to see
 
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allvol_12 said:
Is the season that Brent Brewer is having being underrated? I think he has helped a lot in coverage at LB
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Absolutely. I saw him spying Shaw multiple times and single handedly forcing him to abandon his run and try a throw. By sealing him off and being fast enough to pursue, Shaw couldn't take off on the outside and that made a huge difference in the game. Excellent excellent job by Brewer on Saturday.
 
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Much to my displeasure I looked at the auburn schedule. They can start preparing for us now. 2 cupcakes before us. Not what I wanted to see
 
#1,310
#1,310
I'd like to know what everyone thinks about the O and D-line next year. A lot of people on the FF are saying that we will be horrible next year because we will lose our lines.
 
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Vol knight said:
I'd like to know what everyone thinks about the O and D-line next year. A lot of people on the FF are saying that we will be horrible next year because we will lose our lines.
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yet those same people didnt say we would be great this year b/c the lines are senior laden

the reality for the OL is you need a capable OL to win - not an elite one - we have all that we will need to be capable and Blair and Mjackson are very good, NFL caliber guys imo that will have solid pieces around them - makings of a very capable line - also they need to realize that this year's line isn't perfectly suited to this system so we aren't taking full advantage of what they can do - so the letdown will be less noticeable

the progression of the skill positions and adding of weapons should make dropoff negligible

on DL we do dropoff at DT but i would argue we will likely be better rushing the passer with lambert coming in, getting CM back, adding in Weatherd, and then progression of JW and vereen
 
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govols09 said:
I really just don't think we match up well with Missouri. I think we can beat Auburn and the game is a toss up, but we may be a little banged up. I honestly don't know why anyone thinks we lose to Vandy this year. We match up well with them and the crowd will be rocking that game. I totally agree about the homefield advantage, it is great to see
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I agree we don't match up as well with Mizzou, but I have a strong sense they are due for a letdown. Plus, they aren't great against the pass. Murray shredded them at times in the UGA game. I think Worley is about to break out and I think this may be the game he does it.

We will see.
 
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Spurrier is suggesting because of our rb forward pass call that all runners facing a loss on a sweep should just throw an incomplete pass. Here is my question, if you throw the ball out of bounds, can you get an ineligible man downfield penalty?
 
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BruinVol said:
Much to my displeasure I looked at the auburn schedule. They can start preparing for us now. 2 cupcakes before us. Not what I wanted to see
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Bruin, I don't typically have issues with your posts, but no coach will look past any opponent to start game planning for one down the road. Esp. when one of those cupcakes is an SEC school. I will concede that it could be an opportunity to rest some banged up players though. :peace2:
 
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dschult2 said:
Spurrier is suggesting because of our rb forward pass call that all runners facing a loss on a sweep should just throw an incomplete pass. Here is my question, if you throw the ball out of bounds, can you get an ineligible man downfield penalty?
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Behind the line no but wouldn't it be intentional grounding then?
 
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BruinVol said:
Much to my displeasure I looked at the auburn schedule. They can start preparing for us now. 2 cupcakes before us. Not what I wanted to see
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I don't think Auburn will look past Arkansas, an away divisional opponent. Would be an important win for their chances at making the SEC title game.
 
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Dragon18 said:
Bruin, I don't typically have issues with your posts, but no coach will look past any opponent to start game planning for one down the road. Esp. when one of those cupcakes is an SEC school. I will concede that it could be an opportunity to rest some banged up players though. :peace2:
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I know they won't in a physical sense but they will in the coaches offices more than normal. FIU isn't scaring any coach into extra hours game planning
 
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After Bama, Auburn is the biggest hurdle. They have some talent and the schedule leading up to that game is very favorable for them.

Missouri will have played Georgia, Florida and South Carolina leading up to the UT game, with no breaks/open week. This sort of gauntlet, while not as tough as it could have been, is certainly going to be a factor. I've seen many a good SEC team trip because a stretch of games is simply too much for a group of 20 year-olds to bring it non-stop for a month.
 
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Dragon18 said:
Bruin, I don't typically have issues with your posts, but no coach will look past any opponent to start game planning for one down the road. Esp. when one of those cupcakes is an SEC school. I will concede that it could be an opportunity to rest some banged up players though. :peace2:
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