'16 GA ATH Kyle Davis

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I think if our passing game was playing up to its potential we would lock him in easily. Between the ineffective passing game, DBs getting burnt, and DL getting no pass rush at all, there's been a lot of head scratchers this year.
 
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Catbone said:
I think if our passing game was playing up to its potential we would lock him in easily. Between the ineffective passing game, DBs getting burnt, and DL getting no pass rush at all, there's been a lot of head scratchers this year.
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UT has a problem with "living up to the hype" much like the season we came out preseason #2 and then crapped the bed. Most fans pointed at '17 as our year for contention, but that changed because of a weak SEC East. We're plagued by injuries (seems to happen every year under this staff) and our depth is made up of guys who went to prom one or two years ago and it's hard to ask those guys to step in and dance with guys who have played in this conference for 2-3 years.

However, all it took was 2-3 media personalities to jump on the train and inflate our massive ego and we expected a little too much IMO. Sure we've been in all of these games, however, the reason we can't finish is we don't have the necessary depth to continue to go full-throttle the entire game; those young guys haven't learned how to manage that yet. We're close, and with another class I think we'll be right there.

Nobody says "next year is our year" like a Vol fan lol.
 
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I think most thought '16 would be our year. Next year we should be stacked. Only big loss will be in our secondary. We lose a lot in 17 IIRC.

But I still think anything less than 8 this year is disappointing. Missouri and Vandy have the worst offenses in the SEC, UK is meh, and Scar is reeling. Gotta win out after bama to continue the momentum.
 
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Catbone said:
I think if our passing game was playing up to its potential we would lock him in easily. Between the ineffective passing game, DBs getting burnt, and DL getting no pass rush at all, there's been a lot of head scratchers this year.
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You're thinking short term. Dobbs is developing, and if we still struggle in the passing game coming out of fall camp, I can see Dormady, Jones or the G-Man getting a look, early in the season.

Although Dormady is promising, he still lacks that mobility element. He's not lead-footed, but he's not mobile enough to be the kind of dual threat QB this system needs. I think it may be a battle between Jones and the G-Man. Guarantano is probably the most complete QB we will have on the roster, so even though he's a true freshman, I think his talents will tantalize the staff too much to just RS without giving him some serious looks.

Dobbs passing game will have to improve dramatically between now and this time next year, to keep all 3 of those guys from beating him out.
 
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Catbone said:
I think most thought '16 would be our year. Next year we should be stacked. Only big loss will be in our secondary. We lose a lot in 17 IIRC.

But I still think anything less than 8 this year is disappointing. Missouri and Vandy have the worst offenses in the SEC, UK is meh, and Scar is reeling. Gotta win out after bama to continue the momentum.
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Only if some players leave early (Hurd, Barnett, Kelly) but that's getting ahead of ourselves. Actually, '17 should be great if Guarantano pans out.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
You're thinking short term. Dobbs is developing, and if we still struggle in the passing game coming out of fall camp, I can Dormady, Jones or the G-Man getting a look, early in the season.

Although Dormady is promising, he still lacks that mobility element. He's not lead-footed, but he's not mobile enough to be the kind of dual threat QB this system needs. I think it may be a battle between Jones and the G-Man. Guarantano is probably the most complete QB we will have on the roster, so even though he's a true freshman, I think his talents will tantalize the staff too much to just RS without giving him some serious looks.

Dobbs passing game will have to improve dramatically between now and this time next year, to keep all 3 of those guys from beating him out.
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Talking the way you're talking, you would think Dobbs didn't throw for 300 yards last week.
 
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CamWinfree said:
Tennessee offered 16 4* WR Velus Jones Jr. today. Could be an indicator that Kyle Davis is going to Georgia/Auburn
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Probably means not a whole lot but Auburn and Georgia will both have coaches at Archer High on Friday. Seems like literally nobody knows where he is going. Doesn't seem like a school would stop by if they weren't getting him
 
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CamWinfree said:
Tennessee offered 16 4* WR Velus Jones Jr. today. Could be an indicator that Kyle Davis is going to Georgia/Auburn
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CamWinfree said:
Tennessee offered 16 4* WR Velus Jones Jr. today. Could be an indicator that Kyle Davis is going to Georgia/Auburn
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Meh, VN always looks for some corresponding bad news whenever an unexpected offer is made. That must mean that we have missed on a bigger target. It's usually misguided. Tennessee is pursuing several WR's.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Meh, VN always looks for some corresponding bad news whenever an unexpected offer is made. That must mean that we have missed on a bigger target. It's usually misguided. Tennessee is pursuing several WR's.
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Been here done that

Big difference between offering and pushing for an official visit. If that is the case then perhaps this means something
 
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AUfaninVOLcountry said:
Probably means not a whole lot but Auburn and Georgia will both have coaches at Archer High on Friday. Seems like literally nobody knows where he is going. Doesn't seem like a school would stop by if they weren't getting him
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So they are both getting Kyle Davis? What's going to be interesting is when Auburn and Georgia square off against one another. It will be like the old days of backyard football where an odd man plays for both teams. Should be a hoot!
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Talking the way you're talking, you would think Dobbs didn't throw for 300 yards last week.
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I've been a big Dobbs fan, but you have to admit, before that drive late in the 2nd Qtr, Dobbs was all over the place with his passes. And he's had some games with pitiful numbers. Glad he tightened it up a bit just in time, but he scares me at times this season, and I personally thought he'd be much further along in his progress as a passer.

He seemed better in the South Carolina game last year, than in any other game he's played. If he passed like that most games, he'd be a heisman contender and we'd probably be undefeated at this point. Not putting blame on him for the losses. Much of it was poor coaching. But the games we lost, better performance from Dobbs probably makes up the deficit.

Having said that, if his passing doesn't improve considerably by next season, he might get passed up by one of the three.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
I've been a big Dobbs fan, but you have to admit, before that drive late in the 2nd Qtr, Dobbs was all over the place with his passes. And he's had some games with pitiful numbers. Glad he tightened it up a bit just in time, but he scares me at times this season, and I personally thought he'd be much further along in his progress as a passer.

He seemed better in the South Carolina game last year, than in any other game he's played. If he passed like that most games, he'd be a heisman contender and we'd probably be undefeated at this point. Not putting blame on him for the losses. Much of it was poor coaching. But the games we lost, better performance from Dobbs probably makes up the deficit.

Having said that, if his passing doesn't improve considerably by next season, he might get passed up by one of the three.
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I attribute the early Georgia struggles to jitters. Remember he's a Georgia kid. He was not offered by Georgia. He was probably pressing at the start to prove Richt and the staff wrong. He's said half his high school goes to Georgia. It's his first start against them. I'm not surprised he struggled at the start. He was trying too hard to start. Once he got that TD to Josh Smith, he settled down and played great.

I'm not worried about Josh the passer. He's made too many great throws for me to question his ABILITY. It's all about CONSISTENCY. And I think we'll see that over the next 6 weeks.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
I attribute the early Georgia struggles to jitters. Remember he's a Georgia kid. He was not offered by Georgia. He was probably pressing at the start to prove Richt and the staff wrong. He's said half his high school goes to Georgia. It's his first start against them. I'm not surprised he struggled at the start. He was trying too hard to start. Once he got that TD to Josh Smith, he settled down and played great.

I'm not worried about Josh the passer. He's made too many great throws for me to question his ABILITY. It's all about CONSISTENCY. And I think we'll see that over the next 6 weeks.
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The other half must go to Oklahoma.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
I attribute the early Georgia struggles to jitters. Remember he's a Georgia kid. He was not offered by Georgia. He was probably pressing at the start to prove Richt and the staff wrong. He's said half his high school goes to Georgia. It's his first start against them. I'm not surprised he struggled at the start. He was trying too hard to start. Once he got that TD to Josh Smith, he settled down and played great.

I'm not worried about Josh the passer. He's made too many great throws for me to question his ABILITY. It's all about CONSISTENCY. And I think we'll see that over the next 6 weeks.
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Do you handle Josh's twitter account too?
 
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AUfaninVOLcountry said:
Probably means not a whole lot but Auburn and Georgia will both have coaches at Archer High on Friday. Seems like literally nobody knows where he is going. Doesn't seem like a school would stop by if they weren't getting him
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Well, he's not going to BOTH Auburn AND Georgia, so at least one school is stopping by that isn't getting him.
 
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