2022 Tennessee Vols Preview Vid

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Vol8188 said:
Where do you see us being much better than last season? I think our secondary is deeper, but other than that I don't see us being better anywhere. Possibly better on the edge since we are using Young and Baron there so both will see the field more.
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O Line, QB, TE, LB, DB, spec teams!
SC has to out improve us by 25 pts just to get even. Other than QB , where has SC had a major improvement?
 
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tennesseeduke said:
O Line, QB, TE, LB, DB, spec teams!
SC has to out improve us by 25 pts just to get even. Other than QB , where has SC had a major improvement?
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Oline lost an NFL player at tackle and replaced him with two guys who’ve barely played.

QB is going to have a hard time out doing what he did last year. His numbers were elite.

TEs and special teams are mainly the same, but we may not be as good at kick and punt returner.

Us beating a team by 25 doesn’t mean we are 25 better than them. SC was a much different team after they played us. They’ve added some transfers and should be competitive.

A top ten transfer class that featured an elite TE, multiple skill players, a rb we liked, they’re better than we give them credit for.

Are we better? I think so. Does that mean we will win? No. It’s not that simple
 
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Vol8188 said:
Hooker had a great season. I'm not sure it's possible to improve much on that. I think the value of knowing who your QB is, is overrated. Offensive line being better than last season I'm really not seeing. D-line may be deeper, and the edge play should be better. But DT play should drop off some.

LB will be deeper at a minimum, and possibly much improved depending on how Mitchell plays. The secondary depth is great and hopefully somewhere develops there and has a big season. Overall I think defense will be slightly better, offense will be about the same, record will be about the same. 7-9 wins.
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You under estimate what elite Qb play can do… hendon can have a burrow like season statistically and the entire team bought in and focused… this will be a very good well coached team on both sides of the ball… we will compete in all 12 games.
 
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BoroVol93 said:
You under estimate what elite Qb play can do… hendon can have a burrow like season statistically and the entire team bought in and focused… this will be a very good well coached team on both sides of the ball… we will compete in all 12 games.
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Burrow had the greatest season of any QB ever and had two elite nfl WRs. Hooker is good. He’s not Burrow. Our WRs are okay. They’re not the same
 
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Jake Tate said:
Rewatching right now… anybody that says one turnover prone QB means USCjr Is gonna beat UT this season is DRUNK. This game was never close. We went into chill mode halfway through the 2nd.

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They added more than just a QB and 35-0 isn't indictive of how close our rosters were to each other at that time.
 
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JohnnyJava said:
Thanks for the summary. I started to watch until I saw that it was a 40 minute video of a guy in his kitchen, wearing a South Carolina sweatshirt with what appears to be potato chip crumbs on it.
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And I quote: "Here's a video that everybody is waitin' on me to drop"
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Vol8188 said:
Oline lost an NFL player at tackle and replaced him with two guys who’ve barely played.

QB is going to have a hard time out doing what he did last year. His numbers were elite.

TEs and special teams are mainly the same, but we may not be as good at kick and punt returner.

Us beating a team by 25 doesn’t mean we are 25 better than them. SC was a much different team after they played us. They’ve added some transfers and should be competitive.

A top ten transfer class that featured an elite TE, multiple skill players, a rb we liked, they’re better than we give them credit for.

Are we better? I think so. Does that mean we will win? No. It’s not that simple
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I appreciate your analysis but totally disagree!
 
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Vol8188 said:
Burrow had the greatest season of any QB ever and had two elite nfl WRs. Hooker is good. He’s not Burrow. Our WRs are okay. They’re not the same
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Hooker played elite but with less talent than Burrow. I expect Hooker to improve. If he was starting day 1 last season we won 2 more games and would’ve been in a different bowl game. Heupel impressed me when he pulled Joe Milton.
 
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Vol8188 said:
They added more than just a QB and 35-0 isn't indictive of how close our rosters were to each other at that time.
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All that’s being talked about is the QB, and it was 35-0, regardless of how closely the rosters matched up. Coaching was the difference and had we kept up the tempo and aggressive play calling, we could have easily hung 60 on them, imo.
 
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Jake Tate said:
All that’s being talked about is the QB, and it was 35-0, regardless of how closely the rosters matched up. Coaching was the difference and had we kept up the tempo and aggressive play calling, we could have easily hung 60 on them, imo.
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This is the stuff I’m talking about. The “our coaching staff will out coach them”, elite coaching staffs lose to lesser staffs and lesser talent. Gus Malzhan beat Saban, multiple times.

Yes, I think our coaches are better. Yes, I think our roster is slightly better. No, that does not guarantee a victory.
 
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Watched it until I realized what he was wearing. Hard to take a guy in a Gamecocks' hoodie seriously.
 
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I will say this. South Carolina plays us very tough in Columbia. We have not blown them out there since 1998 when Tee Martin broke the SEC record for completions in a row, I think it was.

But I will also make these 2 points:

1. Having two hall of fame coaches back to back from 2000-2014 has a lot to do with that (as well as UT sucking). I think Shane Beamer is an idiot and in over his head in the SEC.

2. Tennessee now runs a scheme for the first time in its history, probably, that maximizes the potential of its receiving corps (crazy that a school that calls itself WRU has been known as a power run school for most of its history). The scheme is tough for teams with less talent at the skill positions than us to keep up with. That’s why we just destroyed the bottom 3 programs in the East last year, which we hadn’t been doing for a long time, and were able to outlast UK. South Carolina is definitely once again one of those teams in 2022. Josh Vann is a stud, but who else do they have? We put the clamps on him last year. Tennessee has 3 or 4 WR who are studs and a lot of young talent at that position, too.
 
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Vol8188 said:
Oline lost an NFL player at tackle and replaced him with two guys who’ve barely played. Doubt we see much of a drop off. We have more depth there than last year.

QB is going to have a hard time out doing what he did last year. His numbers were elite. Will probably throw a few more INTs, but I think he throws more TDs, too.

TEs and special teams are mainly the same, but we may not be as good at kick and punt returner. Probably true, but Jimmy Holiday is a good returner and made some big plays when the team kicked away from Velus (UK game immediately comes to mind). Velus also had a huge muff that really cost us in the Ole Miss game and I don’t think he had any TDs in SEC games. We lost a solid returner, but it’s not like we just lost Evan Berry.

Us beating a team by 25 doesn’t mean we are 25 better than them. SC was a much different team after they played us. They’ve added some transfers and should be competitive. They should’ve lost to Vandy the week after they played us. I think they capitalized on more talented teams that were in turmoil more than they actually improved. They still should’ve lost that Auburn game and are lucky that dude muffed that punt. Florida win was impressive, but Florida went 2-6 in the SEC last year and the train was off the tracks by that time. And then they lost to Mizzou the week after curb stomping Florida.

A top ten transfer class that featured an elite TE, multiple skill players, a rb we liked, they’re better than we give them credit for. Their O-line is absolute trash, so I doubt they matter that much.

Are we better? I think so. Does that mean we will win? No. It’s not that simple
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