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1. INTIMIDATION
Tennessee goes into big games to lose. They believe that the other team is better. Big plays, missed tackles, red zone performance. Tennessee is the opposite of physical. There is no fight in this team. They believed Cal would be faster, they believed Florida would muscle them. The coaches have lost the late 90's and early 00's smashmouth spirit, younger more energetic coaching staffs know how to beat us. Usually intimidation is a hard thing to see, but watching Arian Foster fetal position running Saturday and watching our defense lean out with one arm one at a time hoping the next guy will make the tackle screams "we are not as good as these guys." The Vols are neutered. The play reflects a complacent coaching staff holding on too tight out of FEAR.
2. DEFENSIVE SCHEME
Spread offenses are killing us. The team looks so lost. Throw in the occasional misdirection that has always tricked Chavis' schemes and there are no answers. Tennessee cannot match up against 4 and 5 wide sets. They just can't. It may be because of an inferior secondary and linebackers that can't play in space but there ARE defenses that can work and make up for personnel shortcomings. Chavis is living in the 90's when it was Alabama and Georgia running it 8 oout of 10 plays.
3. STRETCHING THE FIELD
How many times has Ainge thrown deep in the first 3 games? How do you slow down an aggressive blitzing d? How did Cal and Florida do it? Thow the ball deep! If I see one more 8 yard curl Im going to crap my pants. I dont care if we have freshmen and Ju Co's at WR that don't know how to block on a stretch run or adjust on an audible. Put them in the game and tell them to run a fly pattern! At least make it look like we want to go deep. Teams are keeping their safeties so tight that they dont even worry about playing the Tampa 2. Tennessee will not win one SEC game if they do not go deep. Is it Ainge's finger or is he checking out of trying the big play? How do you make a reverse work? A draw? Make the corners and safeties play off the receivers! You wonder why we can't convert 3rd and short, defenses are teeing off on an offense that has lost all imagination until the defense sees the telegraph come in with 20 seconds left on the play clock.
HOW TO FIX IT
1. SAY SCREW IT.
Fulmer needs to save his job or go up in flames. Throw conservative philosophy in the porta potty. First play throw a bomb. Flea flicker, who cares! If it gets picked or falls incomplete, do it again on second down. Mix up the QB play, throw Taylor or Crompton in there, BUT NOT WHEN THE D HAS TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT! AND MORE THAN ONCE! Let your team know that you will take chances and pull anything and everything out of the hat. I hate to say it, but we really miss Schaeffer right now, even though I hate the QB platoon thing, a running QB is now a necessity. Its a new game and some schools know it.
2. BLITZ LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER BLITZED BEFORE.
Send them constantly from every angle. That is how you beat a spread. You may get burned, but what do you have to lose? Have the DB's go for the BALL. Strip, make a play on a pass. Let the 11 on the field know that you don't care about playing it safe. Be AGGRESSIVE!
3. Go young.
At the end of the year, buy Fulmer out, the boosters will foot the bill me thinks. Get a hungry young coach that knows the meaning of INNOVATION. Clean house. The main thing is to get the swagger back. Tennessee is so sans swagger now, its a prison b*tch.
The status quo is a .500 team. The fans deserve more.
Tennessee goes into big games to lose. They believe that the other team is better. Big plays, missed tackles, red zone performance. Tennessee is the opposite of physical. There is no fight in this team. They believed Cal would be faster, they believed Florida would muscle them. The coaches have lost the late 90's and early 00's smashmouth spirit, younger more energetic coaching staffs know how to beat us. Usually intimidation is a hard thing to see, but watching Arian Foster fetal position running Saturday and watching our defense lean out with one arm one at a time hoping the next guy will make the tackle screams "we are not as good as these guys." The Vols are neutered. The play reflects a complacent coaching staff holding on too tight out of FEAR.
2. DEFENSIVE SCHEME
Spread offenses are killing us. The team looks so lost. Throw in the occasional misdirection that has always tricked Chavis' schemes and there are no answers. Tennessee cannot match up against 4 and 5 wide sets. They just can't. It may be because of an inferior secondary and linebackers that can't play in space but there ARE defenses that can work and make up for personnel shortcomings. Chavis is living in the 90's when it was Alabama and Georgia running it 8 oout of 10 plays.
3. STRETCHING THE FIELD
How many times has Ainge thrown deep in the first 3 games? How do you slow down an aggressive blitzing d? How did Cal and Florida do it? Thow the ball deep! If I see one more 8 yard curl Im going to crap my pants. I dont care if we have freshmen and Ju Co's at WR that don't know how to block on a stretch run or adjust on an audible. Put them in the game and tell them to run a fly pattern! At least make it look like we want to go deep. Teams are keeping their safeties so tight that they dont even worry about playing the Tampa 2. Tennessee will not win one SEC game if they do not go deep. Is it Ainge's finger or is he checking out of trying the big play? How do you make a reverse work? A draw? Make the corners and safeties play off the receivers! You wonder why we can't convert 3rd and short, defenses are teeing off on an offense that has lost all imagination until the defense sees the telegraph come in with 20 seconds left on the play clock.
HOW TO FIX IT
1. SAY SCREW IT.
Fulmer needs to save his job or go up in flames. Throw conservative philosophy in the porta potty. First play throw a bomb. Flea flicker, who cares! If it gets picked or falls incomplete, do it again on second down. Mix up the QB play, throw Taylor or Crompton in there, BUT NOT WHEN THE D HAS TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT! AND MORE THAN ONCE! Let your team know that you will take chances and pull anything and everything out of the hat. I hate to say it, but we really miss Schaeffer right now, even though I hate the QB platoon thing, a running QB is now a necessity. Its a new game and some schools know it.
2. BLITZ LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER BLITZED BEFORE.
Send them constantly from every angle. That is how you beat a spread. You may get burned, but what do you have to lose? Have the DB's go for the BALL. Strip, make a play on a pass. Let the 11 on the field know that you don't care about playing it safe. Be AGGRESSIVE!
3. Go young.
At the end of the year, buy Fulmer out, the boosters will foot the bill me thinks. Get a hungry young coach that knows the meaning of INNOVATION. Clean house. The main thing is to get the swagger back. Tennessee is so sans swagger now, its a prison b*tch.
The status quo is a .500 team. The fans deserve more.
