Ainge Today - getting excited

[LittleVol]

Ainge was the one talking about how good JG looked last offseason. I take his observations with a grain of salt.

In his defense, he was taking about practice JG. Who from all accounts was unbelievably good.

 

[jasonvol18]

Ainge might need to pump the brakes just a bit.

Nope, he's right on.

 

[CAVPUT]

‎The Erik Ainge Show: The EA Show - Hour #1 (8.16.21) on Apple Podcasts

Listen to Ainge today starting at 12 minute mark. He watched all of practice this weekend and he’s super excited about the team

- Milton is the best looking QB he’s ever seen here at TN
- teammates are holding each other accountable and picking each other up
- feels better about depth at all positions…”they all look the part”
- competition is great…players fighting each other then picking each other up
- this is going to be the easiest TN team to root for in his lifetime
- coaches are hard and intense but patient. They’re actually teaching
- he’s tempering his expectations for Milton but when he throws it’s not normal. Every single human out there watches him when he throws
- only concern for Milton is when he throws a 6 yard slant it might go off the WR hands and to the other team
- Milton threw a ball to Hyatt 65 yards in air right in bread basket…the DB had stopped (Willy didn’t like that) because it was so far

- said as he’s learned more he understands why those players transferred to OK…he said Pruitt personally told individuals they were Effing terrible. That’s just one example of the things Pruitt said
- he’s very impressed with how Heupel is building this team up but simultaneously putting more demands on them
- not at 8-4 yet but trending that direction, but regardless they’re doing it all the right way…team is going to be fun to root for

Ainge lost me at the jump.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Ainge was the one talking about how good JG looked last offseason. I take his observations with a grain of salt.

You mean during practice. I'm sure he looked good in practice.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Ainge was the one talking about how good JG looked last offseason. I take his observations with a grain of salt.

Oof. I forgot about that and how much pro football focus overrated his game.

 

[gunner]

Is he still in rehab?

 

[Panthro]

Is he still in rehab?

No, but he might have COVID.

 

[Volunteer forever]

I call it the Brian Rice show with Erik Ainge.

 

[SDV]

Is he still in rehab?

Wow

 

[norrislakevol]

Is he still in rehab?

Really???

 

[advancedrescue27]

Encouraging report, thanks for the recap.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this will be a really fun team to watch. And while fun and entertaining might not immediately translate into as many wins as we'd like, it's progress.

That’s all I’m hoping for, and exciting team, and coaches that don’t repeat the same predictable patterns of not pushing forward. Tired of the playing it safe approach to coaching we’ve grown used too. So glad we didn’t hire a defensive head coach this time. I just want change in some fashion at this point

 

[Orange_Crush]

Is he still in rehab?

Class, right there.

 

[Power T-Rev]

Meh. Ainge says this every year

 

[GetYouSomeofThat]

Wow

Assholes everywhere ya turn...even to VFLs..


Wow isnt strong enough.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Ainge sounds like a shameless promoter….. I hope he’s correct

 

[Carl Pickens]

Is he still in rehab?

Let’s just kick a man when he’s down……

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Ainge lost me at the jump.

Gotta apply context to this. He's talking about his arm. We haven't had anybody who throws like that and looks like him around here.

He's just raving about how gifted he is. Ainge still reiterated that Milton still has to prove himself. Make good decisions on the field. But nobody disagrees with Ainge's assessment of Milton's talent.

 

[rocketskates]

If I ever see another BBQ thread on volnation I may just off myself. I mean WTF.

 

[BanditVol]

meh

 

[TNnative]

Well, the Bama game ought to be competitive.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Cheney had a good reputation of developing QBs before JG.

Pruitt

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Ainge was the one talking about how good JG looked last offseason. I take his observations with a grain of salt.

Interesting take. So say you were a radio personality and a former college QB. You see a guy playing well in practice. What would you say?

 

[lukeneyland]

Ainge will always be a VOL homer and refrains from publicly bashing players. Did you expect EA to call JG a pile of sh1t?

Ainge loves Tennessee he can’t help it. He was such an awesome QB. That 06 team was so damn good, he got hurt in the middle of the season and we dropped some games that we probably wouldn’t have. That team had it all

 

[lukeneyland]

Thumb injury

And outside of Andrew Luck Harbaugh hasn’t done all that well with QB development at the college level. A few years ago Michigan was probably a good QB away from being a Title contender. Instead Harbaugh had this 1980s Randy Sanders type crap

 

[peyton4heisman]

We gonna whip they ass!
(I had to post for the first time this year just to say that.)