Ainge's Sweet Handoffs

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Again, Ainge proves my point on how fragile he is. Handing the ball off with the opposite hand, in my 15 years of actually watching and understanding football this is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

Please someone come up with something more ridiclious than this where I can sleep tonight.

This is the most dissapointed I have ever been in a Tennessee team.

I'm done with Fulmer, Chavis and most of all "Throw to the endzone on 3rd and 1, on Florida's 15 yard line" Cuttcliffe.
 
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I didn't see any problem with the handoff on any of the replays. It was right in the numbers and Foster had two hands touching it. He just does this in crucial situations, and it always costs us a shot at a game. I think he maybe gambling on our games. :unsure:
 
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ledhed43 said:
I didn't see any problem with the handoff on any of the replays. It was right in the numbers and Foster had two hands touching it. He just does this in crucial situations, and it always costs us a shot at a game. I think he maybe gambling on our games. :unsure:
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If you watched it, you'd see the back of his hand bounce off Arian's pads, knocking the ball outwards before Arian could wrap it up.
 
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I watched the replay of that handoff. Fosters right hand was up against his pads like a dead fish, his left hand was where it should have been. High schoolers know to get both hands out there and SECURE the ball first. For any future arguments all of Ainges other handoffs worked just fine so I dont think he knocked it back out.
 
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ledhed43 said:
I didn't see any problem with the handoff on any of the replays. It was right in the numbers and Foster had two hands touching it. He just does this in crucial situations, and it always costs us a shot at a game. I think he maybe gambling on our games. :unsure:
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You ONLY hand-off with the left hand when the back is on your right shoulder...PERIOD! I want to know if this was EA's idea...or if this was actually practiced, which means it was allowed by the coaches.

They showed him doing this earlier in the game and I said outloud that THAT would be a fumble if he kept it up.

*longtime lurker, first time post...and I'm embarrassed by the Vols today.
 
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What I'm trying to get at with all this is, Ainge isn't tough. Said it before, this whole playing with a hurt pinky won't sway me.

I've played my fair share of sports with pains and throwing a football 5 yards (you know TN's offense these days) isn't very hard.
 
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he needs to do it the right way, and hand it off with the correct hand, the coaches should have never allowed it. It was bound to happen.

He's not throwing the ball well when he is moving especially to his left either.
 
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I mean seriously I want Fulmer canned as much for his slide into average seasons as much as letting a QB do this. Man up, hand it off right. If you can't put Cromton in.
 
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Who would you rather have at quarterback on this team right now than Ainge? Exactly. Don't say you don't want Ainge out there and that you have said all along he wasn't good and all that crap. Cause you know you haven't. He messes up one time, and it isn't even completely his fault (Foster should have held onto it) and you start calling out our best offensive player on the team???? That is freaking ridiculous.
 
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oklavol said:
he needs to do it the right way, and hand it off with the correct hand, the coaches should have never allowed it. It was bound to happen.

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I posted in here after last weeks game that the left handed handoffs would end in disaster sooner or later. If Erik can throw a forward pass with his right hand he can hand the ball off with his right hand.
 
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TAF said:
You ONLY hand-off with the left hand when the back is on your right shoulder...PERIOD! I want to know if this was EA's idea...or if this was actually practiced, which means it was allowed by the coaches.

They showed him doing this earlier in the game and I said outloud that THAT would be a fumble if he kept it up.

*longtime lurker, first time post...and I'm embarrassed by the Vols today.
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Fulmer said they knew this is how Ainge has been handing off, and they've done nothing to change that.
 
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The problem, IMO, is that it's backhanded. Nothing there to hold the ball to the back's belly until he grabs a hold of it. Terrible idea, as we proclaimed when it was first brought to light.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Fulmer said they knew this is how Ainge has been handing off, and they've done nothing to change that.
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Well...then...that's a fundamental coaching error. I'm not saying that this is the only reason for the loss...but, this along with other poorly coached fundamentals with less than 1994-2001 talent levels is why each year since has been nothing but pure disappointment in my book.
 
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Volman09 said:
Who would you rather have at quarterback on this team right now than Ainge? Exactly. Don't say you don't want Ainge out there and that you have said all along he wasn't good and all that crap. Cause you know you haven't. He messes up one time, and it isn't even completely his fault (Foster should have held onto it) and you start calling out our best offensive player on the team???? That is freaking ridiculous.
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Watch a game. I'm going to say that 85% of our passing plays are of the 5-10 yard nature. I'm not saying put in Crompton at all.

I'm saying if you can throw a friggin pass, you can hand the ball off the right way to absolutley kill that err thats there when you hand it off ass backwards like Ainge did.

I have 100% confidence that Crompton can throw 5 yard stops to our WR's and hand the ball off THE RIGHT WAY.

In a nutshell, seeing Ainge do that made me lose a lot of respect for him and whoever said, "Erik, you know what buddy take it easy on that pinky hand it off like a clown would".

Ridiclious.
 
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Yeah its obvious some throws bother Ainge. I'm not sure if he's not having problems throwing deep routes and the coaching staff simply wont admit it. I think most coaches in the SEC suspect it at this point. UT has no offense except the short passing game 5-15 yds. Maybe on weaker team UT can run it, but Florida had all new players on defense. To get shut down in the running game against a team with a new defense doesn't bode well for the future.

seems like a repeat of 05 with no deep threat on offense, except this year no defense. This could be really ugly this year, like 5-6 with a weaker schedule.

This year will probaly end with another embaressing loss, to either Miss St, Vandy, or Ky.
 
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On the replay it looked like the ball, and I guess Ainge's hand since it was between the ball and Foster's gear, bounced off the front part of Foster's should pads. If Ainge's hand was on the outside it would have probably helped hold the ball in. That being said, in the postgame locker room interview Ainge said of messing up handoff exchanges something like "Me and Arian don't do that. That's inexcusable." At least he took responsibility and answered that question with class.
 
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NuclearVol said:
On the replay it looked like the ball, and I guess Ainge's hand since it was between the ball and Foster's gear, bounced off the front part of Foster's should pads. If Ainge's hand was on the outside it would have probably helped hold the ball in. That being said, in the postgame locker room interview Ainge said of messing up handoff exchanges something like "Me and Arian don't do that. That's inexcusable." At least he took responsibility and answered that question with class.
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Well if classy post game quotes warted off fumbles we'd have something going here.
 
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Eric Ainge is not our problem. How would you like to stand behind one of the worst off lines in the nation with our green receivers. If he dosen't get rid of the ball quick he will be killed.
 
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colliervillecard said:
Eric Ainge is not our problem. How would you like to stand behind one of the worst off lines in the nation with our green receivers. If he dosen't get rid of the ball quick he will be killed.
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You're kidding right. We have no offensive push for the run our QB protection is pretty top notch.

What we did have today was a QB doing some of the most ridiclious crap I have ever seen in my life, a Offensive Coord. that didn't know what in the hell he was doing, and Foster reverted to his 2006 stutter step at the line and big time fumble form. Oh yeah and of course the afformentioned offensive line that would struggle to get a push on Maryville High School's defensive front four.

I'm not blaming the loss on Ainge. I blame it on Fulmer, Chavis, Cuttcliffe, Trooper, Roper, Slade, Atkins, etc.......etc....
 
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has no one seen this before he has done it every game this year i made a post during the cal game about it. Yall seem surprised that our coaches would allow it have you seen us play the past 7 yrs there are plenty of fundamental coaching errors and this year chavis is even involved
 
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I saw these hand-offs in the USM game, too. I knew we were doomed when Fulmer led the team out in that Tommy Tubberville "red rover, red rover" arm brace shat.
 
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