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best thing that could have happened in the long run. Listening to Sports Radio today in Atlanta, Buck Belue (UGA QB) said as much. He pointed out that App State is a good team and Vol fans should not think the sky is falling.

There has been tremendous pre-season hype and had we rolled over App State, we may have walked into Bristol with too much confidence and laid a big egg. I think the adversity of last night's game will make us better in the long run. We're gonna know a lot more about Team 120 next Saturday night....I think we are going to be fine! :good!:
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
best thing that could have happened in the long run. Listening to Sports Radio today in Atlanta, Buck Belue (UGA QB) said as much. He pointed out that App State is a good team and Vol fans should not think the sky is falling.

There has been tremendous pre-season hype and had we rolled over App State, we may have walked into Bristol with too much confidence and laid a big egg. I think the adversity of last night's game will make us better in the long run. We're gonna know a lot more about Team 120 next Saturday night....I think we are going to be fine! :good!:
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I expected to be rusty the first game. I didn't like that we appeared to have the conservative mindset. Dobbs is a SR, if he can't throw down the field by now, it's never gonna happen.
 
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I really really hope you're right but I think this offense is in trouble with Dobbs behind center. I like the guy and what he stands for but I can't play a QB at a major D1 school that I think will not get into the NFL. He may be book smart but he didn't act like he was football smart last night.
 
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It doesn't take book smarts to see that a pass to Preston would be an easy touchdown right here. It barely takes common sense.
 

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LargeOrange1 said:
best thing that could have happened in the long run. Listening to Sports Radio today in Atlanta, Buck Belue (UGA QB) said as much. He pointed out that App State is a good team and Vol fans should not think the sky is falling.

There has been tremendous pre-season hype and had we rolled over App State, we may have walked into Bristol with too much confidence and laid a big egg. I think the adversity of last night's game will make us better in the long run. We're gonna know a lot more about Team 120 next Saturday night....I think we are going to be fine! :good!:
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Indeed, both the players and the coaches at UT need to wake up......Appalachian State was the better prepared team last night and it showed
 
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yep...sometimes a good boot in the arse can help straighten out your head...:)

GO VOLS!
 
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I would agree OP if Tennessee had played solidly, executed crisply and looked like the team in all those freakin' hype videos I have watched this past year. I don't have an issue if we play well and win, but boy I suffer big time when I get lured into thinking that we are national championship contenders and we end up playing like we shouldn't even be ranked.

I am all about vanilla and not showing our arsenal in our first game, but holy mackerel, Batman. To me, it looked like the same 'O, same 'O with De-bored (to death) calling run Hurd, run Kamara, 3rd and long and force a four-yard pass incomplete or Dobbs running for his life. Thought the O-line was supposed to be fixed (I know about the injury) and Shoop + D-line of death didn't overwhelm anyone. In fact, every team that we play this year ought to run the triple option against us after last night. We didn't know what to do.

Where is the team I was sold all off season long, so hyped, so experienced, so dominant?

Sorry. Still bitter about last night. Maybe because I am surrounded by App St. fans over here in Raleigh giving me crap about my orange T ball cap all day long.
 
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gobraves101035 said:
It doesn't take book smarts to see that a pass to Preston would be an easy touchdown right here. It barely takes common sense.
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You are really hung up on this 1 play. Missing an open WR isn't a problem isolated to just Josh Dobbs. That happens to all QBs on every level. We could put Dormady in there, but until our OL improves its pass blocking, you won't like those results either.
 
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I agree. May be the scare we needed. Definitely think most of playbook was closed and people will forget about last night after we handle VT. Are there things that need to be fixed, yes, but they will be and after Monday, we will have one more win than half the other teams that played this weekend.
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
best thing that could have happened in the long run. Listening to Sports Radio today in Atlanta, Buck Belue (UGA QB) said as much. He pointed out that App State is a good team and Vol fans should not think the sky is falling.

There has been tremendous pre-season hype and had we rolled over App State, we may have walked into Bristol with too much confidence and laid a big egg. I think the adversity of last night's game will make us better in the long run. We're gonna know a lot more about Team 120 next Saturday night....I think we are going to be fine! :good!:
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Despite all the instant "The sky is falling" declarations coming out of some of the younger ones following Appy's butt whoopin' of our boys, your post reflects the historical truth that bringing a super-talented-but-overconfident group down to earth without falling to defeat is, indeed, great medicine for an uber-hyped group such as 120. VT can no longer believe they'll be ambushing a hubris filled bunch of UT Vols in Bristol...as likely they were intending. A couple of days ago I stated on VN (and some agreed) that I was hoping Appy State would make or keep our boys humble so they'd play hard and sharp from hereon (didn't use those words). 'Good medicine. I think a jumbo dose of humility has just been administered. AMIRIGHT?:dunno:
 
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gobraves101035 said:
It doesn't take book smarts to see that a pass to Preston would be an easy touchdown right here. It barely takes common sense.
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You should include the part of that snapshot that includes Dobbs running for his life from two Appy St. defenders. Dobbs saw Williams but there was no way he could set his feet and have the time to throw the ball 50+ yards to PW.
 
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Not gonna panic I see this game as the reverse Bowling Green game. Offense sucked defense played pretty good after the first quarter. App state had a good D nationally last year ( still not a good excuse) Last year Bowling Green high powered offense put it on our D pretty good. Week 2 come out and shut down a CFP team for 3 and a half quarters. Last year we would of this game. You'll see what you were all expecting come week 2
 
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No one was as open as Tyler Byrd on the over throw to Josh Malone. Byrd had time to have a sit down dinner before anyone could have gotten to him.
 
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