Bear with me on this...

[VolNation88]

"1. Missouri's offensive outburst. I don't care who they played they scored unanswered points benched starters at the half and played 10 minute quarters in the second half. Just sit down and think about that for a second. They scored 13 times and punted once. They got gametime for everyone not a redshirt candidate on the freaking team. Seriously guys skip over the "but it was blahblah scrub school". There are many teams in the SEC that have played teams as bad if not worse than them that haven't come close to this and in fact struggled against them. It could be a one shot thing but that kind of outburst is scary. Especially looking at what kind of team we are this year that falls behind early and comes back... Missou seems the type of team that if you let them get going...watch out."


They played Delaware State.. Not The Delaware Blue Hens, but Delaware State...

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Again I am guessing none of you guys actually watched the games in question this past weekend.

The UT team we saw in the second half last week didn't exist until the second half last Saturday. The same could be said about both Missouri and Kentucky. I realize both of them had bad games beforehand. I realize Delaware State is a terrible team...

None of those things matter in the point made especially in the case of Missouri. you don't hang 79 on someone (with shortened quarters in the second half no doubt) and having cleared your benches. They played walk ons and scout teamers in the second half and still scored 20.

Do I actually think, from what I have seen from this team and those teams so far, we lose to them? Heck no, but looking at where we are what our schedule looks like these seem to be the most important games.

Like I said we come out of this next 3 game stretch 2-1 or 1-2 it does not matter. what happens after that is what maters.Now if we come out of this stretch 3-0 or 0-3 those are completely different stories but I don't realistically see either of those scenarios coming true. So that leaves one to think about next. Anyone totally discounting the end of season games knows nothing about UT history. Every year of my adult life either Vandy or Kentucky has showed up one or the other and given us fits at the end of the season. they can be at their worst and they will play their best games against us.

Anyone that thinks that Missou does not have horses on offense has not watched their games this year. They have scored more points in their first 4 games than they scored as a team all last year. Drew lock is second in the nation in passing yard has thrown 14 TD's and 3 picks in 4 games and all 3 picks came in one game they lost by 1 point. They have some big physical WR's and their only real weakness is they almost completely lack a running game. I have faith in our Dline a lot but our corners currently get beat too much because they don't get their heads turned around. i have nightmares of a record breaking number of PI penalties.

Honestly this is just a discussion of hypotheticals. I don't really have much to say about the upcoming game and don't want to think about Bama and A&M currently.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. It does matter. 2-1 vs. 1-2 is the difference in playoff hopes and not having playoff hopes. Stop smoking whatever you are on. Being more worried about Missouri and Kentucky, both HOME games, is just ridiculous.

EDIT: Sorry, just bolded another statement. I wasn't reading your asinine post carefully enough. So you must have been dead last year then, or in your words not an adult, because I distinctly remember hanging 50+ on both Vandy and Kentucky last year and having zero problems with either of them.

 

[dcm3w]

You have to treat every game like the team is better than you. It's football, upsets happen. We should beat them both no problem but it doesn't always work out that easily.

 

[Volz4lif3]

Delaware State..

 

[sjt18]

Everyone seems worried about this next 3 game stretch but honestly its what comes after that that worries me most. this next stretch 2-.1 is the best case and 1-2 is worst case in most peoples minds. I would put 3-0 or 0-3 into not gonna happen territory.

I would put 2-1, 1-2 and 3-0 at roughly equal possibilities. I don't think UT will lose to UGA.

I saw 2 things this weekend that scared the crap out of me.

1. Missouri's offensive outburst. I don't care who they played they scored unanswered points benched starters at the half and played 10 minute quarters in the second half. Just sit down and think about that for a second. They scored 13 times and punted once. They got gametime for everyone not a redshirt candidate on the freaking team. Seriously guys skip over the "but it was blahblah scrub school". There are many teams in the SEC that have played teams as bad if not worse than them that haven't come close to this and in fact struggled against them. It could be a one shot thing but that kind of outburst is scary. Especially looking at what kind of team we are this year that falls behind early and comes back... Missou seems the type of team that if you let them get going...watch out.

Mizzou is an SEC team and won't roll over. They have a system that gives you headaches. That said... You are impressed because they kept running their scheme aggressively against Delaware State? Mizzou was playing against air. This wasn't just an FCS team.... it was a bottom tier FCS team. Delaware... you know the Fightin' Blue Hens.... put 56 points on them.

If what Mizzou's O did to Delaware State "scares" you with regard to what they'll do in Neyland vs the Vols.... WOW.

2. Kentucky. I watched their game this weekend and they have a RB number 26 Benjamin Snell.Him, along with 18 Stanley "Boom" Williams, worry me. ....

Just to be sure.... we are talking about the same team had 149 yds against the D UT just torched, right? Same team that lost to USM?

Do I think these 2 teams are better than us or even on par? No, but they have very dangerous qualities offensively. I think Missou will be one of the best offenses we see all year and hands down the most dangerous. The timing and situations of the games are what scare me most.

Mizzou plays LSU this weekend followed by UF. That should give us a better indication of how good their O is.

Anyone got thoughts? Flames whatever kinda bored at work right now. Will have to probably come clean up this post later for punctuation and typos and run ons so be gentle on that.

UT's season comes down to the next 3 weeks. One or no losses.... they're in the SECCG with a chance to make the playoff. Two losses then there's still a pretty good chance they make the CG.

It would be a MASSIVE upset if anyone following the bye week stays within 20 points of UT.

 

[UTK]

Missouri is mediocre at best

Kentucky...theres high school teams that could beat Kentucky. Lol

 

[VonVol]

Again I am guessing none of you guys actually watched the games in question this past weekend.

The UT team we saw in the second half last week didn't exist until the second half last Saturday. The same could be said about both Missouri and Kentucky. I realize both of them had bad games beforehand. I realize Delaware State is a terrible team...

None of those things matter in the point made especially in the case of Missouri. you don't hang 79 on someone (with shortened quarters in the second half no doubt) and having cleared your benches. They played walk ons and scout teamers in the second half and still scored 20.

Do I actually think, from what I have seen from this team and those teams so far, we lose to them? Heck no, but looking at where we are what our schedule looks like these seem to be the most important games.

Like I said we come out of this next 3 game stretch 2-1 or 1-2 it does not matter. what happens after that is what maters.Now if we come out of this stretch 3-0 or 0-3 those are completely different stories but I don't realistically see either of those scenarios coming true. So that leaves one to think about next. Anyone totally discounting the end of season games knows nothing about UT history. Every year of my adult life either Vandy or Kentucky has showed up one or the other and given us fits at the end of the season. they can be at their worst and they will play their best games against us.

Anyone that thinks that Missou does not have horses on offense has not watched their games this year. They have scored more points in their first 4 games than they scored as a team all last year. Drew lock is second in the nation in passing yard has thrown 14 TD's and 3 picks in 4 games and all 3 picks came in one game they lost by 1 point. They have some big physical WR's and their only real weakness is they almost completely lack a running game. I have faith in our Dline a lot but our corners currently get beat too much because they don't get their heads turned around. i have nightmares of a record breaking number of PI penalties.

Honestly this is just a discussion of hypotheticals. I don't really have much to say about the upcoming game and don't want to think about Bama and A&M currently.

You're cherry picking stats. Mizzou has scored more points than all of last year. They should have. They scored 79 on Del State. What have they scored on power 5 opponents? 11 on West Virginia and 27 on UGA. 19 points per game.

Also saying their walk ons and scout team scored 20 points on Del State doesn't really help your argument. It just proves further that Del State is like scoring on air.

 

[Jnunn]

Look here buddy... Mizzou played Delaware State. It does matter who you play. You cant just say it doesnt. Delaware State is one of the worst FCS programs around. They lost 56-14 to their rival Delaware. Vandy would put up 50 on them. Mizzou's 79 points are meaningless.

Case and point: a couple years ago Florida put up 70 something on a lower tier G5 team and everyone was hyping up their offense. Their offense still sucked.

Edit: it was 2014 when they beat EMU 65-0 and Muschamp ended up out of a job.

 

[VonVol]

Feel like this could use a bump. That high flying offense of Mizzou managed 7 garbage time points against LSU. Now averaging 15 points a game vs Power 5 teams.