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#52
#52
Lexvol said:
As I see it the timing is directly related to Hammy's decision to premature talk of contract extensions and raises. This is a direct response. Someone needed to carry that torch. Those talks are as ill timed as the article.
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100% CORRECT :eek:k:
 
#53
#53
Win a hard fought game, go to the conference championship, have chances at a BCS bowl. And we still have people on this site that will find a way to crap all over everything.
:no:
 
#54
#54
jakez4ut said:
i don't disagree with the article's content, but i'm with most of you on the timing. right now, i simply don't care about the shortcomings. there's a title to possibly be won this Saturday.

Lex, i agree with you on the DB's........i'd agree about the blown assignment if it weren't EVERYONE playing 6 yards off. it was by design. we did it several other times on 3rd down situations as well.....3rd and 4, we're 5 yards off the LOS.......

the one thing i would point out though is.....on that last drive......we had 3 dropped INT's........i say give the DB's to Troop for just one day!!!!
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give the db's to anyone but Slade and Happy B-Day by the way
 
#55
#55
i think he may be the casualty, if there are any, on the def side of hte ball.......call me crazy, but i think we have some serious talent in the secondary.
 
#56
#56
jakez4ut said:
i think he may be the casualty, if there are any, on the def side of hte ball.......call me crazy, but i think we have some serious talent in the secondary.
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I'm with you. I think the defensive backfield will be one of the best in the conference next season.

It's easy to overlook the injuries and dismissals that the secondary is working to overcome this season.

Inky Johnson, Demitrice Morley, Marsalous Johnson, Roshaun Fellows, and Antonio Gaines would all be in the mix if things had gone "according to plan." While they've definitely had their struggles, much of those problems can be attributed to the limitations they have.
 
#57
#57
jakez4ut said:
i think he may be the casualty, if there are any, on the def side of hte ball.......call me crazy, but i think we have some serious talent in the secondary.
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I thought I read on here that he is rumored to be retiring this season.
 
#60
#60
Jaytrain5 said:
Those are the breaks.

Almost every football team in the country is a play or two away from an extra pair of wins or losses.

A roughing the passer penalty on JT Mapu against the Gators could have been the difference in the Vols playing in the SEC Championship game last year - and would have prevented the Gators from competing for a national title....the same could be said for the Jamarcus Russell fumble that should have ended the game in Neyland last year.

Every team in the conference has eight 60-minute football games to earn a trip to Atlanta. The Vols, despite the stats, earned their division crown and a shot at the conference championship.
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I agree and posted that every team needs/gets a few breaks each year in an earlier post.
 
#62
#62
rexvol said:
I dont drink, but i appreciate the sentiment. I am excited to be in Atlanta and I'll be raising cain from my home here in Houston (full-time ministry and a 7month pregnant wife are not conducive to travel), I just dont want our AD & HC to do nothing in the off season. Changes to our staff need to be made.
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Yell from the mountain top about needing staff changes - when the season is over. It falls on deaf ears and your message is lost doing it now.

Oh - and good luck with the wife - I've become a daddy twice so I know what's going on in your life now.
 
#65
#65
VolBeef88 said:
5 yards off of Burton is not exactly "far" off! Willingham was actually in the end zone.
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I was at the game he lined up at least 7 yards off and backed up on the snap of the ball. Watch the replay. Burton catches the first pass around the 15 in OT with Rogan backpeddling.
 
#68
#68
UT IE 95 said:
Which is better than, "watch the guy run by you".
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I'd rather a player get beat because they were playing tight coverage and he got a step on him then to get beat because he was too far off the receiver to make a play.
 
#69
#69
If you've got guys who you have to worry about the other team running by, you've done a sorry job of recruiting and talent evaluation.
 
#70
#70
oklavol said:
I'd rather a player get beat because they were playing tight coverage and he got a step on him then to get beat because he was too far off the receiver to make a play.
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The difference is that getting beat in soft coverage yields a 10 yard gain and getting beaten in bump coverage yields an 80 yard TD.
 
#71
#71
The 39.3% conversion on third down doesn't tell the whole story....I have never seen a defense allow so many third and 10 conversions as this one has....
 
#72
#72
oklavol said:
"Keep the play in front of you" mentality the players have gotten from the coaches
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With that mentality, you're eventually left standing in the back of the endzone, with a first-hand look at the opposition's touchdown celebration.

It's really frustrating to watch the cushion that opposing receivers have had against our secondary...I still think that it's a young, talented group that's going to be among the best in the conference next year.
 
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