-
Enter your score prediction for this week's contest vs Georgia. pick the score contest. Don't forget to get in your picks for our last minute season contest: season pick contest
Conservative/Aggressive/Desperation
- Thread starter Dougie_D
- Start date
volfannbama
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2010
- Messages
- 16,406
- Likes
- 20,215
Face it, the onside kick would have caught us off guard. We have no offense. Once JG and company scored 23 for the Gators, the game was over. Our staff is ill prepared to overcome all the deficiencies we have on offense.
The defense seems to be getting better and played decent outside of a few big plays. As the youngsters mature and learn, they could be much better before the season is complete.
Helton needs help in figuring how to call plays. So far, he’s no better than Scott was last year
The defense seems to be getting better and played decent outside of a few big plays. As the youngsters mature and learn, they could be much better before the season is complete.
Helton needs help in figuring how to call plays. So far, he’s no better than Scott was last year
UTK
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2010
- Messages
- 30,417
- Likes
- 46,814
OneVolNation
Win
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2016
- Messages
- 5,020
- Likes
- 5,459
So many plays were just embarrassing, but none of us are perfect. Anyone who hasn't ever embarrassed himself just hasn't lived long enough yet. It wasn't any one person or coach or anything. It seemed like you could try to imagine the most unlikely bad outcome and it found a way to happen, too many times to ignore. It was either a pattern or a half dozen incredible coincidences. With luck like that, we should schedule UNLV for an away and hit the strip because the next streak has to be a good one.
There were still Vols who balled out and made plays. Most of us don't expect a top 10 powerhouse out of nowhere. Just an honest effort for a full four quarters. The ball definitely didn't bounce our way tonight.
I told my father, I don't care that we're pinned this far back in our own territory or even get a 3 and out just as long as we don't allow a safety because that would just be embarrassing.
5 seconds later and you now how that one played out. We need more first steps up field. This side to side and stuttersteps to signal we're running telegraphs intentions too much and gives the defense too much time to gain ground that we would have gained instead if we're running North and South and not East and West so to speak.
Poor Austin Pope, man. I think he was actually straining with every fiber of his being to get as close as humanly possible to crossing the goal line and then all that momentum when the defensive player knocked the ball out propelled it exactly where he aimed to go with it...just without him. I don't blame him for that.
London, Banks, Jordan, and Chandler seemed to all run hard.
Murphy with a clutch catch or two and Callaway made some next level grabs.
Jennings really delivered with the effort too. I think Johnson did decent but
had a drop he should have had as did Woods-Anderson.
Cimaglia was perfect with the execution. He has developed into a reliable kicker
and was already pretty good before this season.
Alontae Taylor played like a true baller and someone you're proud to watch play the game for your team.
I don't regret sending him those thousands of twitter followers back in the day.
Phillips had that big play that was needed and it was good to see him do it. Darrin Kirkland, Jr. had some big plays too.
I was glad to see they reversed that call on Warrior.
JG and Chryst both put in solid performances.
JG had some clutch passes to keep drives alive and stood tough in the pocket to lead.
That one keeper where JG faked out the entire defense and then dove headfirst for the first down.
It wasn't quite the quarterback slide everyone was calling for, but there was no mistaking his heart
was in the right place with the effort and he moved the chains.
I was impressed with a pass Chryst threw that connected and also when he lowered his shoulder
and drove forward through a defender for extra yards after contact to get a first down like he was
showing Jeremy Banks that he was down to put in grown man work for the squad too.
The messed up part about the effort the offensive line put in is that it only takes
someone to miss an assignment and let the quarterback get blindsided or hit late
so many times before it begins to cancel out the effort earned on the other plays.
I don't know man. The ball didn't bounce our way tonight.
The question isn't who to blame or how could it happen or why.
The correct question is...what are we going to do about it!
(I know questions don't usually end in exclamation marks, but my Grammarly app stopped working
sometime around the third quarter.
And before anyone says, "Go home you sexy beast, you're drunk" I'm already home
so the joke's on you lady.
Nightmares aren't the end of the world as long as you eventually wake up.
I might not call it the Nightmare at Neyland, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
Still bleed orange and white. Still proud of the Tennessee Volunteers. It's ride or die.
The best part about this missed shot is what we do next with the rebound.
I really do think the majority of the errors were mental when it came down to it.
We fix those going forward and stay in the ring and take our licks to the chin, we'll be a
much tougher ball team 3/4 of the way through the schedule as long as no one else quits.
And if you quit before, just don't do it again. Find a bad habit or negative influence to quit on,
and quit it instead, but don't quit on your team, your school, your state, or your fans. We're counting on you to do
big things and make us proud.
Son, I'm disappointed in some of the choices you made tonight, but I still love you. Don't let it make you bitter. Let it make you better.
Yeah, conservative aggressive desperation about sums it up.
Night all.
There were still Vols who balled out and made plays. Most of us don't expect a top 10 powerhouse out of nowhere. Just an honest effort for a full four quarters. The ball definitely didn't bounce our way tonight.
I told my father, I don't care that we're pinned this far back in our own territory or even get a 3 and out just as long as we don't allow a safety because that would just be embarrassing.
5 seconds later and you now how that one played out. We need more first steps up field. This side to side and stuttersteps to signal we're running telegraphs intentions too much and gives the defense too much time to gain ground that we would have gained instead if we're running North and South and not East and West so to speak.
Poor Austin Pope, man. I think he was actually straining with every fiber of his being to get as close as humanly possible to crossing the goal line and then all that momentum when the defensive player knocked the ball out propelled it exactly where he aimed to go with it...just without him. I don't blame him for that.
London, Banks, Jordan, and Chandler seemed to all run hard.
Murphy with a clutch catch or two and Callaway made some next level grabs.
Jennings really delivered with the effort too. I think Johnson did decent but
had a drop he should have had as did Woods-Anderson.
Cimaglia was perfect with the execution. He has developed into a reliable kicker
and was already pretty good before this season.
Alontae Taylor played like a true baller and someone you're proud to watch play the game for your team.
I don't regret sending him those thousands of twitter followers back in the day.
Phillips had that big play that was needed and it was good to see him do it. Darrin Kirkland, Jr. had some big plays too.
I was glad to see they reversed that call on Warrior.
JG and Chryst both put in solid performances.
JG had some clutch passes to keep drives alive and stood tough in the pocket to lead.
That one keeper where JG faked out the entire defense and then dove headfirst for the first down.
It wasn't quite the quarterback slide everyone was calling for, but there was no mistaking his heart
was in the right place with the effort and he moved the chains.
I was impressed with a pass Chryst threw that connected and also when he lowered his shoulder
and drove forward through a defender for extra yards after contact to get a first down like he was
showing Jeremy Banks that he was down to put in grown man work for the squad too.
The messed up part about the effort the offensive line put in is that it only takes
someone to miss an assignment and let the quarterback get blindsided or hit late
so many times before it begins to cancel out the effort earned on the other plays.
I don't know man. The ball didn't bounce our way tonight.
The question isn't who to blame or how could it happen or why.
The correct question is...what are we going to do about it!
(I know questions don't usually end in exclamation marks, but my Grammarly app stopped working
sometime around the third quarter.
And before anyone says, "Go home you sexy beast, you're drunk" I'm already home
so the joke's on you lady.
Nightmares aren't the end of the world as long as you eventually wake up.
I might not call it the Nightmare at Neyland, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
Still bleed orange and white. Still proud of the Tennessee Volunteers. It's ride or die.
The best part about this missed shot is what we do next with the rebound.
I really do think the majority of the errors were mental when it came down to it.
We fix those going forward and stay in the ring and take our licks to the chin, we'll be a
much tougher ball team 3/4 of the way through the schedule as long as no one else quits.
And if you quit before, just don't do it again. Find a bad habit or negative influence to quit on,
and quit it instead, but don't quit on your team, your school, your state, or your fans. We're counting on you to do
big things and make us proud.
Son, I'm disappointed in some of the choices you made tonight, but I still love you. Don't let it make you bitter. Let it make you better.
Yeah, conservative aggressive desperation about sums it up.
Night all.
VolForLife83
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2010
- Messages
- 10,486
- Likes
- 12,053
OneVolNation
Win
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2016
- Messages
- 5,020
- Likes
- 5,459
Agreed. If even one of those hits pay dirt, then we're right back in the game. If several of them pay off, then you're the next one on the rise. Most of the time at least one will pan out, but it just wasn't our night tonight. I also liked the aggressive calls. Maybe they just needed to be practiced more and called quicker with no hesitation in those situations to give us the advantage next time.
Advertisement
