Cuttcliffe, " I felt like we could have scored 40 or 50 points"

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#54
#54
This was almost as bad but at least it was from a player:

“If we come out and play the way we know we can play, then nobody can stop us,” defensive end Robert Ayers said. “So far this season, we haven’t really done the things that we wanted to do, but if we play our game, we’ll be good.”
 
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5 or 6 plays away??? How many second-half possessions did we have? Yeah, I suppose that if we would have converted every 3rd or 4th down play that we got stopped on and wouldn't have turned it over, at least 5-6 possessions would have been extended. Then, maybe we would have scored more. Great, now it makes sense.
 
#59
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Wow. I could have married a supermodel and I could have made 20 million dollars by the time I was 30. :crazy:
 
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Cutcliffe sounds like one of your buddies when you're all stumbling back to the dorm from the bar together after everybody strikes out. "Dude, did you see that? She was totally all over me! I could tell she wanted it!"
 
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coach31 said:
This was almost as bad but at least it was from a player:

“If we come out and play the way we know we can play, then nobody can stop us,” defensive end Robert Ayers said. “So far this season, we haven’t really done the things that we wanted to do, but if we play our game, we’ll be good.”
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I am going to try this on my boss next time that I do not meet his expectations. Would-a, could-a, should-a. I think his reaction would be...:bad::the_finger::mad::realmad::furious3::Bbiteme::bash:
 
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“Two turnovers, a few opportunities not making the third and short. ... People say we got beat badly. Not really if we do what we’re supposed to do. And we could have gone down and scored, I felt like we could have scored 40 or 50 points in that game if needed.”


If needed??? I think a bludgeoning of 41-17 would definitely constitute "needed." What a delusional idiot. I guess it wasn't needed in the Florida game either!

:banghead2: :mf_surrender:
 
#65
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Next year, the NCAA is looking at two rule changes. The first is that all kickers will have to wear a 30 pound weight on their leg during kickoff. They hope that this will allow teams to start every drive at their opponents 40 yardline. The second is that a team will actually be spotted points based on potential. That should really help UT significantly.
 
#66
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I've had about enough of cutcliffe, chavis and fulmer. They need to hit the road, soon.
 
#67
#67
I'm dumbfounded and don't know what to say!

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Article published Oct 24, 2007
[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Cutcliffe: Vols could have scored big

By John Brice and Leonard Butts
of The Daily Times Staff


KNOXVILLE — Tennessee players and coaches insist that they’re moving beyond Saturday’s 41-17 loss at Alabama, but they can’t help but think it was nearly a much different ballgame.

Offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe said he thought the Vols were capable of scoring a lot of points against the Crimson Tide and simply had too many manageable breakdowns.

“We were extremely close (to a big output against Alabama),” Cutcliffe said. “Anybody who went back and looked at the tape would know that. You take really five or six plays out of it, I felt like we could score really every time we got the football. I still feel that way. Obviously we didn’t.

“Two turnovers, a few opportunities not making the third and short. ... People say we got beat badly. Not really if we do what we’re supposed to do. And we could have gone down and scored, I felt like we could have scored 40 or 50 points in that game if needed.”

Tight end Chris Brown agreed.

“We didn’t do a lot of things that we needed to do,” Brown said. “It came down to about seven or eight plays that we didn’t execute properly, and Alabama’s defense executed better against us. It’s not a good feeling to know that you’re so close to doing a lot of special things, and just them calling a couple of defenses and doing a couple of things on certain plays stopped us.”

Cutcliffe said the Vols had good balance until the Tide forged ahead by three touchdowns.

“If you look at that a little closer, when it went into a two-minute drill when the score got so bad, we had thrown 26 passes and run 19 times,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s good distribution, and we had been productive and averaged almost 6 yards per carry in the run game and had thrown the ball, at that point in time, 72 percent. We were 17 of 25 or 18 or 26 or something like that. That’s effective. What we didn’t do was score, because we stopped ourselves. We had played extremely well, but playing well, they don’t give you any points for that.

“That’s the bottom line. We stopped ourselves, really, for the most part. At that point in time, the game got a little ugly. Erik was 4-for-11 (down the stretch) after that. I’m disappointed in that because we’re supposed to be able to play the two-minute drill, even when they know you’re throwing, better than that. We didn’t, so it was kind of two separate games. That’s what kind of threw the numbers.”

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NO EASY TASK: UT wide receiver Austin Rogers says it takes a while to gain quarterback Erik Ainge’s trust, and the Vols’ younger receivers haven’t had that opportunity. Hence the drop off in the passing game without starters Lucas Taylor and Josh Briscoe against Alabama.

“Erik builds trust with confidence,” Rogers said. “It’s hard to get into that but once you do, it pays off.

“But if you can’t be out there 20 snaps a game, it’s hard to do. It takes several games.”

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RUNNING AHEAD: The Volunteers go away from the running game pretty quickly when they fall behind, even though the deficit may not be that great. UT tight end Chris Brown says it’s just a matter of momentum.

“Arian (Foster) is running well, but we got down pretty early (against Alabama), and it’s hard to run the ball when you’re down,” Brown said. “When we’re winning, we run the football. When things are going better, we run the football.”

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TRY IT AGAIN: Tennessee’s defense continues to search for successful continuity but so far has given up lots of yardage and lots of points on a more consistent basis.

“If we come out and play the way we know we can play, then nobody can stop us,” defensive end Robert Ayers said. “So far this season, we haven’t really done the things that we wanted to do, but if we play our game, we’ll be good.”[/FONT]
 
#68
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I don't see anything too crazy about what he said. We did play well until they got ahead by so much...then we went into the 2 minute drill and played sloppy. I was down at the game, and it was like watching 2 different offenses.
 
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Hmm... years ago we won our big games. Then our big games were close and we won some and lost some. Last year we were 1-2 plays away from winning our big games... this year we're 7-8 plays from winning our big games. Good stuff.
 
#70
#70
Pass on the run
"We had, I thought, good balance when the game was still a game," UT offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe said.
"With nine minutes to go, the game became a different game, and that's the only time we abandoned the run."
Well, not really.
UT trailed only 24-17 at the start of the second half, but on the opening drive of the third quarter the Vols threw it six times and ran it only twice. Running back Arian Foster ran it both times and picked up 23 yards, including a nice 18-yard run. But the drive came to a halt when quarterback Erik Ainge was intercepted.
Alabama turned the turnover into a touchdown and a 27-17 lead.
Trailing by 10 points with most of the second half left, the Vols still had a legitimate shot to win. But UT finished the quarter attempting six passes and only three runs and entered the fourth quarter down 30-17.
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this excerpt of an article from the Tennessean sums up my thoughts on the pass/run distribution in the Bama game.
 
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Lexvol said:
Next year, the NCAA is looking at two rule changes. The first is that all kickers will have to wear a 30 pound weight on their leg during kickoff. They hope that this will allow teams to start every drive at their opponents 40 yardline. The second is that a team will actually be spotted points based on potential. That should really help UT significantly.
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If we go to the ref after every punt and tell him that we were one or two plays away from scoring on that drive, do you think they will go ahead and award us the TD?
 
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