Day 3 after a 38-6 victory. Time to let the healing begin...

[BruisedOrange]

Vince's View: 5 most promising takeaways from Tennessee’s season opening win

No kool-aid, no orange-tinted glasses. Just good, solid facts and observations.
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A promising takeaway #6 would have been penalties. For a first game of the season, executing a new offense and defense, and running 88 offensive plays... to come away with only 5 penalties for 45 yards is definitely an improvement over the past few years. (Saban's well-oiled machine had 8 for 81 against Miami.)

Related to penalties, has anybody seen how deep we went into the depth chart?

 

[clarencepeabody]

Amen to all this. I always appreciate Vince’s perspective, and really like him on the air.

Sure, Milton held onto the ball, missed some open receivers, blah blah blah…but at the end of the day, it’s a win, and we have a lot to be happy about.

 

[Booker512]

After watching alot of games this weekend, this is going to be a wild season. Oklahoma almost losing to Tulane, UNC getting toppled by VT, Clemson basically having JG as a qb, Stanford getting blown out by Kansas State, Mizzou barely squeaking by Central Michigan, Mississippi State barely scrapping out a win against Louisiana Tech, LSU getting beat down by UCLA, Oklahoma State nearly getting beat by Missouri State, Northern Illinois beating Georgia Tech, Montana beating Washington, East Tennessee beating Vandy, Ohio State was basically tied with Minnesota until garbage time in the 4th quarter, Florida's offense looking extremely anemic against FAU, Emory Jones also looks like another JG.

I think we are in for a wild season and anything could happen this year.

 

[Raebo]

Trying to stay positive. As mentioned above, few penalties on both side of the ball. I was expecting several false starts and a couple more holding penalties. No targeting calls. No delay of game getting the plays in and players seemed to know their assignments. Milton when he did run picked up yardage and either made first downs or made it 3rd and short. Only remember a couple 3rd and long(10+yards). Good adjustments at half. Defense played better than I expected. Several other positives. Yes, I know it was BG. I thought 6-6 was realistic before season started and will still stick with that expectation.
It's to bad this isn't like a video game where you can just replay the game with player Y or Z, etc..

 

[FïreBall]

Trying to stay positive. As mentioned above, few penalties on both side of the ball. I was expecting several false starts and a couple more holding penalties. No targeting calls. No delay of game getting the plays in and players seemed to know their assignments. Milton when he did run picked up yardage and either made first downs or made it 3rd and short. Only remember a couple 3rd and long(10+yards). Good adjustments at half. Defense played better than I expected. Several other positives. Yes, I know it was BG. I thought 6-6 was realistic before season started and will still stick with that expectation.
It's to bad this isn't like a video game where you can just replay the game with player Y or Z, etc..

I'm with you.. I had concerns of the offense struggling with false starts or illegal procedure calls.. The 2 penalties on Carvin I thought were questionable. The defense tackled well and didn't look slow to react. We will learn more about this team with Pitt next week.

 

[Mccage]

If Milton ever learns to pull the trigger fast enough on those seem routes were going to be a very good offence. He definitely has the arm for it. Good assessment Vince!

 

[WoodsmanVol]

For me, the nicest takeaway, post game, was some of our fans actually understood what went on during the game and its impact on our performance. Beyond that, it was great seeing our stadium fans show up and enjoy themselves. I may not like turtles, but I sure like Vols.

 

[TheVolsFrog]

If Milton ever learns to pull the trigger fast enough on those seem routes were going to be a very good offence. He definitely has the arm for it. Good assessment Vince!

I think if a team rushes him he's going to dump it off to the guy underneath because he won't have time to sit back there and try to wave a guy open CJH needs to tell him we don't have to have the knockout everytime. Take what you can get and keep the ball moving. We'll tire their D out.
I know people giving Milton flack for his standing and over throws but I said in another thread. He did alot of things right and the main one was getting his guys lines up set and play off as quick as possible and without the penalties...I was for sure we were going to rack up a ton of false starts but didn't.
I think CJH is going to fix some of the QB problems from Sat
I'm still optimistic about the game against Pitt

 

[Catbone]

After watching alot of games this weekend, this is going to be a wild season. Oklahoma almost losing to Tulane, UNC getting toppled by VT, Clemson basically having JG as a qb, Stanford getting blown out by Kansas State, Mizzou barely squeaking by Central Michigan, Mississippi State barely scrapping out a win against Louisiana Tech, LSU getting beat down by UCLA, Oklahoma State nearly getting beat by Missouri State, Northern Illinois beating Georgia Tech, Montana beating Washington, East Tennessee beating Vandy, Ohio State was basically tied with Minnesota until garbage time in the 4th quarter, Florida's offense looking extremely anemic against FAU, Emory Jones also looks like another JG.

I think we are in for a wild season and anything could happen this year.

It's the same ole. Alabama winning the nation title and Georgia winning the SEC East. Boring.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Vols are going to roast the Panthers and hang their hides up to dry on the wall behind the South Endzone....17-16 UT wins

 

[a vol n tears]

It's the same ole. Alabama winning the nation title and Georgia winning the SEC East. Boring.

HaHa. It’s not up to Ala and Ga to not win, it’s up to everybody else to stop them.
Kinda like a blowout game and 2nd and 3rd team scores

 

[1974Vol]

Vince's View: 5 most promising takeaways from Tennessee’s season opening win

No kool-aid, no orange-tinted glasses. Just good, solid facts and observations.
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A promising takeaway #6 would have been penalties. For a first game of the season, executing a new offense and defense, and running 88 offensive plays... to come away with only 5 penalties for 45 yards is definitely an improvement over the past few years. (Saban's well-oiled machine had 8 for 81 against Miami.)

Related to penalties, has anybody seen how deep we went into the depth chart?

While I agree with the 5 positive takeaways the most important question every Vol fan wanted answered came back negative or at best still unanswered. Do we have a for real QB? Because, if and until we can answer that question with a resounding YES! Then we struggle to get to .500 football every year.