DG's Takeaways from the Kentucky Win

#26
#26
Excellent as always, DG! On the fumbles, while Chandler probably got the credit for the fumble I think a lot of that was on the issues with JGs hurt hand. I know we couldn’t abandon running to that side of the field, but given the situation maybe that wasn’t the time to make that call in the game. Regardless, we were lucky it didn’t cost us the game and we have to take better care of the ball going forward.
 
#27
#27
Let's be honest here yall. UK is a decent football team, and UT had to fight hard for this victory. Great game Vols, and glad yall are in position to get a bowl invitation.
 
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Nationdom said:
The combination of Gibbs, Palmer, Keyton, and probably an unknown 5* to be signed will at the very least match what these great guys did this year
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Yep. We lose a lot of talent. But with the way I see player development, I am less worried and feel we will have some good players be able to step up next year.

Truly believe we are in an upward trajectory. Only worry is swapping BYU for Oklahoma next year. But a great year to get Arkansas.
 
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willinhf said:
Yep. We lose a lot of talent. But with the way I see player development, I am less worried and feel we will have some good players be able to step up next year.

Truly believe we are in an upward trajectory. Only worry is swapping BYU for Oklahoma next year. But a great year to get Arkansas.
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No doubt in my mind we will beat 3 out of OU, UGA, Bama, UF
 
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Great recap, thanks for posing! Proud of this team and their resilience. Really hoping we break Mizzou's home win streak but will be a tough test. Want to beat Candy in the worst way. We win out we have a real shot at a decent bowl game and that is incredible given where we started.

I hope the lines both get healthy and we come out and play our best game. We need the offense to control the ball MUCH better to beat Mizzou. If we can't get consistency in the run game the D won't be able to hold up as well against a two dimensional team. We basically played a wishbone team on Saturday. Credit where credit is due though: D won us that game.

Lastly, the coaching staff made great adjustments. Not sure if JG is playing better or the coaches have dialed in what he is good at and built around that.

Bottom line great job by this staff and the players to have us fighting for a bowl game after a historically bad start.....
 
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#33
Great write up and while is pains me to say it I think JG is our best option at this point. I do agree with Pruitt, he seems to do better when he comes off the bench. For goodness sake don't tell him he is the starter until kickoff.
 
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UTK said:
About FSU and Arkansas, they made the right calls. Tagart already has a loaded roster but yet keeps losing, and Akransas....they just keep getting worse and worse. Both teams would of been digging further in a hole in the long run if they would have kept their crap coaches around.
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Taggart absolutely did not have a "loaded roster." Jimbo left that roster in shambles the last few years. Florida State's O-line problems may have even been worse than ours. They had low-character players all over the board and many busts. Jimbo basically checked out sometime around 2016.

I think Taggart is a very good coach and I find it quite amusing that people keep saying that "Oregon dodged a bullet" when the entire Oregon staff was brought over by him. If Taggart stays at Oregon, he's considered one of the best coaches in America right now.

Too many fanbases and even athletic departments don't understand that it takes 3-5 years to rebuild a college football roster in the modern era of scholarship limits. So if a guy comes in and does a great job coaching, you often don't see the results for 2-3 years later. Which is why it's problematic to fire someone in a rebuilding job after 1 and a half years. At that point, you don't have any idea how the coach is doing.

At this point in Taggart's time at USF, he still had a losing team. Took him till year 3 and year 4. I'm not sure why Florida State would be magically different. You can't hire a coach knowing he's going to take at least 3-4 years and then fire him 1 and a half years in.
 
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UTK said:
About FSU and Arkansas, they made the right calls. Tagart already has a loaded roster but yet keeps losing, and Akransas....they just keep getting worse and worse. Both teams would of been digging further in a hole in the long run if they would have kept their crap coaches around.
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Who gives a dayum about those programs? We're Vols fans not Semen or Shoat fans.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
Taggart absolutely did not have a "loaded roster." Jimbo left that roster in shambles the last few years. Florida State's O-line problems may have even been worse than ours. They had low-character players all over the board and many busts. Jimbo basically checked out sometime around 2016.

I think Taggart is a very good coach and I find it quite amusing that people keep saying that "Oregon dodged a bullet" when the entire Oregon staff was brought over by him. If Taggart stays at Oregon, he's considered one of the best coaches in America right now.

Too many fanbases and even athletic departments don't understand that it takes 3-5 years to rebuild a college football roster in the modern era of scholarship limits. So if a guy comes in and does a great job coaching, you often don't see the results for 2-3 years later. Which is why it's problematic to fire someone in a rebuilding job after 1 and a half years. At that point, you don't have any idea how the coach is doing.

At this point in Taggart's time at USF, he still had a losing team. Took him till year 3 and year 4. I'm not sure why Florida State would be magically different. You can't hire a coach knowing he's going to take at least 3-4 years and then fire him 1 and a half years in.
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I have never been impressed with Taggart as a head coach. I think FSU made the worst mistake in their last 50 years when they hired him.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
O-line mixed. The O-line struggled quite a bit. Kentucky got very good penetration on several passing plays and our run game never really got going. We ran for a paltry 83 yards on 21 carries and most of that was JG, who had 30 yards. Get rid of JG's stats and it was 15 carries for 53 yards. Not great. The O-line is banged up quite a bit right now, but we also can't be making stupid penalties, and we saw a lot of them last night.
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I can't understand playing Riley Locklear. He is just too undersized to be playing OG and cannot stand up to the bull rush. He's probably better as a pulling OG on run plays. Otherwise, they need to stick with Garvin.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
Kentucky's gameplan. It's funny that I see a lot of our fans and Kentucky fans calling Stoops "garbage", but I disagree 100%. I think this was a brilliant gameplan by Stoops to attack our defense at its weakest point, as exposed in that Georgia State game. And we still won. That's huge! I think if Stoops and Gran come up with a more traditional gameplan, UT wins this game by at least 2 touchdowns. This was a team that threw everything at us, had a bye week, and home field advantage, and still came up short. Give our guys credit.
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We played very safe on defense and still won. This defense is playing well.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
Before this game, I said Kentucky was the opponent remaining that scared me the most. I knew they would be out for revenge after last season and they had the bye week to prepare for us. It wasn't pretty but I'm ecstatic to escape with the win. We've now won 4 out of our last 5 after a dismal start.


More poor officiating. It feels like every SEC game this season, our opponents have gotten away with murder, and we get called for everything. Felt like that once more. So many nitpicking calls against us, but our opponents get away with blatantly obvious holds, starting fights, etc. The flag against our coach for breaking up a fight was completely ridiculous. Kentucky started a fight; we tried to stop it, and *WE* got flagged?
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To be fair, it seems like every team feels this way at this time of the year. That said, it's certainly been a tough year regarding officiating and Tennessee football this season. We're lucky it hasn't cost us more games than it has.
 
#43
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DG good write up but I dont think you gave Warrior enough credit. He had three big plays.
1. the interception as you noted.
2. the open field tackle he made in the fourth with about 10 mins thru a blocker. that was the first down play, and again Warrior read and attacked. only one who could have made the play and he did.
3. He took away the pitch man on kentucky's last play. it was number 18 who pounced on the pitch and forced Bowden back inside. that was just real good knowledge and team first football right there that won us the game.
 
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rmason1313 said:
If it was so clear the coaches wouldn’t be going back and forth about who to put in. Guarantano has played well at times. But at other times he has been atrocious.
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Coaching is part art, part science. JG played very poorly early in the season. Since benching he has mostly played very well, but still with some notable mistakes. Maurer completes fewer passes, throws more Ints and doesn’t run the offense as well. He’s got lots of juice and provided a boost to that team when he came in and completed some long throws. I think the O has also responded to the fact their vet QB and leader got benched by everyone stepping it up. IMO it was very clear on Sat the O was much more effective under JG.
 
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Billy Ratliff said:
Coaching is part art, part science. JG played very poorly early in the season. Since benching he has mostly played very well, but still with some notable mistakes. Maurer completes fewer passes, throws more Ints and doesn’t run the offense as well. He’s got lots of juice and provided a boost to that team when he came in and completed some long throws. I think the O has also responded to the fact their vet QB and leader got benched by everyone stepping it up. IMO it was very clear on Sat the O was much more effective under JG.
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Correct; he was better on Saturday. He could come out the next game looking like a middle schooler. It wouldn’t be the first time he has played well only to play equally bad the next 2 games. I think he should be the starter at this point and agree that he looks better right now, but Maurer and Shrout need to be prepared because they may be needed to create the spark.
 
#46
#46
The long pass completion to Callaway where he got his helmet ripped off by the face mask was a ridiculous no call.
SEC officiating sucks, period..........
 
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