DG's Thoughts on the Florida game

#52
#52
The game was a complete annihilation. Fuad Reviez was so disgusted he could barely speak when he came on the radio. He said it's the first time he couldn't even be hopeful at any point in the game and that he's sick of teams coming into Neyland and walking all over the Vols. He said it was just methodical destruction.

That's how it felt. Like Florida was just on cruise control and we couldn't do anything about it. We held them to 7 less than Vandy and South Carolina and 3 less than Kentucky. The other three no threat on offense East division doormats. If they'd been under any pressure at all from our offense they would have scored 60. Trask passed for more yards against us than those three doormats too.

It was a cold night, they were stomping us. They just wanted the game over.
 
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as always, very well said. you nailed it with statement about the promising young core of defenders and assessment of will friend.

relied only on a couple of stouts to reach the fourth quarter.. hope that's a sign that there's some light in this dark tunnel we've been in for a decade or so. and that maybe a final four and full baseball season will brighten 2021.
Go Vols!
 
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I honestly don’t think the Gators were up for the game. IMO, they went through the motions and worked on aspects of their game but focusing on making sure Trask got his “Heisman” numbers. Even Trask mentioned he didn’t have a good game. It is what it is, if you keep score, their are no moral victories.
 
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Excellent post. I think the OL problems yesterday were due to Kennedy and Morris not playing. Anybody know why?
 
#57
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LargeOrange1 said:
Yes....as in yesterday. He is not HC material.
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He is very stubborn and thinks he knows more than he does. To be a defensive minded guy, he should be happy to let the Offensive coaches worry about the offense. Instead he wants to be a micromanager and try to be a jack of all trades. I mean he is watching teams around the SEC score 40 and 50 points a game and he wants to go back to 1970 and try and keep the score low. I mean Bama is putting up 50 points a game with innovative WR routes, and we can't pay our receivers to get any type of separation. I mean I am in awe that Bama throws the ball down field putting pressure on the safeties. We throw the ball behind the LOS to our speed receiver. The times when the send Hyatt on Go routes, he has a big gain. I mean every team use their TE's in the pass game to make the LB's cover them instead of key in on the RB's. Any other HC would love to have this staff, except for Friend and Weinke. We get the 1 gump that thinks he is smartest man in every room. How the F did Saban get him to fall in line? Saban must be a f'in Alpha Alpha male.
 
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As I don’t see Pruitt getting canned this year unless we have a disaster against Vandy, I am really looking to see these last two games whether Bailey and Shrout can give us hope for the future. I though the offense looked a little better and I want to see if they can get better the next two games and maybe score more than 30 points once...

I do think the D played better although 3rd and longs still were bad. Given the fact that the entire game plan was to score as much as possible they held up better than I expected. Mullen was not holding back this game.

Anyway, I am just looking for some hope for next year.
 
#61
#61
ftsandersvol said:
By far his best half as a Volunteer. He even got some YAC.



This doesn’t bother me one bit. Whether you start from the 15 or the 35, the key to each and every play after that is execution.

I’ve never had a hole-in-one either, but that doesn’t mean on every par 3 I’m going to stop aiming for the flag.
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I think that having to start from the 15 instead of the 35 yard line is a big deal for a true freshman QB. Play calling going into the game was as already limited due to inexperience and trying to keep things simple. Backing the team up 10 more yards seem to bring on even more conservative play calling (run, run, pass).
Velus did his QB no favors. Unless your name is Cordarrelle, take a knee.
 
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UTwick said:
I think that having to start from the 15 instead of the 35 yard line is a big deal for a true freshman QB. Play calling going into the game was as already limited due to inexperience and trying to keep things simple. Backing the team up 10 more yards seem to bring on even more conservative play calling (run, run, pass).
Velus did his QB no favors. Unless your name is Cordarrelle, take a knee.
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V Jones has not been a productive player this year I feel. He has zero wiggle for someone as fast as he is.
 
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CA_Vol said:
@DiderotsGhost “The D is very young and shows a ton of promise for the future.”

Man, we are watching two entirely different teams. I know you put a lot of thought and effort into your weekly posts, but this one had my mouth fall open. And it immediately followed a statement of not being ready to move on from Pruitt.

You must have insights that almost no one else can see, because I’m seeing a defense worse in every aspect of the game and a scheme that gets absolutely abused when it counts - on 3rd down.

And what young talent are you seeing out there. If anything, it has been an oddity how little Pruitt has played the younger guys.
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Diderot is more on track with his view of the defense than you.
 
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Our best D performance because we didn't get blown out? so nearly 500yds passing is good? The game was closer on the scoreboard than the stat sheet and field play. Our stopping the run was good but Florida hasn't been known as a running team this year. If we could have covered a WR more than 2 yrds down the field then it would have been good. Our d stinks. Our O slowed the game down and that is why Florida didn't score more than they did. I mean we done good at running 25 seconds off the clock just about every play. The 2 4th qtr touchdowns were good for us but Florida was still in control. We are so close on some things but so far away on others from being a good team.
 
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UTwick said:
I think that having to start from the 15 instead of the 35 yard line is a big deal for a true freshman QB. Play calling going into the game was as already limited due to inexperience and trying to keep things simple. Backing the team up 10 more yards seem to bring on even more conservative play calling (run, run, pass).
Velus did his QB no favors. Unless your name is Cordarrelle, take a knee.
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Sorry, but if you're concerned about who is handling the ball at QB at any point on the field, regardless of their class, you got the wrong guy in there.
 
#69
#69
I think Pruitt is a good, maybe great. "X's and O's" coach. Defense is his specialty, and he has an intricate knowledge of "how to stop the other guy". Give him the athletes to execute his scheme and you have, well...the Alabama defense.

But as far as being a head coach, he has a long way to go, and a lot to learn. Personally, I'd rather him learn it here rather than make his mistakes here and then blow it up at his next gig, but the bottom line at this point is that whatever "equity" Coach Pruitt might have had is long gone. Between the fan base and the media, Coach Pruitt is facing a horde of torches and pitchforks, and rightfully so. There are a number of reasons that have contributed to things being where they are, but again the bottom line is that winning cures a lot of ills, and losing magnifies them. Right now, UT Football is a losing program, and thus things are where they are. Coach Pruitt's margin of error leading into the 2021 season is near-zero.

I've said, I'll say, and I'm 99.9% certain that Coach Pruitt will be the head football coach starting the 2021 season. If I'm that little voice inside his head, my message is simple: Hire the best coaches you can for their role, and then step back and let them do their job. Your job is to "fight the ship"; it's the job of your staff to give you a ship that can win the fight. Hire them; trust them; and stay out of their way. If you don't trust them, then you shouldn't have hired them. Simple as that.

Sometimes, the hardest thing to do to maintain control is to let go of it. That's where I think the arc of Jeremy Pruitt's career hangs right now. He's got to learn to let go, and let his coaches do their job.

I really, really hope he figures it out. He has potential, and Lord knows UT Football could use some stability in its' coaching staff for once in the last dozen or so years. I honestly think UT Football is not that far away from competing with UGA and UF, but we need a coach, and a coaching staff, that can get the most out of the players they have. Win with what you have, and recruiting will handle itself. But a roster full of 4-star players is no good with a staff that ain't on the same page, and with a common goal. Don't matter how much coal you shovel if the Captain has no idea where the ship is going, right?

2021 is a make-or-break year for Jeremy Pruitt, and by extension UT Football. While a new head coach might turn it around in 2 or 3 years, it's better for us if Jeremy gets it figured out now, rather than wait 'till 2023 or 2024 to see if we (finally) made the right choice.

So...I hope Jeremy finally figures it out, and Go Vols.
 
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The his defense is not good. No push up front and 3rd and Chavis is now 3rd and Pruitt. DB,s are terrible. We stopped the run but the QB passed for 400 plus.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
I think Pruitt is a good, maybe great. "X's and O's" coach. Defense is his specialty, and he has an intricate knowledge of "how to stop the other guy". Give him the athletes to execute his scheme and you have, well...the Alabama defense.

But as far as being a head coach, he has a long way to go, and a lot to learn. Personally, I'd rather him learn it here rather than make his mistakes here and then blow it up at his next gig, but the bottom line at this point is that whatever "equity" Coach Pruitt might have had is long gone. Between the fan base and the media, Coach Pruitt is facing a horde of torches and pitchforks, and rightfully so. There are a number of reasons that have contributed to things being where they are, but again the bottom line is that winning cures a lot of ills, and losing magnifies them. Right now, UT Football is a losing program, and thus things are where they are. Coach Pruitt's margin of error leading into the 2021 season is near-zero.

I've said, I'll say, and I'm 99.9% certain that Coach Pruitt will be the head football coach starting the 2021 season. If I'm that little voice inside his head, my message is simple: Hire the best coaches you can for their role, and then step back and let them do their job. Your job is to "fight the ship"; it's the job of your staff to give you a ship that can win the fight. Hire them; trust them; and stay out of their way. If you don't trust them, then you shouldn't have hired them. Simple as that.

Sometimes, the hardest thing to do to maintain control is to let go of it. That's where I think the arc of Jeremy Pruitt's career hangs right now. He's got to learn to let go, and let his coaches do their job.

I really, really hope he figures it out. He has potential, and Lord knows UT Football could use some stability in its' coaching staff for once in the last dozen or so years. I honestly think UT Football is not that far away from competing with UGA and UF, but we need a coach, and a coaching staff, that can get the most out of the players they have. Win with what you have, and recruiting will handle itself. But a roster full of 4-star players is no good with a staff that ain't on the same page, and with a common goal. Don't matter how much coal you shovel if the Captain has no idea where the ship is going, right?

2021 is a make-or-break year for Jeremy Pruitt, and by extension UT Football. While a new head coach might turn it around in 2 or 3 years, it's better for us if Jeremy gets it figured out now, rather than wait 'till 2023 or 2024 to see if we (finally) made the right choice.

So...I hope Jeremy finally figures it out, and Go Vols.
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Nice post, lots of fans feel the same way I feel.
 
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VolFanNC09 said:
I do think the D played better although 3rd and longs still were bad. Given the fact that the entire game plan was to score as much as possible they held up better than I expected. Mullen was not holding back this game.
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I keep seeing this sentiment, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Maybe I need to rewatch the game. I felt once Mullen got his line, he started trying to work on their run game. They can’t run the ball at all, and they will need to be able to in order to beat Alabama. So, that explains why the defense suddenly started to look good. He threw away downs on running the ball for two yards. Then on 3rd down they would ask Trask to make a play. This explains the third and long conversions you list as bad.

TLDR: Mullen treated the game as a glorified scrimmage.
 
#73
#73
ftsandersvol said:
Sorry, but if you're concerned about who is handling the ball at QB at any point on the field, regardless of their class, you got the wrong guy in there.[/QUOTE

We have seen our choices and therefore our concern is warranted.
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