Hendon Hooker is best

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#26
Honestly, he scares me to death when he scrambles. He runs upright. I'm waiting for a defender to break him in half or for him to take a bad step and pop his hip because he is so gangly.

IMO, the offensive line isn't very good and Heupel knows it. Hooker doesn't have the time to progress through his reads. I think he is told to look at one side of the field and if it's not there, run forward and get what you can get. He never runs parallel to the line of scrimmage looking downfield to extend a pass play. It's always head down, run forward, get tackled. Really, safeties just have to see which direction Hooker turns his head after the snap and go there because that is where the ball is going.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Hooker wasn’t as sharp these first 2 games but still got it done when he had too. When he started playing here all the VT fans I know kept telling me he finds a way to lose games he shouldn’t.
They didn’t play good as a team last night and could have lost because of it but Hooker and the team found a way to win ugly. I’m going to enjoy watching Hooker continue to prove those VT fans wrong.
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The podcasts over the weekend they had mentioned that Hooker is so emotional and excited the first couple of drives that he puts too much energy into throwing.

Maybe we need to let Banks tackle him a couple of times before the game starts.
 
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dovervolz said:
I wonder about the staff messing with his mechanics during the off season.
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Greg Freckleboy said that when he gets his feet too wide, he sails passes. They've tried to get him to put his feet closer together. He runs the same way. Huge strides instead of choppy feet.

That's the main reason Peyton always chopped his feet. It keeps your feet under your shoulders so you can turn/whip from the hip.
 
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BigALWiLson said:
Poor placement ? He absolutely should have caught everything he dropped... The ball bouncing off his facemask was the kick in the nuts though
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The db grabbed his left arm - it would have been a circus catch to have grabbed a 40 yard catch with one hand
 
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jmcarr33 said:
I thought his left arm was held back on that play and could’ve been a PI call.
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Go back and watch it closely.

First: Tillman reaches back with that arm to push off for a buffer of room to make the catch. That's offensive interference (rarely called when done right, Like Till did)

Second: The defender says "heck no you ain't pushing off" and grabs the arm (defensive interference and essentially NEVER called when it's because the receiver pushed off first.)

The official called that play perfectly. Let em play and see what happens. Ironically, I think Tillman was clear enough he didn't need to push off. Doing so allowed the defender to grab his arm and disrupt his timing, hence the ball to the face.
 
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savannahfan said:
Better have the receivers start googling mapping their routes. You can't make me believe "Til" was the only guy able to use athletic ability to get open nor can you make me believe Pitt's d-backs were that overpoweringly good. I don't think we run routes very well.
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Do you mean the great and mighty savior Bru ain't getting it done?
 
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VOLfrombama said:
He needs to settle down and loosen up. He just seems like he’s wound tighter than a fiddle. The overthrows and high passes are very uncharacteristic.
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Agreed. Last year he had nothing to lose. He was benched at VT and was second string here. Now he is looking at a possible NFL spot. Expectations and pressure are real, and it shows he’s human. Some of the best ballers don’t have that gene.
 
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The analyst side of me agrees with you 100%. But the UT fan in me says that, in a close game on the road, as long as he isn’t changing the play by calling his own number in the red zone, fumbling and allowing the defense to return it the entire length of the field for a TD then we’re ok. Heheh but that’s ridiculous. Something like that would NEVER EVER happen esp a veteran starting QB at an SEC school. So yeah he just needs to RPO more and, more importantly, be ok with throwing the ball away.
 
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Volfan39 said:
Bru has been great for us. Don't know why you hate on him so much. He has been the outside presence to free Tillman up.
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Seem some posters just want to find a player to hate on, even if there is no reason such as Bru. Burrell not getting much love right now but he has some limitations. I don't have a problem with posters criticizing poor play without the personal hate.
 
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sjt18 said:
About the time they called his first designed run I was thinking they needed to let him get hit a couple of times to tone down his emotion.

Not sure why Pitt makes UT QB's so nervous.
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If he's playing tight because of all the Heisman hype, that ship has sailed. If he's playing tight because of his great comp/ int ratio, that's a concern. I think he'll settle in this week and get his confidence back.
 
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BP4Prez said:
Tillman had a huge game, but had several big drops as well. He brings those in and it’s a different ball game.
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He catches that one in the 4th to put us up 14 and it's over right there.
 
#48
#48
If Tennessee goes `10-2 or better do you think Hendon Hooker will be invited to the Heisman festivities as a Finalist for the Heisman Trophy?
 
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