Here is reality. We let UF put up 600 yards….

[Volontario]

Honestly, the people not celebrating this win: you all suck. ****ing suck it. Stupid mother ****ers.

I’m glad I don’t care this much

 

[utvolpj]

No it’s not that freaking simple. We absolutely cannot continue with defensive plays like these in the open field.

We sure can as long as we score more points than they do

Hey, UT won today

 

[rjd970]

No it’s not that freaking simple. We absolutely cannot continue with defensive plays like these in the open field.

Serious question, if we gave up 700 yards per game but still won every one although almost losing at the end every time would you not be happy?

 

[utvols20]

Or the refs should get better too. Horse collar for DAYZ

 

[ERvolsfan]

Too many people looking on the surface at the stats.

Stats don’t tell the whole story, there were a lot of garbage time, hollow stats. Let’s keep this in mind we had several 3rd down stops, providing 4th down. But Billy Napier went for it on all of them but one of them, even from the negative side of the field. He knew he had to, to keep up, or to minimize our opportunities. Missed tackles by players who were in position cause drives to continue. Execution was a problem absolutely but game plan had players in position.

In terms of the open receivers, that was the plan we were playing zone so DBs are facing the QB to prevent him from running wild. Which is why minimal man was played. We said he was going to have to beat us. They didn’t really have any big plays. We made them earn it and work their way down the field.

And normal coaches wouldn’t have went for it on 4th basically every drive. Now I agree that our defense needs to be better. But I’m just saying the stats are a little misleading.

 

[jbr82]

No it’s not that freaking simple. We absolutely cannot continue with defensive plays like these in the open field.

Im gonna turn you in. You’re not allowed to observe lol

 

[cgrish]

Florida was incredibly fortunate that it wasn’t any worse. We took our foot off the gas late and they almost punished us.

I agree with you. Actually that is the one thing I did not like about the whole game, I wished we would have kept running the same offense especially the last series we had, because I believe we could have scored, they hadn't been able to really stop us all night, and the score would have been a much wider margin.

 

[Louisianavol78]

Rival???? 2016 was the last time Tennessee was a relevant rival to Florida. Keep drinking the orange juice

This is unreal. We just beat our most hated rival. How can you not be happy?

 

[GAVol]

I like potted meat and crackers Who's with me?

It’ll do in a pinch.

 

[LamarJackson111]

Their ok. TN made them look better imho

not every team is going to have a freak athlete dual threat QB

 

[MADISONGAVOL]

The defense has to get better. Period.

You hit nail on head. We should have beat them by 21 with good defense.

 

[TartanTurff]

This is a sub par Florida team that Kentucky has already beaten in Gainsville, they are a middle of the road SEC team with a new coach who has zero power 5 conference head coaching experience. Georgia will embarrass Florida,

Have not seen measurable improvement on the defense from game one and the Ball State crowd moving the ball around the field.

The upper tier teams in the SEC actually play good defense, not sure why this is so hard of a concept for Heupel to understand and work on, with this type of defense, New Year's Day Florida Bowl is the ceiling, Larry Slade and Sal Sunseri would fit right in

 

[jbr82]

They’d rather be negative and then “right” then have Tennessee win

I hope the coaches don’t point out the same things that needs work during off week.....cause that would be negative

 

[CNCVol88]

The fact is that for once, in my 33 years on this planet, I saw a Florida team leave EVERYTHING on the field and come up short.

 

[LamarJackson111]

Their ok. TN made them look better imho

You realize this Florida team absolutely dismantled #13 Utah defense right?

 

[Delmar]

We lucked up and beat them. That was a piss poo performance. No one should be happy, we should expect more. The bar should be higher.

Less than two seasons into Heupel’s tenure? I would submit that we are ahead of schedule. Need more defensive talent and depth and then we can talk about bars. After 15 years of wandering in the desert, I’m just happy with wins. And especially against a team where we’ve recently gone 1 and 16. Some of you people are off the charts silly.

 

[cgrish]

Too many people looking on the surface at the stats.

Stats don’t tell the whole story, there were a lot of garbage time, hollow stats. Let’s keep this in mind we had several 3rd down stops, providing 4th down. But Billy Napier went for it on all of them but one of them, even from the negative side of the field. He knew he had to, to keep up, or to minimize our opportunities. Missed tackles by players who were in position cause drives to continue. Execution was a problem absolutely but game plan had players in position.

In terms of the open receivers, that was the plan we were playing zone so DBs are facing the QB to prevent him from running wild. Which is why minimal man was played. We said he was going to have to beat us. They didn’t really have any big plays. We made them earn it and work their way down the field.

And normal coaches wouldn’t have went for it on 4th basically every drive. Now I agree that our defense needs to be better. But I’m just saying the stats are a little misleading.

I totally agree, fla coach knew he had to score points to have a chance, he played to win, not play close. He played to win even if 4th down didn't work for him. He knew that was his only chance to win.

 

[LamarJackson111]

You hit nail on head. We should have beat them by 21 with good defense.

That Florida offense is good. You guys are mad about nothing.

 

[cgrish]

Less than two seasons into Heupel’s tenure? I would submit that we are ahead of schedule. Need more defensive talent and depth and then we can talk about bars. After 15 years of wandering in the desert, I’m just happy with wins. And especially against a team where we’ve recently gone 1 and 16. Some of you people are off the charts silly.

Yes, we have now beat 2 ranked teams this year, how long has it been since we have done that?

 

[Louisianavol78]

We sure can as long as we score more points than they do

Hey, UT won today

Seriously I’m glad we won, I see the gauntlet we’re about to face so I hope we tighten up on the outer perimeter.

 

[Pride85]

The defense has to get better. Period.

And we won the game. Like weird, right.

 

[titansvolsfaninga]

What is absolutely puzzling to me is instead of trashing our kids on defense, how about realizing that we very possibly can outscore most if not every opponent this year and keep us winning while our coaches recruit the defensive talent that we need for the future.

Honest question. When recruits see our current DBs looking lost, do they say " Hey, I want to be coached by the coaches that are coaching a defense that is allowing record stats every game?" I mean how do you sell that to a recruit?

 

[Other_Guy]

You always have some bs to say. Go bury your head in the f’n sand and wait for prom hoe boi

And you always have something really mature to say when someone sees both sides of reality, the bad and the good.

 

[GhostVol]

Think about the Florida fans right now. They have to be feeling like we have so many times coming so close but coming up short. It finally clicks for Richardson but they still lose, to an East rival. They are probably furious at the their DC. Can’t believe they lost to UT. Looking to fire Napier.

It’s all about perspective. We came out in the right side of this game, freaking enjoy it.

Or don't..... they're all idiots

 

[Pride85]

Won't always be the case. Defense has got to get better. That's embarrassing....AR threw for 453 yards, and y'all are like, we won.

Yes we are. Funny thing is, we won.