I Love A Shut Out

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Not alot of talent problems today(other than Oline) even though we are not where we need to be talent wise. Easy to see UTEP was badly out talented by UT.

Just a bunch of stupid mistakes and penalties and we are not good enough to have turnovers either. Those things can be coached up.

Glad to see the D playing well. I'm a fan of "old man football". Punishing run game and stout D.
 
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Vol524 said:
I totally understand your point. My point is JG will not improve his QB play sitting on the bench. We are not going to win the SEC this year. We need to plan and play for the future.
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VolFreakJosh said:
Our O-Line still needs work at run blocking and opening up holes for our RBs.

Chryst in the game didn’t make a whole lot of sense, almost made our offense look one dimensional.

I hope JG is the starter from now on. He’s the best option we got.
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They barely let him throw. I don't understand why they put him in to let him throw three balls and handoff hand off hand off. Might as well kept JG in.
 
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Obviously, a lot to work on and clean up -- hell, seems like Richmond had about half our penalties today.

But I do feel like our quarterbacking is in better shape right now than at any time last season.

And I feel even more strongly that our best 4 RBs are better than our best 4 RBs at any time last season.

Hopefully, our play-calling next week will hold nothing back next week, and will leave it all on the field.
 
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We've given up 43 points in 3 games for an average of 14 points per game.
Granted, 2 of those games were against vastly inferior opponents but it's a start in the right direction.
It was good to see us blank someone before we entered the meat grinder portion of our schedule.
 
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JG's average of 1 TD per 6 quarters is really gonna help drive the offense against the upcoming SEC gauntlet!
 
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#12
I enjoyed the W! going to be the last one for awhile if we don't get Florida next week. Go Vols
 
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dduncan4163 said:
I know it's UTEP and we had a lot of Offensive mistakes but JG looked efficient. The run game looked stout and the defense is looking better. I don't care that it's UTEP. I love it when our D gets the goose egg.
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I agree about a goose egg. It looked like we shut it down early in the 2nd half on offense and let the running game work.
 
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That was the crappiest team in the in the FBS.
24-0
Bring on Florida, Georgia, Auburn, and Alabama. We need offense. Oline. Qb scrambles. Big plays
We aren’t running through the tackles.
 
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BreatheUT said:
I agree about a goose egg. It looked like we shut it down early in the 2nd half on offense and let the running game work.
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'Most definitely agree. It would be silly for CJP to reveal what's been going on in last weeks practices. They knew our boys would win this one. At the end of next week, we'll find out what CJP and team's been working on for two solid weeks. Let's whoop them gayduhs!
 
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Congrats to the Coaches and players on this shutout of a power 5 school!

Noticed quite a few Vols defensive upperclassmen causing disruption in the UTEP's backfield.

Emmit Gooden continuing to play tough on a defensive team with several others whether mentioned on TV like some others or not. Solid efforts from the whole Big Orange D including Jonathan Kongbo, Kyle Phillips, Darrell Taylor, Daniel Bituli (sack and 6 tackles), Shy Tuttle, Darrin Kirkland, Jr. (sack, tackle for loss, and QB hurry), Nigel Warrior, Alexis Johnson several tackles, Micah Abernathy, Paul Bain, Will Ignont, Theo Jackson, Baylen Buchanan (pass defended), Bryce Thompson (pass defended), Jordan Allen, Shawn Shamburger, Deandre Johnson, Kenneth George, Jr., and Alontae Taylor just happened to be some I noticed playing aggressively and playing well together. If I you, though who know who you are because you don't score a SHUTOUT unless the whole defense plays as a team and works together to make it happen. We need some headhunters to sack that quarterback against Florida next game even more. They're up 27-0 over Col. St. in the 2nd quarter already and this is Tennessee's shot to win that first SEC game and get payback for what happened last year.

Good coaching and playing as a team overall today.

Brandon Johnson showing why he is still a reliable receiver on 3rd down and Jauan Jennings with the TD as well as Josh Palmer with over 60 yards.

Hard to believe it but Jarrett Guarantano actually improved his completion percentage today? He was already over 70% coming into the game. Keller Chryst didn't have his best performance but was okay today for his part. Good to know we have two leaders always at the ready to respond when called on to run the Big Orange O.

Tim Jordan running behind his blockers so well makes you beam with a big broad smile or you hate children. Madre London running hard to get those extra yards for first downs keeping drives alive. Big Banks still Bulldozing.

Everyone already knew Ty Chandler as the playmaker with speed so the 81-yarder was the longest run by a Vol in five years. What impressed me though is how from the first game of the season, he has also continued to run tough breaking tackles for yards after contact and you see he had just as many yards on plays where he kept running tough after contact as he did running fast on the 81 yard touchdown. Even that first game on the play where he got the concussion was because he lowered the shoulder and kept pumping for extra yards falling forward. No one can say he isn't a tough running back unless they're lying, have an agenda, blind, or plain stupid. I guess you just expect him to break tackles like that since was a five star? Still deserves more credit for it than he gets with everyone only talking about his speed. You see it though. He didn't get the concussion like he was soft but it's just the opposite. He was driving forward and falling forward for more yards when he took the shot to the head. There were no signs he ever got hurt with his performance today though. Salute to Chandler for a career high gain of rushing yards doing his part to help the team win today.

Brent "Stone Cold" Cimaglia putting the team on the scoreboard first and making all the extra points as expected. I am really pleased with the punter Joe Doyle this season. He's not booming record-breakers, but he is consistent. You get the feeling that you can safely trust you'll get a good 40+ yards from him to give your special teams a chance to flip the field.

I figured we'd hear enough about how we lost the turnovers battle today (2 to 0) and had more penalties than UTEP today.

A shutout against a FBS team is a shutout against a FBS team.

Go Vols!
 
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3 points in two weeks is pretty solid regardless of competition. Assuming they are relatively injury-free, the defense should be ready to go again next week in a huge home game.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
I know it's UTEP and we had a lot of Offensive mistakes but JG looked efficient. The run game looked stout and the defense is looking better. I don't care that it's UTEP. I love it when our D gets the goose egg.
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Thank you for bringing a little sanity to the board. I was fairly happy. The turnovers and line play are concerning, but it was a good effort. Not great, but a shutout is a shutout.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
JG's average of 1 TD per 6 quarters is really gonna help drive the offense against the upcoming SEC gauntlet!
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There's nothing short of SEAL team 6 that's going to help us thru the gauntlet.

.......but it sure beats throwing for -1yds
 
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We were 4 of 13 for 3rd down conversions, against UTEP. That's going to be a problem going in to SEC play if we don't get that fixed in a hurry.
 
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