Josh Palmer quote on Harrison Bailey (could mean Bailey starts?)

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PulaskiVolFan said:
I think our defense is talented but the poor safety play has been a problem. Injuries to Taylor, Shamburger's weird situation, Henry trying to play MLB at 225 and Thompson playing all year with a torn pectoral has been a problem and now we've lost our best disruptor in Bennett on the line, our defense has struggled this year and I think those are all reasons as to why. If healthy and everyone comes back I think we'll see much improvement on that side of the ball next season.
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I understand a key LB will be contact traced out this week. I dont know, just what I hear. And without him....Floriduh will live with the TE
 
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IncognitoVawl said:
I understand a key LB will be contact traced out this week. I dont know, just what I hear. And without him....Floriduh will live with the TE
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Florida lives with the TE anyway as he's probably the best weapon in the country. I don't see us trying to play him with man coverage anyway. If Henry T is out then we'll get killed regardless as if we can't get lined up correctly on defense a coach like Mullen will pick us apart. Stopping their TE is going to be a problem, I liked our chances in the preseason simply because I thought if healthy we'd be one of the best pass defenses in the country, our S play and injuries or absences to Taylor, Shamburger and Thompson have nixed those early thoughts about our defense.
 
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tennrich1 said:
Hahaha...You'd be the first I would invite to join...but after I culled the ones who CLEARLY know minimal about the game I'm afraid it'd just be you, rikberry31, and me and that would get sooooo boring!!!
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IncognitoVawl said:
I understand a key LB will be contact traced out this week. I dont know, just what I hear. And without him....Floriduh will live with the TE
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We don’t have a Lb who can cover a TE so it doesn’t matter. We need to play a Star package or Dime defense against Florida for
most of the game.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
I think our defense is talented but the poor safety play has been a problem. Injuries to Taylor, Shamburger's weird situation, Henry trying to play MLB at 225 and Thompson playing all year with a torn pectoral has been a problem and now we've lost our best disruptor in Bennett on the line, our defense has struggled this year and I think those are all reasons as to why. If healthy and everyone comes back I think we'll see much improvement on that side of the ball next season.
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Our defense may have deficiencies but they have been magnified by you know who under center. We’ve yet to see our offense actually give our defense Help for a full 60 minutes for almost 2 months.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Our defense may have deficiencies but they have been magnified by you know who under center. We’ve yet to see our offense actually give our defense Help for a full 60 minutes for almost 2 months.
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We've failed to see our defense produce game changing plays and turnovers for 2 months now as well.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Because they are gassed and out of it.

Defense gets fixed when offense helps them. It’s that simple.
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Why can't it be the other way around, maybe if the defense produced more wow plays, points and turnovers, we would not be starting every drive on our own 25 or giving up 7 every time a team enters the redzone. Blaming the offense for poor play every single game our defense struggles is not something I agree with. Offense is on the field 28 minutes a game, the defense 32, I don't think those 4 minutes are that big of a deal. If D produced more 3 and outs then they could rest more.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Why can't it be the other way around, maybe if the defense produced more wow plays, points and turnovers, we would not be starting every drive on our own 25 or giving up 7 every time a team enters the redzone. Blaming the offense for poor play every single game our defense struggles is not something I agree with. Offense is on the field 28 minutes a game, the defense 32, I don't think those 4 minutes are that big of a deal. If D produced more 3 and outs then they could rest more.
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I think it's bit of both.

Defense isn't producing game-changing plays, but they are doing a reasonable job with "bend, don't break" defense until they get gassed by the offense going 3 and out every time. I don't think it's a coincidence that the D plays better in the 1st half every single game.

Don't see that formula working against Florida, though, even if Bailey plays well. We have to get a few turnovers to even stand a chance and this D isn't good at creating turnovers unfortunately.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
I think it's bit of both.

Defense isn't producing game-changing plays, but they are doing a reasonable job with "bend, don't break" defense until they get gassed by the offense going 3 and out every time. I don't think it's a coincidence that the D plays better in the 1st half every single game.

Don't see that formula working against Florida, though, even if Bailey plays well. We have to get a few turnovers to even stand a chance and this D isn't good at creating turnovers unfortunately.
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We're going to need some redzone turnovers and missed field goals by FL to have a chance. If we can keep Toney in front of us, stop their running game and get lucky vs Pitts we'll have a chance. Any turnovers, missed FGs, bad special teams play or they shut down our running game it'll get ugly. We're going to put 2 good halves together this year, I just hope its Saturday and that it carries over for 6 more halves.
 
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Matt2496 said:
If it’s true that HB is starting, it’s pathetic on the coaches’ part that they waited until freakin Florida to do so. He could’ve been developing this whole time and got meaningful in-game experience. Instead, ole cornbread stuck with JG, the turnover king.
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Which game do you think he should have started. We had 40-50 guys miss 14+ days of preseason practice with HB supposedly missing 21 days through contact tracing. What game do you feel he should have started considering he never really had much practice until the season started?
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Why can't it be the other way around, maybe if the defense produced more wow plays, points and turnovers, we would not be starting every drive on our own 25 or giving up 7 every time a team enters the redzone. Blaming the offense for poor play every single game our defense struggles is not something I agree with. Offense is on the field 28 minutes a game, the defense 32, I don't think those 4 minutes are that big of a deal. If D produced more 3 and outs then they could rest more.
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Unless the defense is regularly scoring defensive touchdowns, the offense will always be the side of the football that consistently leads the team.


I mean look at the Auburn and Arkansas games in the 3rd quarter. Offense has consistently no showed for 5 games in the second half. I just find it hard for the defense to consistently produce and force punts when time after time the offense can't reward them.

There is a reason "winning the time possession" battle is a pro for the offense, not the defense.


Also, I can't imagine the physiological effect for the defense to be motivated to play series after series when JG continues to play. The thing that sticks out to me is the. last play. of the Auburn game when JG took a tackle inbounds instead of throwing ball away or throwing hail mary. Jeremy Banks and another starter on Defense (can't remember who at the moment) just looked at him in disgust and confusion for not throwing ball away or to the endzone.

I know it ultimately falls on Pruitt for JG playing continually even though he is not an asset to this team, but its clear that the defense has either shutdown at points in the game or just isn't motivated when they know they have to play perfect every play to just have a chance to win because there is zero guarantee the offense will back them up. I can't say that is the same for the offense because the worst player on our team is at the most important position.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Which game do you think he should have started. We had 40-50 guys miss 14+ days of preseason practice with HB supposedly missing 21 days through contact tracing. What game do you feel he should have started considering he never really had much practice until the season started?
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Just a thought, but maybe he should've started once JG proved to be an utter failure (the Kentucky fiasco). Clearly the extra practice didn't help him.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Just a thought, but maybe he should've started once JG proved to be an utter failure (the Kentucky fiasco). Clearly the extra practice didn't help him.
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He should have started the first game, if he had we would be hitting a good stride now, instead, the remaining games will be getting ready for next year. I believe if Bailey had been the starter from game one, we would have maybe 5 wins already. If proper training had been done when he was out because of covid protocol. You can do a lot of training with zoom and watching films. He could have at least had the play book down. And then 1 or two weeks of practice he should have been ready to go. What you will see Sat. is with one week of game prep.
 
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