Mike Ditka (da-Bears!) just said...

[Hayezb]

Who hired the guys upstairs and who decided to sit on the ball at the end of the first half?

No one is perfect but this staffs trend is to be conserative whether its 4 n 1 or at the end of the half..and every time its bit them in the butt..

That must change to win big games

I'm torn between his decision to not call a timeout as well.

But what's he going to to do? Call a deep pass play and hope to god that our OL can do something they haven't done all season... block. That's more of a risk than going into half down 3.

 

[WriterVol]

Who cares.

It wasn't likely that the Vols drive it down, score, then get a 2 point conversion on their defense anyway.

I am more upset at the defense for letting a couple of middle of the road receivers and some putz who willingly calls himself Maty beat them in the 4th.

Where's the other T Maty?

Honestly, I'm more of this opinion. I thought the second half was more on the defense. Neither offense was killing it to that point.

 

[volfanjustin]

Bad play calling,. botched time management at end of both halfs.

In my next life I hope I come back at the head coach for Tenn football where you make over $3 mill per year and some of the fan base refuses to blame me for anything.

 

[Hayezb]

Who cares.

It wasn't likely that the Vols drive it down, score, then get a 2 point conversion on their defense anyway.

I am more upset at the defense for letting a couple of middle of the road receivers and some putz who willingly calls himself Maty beat them in the 4th.

Where's the other T Maty?

That had to of been the best game of the season for Maty. His throws were money for the most part. It's not like we didn't get any pressure on him either.

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

Honestly, I'm more of this opinion. I thought the second half was more on the defense. Neither offense was killing it to that point.

I don't like them sitting on time outs at the half, especially after they went aggressive early with the fake FG.

They could have easily had a minute and the ball at their 30 with a couple of TOs to do something.

Throw a couple of passes and then take the knee if they want to run it out.

Just showed a lack of trust in Dobbs and the offense to not screw up IMO.


The on side kick....it was beyond desperation mode at that point. Even getting the challenge call or recovering the kick didn't guarantee anything.

 

[volfan411]

I thought at the end of first half if they would have gained any yardage on first down they would have started being aggresive but when we had a minimal gain on first they went conservative. MO still had TO left too so if we have a loss of yardage or a turnover there was a risk in them scoring points.

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

That had to of been the best game of the season for Maty. His throws were money for the most part. It's not like we didn't get any pressure on him either.

I know.

The only two games that he had better yardage was A ad M and Toledo.

We held him to 12/25 for 230 yards. Les than 50 % and nearly 1/3 of his yardage on one play.

It really really ticks me off that they let a mediocre QB beat us like that. I respect Missouri as a team but this guy is mediocre at best until it's against the Vols.

Look at the guys stats for the season:

Maty Mauk Stats, News, Videos, Pictures, Bio - Missouri Tigers - ESPN

 

[WriterVol]

I don't like them sitting on time outs at the half, especially after they went aggressive early with the fake FG.

They could have easily had a minute and the ball at their 30 with a couple of TOs to do something.

Throw a couple of passes and then take the knee if they want to run it out.

Just showed a lack of trust in Dobbs and the offense to not screw up IMO.


The on side kick....it was beyond desperation mode at that point. Even getting the challenge call or recovering the kick didn't guarantee anything.

I'm not a fan of going conservative there either, but it's how they went.

I think it was more of a lack of trust in...other areas, but I see your point.

I think the staff needs to sharpen their review-calling process, but it's always hectic when you've got to make that kind of decision. Still, no reason you can't improve upon it.

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

I'm not a fan of going conservative there either, but it's how they went.

I think it was more of a lack of trust in...other areas, but I see your point.

I think the staff needs to sharpen their review-calling process, but it's always hectic when you've got to make that kind of decision. Still, no reason you can't improve upon it.

Yeah, I agree. I don't think the on side kick decision or the half time squatting on the ball decisions made the difference in the game.

It's just something to complain about.

The much bigger issue IMO was the outburst in the 4th from their passing game which had been terrible to that point.

 

[Cdywolfe]

Am I wrong or wouldn't it have been automatically reviewed if it would've been close?

 

[velovol]

For some reason some fans expect coaches to NEVER make a mistake in the last minutes of a ball game. At the end of the day it was not a good idea but even Saban has made some dumb calls at the end of a game that cost him the National Title. It happens they are human. We just have to hope he learns from it

 

[volfanjustin]

For some reason some fans expect coaches to NEVER make a mistake in the last minutes of a ball game. At the end of the day it was not a good idea but even Saban has made some dumb calls at the end of a game that cost him the National Title. It happens they are human. We just have to hope he learns from it

I don't think it's that at all, the issue for me is when some fans defend him 100% and place no blame on him. I don't want him fired I just want to see people admit when he makes a bad call.

 

[terrypedigo]

Young Team really young head coach in this league, so he is growing as a coach he made a few mistakes on the way, so get the mistakes out of the way this year, then when we got a whole lot better team next year, he wont make the same mistakes, even if we had got the ball back with a minute left and 2 timeouts it would have been hard to go 75 yards and get the 2 point play anyway, all to got to do is beat vandy and we will go to a bowl, win the bowl and then we are still on our way, nothing has changed since the SC game, we all or most would have took 3 out of 4 wins when we were 3 and 5, we will do that, not talking about his age as a head coach but talking about how long as a head coach in a major conference, this is not Central Michigan or Cincinnati, lest hope he grows as a coach as the team grows, now if we are making the same mistakes next year as this year, then we might have issues lest give Coach a break this time, we all think we are headed in the right direction.

 

[orangeluvr]

We got whipped on the LOS, that's the reason we lost the game. :yes:

 

[Firebirdparts]

Anytime we lose the majority of the fanbase has to find someone to blame for the loss. I blame Missouri since they are just better than us this year. We tend to pick one play out of 150 that defined the game but forget about the other 149.

The Tigers are better than us and I can accept that, especially since we were shorthanded to begin with.

You, sir, are the voice of sanity.

 

[TAF]

I asked the same thing.

South Carolina game.

How do you rate the South Carolina game?

Go back and watch the last 5 mins...it was managed ON FIELD by Dobbs...and the offense. We didn't have timeouts for the bench to screw it up...

 

[William Quantrill]

Anytime we lose the majority of the fanbase has to find someone to blame for the loss. I blame Missouri since they are just better than us this year. We tend to pick one play out of 150 that defined the game but forget about the other 149.

The Tigers are better than us and I can accept that, especially since we were shorthanded to begin with.

Tennessee should have scheduled games with Missouri back in the 1980's and 1990's, we were awful. The University Administrators were more interested in planting tree's around the campus than improving the sorry condition of the football program.

 

[Memphis Morrison]

I don't blame him for the end of the game I do however blame him for the three he didn't use with 3 minutes left in the first half. IF we go and score before the half we wouldn't have been in that situation to begin with. Poorly coached game, end of story.

 

[FRO]

we lost get over it. onto vandy where we become bowl eligible. focus on that or bust..

 

[FLVOL_79]

Anytime we lose the majority of the fanbase has to find someone to blame for the loss. I blame Missouri since they are just better than us this year. We tend to pick one play out of 150 that defined the game but forget about the other 149.

The Tigers are better than us and I can accept that, especially since we were shorthanded to begin with.

I blame the fans for leaving early. They left..demoralized our boys. Way to go fans!

 

[17Vols]

Ditka was on Mike and Mike this morning. They were discussing Atlanta Falcons' head coach Mike (too many Mike's in this situation) Smith and how he mishandled time outs at the end of their game vs Cleveland yesterday.

Ditka said it was probably the fault of somebody upstairs, who's specific job it is to let the coach know how many time outs are left and how to use them. He, Ditka - Hall of Fame coach, specifically said "the coach can't keep up with all that stuff" when trying to do all the other aspects of running the game.

So...was I frustrated at Butch for challenging the onside kick? Yes. Should we all cut him a little slack given the situation? Probably. Ditka would evidently say yes.

AV

Who knows, maybe he was hoping for a make up call following that last review debacle.
Bottom line, it was a long shot, but no more so than a 75 yard TD drive with around 20 seconds on the clock PLUS a successful 2 pt conversion just to tie the game. IF we could stop Mizzous Offense.

 

[Kelley_VFL]

Who knows, maybe he was hoping for a make up call following that last review debacle.
Bottom line, it was a long shot, but no more so than a 75 yard TD drive with around 20 seconds on the clock PLUS a successful 2 pt conversion just to tie the game. IF we could stop Mizzous Offense.

Totally agree. I believe we had less than a 20% chance of scoring even with both timeouts. Our best chance for getting another score was that recovered kick. Was it close? YES! The player was standing on the 40 and reached backward to catch the ball. From the sideline it probably looked like he caught it at the 40 and fell backwards which would have been a legal recovery. Its easy for us to see it on TV but I don't believe college teams have replay people upstairs. Only the officials have access to those views unless they are televised.

 

[ScreamingIdiot]

As to not taking the time outs at the end of the first half, I would assume that since our offense could not move the ball against them at all, and it was 13-13, he wanted to get to the locker room and make some adjustments and not make a mistake and give them a lead. I can see that this team is making slow and steady progress and we make very few mistakes. I can see that this is their game plan to this point. The name of the game is to win and I believe that we will be in the running for conference championships with this coaching staff and Butch.

 

[AllVolinGA]

The same folks bmw'img about not using the timeouts at the end of the first half would be bmw'img if he had done that, not picked up the first down, give the ball back to Mz, they score to take the lead. Only hope Butch has is if we moved down and scored. Possible, yes, probable, no.

 

[rickyyrs]

So Dooley is innocent too, huh? Butch didn't call a timeout by the way, he challenged a call that had little chance of being overturned, and losing that challenge cost us a timeout. Butch blew that one, pure and simple.

Boy it sure is a lot easier to go back after the game and figure out what Butch should of done. Some of you people should be coaching so we can say what you do wrong. lol:lol: