Others blame injury, Vols can't?

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Over the last few weeks.....teams that have lost or have not performed well are using the injury excuse. Texas A&M and Florida are just 2 examples.

It seems the National narrative of having key players injured, results in poor production and losing. This excuse is being used for just about all other struggling teams.

Why can't the Vols, who have had upwards of 18 starters out through the season or for year, use this as a valid reason?

The team has been mocked and made fun of by it's own fan base and National sports media for legitimately blaming injuries......

Why the double standard?
 
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madbamahater said:
Over the last few weeks.....teams that have lost or have not performed well are using the injury excuse. Texas A&M and Florida are just 2 examples.

It seems the National narrative of having key players injured, results in poor production and losing. This excuse is being used for just about all other struggling teams.

Why can't the Vols, who have had upwards of 18 starters out through the season or for year, use this as a valid reason?

The team has been mocked and made fun of by it's own fan base and National sports media for legitimately blaming injuries......

Why the double standard?
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Ask the "Fahr Butch" bunch!:hi:
 
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We've gotten plenty of exposure on our injuries, especially thru TaM and Bama. Rightly so, where injury excuses don't hold water as much is the SC loss, where we still held the talent advantage, but didn't show up to play...so I think the narrative changed some with that loss...then the Hurd deal happened.
 
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if no one believes injuries can derail your season, they're in denial...coaches can't really use it because it's still about wins and losses for them and you still have to keep your team focused and prepared to compete...next man up...:rock::rock:

GO VOLS...RUN THE TABLE!
 
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Because we have have far too many fans (many on this sight) with low football IQ's! Ex...They think we should've been able to beat or compete with Bama even with 12-14 starters out! Not joking!
 
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Are we talking about Tennessee High School Football?

"Forum substitution"
 
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we just don't have the depth yet, because of the crap coaches we went through that decimated the program.
 
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gray0306 said:
we just don't have the depth yet, because of the crap coaches we went through that decimated the program.
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We don't have Alabama depth, nope, sure don't. But we had enough to go through a season with injuries closer to the norm. My gosh, our top three defensive tackles are gone. Our linebacking corps was decimated. Our secondary was constantly having to plug injury-caused holes.
 
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musolfmj said:
We don't have Alabama depth, nope, sure don't. But we had enough to go through a season with injuries closer to the norm. My gosh, our top three defensive tackles are gone. Our linebacking corps was decimated. Our secondary was constantly having to plug injury-caused holes.
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Its not just the loss of talent at those positions either its the loss of continuity and unit cohesion. I've been pleasantly surprised at the athletic talent of the replacements but the lack of playing time, reps, and on field leadership shows in plays like the coverage bust against USCe that resulted in an easy TD and ultimately was the difference in the game. The up side is the Vols will have a lot of guys with a lot of game reps coming back next year.
 
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Blame injuries one year? OK. Blame injuries two straight years? That's odd but OK. Blame injuries 3 straight years with a consistent pattern of having higher injury rates than other programs....? NO.
 
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sjt18 said:
Blame injuries one year? OK. Blame injuries two straight years? That's odd but OK. Blame injuries 3 straight years with a consistent pattern of having higher injury rates than other programs....? NO.
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So, are you saying the injuries are not impactful or are you saying that we should have sufficient depth to account for losing 18 starters and still win the SC game?
 
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madbamahater said:
Over the last few weeks.....teams that have lost or have not performed well are using the injury excuse. Texas A&M and Florida are just 2 examples.

It seems the National narrative of having key players injured, results in poor production and losing. This excuse is being used for just about all other struggling teams.

Why can't the Vols, who have had upwards of 18 starters out through the season or for year, use this as a valid reason?

The team has been mocked and made fun of by it's own fan base and National sports media for legitimately blaming injuries......

Why the double standard?
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have you seen some of the reactions from those fan bases for their respective losses over the past weekend? very similar, if not exactly, the same as you've seen here the past 2 weeks.
 
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We may have looked prepared beginning the 2015 season, but we didn't have a depth of experience to finish key games in the 4th qtr (Defense got out-gassed; etc). And now, we don't have the depth -- AGAIN, in YEAR 4? What?

There can be no excuses -- year after year after year (what was it Yr 2 -- 98% of the team had never been on an airplane, or something like that).

This year's narrative began at the App St game (winning, but still dropping from #9 to #18 / continually coming-from-behind, even when we had ALL starters at App St). Oh well.
 
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If we had started out looking like we knew what we were doing, I'd be happy to blame injuries.

Yes, I know that injuries started right off the bat, but the Tennessee Tech game was the first one where I didn't have my heart in my mouth all game. We just didn't look dominant early in the season, when we should have.

But now, when we need an ambulance squad mire than buses to transmit the team, then absolutely yes, we can blame injuries for a lot. Sure would like to have played A&M with a full squad.
 
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VolNExile said:
If we had started out looking like we knew what we were doing, I'd be happy to blame injuries.

Yes, I know that injuries started right off the bat, but the Tennessee Tech game was the first one where I didn't have my heart in my mouth all game. We just didn't look dominant early in the season, when we should have.

But now, when we need an ambulance squad mire than buses to transmit the team, then absolutely yes, we can blame injuries for a lot. Sure would like to have played A&M with a full squad.
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and i think that's the thing...we haven't been "right" all year. and even with the aTm game...was it really injuries that cost us that game? no. 7 turnovers did.

the USCe game....you're coming off a bye, you do get a couple guys back, and we just laid an egg, playing the worst game we've played since the '13 Vandy game.

the only game that i'd point at and say the result was on par with respect to injuries was the Bama game. and that really only means that i don't think we'd of lost by as much, had we been fully healthy.

consistently inconsistent...even in the W's. glad to get them, mind you...but those same issues we had in the w's, were present in, and were the primary cause, of 2 of the L's, as well.
 
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To start the season we were a stacked team with talent all over the field, we had "stay fresh" depth to compete in the 4th qtr, we struggled last year with the way we finished games, unfortunately we do not have injury depth. Injuries have changed the productivity of both our offense and defense.

With that said we have ran a very conservative offense that rarely openned up except during critical times(when down by two or more scores). Our best offensive production against a quality opponent was riddled with 7 turnovers. To fix that would go a long way in our Championship run.

Plan D.
 
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njvols said:
We've gotten plenty of exposure on our injuries, especially thru TaM and Bama. Rightly so, where injury excuses don't hold water as much is the SC loss, where we still held the talent advantage, but didn't show up to play...so I think the narrative changed some with that loss...then the Hurd deal happened.
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^ x 1000
 
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I think everyone is just tired of excuses.

Under CBJ:

Division championships? We don't have any

Conference championship game appearances? We don't have any

Conference championships? We don't have any

Wins over Bama? We don't have any

Excuses? We have plenty
 
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