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#31
#31
SaintLouisVol said:
There is not a team left on the schedule with a better defense than Tennessee, including Alabama. Unless they quit on Pruitt, which don't see happening, I don't see them losing four more games.
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I agree with you on the defense. But if our offense shoots us in the foot, the defense will get gassed and wear out- just like they did against UGA.
 
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#32
#32
SaintLouisVol said:
There is not a team left on the schedule with a better defense than Tennessee, including Alabama. Unless they quit on Pruitt, which don't see happening, I don't see them losing four more games.
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Bama defense sux. When was last time we could say that?

The line for Bama/ga is dropping like a rock. Bama favored 7.5, down to 4 and dropping. If Bama gives up 300 yards rushing to Ga, they get beat worse than us. Bama better figure out some things this week in a hurry.

Think we end the year 5-2, thus 7-3 and that’s a good year and hit the recruiting trail hard.
 
#33
#33
This is a throw away season, with that said id play a different qb every quarter to force Jim Chaney to switch it up and then see which QB really has the potential. Having a different QB every quarter would sorta help us bc the defense won't be able to get a read on the QB quark's as the game progresses. All 2-4 string qbs get playing time and helps us for the future. They play enough for reps but not long enough to get injured
 
#34
#34
ButchPlz said:
I agree with you on the defense. But if our offense shoots us in the foot, the defense will get gassed and wear out- just like they did against UGA.
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The offense played pretty well against SC and Mizzou. Yes, there are better teams left on the schedule, but the vast majority of defenses they will face look more like SC and a lot less like UGa. As much as it pains me to admit it, UGa may run the table this year. They've played three SEC games with two teams ranked and have given up 12.3 points per game on defense.

I am not saying they won't lay an egg against an inferior team, I just don't see them doing it 3-4 times.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
There is not a team left on the schedule with a better defense than Tennessee, including Alabama. Unless they quit on Pruitt, which don't see happening, I don't see them losing four more games.
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Yeah the defense did what they could to help keep us in the game. Offense couldn't stay on the field and they were gassed by the third qtr. If offense can't get those mistakes worked out tho, I feel we very well could lose more than 4 games.
 
#36
#36
I think we’re 7-3 or 8-2. I really believe that. That’s assuming there aren’t massive Covid related absences or we don’t catch the injury bug. We got hit in the mouth for a half and we’re gonna learn from it. We’re not gonna see a better D than we saw Saturday. A lot has to improve, and IMO it starts with coaching on the offensive side of the ball, as well as the execution . The good thing is it’s correctable in a lot of ways.

Please spare me the responses about JG. We get it, I get it. We all know what he is and what he isn’t. And even the coaching staff knows better than some of you. I’m sure that’s hard for some of you to believe.
 
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chrismc1000 said:
This is a throw away season, with that said id play a different qb every quarter to force Jim Chaney to switch it up and then see which QB really has the potential. Having a different QB every quarter would sorta help us bc the defense won't be able to get a read on the QB quark's as the game progresses. All 2-4 string qbs get playing time and helps us for the future. They play enough for reps but not long enough to get injured
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No such thing as throwaway season, recruits are watching. They aren’t going to say the results doesn’t matter bc they do.
2021 and especially 2022 kids are watching, we have to finish strong.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I think we’re 7-3 or 8-2. I really believe that. That’s assuming there aren’t massive Covid related absences or we don’t catch the injury bug. We got hit in the mouth for a half and we’re gonna learn from it. We’re not gonna see a better D than we saw Saturday. A lot has to improve, and IMO it starts with coaching on the offensive side of the ball, as well as the execution . The good thing is it’s correctable in a lot of ways.

Please spare me the responses about JG. We get it, I get it. We all know what he is and what he isn’t. And even the coaching staff knows better than some of you. I’m sure that’s hard for some of you to believe.
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Contrary to early expectations on offense, I feel really good about our D. Just don't see us scoring enough points if we can't run the ball on legit D's. UGA is another level D, but to me, our "no-show" sat on offense (OL, QB, RB, OC) is concerning enough that I don't see our D strong enough to cover lack of output against some of the teams like Ark, Tam, even Auburn to not stub our toe somewhere along the way. KY is pretty one dimensional, so I'd expect us to do pretty well this week, unless we have massive turnovers again..
 
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Proud Army Wife said:
I'd really like to know what the hell he was thinking there. Then at 3rd and 8 he calls a pass behind the sticks? 🤔 Real head-scratcher.
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We hadn't been able to run the ball all night, and there was no way in heck we were going to sustain a drive against them. It was an attempt to catch them with their pants down and eat up a big chunk of field, which was the only way we had been able to score. It was high risk, but everyone would be calling it brilliant if it would have connected.

Anyone who has watched a lot of football should have seen after the first quarter that lining up and trying to play smash mouth for four quarters was not going to go in favor of the Vols. They were in the game for three quarters because of big plays over the top, very good defense and a few lucky breaks.

The short throw was designed to get a guy in space and make someone miss. They probably didn't like their chances of protecting the pocket and connecting down field in an obvious passing situation.

I have no issue at all with the calls.

I have a very difficult time, in general, with being critical of play calling. The good calls are the ones that work and they bad calls are the ones that don't. That's awful easy to assess in hindsight.
 
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#44
njvols said:
Contrary to early expectations on offense, I feel really good about our D. Just don't see us scoring enough points if we can't run the ball on legit D's. UGA is another level D, but to me, our "no-show" sat on offense (OL, QB, RB, OC) is concerning enough that I don't see our D strong enough to cover lack of output against some of the teams like Ark, Tam, even Auburn to not stub our toe somewhere along the way. KY is pretty one dimensional, so I'd expect us to do pretty well this week, unless we have massive turnovers again..
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I don’t think we have any identity yet on offense. We should, but we don’t. JG has played about 4 halves of good football so far. He played a very good first half on Saturday, obviously we know the rest of the story. Yeah he made some terrible, terrible decisions a 5th year senior should not make, at the same time it was a combination of poor, undisciplined Oline play, as well as some very head scratching play calling. Most teams can’t live at 3rd and 8 against Georgia and we especially can’t given certain limitations in JG’s game. I

think the Oline really needs to take some pride this week and swallow hard knowing that they got their ass kicked. Those guys lost $$ on Saturday. Time to remake it going forward . They’re too good to look that bad.
 
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