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Anyone else read it? Pinned on the home page this morning.

"Tennessee can be tremendous, but it’s probably not going to win at Cal to start off the year without the firepower in place to hang around in a shootout. That’ll likely kill your national title dreams, but Georgia and Florida have enough issues to make an SEC championship a realistic goal."

That assessment makes very little sense to me.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Anyone else read it? Pinned on the home page this morning.

"Tennessee can be tremendous, but it’s probably not going to win at Cal to start off the year without the firepower in place to hang around in a shootout. That’ll likely kill your national title dreams, but Georgia and Florida have enough issues to make an SEC championship a realistic goal."

That assessment makes very little sense to me.
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Randy Moore is part of the Holy Trinity of Cluelessness, along with Jimmy Hyams and Dave Hooker.
 
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sounds that way... sounds like he thinks Cal will be better than UT, Florida and Georgia, which I completely disagree with. Cal will be good, but I don't think they'll be as good as last year. They lost their best RB and best DT. Longshore, Forsett and Jackson will be their team and if we can keep Jackson in front of us and avoid the big play from him, we should be able to beat Cal. Florida and Georgia are different stories...

Dave Hooker is a recruiting guy and that's about as far as his knowledge goes. Hyams is ok but they could find someone else better to co-host a radio show.
 
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Of course the revenge factor and home field advantage can't be overlooked .As long as our d- linemen are controlling the game else we better put up a no less than 4 tds IMO.
 
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I read earlier today that Cal's second starting CB spot is completely up in the air. They have about 7 players that have a shot at it. If we exploited a young CB to destroy Cal last year, why does he think that Coach Cut won't be able to do it again?
 
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First&Tenn said:
I read earlier today that Cal's second starting CB spot is completely up in the air. They have about 7 players that have a shot at it. If we exploited a young CB to destroy Cal last year, why does he think that Coach Cut won't be able to do it again?
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That is a wonderful observation.
 
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First&Tenn said:
I read earlier today that Cal's second starting CB spot is completely up in the air. They have about 7 players that have a shot at it. If we exploited a young CB to destroy Cal last year, why does he think that Coach Cut won't be able to do it again?
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first off the rest of the secondary has much more experience than last year. Next unlike last year your WRs have as much expereince as that CB would (assuming it isn't peele who has significant expereince). edit: and i think he thinks you will have problems with cal since it would be the first game of the season (not because we will be better than you at the end).
 
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droski said:
first off the rest of the secondary has much more experience than last year. Next unlike last year your WRs have as much expereince as that CB would (assuming it isn't peele who has significant expereince).
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I knew you'd resurface sooner or later.:) Welcome back.
 
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First&Tenn said:
I read earlier today that Cal's second starting CB spot is completely up in the air. They have about 7 players that have a shot at it. If we exploited a young CB to destroy Cal last year, why does he think that Coach Cut won't be able to do it again?
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We are without R. Meachem, B. Smith, and J. Swain.
 
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Kenny O'Neal isn't inexperienced.

Yeah, Thompson will be good - we'll just go to the other side.

Or - outsmart you, as we did in 2006.
 
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VolinArizona said:
Kenny O'Neal isn't inexperienced.

Yeah, Thompson will be good - we'll just go to the other side.

Or - outsmart you, as we did in 2006.
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O'neal is a jc player. I think our redshirt freshman CBs would be as experienced playing against our WRs ever day in practice for a year as a JC player. :dunno:
 
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droski said:
O'neal is a jc player. I think our redshirt freshman CBs would be as experienced playing against our WRs ever day in practice for a year as a JC player. :dunno:
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No, you were saying we didn't have any experienced WRs. I was only saying O'Neal isn't inexperienced - he played a lot at FSU as a freshman.
 
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VolinArizona said:
No, you were saying we didn't have any experienced WRs. I was only saying O'Neal isn't inexperienced - he played a lot at FSU as a freshman.
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he caught 5 passes for FSU and unless i'm missing something ainge wasn't the qb either.
 
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droski said:
he caught 5 passes for FSU and unless i'm missing something ainge wasn't the qb either.
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He caught 5 passes and has 19 kickoff returns. 24 touches is about 2 per game. "A lot" was overspeaking on my part, but I stand by the fact that he is not inexperienced. Ainge 2007 >>>>>> Weatherford 2005
 
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VolinArizona said:
but I stand by the fact that he is not inexperienced. Ainge 2007 >>>>>> Weatherford 2005
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Not completely inexperienced no. the question is does he have the experience to exploit our other cb. thompson would probably cover him anway. i'd hope.
 
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droski said:
first off the rest of the secondary has much more experience than last year. Next unlike last year your WRs have as much expereince as that CB would (assuming it isn't peele who has significant expereince). edit: and i think he thinks you will have problems with cal since it would be the first game of the season (not because we will be better than you at the end).
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A secondary very rarely gets better when it loses a pro prospect. O'Neal and Vinson both have the talent to make an early impact as long as the QB can get them the ball in space. I'm willing to bet that Ainge will be able to get that ball to them in open areas (he found them last year against Hughes).

Also, I want to talk run game. You only return one starter on your defensive front (Matt Malele). UT returns three good RBs, and the O-line will be much better than last year. I think that UT is going to run all over Cal, until they hit that deep ball on a young secondary that will be cheating up to deny Coker the corner.

Finally, you graduated two starting linebackers and their backups (Bishop, Moye, Pimentel, Van Hoeson). You also graduated both starting safeties (Hampton, DeCloud).

All of this research (Which players are listed as starters) is based on a Depth Chart from last September, but even if I'm wrong on a couple of starters, you've still faced great losses all over the D (The senior laden D that UT ran up 35 on).
 
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