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#30,177
#30,177
I've been listening to several talking heads today and all of them have proclaimed how poor of a job Tim banks did on defense. Really bad game plan and little to no adjustments during the game. Tennessee had it in the bag.

Also, The Film Guy said it was insanely loud in Neyland and doesn't know how it could get any louder. Doesn't think anywhere could match that volume.
 
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Weezer said:
FG wouldn't have been necessary if Heupel doesn't choose to go conservative on some of those drives, specifically the drive after the FF/TO where we ran it 3 times and kicked a FG.

Or maybe if the officials call Landon Humphries for the push off on that TD ....

Point being, there is blame to go around. I agree Max SHOULD have made the FG. But he's not solely to blame for losing.
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On that turnover, the official (LB location) threw a flag on Pendleton for "moving the football" on 1st down. ABC didn't show a replay and I couldn't see movement on the o-line. That put us in a hole and it looked to be intentional.... it might have been a legit penalty but there was no replay and I didn't see it, even after watching the 2nd half twice. 3 running plays still didn't make sense and Josh was visibly ticked after the 3rd down run.... ABC showed a close up of that. I don't know if Joey audibled out of what CJH called and into a run or Josh was mad about something else.
 
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Weezer said:
FG wouldn't have been necessary if Heupel doesn't choose to go conservative on some of those drives, specifically the drive after the FF/TO where we ran it 3 times and kicked a FG.

Or maybe if the officials call Landon Humphries for the push off on that TD ....

Point being, there is blame to go around. I agree Max SHOULD have made the FG. But he's not solely to blame for losing.
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I get the third down run was ehhh but the penalty put you out of fg range and you HAD to at least have 3 points there. Had to run it twice at least to get back in range.
 
#30,197
#30,197
Ugh, what a heartbreaking loss.

Just to reflect...

2021 Pre-Season:
"Heupel's offense won't translate to the SEC" -> Breaks all kinds of records in 2021/2022.
"Heupel isn't a good recruiter" -> Best 3-year recruiting stretch since Fulmer.
"Heupel can't manage an SEC program" -> ESPN used to talk about him as a play-caller. Now they're hyping up Golesh because he "learned from Josh Heupel, one of the best program managers in the country."

Post 2022:
"Heupel can't have a good defense" -> Top 20 defense (2023). Top 5 defense (2024).

The entire time...
"Heupel's system can't score on athletic defenses like Georgia." -> 41 points yesterday.

I wanted yesterday really badly, but zooming out a bit, Heupel answered my last major question. He put up points against a Kirby Smart defense, and he did it with a quarterback (that nobody wanted) that's been in the system for just a couple months. He took them to overtime with 4 NFL players, and if Gilbert could've hit that kick the tone in here would've been very different.

The talent margin is getting narrower. Heupel is still the man.
 
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#30,198
SagginVawls said:
Brother I have been fighting the defeatist attitude in here for the past 24 hours. I get it. Armchair coaching.
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Criticizing some of the play calls is FAR from calling for Heupel's head. People, specifically @Ulysees E. McGill , need to stop overreacting when someone is critical of an effing play call. It's 🦬💩.
 
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