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#32,126
#32,126
25vol said:
Hah. No, thankfully!

Funny enough, I took a trip to Japan for work a few years back. After work one evening, we all went drinking together and to a bathhouse for nomikai (basically forced interaction with coworkers). One of my trainers had to have me cover up the tattoo on my shoulder with a wrap. He was dead serious and said it is associated with Yakuza to have the type of tattoo I had.

Now, you might be thinking, “How would a Germanic looking country boy from Campbell County, Tennessee be mistaken for Yakuza?” Well I don’t know the answer. But they don’t play around with that crap over there so I did what I was told.
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Yakuza has been known to use white boys for certain roles actually
 
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#32,129
#32,129
Visidog said:
Good take, but I think I disagree. In the post-turnover series, UGA basically dared Tennessee to run: 6 defenders against 8 Tennessee players in the box. Any throw would have been into double coverage. On top of that, Tennessee was already in field goal range and near the end of the game. Yeah, in hindsight, three runs didn’t work—but it took a confluence of penalties, missed blocks, and good plays by the other team to keep Tennessee from converting a first down. If similar events had happened in the pass game—like a missed block or a big defensive play—you might be looking taking a sack or worse. In the end, getting 3 points and running down the clock is a species of success, even if not the dagger you wanted.

As for trusting the kicker, I thought Huepel was playing game control. Winning by kicking is the most likely result, and he got his team into position by taking a minimum number of risks.

Kirby clearly wanted to make Huepel run plays at the end. He called timeouts just to make Tennessee make decisions and snap the ball, all but daring Huepel to take a risk. Maybe Huepel could have been more aggressive in the face of these timeouts, but I think he had a plan and stuck with it. He ended up taking the game down to a situation where Tennessee could not lose in regulation and had a good chance to win. That’s good coaching—even if it’s not perfect in hindsight.

I think Huepel is a better coach when he’s coaching from behind. The pressure is real.
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You aren't disagreeing with me...that's pretty much what I was saying, Heupel had zero reason to throw into that defense on that drive...it would have been stupid to do so..he trusted the defense could hold the lead..and he wasn't sweating the last kick either..

It was two logical decisions that didn't work out because several players executed really poorly on defense and offense. Everybody misses the fact that on one of those three runs (that everybody is bitching about) the guard whiffed on a block...it was a huge whiff as the run would have at least gotten us close to the first down marker.

It happens...the OL overall played pretty well, and poor Max just missed the biggest kick of his career...I feel so bad for that kid. I hope at some point he redeems himself so he doesn't carry that around for the rest of his life.
 
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Aesius said:
I feel like we're going to win a game we otherwise wouldn't have because of that loss.

IMO the Arkansas loss last year propelled us to back-to-back wins over UF and Bama.
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With wisdom that we have now I’m not so sure how the heck Heupel pulled those wins out with the QB we had. Complete masterpiece.
 
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