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[Jimmy Football]

Man, I’m just glad to be in the hunt. Today sucks, but we’re in it.

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

This is what I referenced earlier. Need tcu, clemsux to lose & uga to win the sec title

 

[Bvolucanb]

I wonder if LSU winning out and losing to Georgia in the sec championship game, and with losses from Clemson, TCU wouldn’t benefit use more.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

That blueprint requires 4 and 5 star building materials.

Throw in bad weather and a pissed off crowd. Both of which you don’t get in any postseason game.

 

[TheRain]

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

I find myself pulling for LSU. I think that's wrong, but it feels right.

That’s absolutely right.

 

[bignewt]

Yeah but we don't have that kind of pull to get into the playoff that Bama did. We need help.

 

[Revived2002]

This is what I referenced earlier. Need tcu, clemsux, and uga to win the sec title

Alabama Auburn game was fairly similar to this. 26-14. Bama stifled in a raucous environment.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

It showed along with with multiple former vfl’s saying their stadium isnt loud. The shot on Facebook obviously inspired the crowd just a little more than normal. Luckily we won’t have to prepare for a crowd like that anymore this season

People tweeting about Sanford didn’t lose us the game. That narrative is dumb. What isn’t dumb though is that our coaches apparently didn’t prepare our players for it. We should have been prepared for the noise. If it really was that much of a hindrance, that sucks.

 

[engineerVOL]

I’m not going to lie, Hyatt and a few other players admitting in the post game presser that they were unprepared for the crowd noise is disappointing. I’m not sure how Heupel and Staff didn’t have them ready for that. Kind of embarrassing that we weren’t ready for it.

You can’t prepare for crowd noise. Sanford Stadium brought it. They just did. Neyland is louder but it’s different when you’re trying to play offense.

 

[jakez4ut]

Still a good day...

 

[Blake25p]

I have no doubt about it, might score 70 next week (and I’ll be there).

 

[Smokey123]

Based on my untrained football knowledge, they kept 2 safeties over the top in the first half, which caused us not to go deep much. One of our easy opponents did that to us, too, and we did a lot of dinking and dunking. However, we usually run it well against a lesser opponent as the safeties play deep. But against UGA, we couldn’t run either. We did struggle against the blitz and not sure why we don’t run hot routes at the blitz.

That’s exactly what they did. They manned up our WR’s left 2 safeties over the top (very spread out to guard the sidelines). They dominated our offensive line and that was the problem. We couldn’t establish a run game that made them bring a safety down or add an extra LB. They used 6 DB’s a lot, 5 DB’s minimum bcuz of no fear of our run game.

He used a very similar game plan Narduzzi did, Narduzzi likes to stack the box and leave his CB’s on islands tho. But he had to because his front 7 isn’t nearly as good as Georgias.

 

[Vol423]

You can’t prepare for crowd noise.

That’s just ridiculous.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

I have no doubt about it, might score 70 next week (and I’ll be there).

I'll be there too. Loud and proud.

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

People tweeting about Sanford didn’t lose us the game. That narrative is dumb. What isn’t dumb though is that our coaches apparently didn’t prepare our players for it. We should have been prepared for the noise. If it really was that much of a hindrance, that sucks.

Nobody said it did. The o-line had +6 presnap penalties (all crowd related). Those presnap penalties contributed in multiple stalled drives (including the first drive in their territory). We kept clapping for our cadence, which wasn’t a good coaching position b/c mays didnt hear hooker n out tackles or wr would move. We went silent for w couple drives then go right back to clapping.

 

[Weezer]

Whether or not we make the playoffs, we're still set up good for a NY6 Bowl. That's far better than any of us expected. Today was disappointing, and yes, it HURT, but we've had an incredible season.

 

[Smokey123]

Our play calling today was so unimaginative from what I've come to expect from Heupel and Golesh. I really have to wonder why our team seemed so out of synch. It's hard for me to imagine that the UGA crowd was THAT disruptive.

The play calling was the same we’ve seen all
Year. The difference was Georgia did not play us like all the other teams have

 

[engineerVOL]

Whether or not we make the playoffs, we're still set up good for a NY6 Bowl. That's far better than any of us expected. Today was disappointing, and yes, it HURT, but we've had an incredible season.

Go Vols, man! Always.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Still a good day...
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Great setup

 

[jordan4vols]

The difference tonight was honestly their crowd. I’d like to see how we handle their defense at a neutral site

 

[Weezer]

Yeah but we don't have that kind of pull to get into the playoff that Bama did. We need help.

I have a feeling they'll try very hard to find a reason not to have two SEC teams in the playoffs. I think we need a lot of help.

 

[Nash_Vol97]

Earlier this week, I said that Kirby was going to play our WRs with man coverage instead of zone. It looked to me like that is exactly what he did. This nullifies all the switches we have been exploiting where one DB lets a guy go because he knows there is a safety that will pick him up. Bottom line is that he took away our most successful plays that we have been using all year. I have been worried all along that a coach would figure out how to beat our system. Now everyone else will do the same by watching the film of today's game. Most other teams don't have the athletes that Georgia has, but our coaches might as well start preparing for how to adjust.

This is all true, but UGA is one of only a few teams in all of CFB that can play our WRs man up like that as successfully as they did.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

He hits them, that’s 3 TDs

That is true...and instead of sitting here talking about crappy playcalling, once again we are sitting here calling him a genius.

The fact is that the scheme was actually sound...we did not execute that scheme this time. Against Pitt we hit a few of those to get to 27, we did not do that this time.

It is amazing what a massive difference those plays make in perception.

This is therefore a fact you can state with certainty...IF..we clean up OL penalties and missed RB blocks, and Hooker hits those same passes that he has at a high level all year..we could beat them.

 

[99Vol]

I'm fine with Bama winning out and Georgia rolling them in Atlanta...but if they are going to lose, LSU is the best to help build OUR resume.

Really TCU and Clemson are the only teams that I think can keep us out of CFP other than a 1 loss Bama team (which would mean they beat Georgia in title game).

Not saying they would or if the even make the SECCG but Bama has the players to upset UGA. Gibbs makes it hard for a defense to play man all night as it’s harder to run man and take that many players out of run support while also putting anyone 1 v 1 on him in coverage. Then add in Bryce and anything is possible.