Sudeepvol
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ok obviously we lost by 39 points and everyone else will say that we got embarrased. But Tennessee did not play that bad.
Let's break the game apart shall we? I believe Tenn's LB's pressured Tebow a lot, Tebow(with some luck) was just able to get out of these situations. Recall, for example, the few times that Tebow was under pressure and had to scramble, then with no options, he just tossed the ball a couple of yards to a wide open tail back (obviously not a designed play). There were many other instances that i cannot remember specifically where Tebow was able to scramble away from the rush and get a few yards. What can we say? Tebow played better than we thought he would. It's hard for me to defend the Tenn's secondary though. When we needed a big play from them, they didn't execute, save for one instance (Berry's INT). I would say the secondary had a lot to do with out loss. Now you're probably going to bring up the 250+ rush yards by Florida. But Florida doesn't run a standard formation. It's too difficult to stop their playmakers (esp harvin) on reverses and options. They just have too much speed. I think the defense would've won the battle against any other offense (excluding teams in the top 10).
Recall that we had 2 FG's early on that we could not turn into TD's. I think this was the difference in the game. They scored Td's early on while we scored Td's. Its hard to come back as the visiting team in the swamp when you're down 28-6. We kicked short field goals too which shows us how far the offense drove the ball. Obviously the running game was a big disappointment, but the overall offensive scheme was not too bad.
We're not good enough to beat Florida this year, but I think we can beat a lot of teams. We have just played two very difficult opponents with simply too much speed for our defense. Overall, though, I think we played decent enough to beat a lot of teams.
Let's break the game apart shall we? I believe Tenn's LB's pressured Tebow a lot, Tebow(with some luck) was just able to get out of these situations. Recall, for example, the few times that Tebow was under pressure and had to scramble, then with no options, he just tossed the ball a couple of yards to a wide open tail back (obviously not a designed play). There were many other instances that i cannot remember specifically where Tebow was able to scramble away from the rush and get a few yards. What can we say? Tebow played better than we thought he would. It's hard for me to defend the Tenn's secondary though. When we needed a big play from them, they didn't execute, save for one instance (Berry's INT). I would say the secondary had a lot to do with out loss. Now you're probably going to bring up the 250+ rush yards by Florida. But Florida doesn't run a standard formation. It's too difficult to stop their playmakers (esp harvin) on reverses and options. They just have too much speed. I think the defense would've won the battle against any other offense (excluding teams in the top 10).
Recall that we had 2 FG's early on that we could not turn into TD's. I think this was the difference in the game. They scored Td's early on while we scored Td's. Its hard to come back as the visiting team in the swamp when you're down 28-6. We kicked short field goals too which shows us how far the offense drove the ball. Obviously the running game was a big disappointment, but the overall offensive scheme was not too bad.
We're not good enough to beat Florida this year, but I think we can beat a lot of teams. We have just played two very difficult opponents with simply too much speed for our defense. Overall, though, I think we played decent enough to beat a lot of teams.
