The Defense Was The Biggest Problem Today

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Was it horrible watching a team that was 2-10 last year beat us in our home, absolutely! I don't think we are to the point of talking about firing people, setting mattresses on fire, or anything extreme over one bad game. Pruitt said it straight up during camp that the defense is not anywhere near what they should be. I think it's also too soon to make a call on Derrick Ansley as well. The 2 penalties on substitutions that we got were on Pruitt, that nonsense should have never happened. The offense performed much better than the defense but bumbling balls, missed catches, and fumbles need to be worked on. That was one of the games that should have been in the win column unfortunately it didn't work out that way. Jim Chaney was only hired in January so some of the offense issues could be on breaking in a new playbook as well.

That's my rational, level headed takeaway.
 
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What new playbook? Looked like the same lame plays as before - run up the middle, sweep, throw the ball across the field into coverage and the swing/screens. Not enough imagination and not enough throwing down field to try and open things up (oh I should include our favorite - QB hold the ball and stand like a statue until the defense plows him)

I know we are limited with Butch talent as upperclassmen and it takes a while for Freshman to get SEC (or apparently Sunbelt) ready. Butch’s players don’t like Pruitt’s system and don’t look like they will try hard for him. The sooner he benches those type leeches and starts from scratch with his talent (much like Saban did right before he played us his first year at Bama), the sooner we have a chance of turning the corner instead of hiring Pruitt’s replacement with a new system.

JG May have some talent but he’s not been the leader we need at QB - he’s already the losingest QB in UT history - so try someone else. If they lose, then they did just as good as JG (or maybe it lights a fire and he bounces back). The lines will take time to restock and rebuild (thanks Butch) but we need to coach around it as best as possible
 
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Look, i'll put it as simply as I can.

The biggest issue is Tennessee got beat physically. A lot of people have talked about what Tennessee was running, but not many have spoken about Georgia State. I hate to break it to y'all, but they did not run a whole lot of exotic stuff in this one, offensively or defensively. The only time they got cute was the 2 point play that was called back for a penalty. They ran dives and option and play action passes off of those things. Not overly complex. And defensively, they didn't get too sophisticated either.

This is supposed to be a game where you can give a fan in the stands the playbook and let him/her call plays and it should all work because you are that much more physically superior than the opposition.

That obviously did not happen today.
 
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Has Ga. State never ran the Read Option before? We never saw it on tape...never schemed for it? We were just completely unable to stop them and for a team that's supposed to be built around defense we didn't look the part.
 
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99gator said:
Look, i'll put it as simply as I can.

The biggest issue is Tennessee got beat physically. A lot of people have talked about what Tennessee was running, but not many have spoken about Georgia State. I hate to break it to y'all, but they did not run a whole lot of exotic stuff in this one, offensively or defensively. The only time they got cute was the 2 point play that was called back for a penalty. They ran dives and option and play action passes off of those things. Not overly complex. And defensively, they didn't get too sophisticated either.

This is supposed to be a game where you can give a fan in the stands the playbook and let him/her call plays and it should all work because you are that much more physically superior than the opposition.

That obviously did not happen today.
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Spot on! Tennessee football is a joke. It has finally reached the level of a joke, even after butch and Dooley, it’s a total complete joke.
 
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99gator said:
Look, i'll put it as simply as I can.

The biggest issue is Tennessee got beat physically. A lot of people have talked about what Tennessee was running, but not many have spoken about Georgia State. I hate to break it to y'all, but they did not run a whole lot of exotic stuff in this one, offensively or defensively. The only time they got cute was the 2 point play that was called back for a penalty. They ran dives and option and play action passes off of those things. Not overly complex. And defensively, they didn't get too sophisticated either.

This is supposed to be a game where you can give a fan in the stands the playbook and let him/her call plays and it should all work because you are that much more physically superior than the opposition.

That obviously did not happen today.
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Man..I hate agreeing with a Gator. We were not the only Vanilla program in Neyland today....we are just horrid. It there a word worse than “horrid” that I can post on Volnation without getting banned?
 
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99gator said:
Look, i'll put it as simply as I can.

The biggest issue is Tennessee got beat physically. A lot of people have talked about what Tennessee was running, but not many have spoken about Georgia State. I hate to break it to y'all, but they did not run a whole lot of exotic stuff in this one, offensively or defensively. The only time they got cute was the 2 point play that was called back for a penalty. They ran dives and option and play action passes off of those things. Not overly complex. And defensively, they didn't get too sophisticated either.

This is supposed to be a game where you can give a fan in the stands the playbook and let him/her call plays and it should all work because you are that much more physically superior than the opposition.

That obviously did not happen today.
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your a nice dude ...stfu in a nice kinda way..let us gripe about this for one night with out your feel good speech stuff
 
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volfannbama said:
Coaching was the biggest problem today.
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It wasn’t good. But other than the last few minutes of the first half, I thought the O play calling was fine. I mean seriously it was GA ST.

Also maybe it’s just me on that. And maybe I’m so butt hurt from the D, lack of effort and the fact we have Pruitt (which I thought might be good, but have lost all faith in one game) and not the 90’s Fulmer.
 
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The defense was horrid. The O line was also terrible. It’s sad that an SEC line can’t create a decent pocket against a 2-10 sunbelt team.
 
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JoAllan said:
It wasn’t good. But other than the last few minutes of the first half, I thought the O play calling was fine. I mean seriously it was GA ST.

Also maybe it’s just me on that. And maybe I’m so butt hurt from the D, lack of effort and the fact we have Pruitt (which I thought might be good, but have lost all faith in one game) and not the 90’s Fulmer.
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Mainly the coaching that lead up to the game
 
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99gator said:
Look, i'll put it as simply as I can.

The biggest issue is Tennessee got beat physically. A lot of people have talked about what Tennessee was running, but not many have spoken about Georgia State. I hate to break it to y'all, but they did not run a whole lot of exotic stuff in this one, offensively or defensively. The only time they got cute was the 2 point play that was called back for a penalty. They ran dives and option and play action passes off of those things. Not overly complex. And defensively, they didn't get too sophisticated either.

This is supposed to be a game where you can give a fan in the stands the playbook and let him/her call plays and it should all work because you are that much more physically superior than the opposition.

That obviously did not happen today.
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Man go away for a couple days. Haven't we suffered enough?
 
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I live 30 minutes from the Kennesaw State campus.....they won 59-0. Maybe I will become an Owls fan.....Hooo Hoooo.
 
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I can almost understand our offensive woes...We’ll, no I can’t, but I can understand it more than I can our defensive struggles.

Offense has a new OC (albeit a proven one) a relatively unproven OL coach. We still should have scored 50. But we did get 30.

But what really blows my mind. Is the D. We have Jeremy Pruit as our head coach. A top 5 defensive mind in the nation. If he doesn’t get the job done here he will go to a contender as a DC on day 1.

We have CDA as our DC/DB coach and we continually had open WRs just toying with our DBs.

I get the argument that these guys are accustomed to coaching teams with more talent, BUT the comparative level of talent isn’t even close. There’s just no rhyme or reason for this loss.

The only thing I can chalk it up to is that CJP is the worlds worst motivator.
 
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They lined up 2 people on the line on one down.....wtf is going on with the defense.
 
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That could be.

If you listened to Priest you kinda had the feeling that there was no effort
 
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The one thing. The offe se sucked but they did enough to beat a Sun Belt team. Over 400 yards of offense and 30 points should beat every Sun Belt team because your SEC defense should keep them under 10. I'm not taking up for the offense but damn where was the defense(Pruitts baby) the whole game?
 
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At some point you begin asking if the driver made the car or the car made the driver. I know the quality of car they had in Tallahassee, Athens, and Tuscaloosa.
 
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VFLCodyGBO said:
The only thing I can chalk it up to is that CJP is the worlds worst motivator.
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Have you seen the energy Pruitt gives off? It’s no wonder the team plays like they are a bunch of sloths it’s because they are following the captain of the ship
 
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