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I don't think Pruitt, with a straight face, can say JG gives UT their best chance to win football games anymore. Because with him in the lineup Tennessee's chances are ZERO. I said it last year during the Indiana game that JG looked no better at the end of 2019 than he did at the beginning of 2019. He learned nothing. He overcame nothing. What we have in JG is what we have always had. You're not gonna teach that old dog any new tricks now.

I say we go with Bailey NOW and here's why the future is now..........

What we have in JG:
At his very best he's an average-to-capable QB who can make a decent downfield throw. But the talent around him has to be firing on all cylinders. The wideouts have to make circus catches, the OL has to block the D for an eternity and the RBs have to have Heisman level days running the ball. JG isn't talented enough to create plays on his own. He cant "thread the needle", he cant scan the receivers very well to find the open man and he sure as heck can't scramble and create a threat with his legs. At his very worst he's a complete mental train wreck. He's like a plane that spirals out of control so fast that the pilots don't even have time to eject to safety. Irreparable damage done in what feels like a heartbeat. He's capable of destroying a team's will to fight on and make them play hopeless and lost without a plan forward. We saw this clearly, and early on, against Kentucky. He lost the team..... COMPLETELY lost the team.

The bottom line on JG:
UT simply cant have that be a possibility from a 5th year player. There can be no spiral-out-of-control periods of time. We all saw just how fast Tennessee went to zero percent chance of beating Kentucky. I do not believe, for a second, that Tennessee doesn't have the raw talent to just handle Kentucky with not much coaching at all. But when those players are stricken with hopelessness and no confidence in their offensive leader, they don't play to the level that they are capable of, knowing that after they put in all the hard work to move down the field, one bad JG decision will lead to a pick 6 and it's all for nothing. When this happens over and over again, you get what we saw yesterday.

The rest of the QBs:
At this point, I am forced to believe one of a couple different truths.

1. Tennessee can't..... or hasn't tried very hard, to develop it's younger QBs. It looks almost like Pruitt developed this ride-or-die with JG mentality from the very beginning of his UT tenure and hasn't let his foot off the gas to the great detriment of his pool of young QBs. I don't expect HB to light it up as a true freshman. Although I have seen true freshman QBs at Tennessee play WAY better than anybody Tennessee has on it's team today. But to not have guys prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat speaks badly about the coaching staff.

2. Tennessee is a terrible judge of talent at the QB position. I get that Pruitt is a first time head coach and has a defensive coordinator background so maybe he doesn't know what the hell he's doing on offense. However he surrounded himself with guys that SHOULD know those things very well. Chaney has been a damn good OC at other schools (and in this previous sting at Tennessee too). We have QB coaches with championship pedigrees. So how did we get here? Do these guys really not know how to coach? Or are they really that bad at recruiting QBs? Tennessee doesn't (and apparently never did) have a "QB competition" leading into the year. What they seem to have is a QB CALAMITY. It seems like Maurer and Shrout have been infected with something worse than COVID.....the JG "bad decision virus". We have gotten word from the UT coaches that this was true from practices and of course what does Shrout do on his ONE CHANCE to be UT's QB.... he throws a BAD interception. Yet another bad decision.

So, something in here has to be true. I'm not on the team so I cant know for sure, but by gathering enough observations that is where I know the answer must be.

Where do we go from here:

I think Tennessee is at a crossroads. In two halves of football the wheels completely came off the Jeremy Pruitt bus. in Two halves of football the fan base went from "we might win 7 games" to "we may not win three" and with very good reason. With COVID having already upeneded this season causing this weird 10 game SEC schedule, I believe Tennessee should cut bait and ride-or-die with Bailey. Guess what, it ain't gonna be pretty. But guess what, this situation is already way uglier than any one of us would want to believe. I think Tennessee's only option here is to push all the chips in on Bailey. JG has to be permanently benched. He cannot see the field again for any reason. There is zero upside there. It's not like he's going to the NFL. He will be selling life insurance real soon. Might as well get started now. Maurer wont stay. He was CLEARLY passed over yesterday by Pruitt. It was really a shock to me that CJP went with Shrout when JG exploded. That's a clear vote of no-confidence. BM might as well start heading to the transfer portal. I'm sure Murray State or somebody like that could use his services. We need to retain Shrout as the disaster option in case HB gets really hurt, because like I said, JG can never see the field at UT again. Bringing JG back would be like calling up your old girlfriend after you thought the new girl was all that, but turned out not to be. JG can provide nothing good to this team any longer. He can't be a veteran leader, he can't help them win, he can't inspire confidence. He's utterly worthless to UT now.

Harrison Bailey isn't going to save UT's season. UT's season for all intents and purposes, is over before the final games are even played. UT's offense is going to get EXTREMELY conservative (short dinky passes to the flats and lots and lots of running right into the D-line). Tennessee won't score much the rest of the year. They will be "competitive" but not really against the bottom tier of the SEC and get completely blown out by Bama and A&M and Auburn and Florida. You can sarcastically say "well then cancel the season" all you want, but in reality, in the end, you will wish that they had. What HB can do is get very valuable experience leading a team that is quite obviously going to be HIS team in the future. I say let the guy go out there and learn and grow now. I mean, what is the worst that can happen now that hasn't already happened?
 
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Yup, good analysis for us on VN. Unfortunately I doubt that you are Phil Fulmer so it probably isn’t be shared with the coaches.
 
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Pruitt might be right that JG gives us the best chance to win right now. But if he's going to consistently STB, then we might as well replace him with someone younger who has more potential upside. They're not going to get better sitting on the bench.
 
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Unfortunately he will trot JG out for Bama, and I will refuse to watch that disaster. In my opinion Maurer has the highest upside of any QB on the roster, even more than Bailey but Pruitt won’t play him and that’s going to be his downfall. I don’t know if Pruitt doesn’t like his attitude or what, but you want your QB to have swagger/confidence. Maurer is mobile and a gunslinger, yes he will throw bad picks occasionally but in my opinion he gives this team the best chance to win. Pruitt’s stubbornness and love for JG will turn him into Butch and Dooley. Sad to see.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I don't think Pruitt, with a straight face, can say JG gives UT their best chance to win football games anymore. Because with him in the lineup Tennessee's chances are ZERO. I said it last year during the Indiana game that JG looked no better at the end of 2019 than he did at the beginning of 2019. He learned nothing. He overcame nothing. What we have in JG is what we have always had. You're not gonna teach that old dog any new tricks now.

I say we go with Bailey NOW and here's why the future is now..........

What we have in JG:
At his very best he's an average-to-capable QB who can make a decent downfield throw. But the talent around him has to be firing on all cylinders. The wideouts have to make circus catches, the OL has to block the D for an eternity and the RBs have to have Heisman level days running the ball. JG isn't talented enough to create plays on his own. He cant "thread the needle", he cant scan the receivers very well to find the open man and he sure as heck can't scramble and create a threat with his legs. At his very worst he's a complete mental train wreck. He's like a plane that spirals out of control so fast that the pilots don't even have time to eject to safety. Irreparable damage done in what feels like a heartbeat. He's capable of destroying a team's will to fight on and make them play hopeless and lost without a plan forward. We saw this clearly, and early on, against Kentucky. He lost the team..... COMPLETELY lost the team.

The bottom line on JG:
UT simply cant have that be a possibility from a 5th year player. There can be no spiral-out-of-control periods of time. We all saw just how fast Tennessee went to zero percent chance of beating Kentucky. I do not believe, for a second, that Tennessee doesn't have the raw talent to just handle Kentucky with not much coaching at all. But when those players are stricken with hopelessness and no confidence in their offensive leader, they don't play to the level that they are capable of, knowing that after they put in all the hard work to move down the field, one bad JG decision will lead to a pick 6 and it's all for nothing. When this happens over and over again, you get what we saw yesterday.

The rest of the QBs:
At this point, I am forced to believe one of a couple different truths.

1. Tennessee can't..... or hasn't tried very hard, to develop it's younger QBs. It looks almost like Pruitt developed this ride-or-die with JG mentality from the very beginning of his UT tenure and hasn't let his foot off the gas to the great detriment of his pool of young QBs. I don't expect HB to light it up as a true freshman. Although I have seen true freshman QBs at Tennessee play WAY better than anybody Tennessee has on it's team today. But to not have guys prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat speaks badly about the coaching staff.

2. Tennessee is a terrible judge of talent at the QB position. I get that Pruitt is a first time head coach and has a defensive coordinator background so maybe he doesn't know what the hell he's doing on offense. However he surrounded himself with guys that SHOULD know those things very well. Chaney has been a damn good OC at other schools (and in this previous sting at Tennessee too). We have QB coaches with championship pedigrees. So how did we get here? Do these guys really not know how to coach? Or are they really that bad at recruiting QBs? Tennessee doesn't (and apparently never did) have a "QB competition" leading into the year. What they seem to have is a QB CALAMITY. It seems like Maurer and Shrout have been infected with something worse than COVID.....the JG "bad decision virus". We have gotten word from the UT coaches that this was true from practices and of course what does Shrout do on his ONE CHANCE to be UT's QB.... he throws a BAD interception. Yet another bad decision.

So, something in here has to be true. I'm not on the team so I cant know for sure, but by gathering enough observations that is where I know the answer must be.

Where do we go from here:

I think Tennessee is at a crossroads. In two halves of football the wheels completely came off the Jeremy Pruitt bus. in Two halves of football the fan base went from "we might win 7 games" to "we may not win three" and with very good reason. With COVID having already upeneded this season causing this weird 10 game SEC schedule, I believe Tennessee should cut bait and ride-or-die with Bailey. Guess what, it ain't gonna be pretty. But guess what, this situation is already way uglier than any one of us would want to believe. I think Tennessee's only option here is to push all the chips in on Bailey. JG has to be permanently benched. He cannot see the field again for any reason. There is zero upside there. It's not like he's going to the NFL. He will be selling life insurance real soon. Might as well get started now. Maurer wont stay. He was CLEARLY passed over yesterday by Pruitt. It was really a shock to me that CJP went with Shrout when JG exploded. That's a clear vote of no-confidence. BM might as well start heading to the transfer portal. I'm sure Murray State or somebody like that could use his services. We need to retain Shrout as the disaster option in case HB gets really hurt, because like I said, JG can never see the field at UT again. Bringing JG back would be like calling up your old girlfriend after you thought the new girl was all that, but turned out not to be. JG can provide nothing good to this team any longer. He can't be a veteran leader, he can't help them win, he can't inspire confidence. He's utterly worthless to UT now.

Harrison Bailey isn't going to save UT's season. UT's season for all intents and purposes, is over before the final games are even played. UT's offense is going to get EXTREMELY conservative (short dinky passes to the flats and lots and lots of running right into the D-line). Tennessee won't score much the rest of the year. They will be "competitive" but not really against the bottom tier of the SEC and get completely blown out by Bama and A&M and Auburn and Florida. You can sarcastically say "well then cancel the season" all you want, but in reality, in the end, you will wish that they had. What HB can do is get very valuable experience leading a team that is quite obviously going to be HIS team in the future. I say let the guy go out there and learn and grow now. I mean, what is the worst that can happen now that hasn't already happened?
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The fact that Shrout comes in because of poor decision-making and makes a horrible decision right off the bat indicates a lack of coaching..or an abundance of really terrible coaching..
 
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I'm now convinced that the best way to go here is let JG take the beating with Bama with a bye week following and give Bailey as many reps as possible in the next 2 weeks then make him the starter. If Bailey played against Bama and got hurt it would mean more of JG and no one wants that.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I don't think Pruitt, with a straight face, can say JG gives UT their best chance to win football games anymore. Because with him in the lineup Tennessee's chances are ZERO. I said it last year during the Indiana game that JG looked no better at the end of 2019 than he did at the beginning of 2019. He learned nothing. He overcame nothing. What we have in JG is what we have always had. You're not gonna teach that old dog any new tricks now.

I say we go with Bailey NOW and here's why the future is now..........

What we have in JG:
At his very best he's an average-to-capable QB who can make a decent downfield throw. But the talent around him has to be firing on all cylinders. The wideouts have to make circus catches, the OL has to block the D for an eternity and the RBs have to have Heisman level days running the ball. JG isn't talented enough to create plays on his own. He cant "thread the needle", he cant scan the receivers very well to find the open man and he sure as heck can't scramble and create a threat with his legs. At his very worst he's a complete mental train wreck. He's like a plane that spirals out of control so fast that the pilots don't even have time to eject to safety. Irreparable damage done in what feels like a heartbeat. He's capable of destroying a team's will to fight on and make them play hopeless and lost without a plan forward. We saw this clearly, and early on, against Kentucky. He lost the team..... COMPLETELY lost the team.

The bottom line on JG:
UT simply cant have that be a possibility from a 5th year player. There can be no spiral-out-of-control periods of time. We all saw just how fast Tennessee went to zero percent chance of beating Kentucky. I do not believe, for a second, that Tennessee doesn't have the raw talent to just handle Kentucky with not much coaching at all. But when those players are stricken with hopelessness and no confidence in their offensive leader, they don't play to the level that they are capable of, knowing that after they put in all the hard work to move down the field, one bad JG decision will lead to a pick 6 and it's all for nothing. When this happens over and over again, you get what we saw yesterday.

The rest of the QBs:
At this point, I am forced to believe one of a couple different truths.

1. Tennessee can't..... or hasn't tried very hard, to develop it's younger QBs. It looks almost like Pruitt developed this ride-or-die with JG mentality from the very beginning of his UT tenure and hasn't let his foot off the gas to the great detriment of his pool of young QBs. I don't expect HB to light it up as a true freshman. Although I have seen true freshman QBs at Tennessee play WAY better than anybody Tennessee has on it's team today. But to not have guys prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat speaks badly about the coaching staff.

2. Tennessee is a terrible judge of talent at the QB position. I get that Pruitt is a first time head coach and has a defensive coordinator background so maybe he doesn't know what the hell he's doing on offense. However he surrounded himself with guys that SHOULD know those things very well. Chaney has been a damn good OC at other schools (and in this previous sting at Tennessee too). We have QB coaches with championship pedigrees. So how did we get here? Do these guys really not know how to coach? Or are they really that bad at recruiting QBs? Tennessee doesn't (and apparently never did) have a "QB competition" leading into the year. What they seem to have is a QB CALAMITY. It seems like Maurer and Shrout have been infected with something worse than COVID.....the JG "bad decision virus". We have gotten word from the UT coaches that this was true from practices and of course what does Shrout do on his ONE CHANCE to be UT's QB.... he throws a BAD interception. Yet another bad decision.

So, something in here has to be true. I'm not on the team so I cant know for sure, but by gathering enough observations that is where I know the answer must be.

Where do we go from here:

I think Tennessee is at a crossroads. In two halves of football the wheels completely came off the Jeremy Pruitt bus. in Two halves of football the fan base went from "we might win 7 games" to "we may not win three" and with very good reason. With COVID having already upeneded this season causing this weird 10 game SEC schedule, I believe Tennessee should cut bait and ride-or-die with Bailey. Guess what, it ain't gonna be pretty. But guess what, this situation is already way uglier than any one of us would want to believe. I think Tennessee's only option here is to push all the chips in on Bailey. JG has to be permanently benched. He cannot see the field again for any reason. There is zero upside there. It's not like he's going to the NFL. He will be selling life insurance real soon. Might as well get started now. Maurer wont stay. He was CLEARLY passed over yesterday by Pruitt. It was really a shock to me that CJP went with Shrout when JG exploded. That's a clear vote of no-confidence. BM might as well start heading to the transfer portal. I'm sure Murray State or somebody like that could use his services. We need to retain Shrout as the disaster option in case HB gets really hurt, because like I said, JG can never see the field at UT again. Bringing JG back would be like calling up your old girlfriend after you thought the new girl was all that, but turned out not to be. JG can provide nothing good to this team any longer. He can't be a veteran leader, he can't help them win, he can't inspire confidence. He's utterly worthless to UT now.

Harrison Bailey isn't going to save UT's season. UT's season for all intents and purposes, is over before the final games are even played. UT's offense is going to get EXTREMELY conservative (short dinky passes to the flats and lots and lots of running right into the D-line). Tennessee won't score much the rest of the year. They will be "competitive" but not really against the bottom tier of the SEC and get completely blown out by Bama and A&M and Auburn and Florida. You can sarcastically say "well then cancel the season" all you want, but in reality, in the end, you will wish that they had. What HB can do is get very valuable experience leading a team that is quite obviously going to be HIS team in the future. I say let the guy go out there and learn and grow now. I mean, what is the worst that can happen now that hasn't already happened?
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I may get flamed for this but only team that is capable of beating us the rest if the way out is Bama. What I saw yesterday is a team that quit on it's coach after they put JG in the the second half. There was zero effort
 
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Hacksaw said:
Pruitt might be right that JG gives us the best chance to win right now. But if he's going to consistently STB, then we might as well replace him with someone younger who has more potential upside. They're not going to get better sitting on the bench.
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JG proved him wrong in disastrous fashion yesterday.
 
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Jpcisco said:
Unfortunately he will trot JG out for Bama, and I will refuse to watch that disaster. In my opinion Maurer has the highest upside of any QB on the roster, even more than Bailey but Pruitt won’t play him and that’s going to be his downfall. I don’t know if Pruitt doesn’t like his attitude or what, but you want your QB to have swagger/confidence. Maurer is mobile and a gunslinger, yes he will throw bad picks occasionally but in my opinion he gives this team the best chance to win. Pruitt’s stubbornness and love for JG will turn him into Butch and Dooley. Sad to see.
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Yep, and we already have a QB that throws bad picks "occasionally", like 2 pic 6's in 134 seconds Saturday
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I don't think Pruitt, with a straight face, can say JG gives UT their best chance to win football games anymore. Because with him in the lineup Tennessee's chances are ZERO. I said it last year during the Indiana game that JG looked no better at the end of 2019 than he did at the beginning of 2019. He learned nothing. He overcame nothing. What we have in JG is what we have always had. You're not gonna teach that old dog any new tricks now.

I say we go with Bailey NOW and here's why the future is now..........

What we have in JG:
At his very best he's an average-to-capable QB who can make a decent downfield throw. But the talent around him has to be firing on all cylinders. The wideouts have to make circus catches, the OL has to block the D for an eternity and the RBs have to have Heisman level days running the ball. JG isn't talented enough to create plays on his own. He cant "thread the needle", he cant scan the receivers very well to find the open man and he sure as heck can't scramble and create a threat with his legs. At his very worst he's a complete mental train wreck. He's like a plane that spirals out of control so fast that the pilots don't even have time to eject to safety. Irreparable damage done in what feels like a heartbeat. He's capable of destroying a team's will to fight on and make them play hopeless and lost without a plan forward. We saw this clearly, and early on, against Kentucky. He lost the team..... COMPLETELY lost the team.

The bottom line on JG:
UT simply cant have that be a possibility from a 5th year player. There can be no spiral-out-of-control periods of time. We all saw just how fast Tennessee went to zero percent chance of beating Kentucky. I do not believe, for a second, that Tennessee doesn't have the raw talent to just handle Kentucky with not much coaching at all. But when those players are stricken with hopelessness and no confidence in their offensive leader, they don't play to the level that they are capable of, knowing that after they put in all the hard work to move down the field, one bad JG decision will lead to a pick 6 and it's all for nothing. When this happens over and over again, you get what we saw yesterday.

The rest of the QBs:
At this point, I am forced to believe one of a couple different truths.

1. Tennessee can't..... or hasn't tried very hard, to develop it's younger QBs. It looks almost like Pruitt developed this ride-or-die with JG mentality from the very beginning of his UT tenure and hasn't let his foot off the gas to the great detriment of his pool of young QBs. I don't expect HB to light it up as a true freshman. Although I have seen true freshman QBs at Tennessee play WAY better than anybody Tennessee has on it's team today. But to not have guys prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat speaks badly about the coaching staff.

2. Tennessee is a terrible judge of talent at the QB position. I get that Pruitt is a first time head coach and has a defensive coordinator background so maybe he doesn't know what the hell he's doing on offense. However he surrounded himself with guys that SHOULD know those things very well. Chaney has been a damn good OC at other schools (and in this previous sting at Tennessee too). We have QB coaches with championship pedigrees. So how did we get here? Do these guys really not know how to coach? Or are they really that bad at recruiting QBs? Tennessee doesn't (and apparently never did) have a "QB competition" leading into the year. What they seem to have is a QB CALAMITY. It seems like Maurer and Shrout have been infected with something worse than COVID.....the JG "bad decision virus". We have gotten word from the UT coaches that this was true from practices and of course what does Shrout do on his ONE CHANCE to be UT's QB.... he throws a BAD interception. Yet another bad decision.

So, something in here has to be true. I'm not on the team so I cant know for sure, but by gathering enough observations that is where I know the answer must be.

Where do we go from here:

I think Tennessee is at a crossroads. In two halves of football the wheels completely came off the Jeremy Pruitt bus. in Two halves of football the fan base went from "we might win 7 games" to "we may not win three" and with very good reason. With COVID having already upeneded this season causing this weird 10 game SEC schedule, I believe Tennessee should cut bait and ride-or-die with Bailey. Guess what, it ain't gonna be pretty. But guess what, this situation is already way uglier than any one of us would want to believe. I think Tennessee's only option here is to push all the chips in on Bailey. JG has to be permanently benched. He cannot see the field again for any reason. There is zero upside there. It's not like he's going to the NFL. He will be selling life insurance real soon. Might as well get started now. Maurer wont stay. He was CLEARLY passed over yesterday by Pruitt. It was really a shock to me that CJP went with Shrout when JG exploded. That's a clear vote of no-confidence. BM might as well start heading to the transfer portal. I'm sure Murray State or somebody like that could use his services. We need to retain Shrout as the disaster option in case HB gets really hurt, because like I said, JG can never see the field at UT again. Bringing JG back would be like calling up your old girlfriend after you thought the new girl was all that, but turned out not to be. JG can provide nothing good to this team any longer. He can't be a veteran leader, he can't help them win, he can't inspire confidence. He's utterly worthless to UT now.

Harrison Bailey isn't going to save UT's season. UT's season for all intents and purposes, is over before the final games are even played. UT's offense is going to get EXTREMELY conservative (short dinky passes to the flats and lots and lots of running right into the D-line). Tennessee won't score much the rest of the year. They will be "competitive" but not really against the bottom tier of the SEC and get completely blown out by Bama and A&M and Auburn and Florida. You can sarcastically say "well then cancel the season" all you want, but in reality, in the end, you will wish that they had. What HB can do is get very valuable experience leading a team that is quite obviously going to be HIS team in the future. I say let the guy go out there and learn and grow now. I mean, what is the worst that can happen now that hasn't already happened?
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He's like Ryan Fitzpatrick...........without the upside.
 
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Bama will beat us 70 to something, no matter who starts. HB could be the difference in 70-28, and 70-14 or worse. It will be the biggest blowout win by a Bama team, over UT, in the history of them playing. I can't even call it a rivalry, at this point. I wouldn't blame Bama if they dropped us from the schedule, and picked up ANYONE else, to increase their Strength of Schedule.
 
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Now is actually the present; however by the time you read this, it will be the past.....the future is to come, never what is or what was.
 
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kbear01 said:
Bama will beat us 70 to something, no matter who starts. HB could be the difference in 70-28, and 70-14 or worse. It will be the biggest blowout win by a Bama team, over UT, in the history of them playing. I can't even call it a rivalry, at this point. I wouldn't blame Bama if they dropped us from the schedule, and picked up ANYONE else, to increase their Strength of Schedule.
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Bama won't score 70.they will go up 35-0 at the half and put in the 3rd stringers to mop up the second half.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
I don't think Pruitt, with a straight face, can say JG gives UT their best chance to win football games anymore. Because with him in the lineup Tennessee's chances are ZERO. I said it last year during the Indiana game that JG looked no better at the end of 2019 than he did at the beginning of 2019. He learned nothing. He overcame nothing. What we have in JG is what we have always had. You're not gonna teach that old dog any new tricks now.

I say we go with Bailey NOW and here's why the future is now..........

What we have in JG:
At his very best he's an average-to-capable QB who can make a decent downfield throw. But the talent around him has to be firing on all cylinders. The wideouts have to make circus catches, the OL has to block the D for an eternity and the RBs have to have Heisman level days running the ball. JG isn't talented enough to create plays on his own. He cant "thread the needle", he cant scan the receivers very well to find the open man and he sure as heck can't scramble and create a threat with his legs. At his very worst he's a complete mental train wreck. He's like a plane that spirals out of control so fast that the pilots don't even have time to eject to safety. Irreparable damage done in what feels like a heartbeat. He's capable of destroying a team's will to fight on and make them play hopeless and lost without a plan forward. We saw this clearly, and early on, against Kentucky. He lost the team..... COMPLETELY lost the team.

The bottom line on JG:
UT simply cant have that be a possibility from a 5th year player. There can be no spiral-out-of-control periods of time. We all saw just how fast Tennessee went to zero percent chance of beating Kentucky. I do not believe, for a second, that Tennessee doesn't have the raw talent to just handle Kentucky with not much coaching at all. But when those players are stricken with hopelessness and no confidence in their offensive leader, they don't play to the level that they are capable of, knowing that after they put in all the hard work to move down the field, one bad JG decision will lead to a pick 6 and it's all for nothing. When this happens over and over again, you get what we saw yesterday.

The rest of the QBs:
At this point, I am forced to believe one of a couple different truths.

1. Tennessee can't..... or hasn't tried very hard, to develop it's younger QBs. It looks almost like Pruitt developed this ride-or-die with JG mentality from the very beginning of his UT tenure and hasn't let his foot off the gas to the great detriment of his pool of young QBs. I don't expect HB to light it up as a true freshman. Although I have seen true freshman QBs at Tennessee play WAY better than anybody Tennessee has on it's team today. But to not have guys prepared and ready to go at the drop of a hat speaks badly about the coaching staff.

2. Tennessee is a terrible judge of talent at the QB position. I get that Pruitt is a first time head coach and has a defensive coordinator background so maybe he doesn't know what the hell he's doing on offense. However he surrounded himself with guys that SHOULD know those things very well. Chaney has been a damn good OC at other schools (and in this previous sting at Tennessee too). We have QB coaches with championship pedigrees. So how did we get here? Do these guys really not know how to coach? Or are they really that bad at recruiting QBs? Tennessee doesn't (and apparently never did) have a "QB competition" leading into the year. What they seem to have is a QB CALAMITY. It seems like Maurer and Shrout have been infected with something worse than COVID.....the JG "bad decision virus". We have gotten word from the UT coaches that this was true from practices and of course what does Shrout do on his ONE CHANCE to be UT's QB.... he throws a BAD interception. Yet another bad decision.

So, something in here has to be true. I'm not on the team so I cant know for sure, but by gathering enough observations that is where I know the answer must be.

Where do we go from here:

I think Tennessee is at a crossroads. In two halves of football the wheels completely came off the Jeremy Pruitt bus. in Two halves of football the fan base went from "we might win 7 games" to "we may not win three" and with very good reason. With COVID having already upeneded this season causing this weird 10 game SEC schedule, I believe Tennessee should cut bait and ride-or-die with Bailey. Guess what, it ain't gonna be pretty. But guess what, this situation is already way uglier than any one of us would want to believe. I think Tennessee's only option here is to push all the chips in on Bailey. JG has to be permanently benched. He cannot see the field again for any reason. There is zero upside there. It's not like he's going to the NFL. He will be selling life insurance real soon. Might as well get started now. Maurer wont stay. He was CLEARLY passed over yesterday by Pruitt. It was really a shock to me that CJP went with Shrout when JG exploded. That's a clear vote of no-confidence. BM might as well start heading to the transfer portal. I'm sure Murray State or somebody like that could use his services. We need to retain Shrout as the disaster option in case HB gets really hurt, because like I said, JG can never see the field at UT again. Bringing JG back would be like calling up your old girlfriend after you thought the new girl was all that, but turned out not to be. JG can provide nothing good to this team any longer. He can't be a veteran leader, he can't help them win, he can't inspire confidence. He's utterly worthless to UT now.

Harrison Bailey isn't going to save UT's season. UT's season for all intents and purposes, is over before the final games are even played. UT's offense is going to get EXTREMELY conservative (short dinky passes to the flats and lots and lots of running right into the D-line). Tennessee won't score much the rest of the year. They will be "competitive" but not really against the bottom tier of the SEC and get completely blown out by Bama and A&M and Auburn and Florida. You can sarcastically say "well then cancel the season" all you want, but in reality, in the end, you will wish that they had. What HB can do is get very valuable experience leading a team that is quite obviously going to be HIS team in the future. I say let the guy go out there and learn and grow now. I mean, what is the worst that can happen now that hasn't already happened?
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