The Official #11/#9 Tennessee @ Florida Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

I feel you. I shelled out over $500 to take my dad to the SC game in a couple weeks and I’m feeling bummed about it now.

Hopefully Nico has the reins by then.

 

[PerryCountyVol]

Is there any Tennessee Vols support groups around Clarksville?

 

[hUTch2002]

Hahaha give it up man.
It all starts with the qb. We can’t move the ball because Florida knows he can’t throw the forward pass. They pack the box, shut down the run. Jump on the only pass he can make, the ole bubble screen. Then we have to trot the absolutely worn out d back onto the field

Ok so they were tired the first couple of drives when Florida went straight down the field with no resistance? Ok. Sure.

 

[Power T-Rev]

That stinks. Those tickets were ridiculous, but people paid to see us get revenge. Threads and posts about how we're going to hang 70, we might not even win, especially playing like thi

I sold my two for $1000. Looking like an extremely smart play

 

[BJSforVols]

Nico

 

[alavolfan]

I am concerned that Hooker may have covered for Heupel that same way Dobbs did for Jones.

I don’t really think so.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

I'm at our high school game. We are winning 37-0. I figured I would check in on the meltdown on here between quarters.

 

[lil'Butch]

Wanted Joe to be the guy so bad..had visions of 80 yard bombs and championships. Yes the entire team is playing like crap and the Oline is swiss cheese but if you can't handle the pressure and coaches don't trust you to throw anything but screens or bombs... I'm afraid with Joe.. practice hero but when lights on zero

 

[The Original Fade]

For reference as to how bad we are, Virginia is 0-3 with a loss to a James Madison

 

[zaqhhh]

Our best win this year is over a team that lost to a FCS-FBS transition school. We are getting blown out by a bad team.

If we don’t make significant changes, we will be 6-6 if lucky this year. Up to Heupel to make that call.

 

[KeyVol14]

Tim Banks doesn’t have player’s discipline. They fall for a fake jet sweep every time, can’t make basic tackles. UF has punted 0 times. UF won’t reach 26 in another conference game maybe outside of Vandy.

And when they don't go with the guy in motion they're left wide open. The problem is our DL is not stopping the run. This is going exactly how UF wanted it to. We start stopping the run and produce push up front on offense maybe things start changing.

 

[VFL28]

The ole, we played villa l vanilla against AP and UV excuse

Yep. I don't understand why people say it either. If we could open the playbook we would already be doing it.

 

[Cartervol]

I thought there was a chance to lose, but this is ridiculous.

 

[advancedrescue27]

The worst part is that Florida isn’t a good team. If they were a preseason top 5 I could say “well our team just isn’t there”. But guess what? They weren’t even ranked.

What did you say last year in SC?

 

[HighRockvol]

Nope. We will keep what we have. But whatever momentum we’ve got will die.

I doubt we will keep everyone with this **** show

 

[VolKnight9]

It’s absolutely amazing how quick vol fans turn on a coach. You all should be ashamed. Anybody with any brains about football should know this was a “gap year.” For a program like ours that’s been a dumpster fire for 20 years, there will be an “off year.” Heupel has done more with less than anyone else in the college football world these past 2 years. He developed players in two years and Tennessee was in the playoff conversation last year. We are very senior heavy with a bunch of Pruitt recruits who are behind the 8 ball as it is. Especially defensively. We have to understand that coming back to relevancy comes with some growing pains. We are lucky the growing pains didn’t show very much in the last 2 seasons. Can’t turn on our coach now. Very rarely does a team come from where we’ve came from and not have a bad year or two. And here a bunch of you fans are thinking the sky is falling. This is definitely a bad showing by our team tonight and we still have another half to try to pull this game out. Our time is coming. Believe it.

 

[cherokeeeVOL]

Do we dare put Nico in?

The problem isn’t the qb

 

[Stephen A Smith]

Napier’s seat gets way hotter in about 9 hours. Vols up by 21-24 points by halftime.

Things happen in Gainesville.

 

[Redleg68]

It’s not just Joe. Florida is controlling the line on Botha sides of the ball.

absolutely true and our secondary is playing like this is their first game ever. The second half will truly tell us what type of team we have.

 

[cobbwebb0710]

Right, Florida is controlling the game and playing exactly to their game plan. We can still get back in this with good qb play and tempo if the defense can learn how to tackle at halftime.

I'm not counting on it though

Fify.

 

[GetEmVols]

Time to hire prime?

 

[PA Vol]

Disagree. I think it would be great for Nico. No pressure on him because the game is done. Just let him get comfortable with the offense. Also, how do we know Nico won’t light it up? He may not but that’s expected.

Yup. Milton isn’t it. Never has been.

 

[patrick]

Nico will hit the portal soon. Tennessee has more problems than qb.

It does appear that the team has some chemistry problems.

 

[C-south]

Soft, Pushed around at line of scrimmage. Sounds correct to me.

We should be able to run all day on the front they’re showing yet we get tackled for losses and give up sacks. The D line is definitely getting pushed around and I’m not sure some of the guys behind them have a clue what their assignment should be.

 

[SGMVols]

I don’t disagree, but this smacks of the worst coaching job we’ve seen. You’d expect a hard fought battle between the two teams, but this is rolling over and completely unprepared.

Agree, but I just don’t see how a qb change fixes this. This is a total team L, it’s not all on Joe, or even mostly on him