The Official #15 Tennessee vs. Miss St Game Thread, 4:15 ET, SECN

[HeuperDrive]

Even if we do end up winning this, this game has certainly been a huge wake up call.

This defensive performance will not cut it against OU and Bama. Full stop. This piss poor tackling has to stop.

 

[MeanOrange]

Lose to Bama and UF on the road and Vandy beats us at home.

 

[GrizzlyVol]

He def can’t win on the road..

The way State is running the ball I don't see us winning this one

 

[VOLFan65]

Regardless of the defensive play, this game would be much different if the Vols could catch the damn ball

This

 

[VFL1127]

If we can't start running the ball we are in trouble

 

[Other_Guy]

He could try putting more than 5 in the box, but he wants MissSt RB to get 200 yards

Shapen is good enough to torch Tenn secondary too like Stockton did. We're lucky its only 24-20 (to be fair, state is lucky too).

 

[Volnbeers]

Don’t count on Candy being a cakewalk either

Oh I’m definitely not. Season will go downhill fast if we lose this one.

 

[Mid Tenn Vol]

Gotta have a td now but I don’t know that it’s gonna happen. The entire team has played like trash today except for a handful of plays. Missed tackles, drops, missed fgs. Stupid stupid everywhere

 

[patrick]

Idk how you can spin this in a positive way. We are more talented. 5th year coach. 5th year DC. 3rd year OC.

And Heupel hadn’t even sniffed a top 5 recruiting class.

10 mill fn dollars and we can count on a Heupel Stinker.

WTF

 

[ButchPlz]

I’ve defended him but something must change. We have talent. We are relatively healthy - exception being two DBs. But everyone has starters out.

LB play was supposed to be our elite position on defense this yr. I don’t see it.

It goes beyond that. I wasn't on board with canning him but this game it's very obvious what Miss. State is going to do. Like I said- we stack the box, they can't do anything. Shapen isn't good enough.

But we're running some weird-ass nickel-looking defense that is just leaving huge holes in the middle and the DEs are collapsing in every time. It looks almost intentional.

 

[CoachClick]

So tired of playing down to competition and beating ourselves against terrible teams on the road. Trend needs to stop

Coaching brother.

Coaching

 

[90 Vol]

What? After the "near" miss with GA most people on here were saying we probably would not lose another game for the rest of the regular season. Hmmm, what has changed? Definitely not the TN football team: same missed blocking assignments, same missed tackles, same missed FGs from 30+, ...

What has changed? We’re getting our ass handed to us by a mediocre Miss St. team.

 

[orangerush]

Heup better grow a pair and find him some real coaches. His friends aint it. RG is the only one worth keeping on D and Inge

It will never happen, it’s not in him.

 

[Vol737]

If we can't answer, we're in trouble

We’re in trouble.

 

[Volfan2012]

Getting a lot of pressure on Aguilar. Need to adjust for that.

 

[JohnnyJava]

So MSSt player hurt his hand and had to sit down on the field to be escorted off??

Stretcher will be required if someone chips a tooth.

 

[NATHAN05]

Im not going to call for heads and I do believe Miss St came in much more hyped than us.......but Heupel does need to figure out what his issue is for true road play. He really has been anemic in true road games

 

[Frozevol]

Was the pick on Joey or Miles?

Both. Pass was high and fast…but catchable.

 

[hardin_co85]

Yall act like we aint been here before lol

 

[adam.vol]

Weak ass fanbase. It’s a good tough game against 2 tough opponents

Banks and Staley are formidable opponents.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Will any of the receivers redeem themselves?

 

[Volfan8282]

CJH is different on the road. Coaches scared. Wow this shouldn’t be happening but it is. Heupel just can’t coach on the road. Wow. Can’t believe it’s happening again.

Coached scared against UGA too.

 

[Go47]

Again - allegedly with our offense Banks plays TFL style.

But to what end? His defenses regularly give up CHUNK plays for first downs on 2nd and 3rd and long.

 

[Other_Guy]

Start getting your Musici city bowl tickets now folks

If they arent beating miss state, who are they beathing?

 

[volgr]

Regardless of the defensive play, this game would be much different if the Vols could catch the damn ball

Yep, offense has been bad today but on a day we needed our D to step up, they aren't. Just bad game all around. Offense, defense and special teams...all bad today. Darn Heupel and these crap road games. I don't get it.