The Official #24/#18 Tennessee vs. Syracuse Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ABC

[BleedOrange81]

It's the first half of the first game.

You either have good hands or you don’t.

 

[dduncan4163]

31 points in the first half. Hope we cover the O/U of 50.5 ourselves.

I think we will

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Glorified high school offense on display

Not a clever troll. Do better

 

[90 Vol]

Glorified high school offense on display

You’re unhappy with 31 points at halftime?

 

[RockyTop140]

So far offense has been better than I expected. We’ve had success running and passing. Need more accuracy on the short/medium passes. Also had a couple of drops.

Defensively, their last 3-4 drives have been 50+ yards and eaten a lot of clock. Need to tighten up to start the 2nd. GBO

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

How about the fact we ran a successful screen pass early? That was a beauty!

 

[james_govols]

Outside of a few dumb penalties and a turnover on offense, that was a great first half.

 

[ButchPlz]

Glorified high school offense on display

I liked you better when you were huffing paint.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Finish them Vols!!!

 

[Sarms58]

Not misaligned, but if the TE on the right went out it should have been an illegal receiver call as he was covered. You can put 10 on the line if you want, but only 2 can go down field on a pass! Just can’t have 5 off the line.

When I saw the inside guy covered it was a dead giveaway they were running the ball

 

[patrick]

Not a great half of football but a good half of football.

Not disappointed at all and encouraged by a lot of what I saw.

Let’s close this game with authority.

 

[VOLinAL]

CBs have been surprisingly good. I know they haven’t made every play but for the most part it looks like they are playing every pass and not allowing much separation. B+ so far.

 

[lukeneyland]

And to think he's only been in the system a couple months. Imagine how he's gonna look come October

Only Josh Heupel could have his starter quit and somehow make his team better. What a coach

 

[GAVol]

Get rid of the neutral site games. It’s been said time and again, but I have to reiterate how lackluster this feels compared to a game in Neyland. Empty seats, crowd isn’t buzzing tv speakers, have only heard rocky top once. Just doesn’t feel the same.

The crowd is actually pretty good. Behind Syracuse bench is empty.

 

[patrick]

Oh, it’s definitely BS. But by the way the rule is, it was “legal.”

I’m with ya.

 

[RockyTop140]

How about the fact we ran a successful screen pass early? That was a beauty!

Yup, I liked the rb screen. We didn’t see that much last year if at all

 

[lukeneyland]

Not a great half of football but a good half of football.

Not disappointed at all and encouraged by a lot of what I saw.

Let’s close this game with authority.

I think if you take into consideration the crap the teams gone through it’s pretty damn great

 

[volfan102455]

Glorified high school offense on display

Complain much?

 

[CobbWebb71]

Glorified high school offense on display

It’s football.
pitch, catch, handoff, run, block, tackle.
Stop overthinking it and enjoy the game.

 

[patrick]

I think if you take into consideration the crap the teams gone through it’s pretty damn great

I can’t disagree.

 

[SaltyBro]

Thought so. Why explain anything to someone who tries to insult you when they don’t even know the name of a basic formation?

Stop being an ass dude: “ U dOnT kNoW bALL” what a freak

 

[tntornadox]

Let's go D!

 

[Vol8188]

Thought so. Why explain anything to someone who tries to insult you when they don’t even know the name of a basic formation?

Different teams call formations different things. There’s no one set name for any specific offensive formation. For one team they may call this green and another team may call it open, ace, or anything else.

Youre making things up again in a sad effort to pretend you know football.

The only 2 things most people would agree on about the offense is that they were in a 2x2 11 personnel set.

As close as you could get to a universal name for that set is that many people would call it “Pro” but even that’s not universal. It’s 11 personnel 2x2.

 

[posivol]

set the tone d

 

[Midas]

Fran Brown did not just say they spotted us 17 pts…lol