The Official Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt Game Thread, 3:45 PM ET, SEC Network

[willinhf]

20 play drive? 20 plays? And what? About 4 fourth down conversions?

I mean, yeah, we will win the game, but man, this just looks like a lazy, sloppy win. We never did look really dominant (except Tillman—who is a man among boys).

 

[heath.hinkle]

Can we get our head out of our butt long enough to handle an onside kick

 

[GoVols64]

Saban could have been talking about TN fans. We are thumping Vandy and you self absorbed jerks are still complaining. Immaturity at its best.

Vandy is kicking our Ds rear. This isn’t entitlement, this is a piss poor effort from the D. By the worst team in the SEC and they are running 20 play drives on us. It is correct to be disappointed in this. Not sure what’s self absorbed about the obvious?

 

[CoachClick]

I take solace in the fact that Saban is about to have a panic attack

 

[GoVolunteers]

Tim Banks sucks a**

I couldn’t disagree more

 

[Sarms58]

guys, we should be very happy - we are winning and Bama is losing

 

[Mr French]

Has been all season

No, this is different. Most teams we didn't out talent... we do in this game. Our secondary is awful. Better use these 15 practices to get our young actual talent up to speed because our safeties and Burrell are bad. We could get boat raced in the bowl game.

 

[GhostVol]

I know its a bad night defensively, but overall, DC Banks has a lot of ground to make up. Need a D that can at least compliment the O.

I want to see what happens when Banks has a D that isn't just a bunch of "warm bodies"

That he's managed to put together a rag-tag buncha guys and help TN win 7 games is, frankly, amazing.....

 

[Orange_Crush]

Your philosophy is good on 1st and 2nd down but on 3rd and especially 4th down even NFL coaches bring pressure.

It's good on 3rd and 4th too. If you make them burn clock on 1st and 2nd, and then give up a bomb TD that got behind you on 3rd, it was all for nothing.

There is basically NO WAY Vandy scores two points per minute of game clock. UT is running the clock out on defense.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

This years D haven't been world beaters at any point......

I give the coaches some credit for getting as much out of them as they have.....

Beats the alternative.

 

[agent|orange]

main reason is we are just very short of Jimmys and Joes… not a lot of folks to bring in to keep the D fresh. Coaches are doing great with what they have.

That makes sense when we're being whipped by UGA... but a 2-9 Vandy is dominating this D

 

[TN1111]

It's not all player faults when you have a defense that statistically is one of the best in TFL on mainly 1st & 2nd downs but then are one of the worst in the SEC on 3rd down defense. There's some scheme issues here

 

[Rylee_Vol18]

This is a pathetic 2nd half performance to end the season. Not feeling confident about the bowl game.

Overreact much?

 

[ENGRVOL]

Why not onside kick there?

 

[Volswin98]

I am not going to criticize the players due to our lack of numbers. Definitely disappointed with the effort and that we've let them hang around.

Wow- you are putting that Saban fan etiquette training into action

 

[Sarms58]

Need one more score

 

[Proud Army Wife]

I’d like to know why we can’t have the kind of games against FL or Bama like the barn and the chickens 🥴

 

[VolsFan-TX]

Solid DT play. Average DE play. Below average LB play. Average - above average corner and safety play.

So, average or better at every D position except LB?!? Does your average mean SEC acerage? If so, I definitely disagree.

 

[DC_Vol]

This is a pathetic 2nd half performance to end the season. Not feeling confident about the bowl game.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

The way our fans are acting, you’d think we’re losing by two TDs. 😆

 

[onthehill71]

Playing prevent is for losers

Guess thats why every freaking NFL and Div 1 head coach do it. Maddening for fans betting the game, analytics say otherwise. Overwhelmingly. Just win baby.

 

[Chattanooga Butchslappers]

Ah. True. True.

Just kind of sad. I mean I just send the house on short yardage at least.

Yeah….I know there are issues with depth and talent…but I don’t understand why we don’t just press and bring numbers on the blitz. I’d rather see that and give up the big play sometimes that for teams to nickel and dime is the whole time.

Besides, we might force more licks and fumbles and sacks

 

[cobbwebb0710]

Tim Banks sucks a**

I don’t know about Tim, but his defense does.😁
GBO!!

 

[tnvols72]

Yeah bc we can tell playing with a mash unit and no depth

Dude is in prevent on 3rd and 4th basically giving them their yards and sooner or later after its failed like 100 times you quit doing it. We all know about playing with a mash unit but this mash unit plays good on 1st and 2nd.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

main reason is we are just very short of Jimmys and Joes… not a lot of folks to bring in to keep the D fresh. Coaches are doing great with what they have.

Can’t really use that against vandy.