The one positive I've seen for most of the season, and even against Alabama

[TreeGreen]

Arian Foster has been a real trooper for us this year. He has played hard, run hard, and through it all has appeared to keep an upbeat positive attitude. He may not be the fastest player on the field, but he doesn't need to be. He has made great moves, had great vision, and watch out for that stiff-arm. I thought he played fantastic today, and was disappointed the ball wasn't in his hands more often.

13 carries 91 yards 1 TD with a 7.0 average

 

[Cartervol]

13 carries 91 yards 1 TD with a 7.0 average I wonder if we should give this guy the ball more(thoughts by phillip fulmer):crazy:

 

[RollTideRoll12]

Guy is a beast. He lines up in the backfield and gets 5-6 yards then lines up at reciever and can be a gamebreaker for you. I was real scared that Tennessee would use him on some screens more but I guess the men with the headsets don't think like the fans do.

 

[Crimson White]

Not here to rub in the loss, just here to enjoy the battles that never quit between us. What is Foster's class (soph. jun, sen?) He runs like an experienced SEC back and will give major problems to your opponents for some time to come. I was thoroughly impressed with his vision. He sees the field like a great back already and I've yet to hear of him, is he young? I think all of you Vol fans will enjoy whatever time this guy has left and we'll learn to hate 'em!

 

[vader]

He's a junior

 

[volbreaker]

Guy is a beast. He lines up in the backfield and gets 5-6 yards then lines up at reciever and can be a gamebreaker for you. I was real scared that Tennessee would use him on some screens more but I guess the men with the headsets don't think like the fans do.

We were screaming for it

 

[scrodz]

To tell you the truth, we were more worried about Foster than Ainge, but on the crucial 3rd & 2 in the 3rd quarter, Ainge threw an incompletion where Foster would have got the 1st down. After that series, you didn't have enough time left in the game to run the ball much.

 

[egotisticalmoron]

To tell you the truth, we were more worried about Foster than Ainge, but on the crucial 3rd & 2 in the 3rd quarter, Ainge threw an incompletion where Foster would have got the 1st down. After that series, you didn't have enough time left in the game to run the ball much.

pretty much sums up our entire program's philosophy as of late.

 

[Vols4ever]

we did not utilize any of our RB's for that matter... we were leading 14 - 10 well before the half and we still had to stick to our short pass game... i wonder whether we ever had a game plan

 

[vol_sec]

To tell you the truth, we were more worried about Foster than Ainge, but on the crucial 3rd & 2 in the 3rd quarter, Ainge threw an incompletion where Foster would have got the 1st down. After that series, you didn't have enough time left in the game to run the ball much.

UT wants balance, seems like the other teams find a weakness and go for it, when it is 3rd and 2 and your running game is making 10+ yards a carry on the drive, it is just crazy to try anything else. Bama didn't really care about balance Saturday.

Another dumb play was to punt on 4th and 1 on their side of the field when Bama has yet to punt.

The ball just bounced Bamas way all day long, the onside kick started it off, critical penalties against UT on many 3rd down plays and Bamas 3 turnovers negated + UT turned the ball over on critical plays, it was a series of misfortunate events.

 

[erob3833]

foster run, run, run, deep pass. don't think we saw that enough or at all yesterday

 

[WA_Vol]

I don't think Foster is good enough to carry the team by himself. I don't understand the lack of points on offense. Foster and Ainge aren't playing that bad, but they weren't able to score 30+ pts against FL or Bama. With the defense playing so bad some of that gets lost.

 

[scrodz]

UT wants balance, seems like the other teams find a weakness and go for it, when it is 3rd and 2 and your running game is making 10+ yards a carry on the drive, it is just crazy to try anything else. Bama didn't really care about balance Saturday. QUOTE]

I disagree. In spite of what the talking heads say, balance isn't running 40 times and passing 40 times. Balance is making the other team defend both the run and the pass. We ran enough that you had to defend the run. That helped our pass game. You DIDN'T run enough to make us alter our defensive game plan. If we had to sell out the run to stop Foster, Ainge would have had a field day.

 

[scrodz]

"UT wants balance, seems like the other teams find a weakness and go for it, when it is 3rd and 2 and your running game is making 10+ yards a carry on the drive, it is just crazy to try anything else. Bama didn't really care about balance Saturday. "

I disagree. In spite of what the talking heads say, balance isn't running 40 times and passing 40 times. Balance is making the other team defend both the run and the pass. We ran enough that you had to defend the run. That helped our pass game. You DIDN'T run enough to make us alter our defensive game plan. If we had to sell out the run to stop Foster, Ainge would have had a field day.[/QUOTE]