Vols Practice Thread #19

#26
#26
Very very appreciative FIngers! but...

I always come in expecting:
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but usually get:
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Because media is so limited.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
In other words Pruitt has clearly set a standard for the players. Some are meeting it and some aren’t. It shouldn’t be anyone’s surprise that Kong isn’t thus far in his career.
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I'm pretty positive they did that so Kongbo and Callaway have the potential to play ST at the same time. On punt block, for instance.
 
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VoLBall86 said:
Is anyone knowledgeable enough about these drills to explain what some of them are actually for? By that I mean for example being under the low black ceiling device (sorry I have no idea what they are called) or when they show guys hitting the other man as he jumps in the air with his arms out, or seeing the Linemen kneeling on the ground and pushing up. I see them doing a lot of these same drills and I was just wondering what said exercises are actually meant to instill. Sorry for the crappy descriptions I'm just trying to get a better grasp on what they are learning. I never saw them doing hardly any of this under Lyle.
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Sleegro did a good job explaining this already, I'm just piling on really.

-- The black "ceiling" is all about physics, and using it to our advantage. It is human nature to stand erect; this device helps players break that habit by forcing them to get low and stay low. That confers two big advantages: (1) The lower your center of gravity, the harder you are to get off balance. Easier to flip a double decker bus than a dune buggy, right? and (2) If you're closer to the ground than the fellow you're blocking or trying to get past, the ground works to your advantage. Imagine being the lower guy, pushing UP and back on the other guy: you get to use the ground to push off of. The other guy, who is forced to push DOWN and back on you, doesn't have that leverage, the only thing up and behind him is air.

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-- Defender jumping into the air as he's blocked: I don't know this one for sure. But it seems to me an injury prevention measure. You can't get a lower leg injury if your feet aren't touching the ground when you get pushed; your cleat can't snag and get stuck on a tuft of grass, or your foot caught in a hole. So the person being blocked gets into the air, takes the block, then comes back down. Just a guess. [and I'm also wondering if this same thought process is behind why we're seeing receivers get both feet in the air while catching the ball]

-- Kneeling linemen: I think Sleegro covered that one perfectly already. All about isolating muscle groups (see above about leverage).

Cheers!
 
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-- Defender jumping into the air as he's blocked: I don't know this one for sure. But it seems to me an injury prevention measure. You can't get a lower leg injury if your feet aren't touching the ground when you get pushed; your cleat can't snag and get stuck on a tuft of grass, or your foot caught in a hole. So the person being blocked gets into the air, takes the block, then comes back down. Just a guess. [and I'm also wondering if this same thought process is behind why we're seeing receivers get both feet in the air while catching the ball][/QUOTE]
Possible alternate explanation -if you make it a habit of jumping into the air when you are blocked, it increases your chances of getting a pass block
 
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Pepe said:
It never has made sense for a lineman to have a single digit number. The worst was Mackenzie who should have had a triple digit number just for fashion sense
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I don't see wearing a lower #s that prestigious, that's something recent. I prefer the NFL uniform numbering system.
 
#36
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Pepe said:
It never has made sense for a lineman to have a single digit number. The worst was Mackenzie who should have had a triple digit number just for fashion sense
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I think butch made silly promises about numbers for guys when he recruited them just like he did with playing time. That’s how we wound up with all those weird numbers for guys. Pruitt is old school, he ain’t having that!
 
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TrueVolsGBOInsider said:
I think butch made silly promises about numbers for guys when he recruited them just like he did with playing time. That’s how we wound up with all those weird numbers for guys. Pruitt is old school, he ain’t having that!
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We didn’t have weird numbering. It’s college! Heath Shuler wore 21! Shea Patterson’s still wearing 20 at Michigan. I remember Andre Hastings flipping from FSU to UGA because the former wouldn’t give him #1. And #4 for a TE sure is mainstream!
 
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Wood-Anderson at 270lb...I can live with that. That as the potential to be an absolute terror for Safety/OLB to cover.

He's my pick for breakout star this year.
 
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Chandler #8......L. Williams #8. That’s gotta suck for Williams. Too bad, really hoped his speed could help us.
 
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butchna said:
We didn’t have weird numbering. It’s college! Heath Shuler wore 21! Shea Patterson’s still wearing 20 at Michigan. I remember Andre Hastings flipping from FSU to UGA because the former wouldn’t give him #1. And #4 for a TE sure is mainstream!
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Denard Robinson wore 98 as a QB for Michigan one year lol. I know that was a special number for Michigan but still looked wild on a QB
 
#43
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TrueVolsGBOInsider said:
I think butch made silly promises about numbers for guys when he recruited them just like he did with playing time. That’s how we wound up with all those weird numbers for guys. Pruitt is old school, he ain’t having that!
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Of course, I am a traditionalist to the extreme. I like the traditional numbering system, I like the Jersey without the names on the back a la Penn State, and black non clown shoes. The first departure that I ever saw from the idea that football was supposed to be a team sport without any visual indication of stardom was the Ohio state awarding of Buckeyes on the helmet for individual accomplishments. I always thought that was a terrible idea that detracted from the ideal of a team sport.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
I'm pretty positive they did that so Kongbo and Callaway have the potential to play ST at the same time. On punt block, for instance.
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Exactly this... You can't have 2 guys with same number on feild at once. So if a guy is gonna play ST it's best he doesn't share a number with someone else likely to also be on ST
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Sleegro did a good job explaining this already, I'm just piling on really.

-- The black "ceiling" is all about physics, and using it to our advantage. It is human nature to stand erect; this device helps players break that habit by forcing them to get low and stay low. That confers two big advantages: (1) The lower your center of gravity, the harder you are to get off balance. Easier to flip a double decker bus than a dune buggy, right? and (2) If you're closer to the ground than the fellow you're blocking or trying to get past, the ground works to your advantage. Imagine being the lower guy, pushing UP and back on the other guy: you get to use the ground to push off of. The other guy, who is forced to push DOWN and back on you, doesn't have that leverage, the only thing up and behind him is air.

-- Defender jumping into the air as he's blocked: I don't know this one for sure. But it seems to me an injury prevention measure. You can't get a lower leg injury if your feet aren't touching the ground when you get pushed; your cleat can't snag and get stuck on a tuft of grass, or your foot caught in a hole. So the person being blocked gets into the air, takes the block, then comes back down. Just a guess. [and I'm also wondering if this same thought process is behind why we're seeing receivers get both feet in the air while catching the ball]

-- Kneeling linemen: I think Sleegro covered that one perfectly already. All about isolating muscle groups (see above about leverage).

Cheers!
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Thanks. I'm not sure on these either, but I don't think the jumping has to do with blocking. The positions doing it are always lb and db. I think it teaching tackling. Trains the tackler to get his facemask across and in the chest while wrapping up. But not taking to the ground to avoid injuries. I'm sure there are drills where they finish the tackles but imo it looks like they are perfecting the target area. The jumping allows them to hit without worrying about tangled feet taking them down. Keeping the physicality and limiting the risk.
 
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#49
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OrangePower said:
Chandler #8......L. Williams #8. That’s gotta suck for Williams. Too bad, really hoped his speed could help us.
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My first thought as well. Then we have Wood-Anderson & Maleik Gray with #4, is that bad news for Gray? Also Palmer now has James Brown's #84, and Thompson now has Labruzza's #20. Kinda strange. The other 5 changes (Harris, Butler, Kongbo, Smith, & Henderson) don't have duplicate #'s.

The UT roster hasn't been updated, so I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
 
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