Vols Practice Thread #3

#126
#126
DaUndergroundMan said:
No it wasnt really. If you count sacks as passing plays...and you really, really should if you care at all about purity of statistics.... JG had a completion percentage of 52%.

Yes his actual completion percentage was 52 percent . He had a sack rate of 15.8. Which is far as i can tell is the worst ever. For 129 teams in the last 12 years only 4 college qbs had sack rates of above 15. Thats like 900+ game seasons .

Thats 1,548 qb seasons. Only 5 seasonswith sack rates that high.

Jg wae one of those five, and the highest of them all.

Real completion percentage rounds up to 52%, which sucks real bad.
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That is what happens when you end the season with three freshmen, some walkons, starting football games. New players, new coaches, players back from injury and most importantaly, new attitude. Things will be a lot better this year.
 
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#127
#127
DaUndergroundMan said:
No it wasnt really. If you count sacks as passing plays...and you really, really should if you care at all about purity of statistics.... JG had a completion percentage of 52%.

Yes his actual completion percentage was 52 percent . He had a sack rate of 15.8. Which is far as i can tell is the worst ever. For 129 teams in the last 12 years only 4 college qbs had sack rates of above 15. Thats like 900+ game seasons .

Thats 1,548 qb seasons. Only 5 seasonswith sack rates that high.

Jg wae one of those five, and the highest of them all.

Real completion percentage rounds up to 52%, which sucks real bad.
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Here you go with that procrustean bed again.
 
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#129
#129
vavolfan6 said:
It's hard gaining a grasp on the players from fan day as practice was very high paced and players were constantly rotating from one position drill to the next, that is until the offense/defense drills near the end. After all it is only one practice, but from watching it my biggest take away was from observing Coach Pruitt.

Coach Pruitt is very hands on the defense and doesn't tolerate softness or laziness of any sort. He demands perfection on defense to the point where it seemed like he was micromanaging. Not to say this is a negative thing, as Coach Barnes has shown this method to be extremely successful. But, from observing, it seemed after every play, or thereabout, Pruitt would reprimand some defender for doing something wrong. It didn't matter who you were, whether you made a great play the play before, or anything. Pruitt made sure his players knew when they did something wrong and no one got away with a mistake.

I think two specific examples from practice that I think prove my point.

During 7v7 drills there was a play where Alontae Taylor made a nice interception while covering Josh Palmer. Well the following play, the QB (can't remember who it was) went right back to Palmer who this time made a nice catch over Taylor and then into the endzone. Alontae then went over to Palmer and gave him a celebratory pat on the back for the nice play and then went to the sideline. Well Pruitt made sure to follow him and had a word. Not sure what was said, but from his body language I don't think he was happy with Taylor.

Next, My favorite moment was this one instance where a player went to the sideline to get stretched by a trainer in the middle of a drill and as he sat down, Pruitt ran over, near the fan side, and yelled at him that "we don't got time fort that, get back on the field"!

All this to say, I think our defense is in really good hands. I'm not sure Pruitt gives one lick about the offense right now. lts all
about setting the tone and physicality with the defense. I think there is some Saban-ess in Pruitt in that he will be satisfied with anything short of perfection and even then that might not be enough lol. Anyways, I have hope that regardless of how we look opening day, Pruitt will make sure this defense and team is improving and not settling for complacency.
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Thank you, this is the kind of stuff I'm looking for.
 
#130
#130
DaUndergroundMan said:
No it wasnt really. If you count sacks as passing plays...and you really, really should if you care at all about purity of statistics.... JG had a completion percentage of 52%.

Yes his actual completion percentage was 52 percent . He had a sack rate of 15.8. Which is far as i can tell is the worst ever. For 129 teams in the last 12 years only 4 college qbs had sack rates of above 15. Thats like 900+ game seasons .

Thats 1,548 qb seasons. Only 5 seasonswith sack rates that high.

Jg wae one of those five, and the highest of them all.

Real completion percentage rounds up to 52%, which sucks real bad.
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So what you're saying is our offensive line was really really really offensive.
 
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#131
#131
vavolfan6 said:
This was another example of my earlier post where Pruitt was very demanding, but this time even of his coaches. I noticed that he seemed to be bickering, yelling at one of his coaches to stop standing around and do something in the middle of a drill, but couldn't clarify what was all said from where I was at. I guess this is what happened lol
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It’s big boy football. Botch is gone!
 
#133
#133
DaUndergroundMan said:
Cant help if you dont like it. Tell me why the nfl counts sacks as a passing attempt and the ncaa does not.

Oh yeah the wishbone.
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The NFL doesn’t count it as a pass attempt.

The NFL subtracts sack yardage from passing yards statistically, but a sack is not scored as a passing attempt.
 
#135
#135
MSME Vol said:
So what you're saying is our offensive line was really really really offensive.
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As bad as it was, the o-line wasn't responsible for all of the sacks that Guarantano took game in and game out. South Carolina, and Kentucky both had 7 sacks against UT with JG in the QB position, more than tripple USCe's 2 scack/game average, more than double Kentucky's 2.3 sack/game average. In contrast, Missouri who averaged 2.5 sacks/game only got to McBride 5 times.

The o-line was by no means good, but plenty of Gurantano's sacks were all on him, especially when he rolled out of the pocket; 3 of the 7 sacks the USCe was able to land were 100% JG outside the pocket, and not throwing the ball away.
 
#136
#136
BeardedVol said:
As bad as it was, the o-line wasn't responsible for all of the sacks that Guarantano took game in and game out. South Carolina, and Kentucky both had 7 sacks against UT with JG in the QB position, more than tripple USCe's 2 scack/game average, more than double Kentucky's 2.3 sack/game average. In contrast, Missouri who averaged 2.5 sacks/game only got to McBride 5 times.

The o-line was by no means good, but plenty of Gurantano's sacks were all on him, especially when he rolled out of the pocket; 3 of the 7 sacks the USCe was able to land were 100% JG outside the pocket, and not throwing the ball away.
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You got a bit of a point, and by no means is JG faultless, but it is also hard to compare the two QBs on such a small size for WM. It will be interesting to see what happens moving forward.
 
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#138
Also any word on Warrior? He's someone I'm interested in watching with Pruitt's coaching.
 
#140
#140
cHiZzLeVOL said:
That was a perfect pick. That ball shouldn't have been thrown but I don't believe JG thought Taylor could get up that high.
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Man he High pointed that ball. Ok so what would be a good number for a freshman cb to have for INT's. Over, under, I am gonna say he gets 5 this year.
 
#141
#141
T Dog said:
Man he High pointed that ball. Ok so what would be a good number for a freshman cb to have for INT's. Over, under, I am gonna say he gets 5 this year.
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Honestly, if he plays like that he could get atleast 5 if not more. He will definitely be a starter. Thompson might also be a starter, kid had no workouts until these practices and is making interceptions (that's indicative of an athlete).

Taylor might honestly get 1 or 2 picks in the WV game as much as they throw the ball if he is a starter.
 
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#143
#143
vavolfan6 said:
This was another example of my earlier post where Pruitt was very demanding, but this time even of his coaches. I noticed that he seemed to be bickering, yelling at one of his coaches to stop standing around and do something in the middle of a drill, but couldn't clarify what was all said from where I was at. I guess this is what happened lol
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Nobody's safe. And I love it!!!
 
#144
#144
BeardedVol said:
As bad as it was, the o-line wasn't responsible for all of the sacks that Guarantano took game in and game out. South Carolina, and Kentucky both had 7 sacks against UT with JG in the QB position, more than tripple USCe's 2 scack/game average, more than double Kentucky's 2.3 sack/game average. In contrast, Missouri who averaged 2.5 sacks/game only got to McBride 5 times.

The o-line was by no means good, but plenty of Gurantano's sacks were all on him, especially when he rolled out of the pocket; 3 of the 7 sacks the USCe was able to land were 100% JG outside the pocket, and not throwing the ball away.
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Well he is getting coached by different staff so MAYBE they will coach him up to get rid of ball faster. I know it's hard to come to these conclusions with BVS. I am not sitting back thinking about all the bad mistakes we made last year. New staff, new day. And I really like what I see in them so far.
 
#146
#146
cHiZzLeVOL said:
Honestly, if he plays like that he could get atleast 5 if not more. He will definitely be a starter. Thompson might also be a starter, kid had no workouts until these practices and is making interceptions (that's indicative of an athlete).

Taylor might honestly get 1 or 2 picks in the WV game as much as they throw the ball if he is a starter.
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You need to add some brake fluid!
 
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#148
#148
ice said:
Receivers dropping too many passes. We are in trouble again.
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We need about 3 dependable guys.
We will run a lot. To protect our defense. So at WR we need guys to keep drives moving in crtical junctions.

We have that with Callaway, Jennings and Johnson. Byrd reemerging at wr would be huge!

But overall, our WR group is not much more than average in talent. But they don't need to be.
 
#150
#150
LittleVol said:
We need about 3 dependable guys.
We will run a lot. To protect our defense. So at WR we need guys to keep drives moving in crtical junctions.

We have that with Callaway, Jennings and Johnson. Byrd reemerging at wr would be huge!

But overall, our WR group is not much more than average in talent. But they don't need to be.
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Callaway and Jennings are not average. No way.
 
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