What do the top offenses do that TN didn’t do?

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We literally just got rid of the worst quarterback in Tennessee history. That is why our offense sucked. Next year will be better because Guarantano will not be here.
 
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I pointed this out in another thread yesterday. In the 2020 and 2021 classes Mike Leach has taken 7 QBs.

If you believe QB is the most important position on the field and you knew coming into the season your QB wasn’t good enough, you’ve got to keep swinging.

I’m hoping to see 2 transfer QBs.
 
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I think it was the Florida game, but they kept scoring with no thought of us having a defensive team on the field. I hated when they had the ball because they were going to keep marching down the field. 3rd and long didn't matter. It might as well have been 3rd and 1 for them. We just didn't have the men to stop them. They scored at will.
 
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tabrams said:
When you watch Freeze, Coastal Carolina, Alabama, or top college offenses this year, you’ll notice their Qb’s making good decisions with the ball which leads to better drives and scores....

But aside from this, what else are the top offenses doing that we didn’t do this year??

Better route combos? Better plays? Better running play disguise? WRs more open? More TE use? Better blocking?

Last year we were whiffing on blocks and looked confused on passing plays... this year I didn’t really analyze it but we looked really bad for a lot of the year....
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Typically, we are beaten before the game starts, because our opponent had invested time and energy into specifically game planning us. They have a specific customized plan, and planned adjustments depending on how we react. We, however, do not. We pay our head coach as if he does, but he does not believe in it. He believes in doing things the same way he did when he coached middle school football 15 years ago.

And he refuses to adapt. But still cashes those checks.
 
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GAVol said:
This one is easy. Run the ball and protect the QB.
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UT protected the QB reasonably well. The QB's didn't always do a good job of protecting themselves by picking up blitz opportunities.

The run game was also hurt by JG's inability to hurt D's that were playing run. You have to have a QB that do not allow the LB's first step to be toward the LOS.
 
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lexkyvol said:
Quick plays. Make opponents pay for stacking the box and blitzing. Chaney's weakness it appears is quick plays other than basic screens.
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But... it hasn't been a Chaney weakness over his career. It was something JG never did well and neither of the younger guys had the experience to do well.

If the author of the "Coachery" thread is right then Pruitt disallowed those types of plays due to risk.
 
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Most have their offense set up to establish an advantage by formation. It takes good athletes and a QB who recognized the D and can make pre snap adjustments. We saw examples of this every time we saw the other team make a completion to a fast RB being covered (or more correctly attempting to be covered) by one of our inside LBs - it was set up by the formation and read by the QB. Steve Spurrier was a genius at designing formations and plays that exploited his offense strengths against the other teams D.

Another thing good offenses do is block - and I don’t just mean the OL. Watch the Alabama game and you’ll see the TE (really lined up as an HB) come into motion toward the QB and turn up field to block the inside LB...he’s doing what the FB used to do in the I. He does’t get tangled in the line but goes straight to the LB and gets him blocked. The outside receivers the same. Players know who they are supposed to block and the type of block needed. Good offensIve teams don’t have receivers or backs who don’t block well.

Of course the number 1 thing good offensive teams have is a QB who fits their system, can read the D, can process the game at game speed and understands what’s important on each play and makes good decisions...the last one drives me crazy. JG against Kentucky this year in the first quarter - first down at about the Kentucky 40 and we have a pass play called with deep routes to the right. Kentucky was in a man to man with a deep safety so there was 30 yards of open grass to his right...but he holds the ball and looks, and looks, and looks and then gets pressured and throws it away...he could have walked for 5-10 yards! Of course there are many JG examples but others as well. Years ago we were in OT with Kentucky and on our first down play in OT the QB throws into double coverage at the goal line (and the guy was well covered) and it it gets intercepted...unbelievably poor decision which should have caused us the game but it was Kentucky and they missed their FG...
 
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sjt18 said:
UT protected the QB reasonably well. The QB's didn't always do a good job of protecting themselves by picking up blitz opportunities.

The run game was also hurt by JG's inability to hurt D's that were playing run. You have to have a QB that do not allow the LB's first step to be toward the LOS.
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The protection was better this year, but still way too many blown assignments. You’re dead on about defenses playing downhill against us. I really hope Bailey and the young WRs can develop to the point that we can threaten down the field and make the defense play on its heels finally. It’s been 4 years of ugly offense.
 
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tabrams said:
When you watch Freeze, Coastal Carolina, Alabama, or top college offenses this year, you’ll notice their Qb’s making good decisions with the ball which leads to better drives and scores....

But aside from this, what else are the top offenses doing that we didn’t do this year??

Better route combos? Better plays? Better running play disguise? WRs more open? More TE use? Better blocking?

Last year we were whiffing on blocks and looked confused on passing plays... this year I didn’t really analyze it but we looked really bad for a lot of the year....
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There is just so much packed into the answer to the question that it makes my head hurt to think about how long my answer would be. We have just been bad for several years.

I haven't read everyone's response but I'm sure there are many answers that encompasses many of my points.

One you may not have heard is they have a defense that doesn't allow long, time consuming drive after drive.
 
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tabrams said:
When you watch Freeze, Coastal Carolina, Alabama, or top college offenses this year, you’ll notice their Qb’s making good decisions with the ball which leads to better drives and scores....

But aside from this, what else are the top offenses doing that we didn’t do this year??

Better route combos? Better plays? Better running play disguise? WRs more open? More TE use? Better blocking?

Last year we were whiffing on blocks and looked confused on passing plays... this year I didn’t really analyze it but we looked really bad for a lot of the year....
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Well..they try to power run game against loaded box with 200 lbs RBs. Bama's guys are 225 and 230 respectively.

We don't throw deep to Hyatt for some reason. Literally everytime we've done that its a TD. (Bama game)

We don't have an identity. And that's the big problem. We've run blocked well at times. We've pass blocked well. JG and Bailey hold the ball too long. Bailey is only a freshman...so he gets a pass (pun intended)

We don't do a good job of setting up one with the other. (Pass 2 run or vice versa)
 
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Good offenses have passes going to wide open receivers because their QB goes through his reads and finds them. Sometimes the 3rd option is to tuck it and run. Either way the QB takes what a defense gives him in a good offense
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
Typically, we are beaten before the game starts, because our opponent had invested time and energy into specifically game planning us. They have a specific customized plan, and planned adjustments depending on how we react. We, however, do not. We pay our head coach as if he does, but he does not believe in it. He believes in doing things the same way he did when he coached middle school football 15 years ago.

And he refuses to adapt. But still cashes those checks.
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This. He actually admitted to this. He told someone that was from a broadcast crew doing lead up to game interviews that with covid and the uncertainty surrounding games that he found it best not to specifically game plan for team but to just focus on fundamentals. Thats Def middle school coaching. Hes also made weird co.menta at times saying football is football no matter what level of play it is, and a football player is a football player when referring to switching a players position.
 
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They are high powered balanced machines that think about scoring and not about ball control like cornbread except for Florida they just think about scoring.
 
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volfan_28 said:
Good offenses have passes going to wide open receivers because their QB goes through his reads and finds them. Sometimes the 3rd option is to tuck it and run. Either way the QB takes what a defense gives him in a good offense
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There is more to it than that. Look at the efficiency of UTs offense when they ran jet sweep action. Compare that to when they lined up static.

Good offenses give the defense more to think about than they can handle. Good offenses run motion all the time to expose zone versus man coverage. They almost always have a bail out route for the QB.
 
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sjt18 said:
But... it hasn't been a Chaney weakness over his career. It was something JG never did well and neither of the younger guys had the experience to do well.

If the author of the "Coachery" thread is right then Pruitt disallowed those types of plays due to risk.
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makes zero sense.....and yes it is a weakness of chaney's. go look at his first stint in knoxville. he gets qbs beat up a lot from long drawn out plays. even with superior talent at uga, same thing
 
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