What does depth mean?

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jim285pro

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I think alot of angry people here dont understand what depth means to a football team.

Depth= Experience with losing tough games, Experience with big plays, More physical strength, Leadership, More knowledge of playbook therefore more plays can be executed and schemed for, much less affect from injuries, mental toughness, overall maturity is much higher, etc.

All these things are contagious and overall affect the team in drastic ways. If you dont understand this you havent played alot of sports.

We had more Senior leadership and upperclassmen talent last year.

Its coming Volnation just going to take a couple more years. If you cant wait you might as well not watch the rest of this season. 12 months ago alot of these boys were playing High School football. Just some realistic facts you dont hear much from talk radio and all the pissed off fans.
 
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jim285pro said:
I think alot of angry people here dont understand what depth means to a football team.

Depth= Experience with losing tough games, Experience with big plays, More physical strength, Leadership, More knowledge of playbook therefore more plays can be executed and schemed for, much less affect from injuries, mental toughness, overall maturity is much higher, etc.

All these things are contagious and overall affect the team in drastic ways. If you dont understand this you havent played alot of sports.

We had more Senior leadership and upperclassmen talent last year.

Its coming Volnation just going to take a couple more years. If you cant wait you might as well not watch the rest of this season. 12 months ago alot of these boys were playing High School football. Just some realistic facts you dont hear much from talk radio and all the pissed off fans.
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You make alot of good points. There are some on here just don't get it. Probaly have never played any football except a playstation.
 
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Depth is when you have enough talented players at each position that you can sub out and give people a breather. Thus maintaining fresh legs and good players through out the entirety of a game.
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SamQB7 said:
Depth is when you have enough talented players at each position that you can sub out and give people a breather. Thus maintaining fresh legs and good players through out the entirety of a game.
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That too. But not just that. Thus the reason I started this thread.
 
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I'm as disgusted as anyone that we are 0-5 in the SEC. But I'm sick and tired of people calling youth and inexperience an excuse. It's a fact. A cold, harsh, reality that we cannot escape. Some of our most productive players are freshmen (i.e. A.J. Johnson and Devrin Young). Some of our biggest plays are from freshmen (i.e. Brian Randolph forcing a fumble vs. South Carolina; DeAnthony Arnett catching the only productive passes from freshman Justin Worley against South Carolina).

We are what we are: young, inexperienced, immature, but talented.

The only thing that I really think is inexcusable is our O-line play in the running game. These guys have had 1 1/2 years with Hiestand and they have made no progress, but only regressed. Tyler Bray improved. The frosh linebackers have gotten better. Hunter and Rogers were way better this year (before Hunter's injury).

I'm tempted to add the DBs as a collosal failure. But the dismissal of Janzen Jackson a couple of weeks before opening game threw us in a tailspin. I'm not satisfied with Joseph's coaching, but at least there is the loss of Jackson to explain some of the lack of productivity.

Next year will be the real year to judge Dooley's leadership (not saying he has to win 10 games, but show considerable progress). What changes will he make in the off-season to our coaching staff? How much improvement will we see in the O-line? the DBs?

I think Dooley has the right plan and the right instincts. Execution, though, will be the deciding factor of whether he can bring us out of the depths of the SEC East.
 
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So depth equals experience? That's a ludicrous statement. If that where true, how do explain the play of the offensive line this year?
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VolFromNashville said:
Depth means that if you lose your top 5 players, you don't lose all of your games.
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While I don't totally disagree with your statement, when you lose your top 5 players there will always be a significant drop off in talent as we have seen. That is what loses games.
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Depth comes with experience. It's about going the distance with what you have. It's about loss and gain, lose and win, and learning from it. It's about character, and the ability for a player to take what he has learned and apply it to the field. It is when a team can consistently bring new and refreshing plays because of that experience.

That's what depth is to me, anyways.
 
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Depth means not much dropoff from your 1's to your 2's. Some of Tennessee's 1's would be riding pine at schools in the upper crust of the SEC. That's where it's at and until it changes this is what you'll get.
 
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Good Gosh....DEPTH is having 2 to 3 players at each position with little to no drop off at said position.Now you can mix a freshman in 1 or 2 positions at the start of a year but not depend on 4 or 5 to START every game.We will get there but we are not even close yet.Think about this,Magitt ,Johnson etc. will be the upperclassmen next year.
 
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VolNExile said:
Amazing the number of folks here who aren't aware of the difference between "excuse" and "explanation." :ermm:
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This

"All of our star players are injured. The others are too young and nowhere near ready" is not an excuse. It's the reason we're losing. An excuse is "well it was raining and we didn't prepare for the rain so that's why we lost"
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SamQB7 said:
Depth is when you have enough talented players at each position that you can sub out and give people a breather. Thus maintaining fresh legs and good players through out the entirety of a game.
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Hit the nail on the head. Right now, the talent difference between starters & the two deep is quite noticeable. This will improve when our roster doesn't primarily consist of freshman or sophmore's, but in order to end up with a full class of juniors and seniors, Dooley needs another couple of years, a concept many on here can't seem to grasp.
 
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