Worst part about UT Gators game?

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VolsLady-in-FL

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What really REALLY broke you during tonight's game (the moment - not necessarily the "it's over" play)?

For me it was the Pope fumble that should never have been dropped. I swear I was so happy screaming up and down and then.... BAM!!! Bad luck, again. It was terrible.

The beating was real. I feel bad for our players 😔
 
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As an opposing fan, the worst thing was that three tds by Florida came as a result of almost no effort on Tennessee’s part defensively.

Swain’s catch and run TD, the Scarlett TD after the fumbled kickoff, and the Pierce TD after an onside kick.

Just brutal effort
 
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VolsLady-in-FL said:
What really REALLY broke you during tonight's game (the moment - not necessarily the "it's over" play)?

For me it was the Pope fumble that should never have been dropped. I swear I was so happy screaming up and down and then.... BAM!!! Bad luck, again. It was terrible.

The beating was real. I feel bad for our players 😔
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Fumbling the second half kickoff.
 
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99gator said:
As an opposing fan, the worst thing was that three tds by Florida came as a result of almost no effort on Tennessee’s part defensively.

Swain’s catch and run TD, the Scarlett TD after the fumbled kickoff, and the Pierce TD after an onside kick.

Just brutal effort
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We'll get ya next year, lizard. ;)
 
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99gator said:
As an opposing fan, the worst thing was that three tds by Florida came as a result of almost no effort on Tennessee’s part defensively.

Swain’s catch and run TD, the Scarlett TD after the fumbled kickoff, and the Pierce TD after an onside kick.

Just brutal effort
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I was on the sideline that Swain ran down on that td catch. I thought Florida got away with a block in the back on that play.
 
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Yeah we’ve seen that Austin Pope play too many times in the past. Only time I can remember where we’ve been on the good end of that type of play was at Texas A&M. It immediately brought back memories of that 6-3 game at Alabama.
 
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My daughter , 9, loves to cook. We always let her cook whatever she wants for this game and we all hang.oit, eat and watch the game. She made some awesome salsa. I woke up and she had the tennessee blankets spread across the coach, a stuffed smokey on one side, a stuffed vols cheerleader on the other.
I wrapped up my house work and we were.ready to watch with some good good and a mango wheat blue moon.
Ive been down on the vols for a while, but usually as I think about the games at some point ill at least have a short thought that we have a chance in most games.
Today, I can honestly say, I never thought for one second that Tennessee would win today. Ive never thought that, even against alabama ill usually think, even for a short time, that we may have a chance if this or that. Sad that I never thought we would win today, first time in my 40 years as a vols fan.
We are a really really bad football team.

At least I had some good salsa.
 
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The safety. After losing a yard on first down from the 2, to a defensive line that had already proved that they were physically superior to us, we lined up in a power set and tried again, with the same result. It mirrored the unimaginative offensive game plan (similar to what we used to criticize Butch for) which I didn't feel served us very well.
 
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JohnnyJava said:
The safety. After losing a yard on first down from the 2, to a defensive line that had already proved that they were physically superior to us, we lined up in a power set and tried again, with the same result. It mirrored the unimaginative offensive game plan (similar to what we used to criticize Butch for) which I didn't feel served us very well.
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I agree it was a stupid call set up by another stupid call, the onside kick.
 
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I was feeling good about the game when Alexis Johnson sacked Franks and the defense forced UF to punt.

Then you know how it goes sometimes. You get comfortable. You want to believe it will continue to go well and
based on everything you see so far, it should.

Then BAM -- it doesn't. An opposing player runs in unopposed to blindside your quarterback (which is bad enough already) but then the ball pops loose (even worse) and then (you mean all the bad things on just one play aren't over yet?) out of all the possible combinations of results it could be, it naturally and magically glides into the other team's breadbasket without even missing a step and they strut their way in for an easy 6 that artificially inflates the score because it wasn't as much about any skill on their part as it was a complete mental lapse on the part of whoever was responsible for protecting the quarterback on that play.

I could tell where things were headed with that first omen somehow. Things that would never turn out like they did magically found a way to go South and we're not talking about birds in the winter.

Look up at the scoreboard at one point and it says something like 30-3 or 33 to 6 or some other lopsided disadvantage that is all the more frustrating because you know the team is capable of much better and that the other team isn't as good as their score.

Then the smart-alecky smile on Franks' face like the outcome had anything to do with the Gators instead of the bumbling 3 Stooges tribute by the Modern Football's Badnews Bears pretending to be our football team meant it was time to walk a few steps back and forth to let blood circulate and breath flow before returning to see just how we'd recover from those setbacks to turn it all around while there was still time. And we didn't. But at least a player quit! Wait, that's not positive either. lol. Yeah, the hit on Guarantano was the point where yes I could believe someone could miss the block, but really thought they wouldn't by this point, because all those mental miscues cost us right then in the game, during the rest of the game, and eventually cost us the whole game itself. Then of course if games are made up of plays that cost us wins and seasons are made up of games, then this stuff needs to get eradicated quickly.
 
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wmcovol said:
I agree it was a stupid call set up by another stupid call, the onside kick.
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Lol wait what? The onside kick was a brilliant call. Obviously saw something on tape and tried to take advantage. 5 vols vs 1 gator.. all we had to do was hit the guy before the ball got there and we recover it. Wheel route to Pope was another brilliant call. They had been setting that up all game.
 
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VolsLady-in-FL said:
What really REALLY broke you during tonight's game (the moment - not necessarily the "it's over" play)?

For me it was the Pope fumble that should never have been dropped. I swear I was so happy screaming up and down and then.... BAM!!! Bad luck, again. It was terrible.

The beating was real. I feel bad for our players 😔
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There were so many wtf moments watching a reincarnation of the bad news bears but it could've been the great call on the on side kick only to watch 3 of our players going against 1 of their players but nobody unselfishly blocked the guy while be got the ball. Great play and executed well by everyone except what sounds like one person. There was a lot of that which is generally the mark of a bad team. I don't think Pruitt would've recruited half of these guys.
 
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I think we should all pool our money--I might possibly get a little bonus this year that I could kick in instead of taking a family vacation. We should all give it to our OC to make sure he stays. After all, he's by far our highest paid assistant. We wouldn't want to lose him--who else could call such original running plays? Maybe a little play action when our backs are being stuffed at the line? Also, anybody know where Walt Wells is? We need to send him an apology---and an uber.
 
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It was embarrassing to find out the announcers on television were pointing out all the Tennessee players who just stood there with half-cocked arm tackle attempts that the running back shook just by continuing to run straight ahead. Those are the kinds of things that they just know better but for one reason or another, somehow it wasn't yet drilled until the point it's instinct yet. Maybe some good old-fashioned negative reinforcement by running up and down the bleachers for the same number of times as yards the ball carrier gained after a player's arm tackle attempt failed. Shoulder tackling should be instinct because at least you know it's a textbook tackle, it won't get you penalized, it stops the player (which should be the goal of any legitimate tackling technique unlike arm tackling which has proven to fail), and it reduces the risk of injury to the neck and spine. We've lost more rushing yards by either lateral steps or running in place with no first-step, up field get off than I care to remember. So those are my two winners. Offense- loss of yards for running in place until the defense catches up to tackle or side to side and then driven back for a loss instead of driving straight ahead pumping the legs like pistons until the whistle stops blowing. Defense- the quickest way to identify the pussified among you on the field- arm-tackling when the situation calls for, no, demands a real tackle to be made.
 
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I feel today very similar after having watched one of Dooley's team miss probably 25 tackles on a return. To be that/this bad you almost have to practice being bad to be that good at it.
 
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The worst part was sitting in Neyland for that performance then trying to leave after parking in G17, took 30 minutes just to move 20 feet
 
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