We Weren’t Good This Year

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We just weren’t. Beck torched us. The Ohio State QB torched us. Our pass defense was horrible all year. Heupel is kinda vanilla. So uninspired at times. I don’t blame this on the players really. If Michigan’s d can slow down Ohio State, why couldn’t we? So bad on both sides of the ball. I’m speechless. It’s really inexcusable. We played so bad in the first half all season. That’s not on the players. I think Heupel is a good coach. He’s not great. Day out coached him, and Day is not great. We need a great one. Heupel was a good stop gap. It’s time to go in a different direction. That was absolutely pathetic.
 
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bluevols27 said:
We just weren’t. Beck torched us. The Ohio State QB torched us. Our pass defense was horrible all year. Heupel is kinda vanilla. So uninspired at times. I don’t blame this on the players really. If Michigan’s d can slow down Ohio State, why couldn’t we? So bad on both sides of the ball. I’m speechless. It’s really inexcusable. We played so bad in the first half all season. That’s not on the players. I think Heupel is a good coach. He’s not great. Day out coached him, and Day is not great. We need a great one. Heupel was a good stop gap. It’s time to go in a different direction. That was absolutely pathetic.
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You know I can talk myself into thinking we could beat Georgia in a rematch on a neutral field. I might be delusional in that thinking. I never felt we had an answer for their WRs though tonight. I mean they could pretty much get a first down anytime they wanted for the most part. We just never really had a chance. Ohio state is damn good but it felt like some guys mailed it in or maybe the flu rumored was true? Who knows but healthy or not didn’t seem like tonight it would have mattered.
 
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bluevols27 said:
We just weren’t. Beck torched us. The Ohio State QB torched us. Our pass defense was horrible all year. Heupel is kinda vanilla. So uninspired at times. I don’t blame this on the players really. If Michigan’s d can slow down Ohio State, why couldn’t we? So bad on both sides of the ball. I’m speechless. It’s really inexcusable. We played so bad in the first half all season. That’s not on the players. I think Heupel is a good coach. He’s not great. Day out coached him, and Day is not great. We need a great one. Heupel was a good stop gap. It’s time to go in a different direction. That was absolutely pathetic.
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I get being emotional but step back with perspective. We are a top 10 team this year who played badly tonight. We are not a top 5 team at all and there is a large gap between top 10 and top 5.
 
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I am appreciative of this team and season. We weren’t world beaters in the end, but this team of questions marks really came together and fought. We had severe limitations as a team and those were exposed today. Our over reliance on Sampson to bail us out and for pressure with four to let us sit back and play with a numbers advantage finally caught up with us. Touché OSU. It is just reality. We have some serious holes still in scheme that have to be answered as well as personnel. My goodness our LBs are bad.

Teams with any offensive creativity are able to scheme is into horrible matchups. Napier did it but was severely limited by his players. Tonight Kelly had us so twisted that Arian Carter was covering Megatron 2.0 on man coverage repeatedly.

Offensively we have been bad at tackle all year long. We have at times struggled against teams to move the ball even with a favorable box. The wide split offense is dead if you cannot run on a soft box as are most offenses. If we cannot get better OL play, this is the ceiling. I hate this offense but I pray it keeps working. But, if you can’t block, it’s all just squiggles on a chalkboard.

I am thankful that we have had great individual and team defensive performances but I hope Banks is hired elsewhere as a HC. His system is a liability. We have been good defensively because we out talented people. Our front is really good and some of our dbs are too. When they are better than the opponent, we have been really good. In even or unfavorable matchups we are toast and have been. We are outsmarted and it is obvious. As the season has worn on, it has been even truer. Presnap motion is into unfavorable conditions and isolate our slow LBs.

In tournaments all but one ends with an L. I think we ran into a buzz saw tonight. We saw the best roster in CFB operating at 100%. Nobody was going to beat OSU today.

Go Vols. I hope we can use this to adjust and improve for next season. I will be cheering. A lot of this team was young or from the portal. Another year will do us good. I will hate not seeing the same DL guys out there. I have enjoyed watching them play and grow.

Merry Christmas everybody
 
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I predicted 8-4 on the forum a few times and was more than amazed by this seasons success considering all the small flaws for this team that need recruited, experience, fire the WR coordinator, develop wr and depth, and new QB coach. LB depth. One injury earlier in season on LB and we were toast
 
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loosecannon said:
I am appreciative of this team and season. We weren’t world beaters in the end, but this team of questions marks really came together and fought. We had severe limitations as a team and those were exposed today. Our over reliance on Sampson to bail us out and for pressure with four to let us sit back and play with a numbers advantage finally caught up with us. Touché OSU. It is just reality. We have some serious holes still in scheme that have to be answered as well as personnel. My goodness our LBs are bad.

Teams with any offensive creativity are able to scheme is into horrible matchups. Napier did it but was severely limited by his players. Tonight Kelly had us so twisted that Arian Carter was covering Megatron 2.0 on man coverage repeatedly.

Offensively we have been bad at tackle all year long. We have at times struggled against teams to move the ball even with a favorable box. The wide split offense is dead if you cannot run on a soft box as are most offenses. If we cannot get better OL play, this is the ceiling. I hate this offense but I pray it keeps working. But, if you can’t block, it’s all just squiggles on a chalkboard.

I am thankful that we have had great individual and team defensive performances but I hope Banks is hired elsewhere as a HC. His system is a liability. We have been good defensively because we out talented people. Our front is really good and some of our dbs are too. When they are better than the opponent, we have been really good. In even or unfavorable matchups we are toast and have been. We are outsmarted and it is obvious. As the season has worn on, it has been even truer. Presnap motion is into unfavorable conditions and isolate our slow LBs.

In tournaments all but one ends with an L. I think we ran into a buzz saw tonight. We saw the best roster in CFB operating at 100%. Nobody was going to beat OSU today.

Go Vols. I hope we can use this to adjust and improve for next season. I will be cheering. A lot of this team was young or from the portal. Another year will do us good. I will hate not seeing the same DL guys out there. I have enjoyed watching them play and grow.

Merry Christmas everybody
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This team has been inconsistent all year when it counted. Losing to Ark exposed us, Losing to an average Georgia team exposed us. Giving up 14 pts to Vandy in the first 5 minutes exposed us. You can give up 14 points early to a Vandy team, but not to top level teams like Ohio St.. Agree that not sure who could have beat this Ohio St team playing like they did.
 
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volfeeva said:
This team has been inconsistent all year when it counted. Losing to Ark exposed us, Losing to an average Georgia team exposed us. Giving up 14 pts to Vandy in the first 5 minutes exposed us. You can give up 14 points early to a Vandy team, but not to top level teams like Ohio St.. Agree that not sure who could have beat this Ohio St team playing like they did.
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Too many mistakes to overcome
 
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Ohio State is very likely to win the National Title. If we could have beat Arkansas we're probably not playing this weekend

Can someone tell me what was wrong with Sampson
 
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We are about an 8-4 team that honestly got lucky and won 10 games. I’m worried we may not be that lucky next year and miss the playoffs but who knows, hopefully things improve and if anything this game was a wake up call to show Heupel and company how far off we are to be able to compete in the playoffs for a natty one day
 
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UTK said:
We were good. We weren’t great. Overall the program is in an amazing place compared to when CJH took over. Period.
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I agree, but at some point we have to raise our expectations. I’m proud of my children for being polite and courteous human beings, but don’t think I won’t put a foot in their ass when they’re lazy or give a half-assed effort at something. Life is about continuous improvement, and we’ve regressed in the last two years.

We have to get out of this mindset of comparing ourselves to five years ago and start using 25 years ago as the barometer.
 
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UTK said:
We were good. We weren’t great. Overall the program is in an amazing place compared to when CJH took over. Period.
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We were OK but overrated all year. However, as you said we are in much better shape than when Heupel took over so I can't complain and do not believe any coach could have done more considering the challenges he faced. OSU's roster is considered to be the best in the country and IMO last night's game confirmed that. If they play continue to play motivated they'll be National Champs.

Our roster is better than some but we still have weaknesses especially at one or more high profile skill positions and I don't think time alone will change that.
 
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We are pretty good. Can win most of our road games and almost unbeatable at home. It is tough for a team to come to Neyland when there are 100,000 fans and the noise level almost unbearable.
OSU is very talented, were motivated and played up to their potential last night.
 
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Raebo said:
We are pretty good. Can win most of our road games and almost unbeatable at home. It is tough for a team to come to Neyland when there are 100,000 fans and the noise level almost unbearable.
OSU is very talented, were motivated and played up to their potential last night.
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We are quite undersized as a complete team. Very evident when we play upper echelon
 
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J C Higgins said:
We were OK but overrated all year. However, as you said we are in much better shape than when Heupel took over so I can't complain and do not believe any coach could have done more considering the challenges he faced. OSU's roster is considered to be the best in the country and IMO last night's game confirmed that. If they play continue to play motivated they'll be National Champs.

Our roster is better than some but we still have weaknesses especially at one or more high profile skill positions and I don't think time alone will change that.
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Yes so true and we are quite weak as a coaching program. It's going to take much more to move the program don't see it getting there anytime soon
 
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Our scheme was completely reliant on Sampson. Losing him was like pulling a spark plug in your engine. And the portal knocked some ornaments off the tree. In hindsight, we were doomed.
 
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