Proud of our team

[xpsyclonex2002]

Regardless of the outcome, I'm proud of our boys. They played their butts off. They proved to me, a "sky is always falling" guy, that we are on par with the elite teams. Yes. We lost. But after the last several years of getting abused by GA, we punched them in the mouth for 4 quarters. One missed field goal from a win. No moral victory, but we measured ourselves against the benchmark and came up even. We didn't get out coached. We didn't get out played. The ball just didn't bounce our way tonight.

And can we just say the JA is a boss? He was putting on a clinic tonight. Our secondary is still our weak link.

 

[ACvol3]

It showed me that we can play with anybody and the talent gap is getting smaller. Uga is more talented and much deeper, but we’re gaining ground.

 

[81Bubbavol]

Agreed,
Now I have seen that 11-1 is possible.

Go VOLS !

 

[djwes]

Joey balled out. If we still had Nico, this game wouldn’t have been close.

 

[TrojanorVol]

Yes I am proud of our team too. Not proud of our defense. Our linebackers and our cbs too. Thanks for showing up but making no plays. It was expected. Thank u linebackers, dBs and yes Banks for coaching as u always do against Georgia. Can't come up with something for a win ever except for 1 game against bama which was not a defensive win. Starting to feel like Banks is the weak link but successful because PLAYERS want to play for Knoxville and not YOU. But thank u for what u have done. Time to move on.

 

[cherokeeeVOL]

Agreed. He’s a beast. Very much lucked out on the Nico deal.

 

[djones24]

Good job by players. But with our staff. Looking more and more like 8-9 win season unfortunately

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Agreed. He’s a beast. Very much lucked out on the Nico deal.

This one year rental with Joey may turn out to be one of Heupel’s best portal acquisitions. I think this team can be really darn good if the defense gets healthy and improves.

 

[Gandalf]

We have a FAR better offense than I thought we would when we swapped JA in. He is doing very well in CJH's system and it shows.

Now we just need to get our corners healthy enough so that our defense can actually keep people from scoring.