Any one else concerned

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Looking at the Ga game. I'm sure their fans are asking is there a reason to be concerned lol
 
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jasonvol18 said:
It's game 1, so I'm not concerned about that yet. Now Milton struggling on passes over 10 yards will hopefully get cleaned up. Very rarely is everyone on in game 1. My biggest concern was the 3rd downs we struggled to convert and some phases of the Special Teams. A couple bad punts, a punt return fumble and a few kickoffs that went put of bounds. But again, it's game 1 and our punter and kickoff specialists were playing in their first game. Like I've heard on a few YouTube videos and podcasts, the secondary guys like Hadden still don't look back to find the ball. That's DB 101. Does Martinez not teach not? But overall, a really good 1st game against a power 5 school. The offense was pretty vanilla and didn't have to show much.

Dylan Sampson should be getting more #2 reps behind Wright. He doesn't dance around or trip over grass like Small does sometimes. Sampson is going to be a beast in this offense.
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Some DB coaches teach them to play through the WR's hands. So that might be why he isn't looking back. I think he had 2 PBU's using that technique today.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Yes. Milton is gonna have to play better if we are to be a serious contender for the East.
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And I don’t think that’s a pessimistic or negative take away. It just means the bar for Milton is really, really high. To contend for the East we literally have to be one of the best teams in the country. Until we start dominating in the trenches, we need great-to-elite QB play to reach our goals. He can do it, but I wouldn’t say today was great and certainly not elite.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
We should be worried. We are a very different team from last year. The D has picked up a bit and the O has fell off. The net effect is not something we can gauge after one game, but I think it's fairly obvious that we're not going to be scoring 60 points on too many teams this year. We are going to be a 30 to 40 Point team even against the non Elite teams.
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You say this after we just scored 49 and took our foot off the gas for the 4th quarter.
 
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Other than a drive or 2 in the second half it looked like we intentionally didn't throw the ball. Or try to anyway. Milton was pretty efficient though. A drop by Keyton kept Milton from being closer to 300 passing, 3 passing Tds and a 56-10 score.
 
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volfan_28 said:
And I don’t think that’s a pessimistic or negative take away. It just means the bar for Milton is really, really high. To contend for the East we literally have to be one of the best teams in the country. Until we start dominating in the trenches, we need great-to-elite QB play to reach our goals. He can do it, but I wouldn’t say today was great and certainly not elite.
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Wat? He had a 67% completion rate 2 through the air, 2 in the ground, no ints. I can count on one hand how many bad passes he had.

There's hot takes but the one that Milton didn't play well today is a braindead one.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
We should be worried. We are a very different team from last year. The D has picked up a bit and the O has fell off. The net effect is not something we can gauge after one game, but I think it's fairly obvious that we're not going to be scoring 60 points on too many teams this year. We are going to be a 30 to 40 Point team even against the non Elite teams.
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This is silly. We scored 49 points and had a drop from keyton that would have made it 56.
 
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dhurt8955 said:
About the passing game? Were the receivers not getting open or was it the play calling ? I know Keaton was wide open and dropped a sure TD. We won’t be able to run like this in every game so the passing game has got to improve.
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No
 
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I don’t understand the concern here. If Keaton hadn’t let the ball bounce off his face mask then Dee fumbling deep in Virginia territory that would have almost surely been another 14 points. It also killed the momentum we had. Hey, Joe wasn’t perfect. He didn’t have to be. Go Vols ! Gonna be another great season
PS The defense played great.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
Wat? He had a 67% completion rate 2 through the air, 2 in the ground, no ints. I can count on one hand how many bad passes he had.

There's hot takes but the one that Milton didn't play well today is a braindead one.
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I’m familiar with the stats. He got away with one today that should have been an interception and I only recall one downfield pass that was on target. The throwing windows against Georgia will be much tighter and we’ll probably be forced to throw more against them because they’ll likely stuff the run.
 
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I saw the waterboy accidentally drop a couple of Gatorade bottles on the sideline trying to get hydration to the players. Who's his backup?
 
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Onlyagibson said:
I think some reservation of judgement is warranted, if only because of how bad Virginia might be. They were a 3 win team in 10 games last year before their season was cut short. I don't think we will really know how good we are until we face FL.
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Fla. looked terrible against Utah, but I am sure they will bring their best when we play them.
 
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volfan_28 said:
I’m familiar with the stats. He got away with one today that should have been an interception and I only recall one downfield pass that was on target. The throwing windows against Georgia will be much tighter and we’ll probably be forced to throw more against them because they’ll likely stuff the run.
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Ok. So you identified the one of maybe 4 bad passes with the near int...in week one.

And there were only 2 down field passes both of them perfect. Keyton dropped one.

You are what the layman calls nitpicking. It is week 1 and you're expecting us to be in late season form. Joe went out there and took care of business. No one will be perfect my guy.
 
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LIvol said:
I'm worried about our Special Teams especially our Punter. What was that????? The announcer was saying he kicks with both feet. If you have two sub 30 yd punts...do me a big favor? Use the foot that kicks 45+ yd punts.

I remember Shane Victorino was a switch hitter...he hit .297 from the left and .196 from the right...no Shane you are a left handed hitter...a broken clock is right 2x a day
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He should just use both feet at the same time. Problem solved
 
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dhurt8955 said:
About the passing game? Were the receivers not getting open or was it the play calling ? I know Keaton was wide open and dropped a sure TD. We won’t be able to run like this in every game so the passing game has got to improve.
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Vanilla today. Only a couple of deep balls. Won by 36 and we didn’t play great. This team is dangerous if that defense plays like that all season!
 
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CNCVol88 said:
Ok. So you identified the one of maybe 4 bad passes with the near int...in week one.

And there were only 2 down field passes both of them perfect. Keyton dropped one.

You are what the layman calls nitpicking. It is week 1 and you're expecting us to be in late season form. Joe went out there and took care of business. No one will be perfect my guy.
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Like I said, the bar for Milton is very high when discussing what it will take for us to win the East. Of course I’m nitpicking. And like I said, he can do it.
 
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volfan_28 said:
I’m familiar with the stats. He got away with one today that should have been an interception and I only recall one downfield pass that was on target. The throwing windows against Georgia will be much tighter and we’ll probably be forced to throw more against them because they’ll likely stuff the run.
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Great he was 21 of 30 2 TDs and we won by 36 and all you can do is complain?
 
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We knew there would be a drop off at receiver, maybe they just had a bad game. Did the Kid from Oregan catch a ball?
 
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I wanna see some progress and rhythm in the passing game.

The lack of turnovers on d was concerning.

Got stuff to work on.

We have some dogs with that cheetah package.
 
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dhurt8955 said:
About the passing game? Were the receivers not getting open or was it the play calling ? I know Keaton was wide open and dropped a sure TD. We won’t be able to run like this in every game so the passing game has got to improve.
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If the defense sits back in a zone to stop our passing game I think we can run on anybody. Defensive coordinators will have to pick their poison.
 
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northknoxvol said:
We knew there would be a drop off at receiver, maybe they just had a bad game. Did the Kid from Oregan catch a ball?
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2 for 12yds

He and Bru were held back, I think from watching their routes.
It looked like they were getting almost all of the secondary's attention.
 
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