Hey Vol Nation!
Join the Armchair Coaches Challenge and share your insights ...
- Fixing the Secondary: How would you address and improve the struggling Vols' secondary? Coaching adjustments, player development, or scheme changes? Share your ideas to shore up our defense.
- Beating Georgia: As armchair coaches, how can we strategize to defeat the Bulldogs? Discuss offensive/defensive game plans and potential advantages to claim victory.
- Unity in the Locker Room: Addressing the impact of NIL in the locker room and the issues that led to the South Carolina loss. Share your thoughts on leadership, discipline, and team-building activities that can contribute to success.
Let's come together and tackle these challenges...
Go Vols!
Hey love the challenge, we all as fans love to be arm chair coaches so I’m gonna do my best to give you my opinions and what I would like to see, and some insight on what I believe needs to happen happened.
1. The secondary, oof where do we begin. I know this defense gets unfairly judged by a lot of ppl. So let’s look at the stats that are gonna matter for this defense, bc ydpg, goes out the window. I would like to see a bend but don’t break defense that tightens as it gets in the red zone, this secondary needs to get turnovers and prevent teams from getting TDs.
So let’s see this defense get our ppg giving up to less than 21 a game and top 10 in red zone and third downs! And please for the love of god turn ur head and play the ball!!
2. Beating Georgia would be just as big as beating bama last year so let’s discuss how we can make that happen!! Just like in the bama game we need to come out and smack Georgia in the face, show them this isn’t another game, that they’re in our house and this is TN. I would love to see TN come out and score fast and get some turnovers to force GA to play from behind. Joe needs to be that guy for this game bc I think no matter what it’ll come down to the 4th quarter. I really don’t know much about Georgias qb situation so I think we should put it all on the qb, make him beat us. Take away the run game and force the qb to make those tough throws and our defense has to get those 50/50 balls.
I think we can beat Georgia at home with all the home field advantage and getting the crowd in it early.
3. Thinking about the South Carolina game is tough for me bc it makes us all think what could have been, not only did we lose hooker but we lost our chance at a playoff berth all bc of locker room issues before the game.
So let’s discuss, from what I’ve heard or read, it came down to some guys being upset that other guys were getting paid and they wasn’t.
This is new to college football and it’s hard to say how a young guys gonna act on either side of the situation, one being the guy making the money or the other being the guy that feels under valued. So it’s gonna come down to the coaches and the team building and the culture that they present and surround these guys in, and not just sometimes but all the time bc we saw what one bad week can mean for a team. I would like to see a team that is together and a family type that understands that some guys are gonna get more attention but if they all come together they will individually get their moment if they unite and make some magic happen. You see it with Georgia and Alabama , every draft it seems like every member gets drafted, bc they are at the top of the mtn. So if we can get these guys all to commit to climbing this mtn together, and show them that they will be a payoff for each and every one of them but it’s gonna take some work.
Love my vols and can’t wait for this team to come out and show that they’ve improved as a unit and see the offense and joe back to running a top 5 offense and the defense needs to be top 10 in red zone and turnovers, and third downs!! If that happens we are going to the top baby! And if we don’t accomplish these feats let’s at least take steps to those!!
Thanks again for the thread op and of course GBO!!
