Biggest concern next week = officiating

[volfan102455]

QB play should be your concern. The best QB wins next week.

The team that controls the line of scrimmage and protects the football the best this week will win. Penalties will also be a factor.

Last year it was all about the QB's and who had the ball last because NEITHER team had a DEFENSE.

Neither one of these teams are what they were last year.

 

[Jxn Vol]

The gumps are going to hold us to protect Milroe and the refs will not call it. Book it.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

The movement of the betting line will tell you how the officiating will play out next Saturday. The calls will go in the opposite direction of the bets.
Been happening consistently since the Music City Bowl.

Just stop with this tin foil hat BS. You people are looney.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

QB play should be your concern. The best QB wins next week.

TAMU
South Carolina
USC
Arkansas

All had better QBs and lost. Stop boiling down the game to the QB.

 

[knoxvol52]

...funny stuff ....don't let refs dictate outcome ..do your job and just win...

 

[Carl Pickens]

Biggest concern is officiating? For real?

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

You think the calls, or lack thereof, this past weekend AT HOME were bad? Wait til we travel to Tuscaloosa. Gonna take a monumental effort to beat two teams next week. CJH needs to be more aggressive with the officials IMO to at least put a little something in their ears to think about.

I am not ready to make the refs excuses ahead of a game we haven't played unless its a basketball game in Rupp Arena. That is statistically the least fair and balanced place for refs. Bama gets called for plenty of penalties. The one thing your about your comment though. The refs listen to Saban I am not sure they take anyone else seriously. So I am not sure if Heupel speaks up if the refs will look for anything else they typically do or don't.

 

[Voltildeath1]

You think the calls, or lack thereof, this past weekend AT HOME were bad? Wait til we travel to Tuscaloosa. Gonna take a monumental effort to beat two teams next week. CJH needs to be more aggressive with the officials IMO to at least put a little something in their ears to think about.

Did you watch the game last year? I was even embarrassed by the no calls against Bama.

 

[orangemadam]

Refs were bad both ways Sat.

Vols got away with plenty of penalties with no calls . Facemasks and
PI and we committed plenty of penalties at bad times but were bailed out.

 

[feathersax]

I'll be honest, of what games of there's I've been able to watch, the refs haven't favored Bama too well the last 2 years - but Tenn benefited the most last year I've ever seen for them.

Bama was getting hosed last week against A&M too. This year has been atrocious and Tenn has been screwed over a lot this year.

Yep, we know the drill.

 

[Volador]

Refs don't come into the equation if we execute.

 

[madbamahater]

Always have to beat the refs when playing Bubba

 

[Zues1]

Officiating has been awful all season, across the country.
Just put it in the end zone

 

[Cartervol]

Yeah I'd say the injuries on the Oline and Milton are more of a concern.. They're going to hold and it won't get called we already know that..

 

[TNStudMuffin]

Lol. Give it a rest for crying out loud with the premade excuses.

It's a fact of the matter.

 

[TAF]

 

[LordVOLdemort]

Officiating… and the game being on CBS AGAIN. Gary will have Saban’s whole salami inhaled by the half….

 

[savannahfan]

Biggest concern is one person...JM. Do we get Clemson/SC Joe or TaM Joe? If we get Clemson Joe, we've got a real chance at a win. If not, no chance...unless we win the turnover battle and rush for 250+.

We won't be playing a depleted Clem - we will be playing a less than great Bama who will still be tough to beat. As we have seen, Joe is only Mighty Joe Milton against lesser teams.

 

[TheVolsFrog]

You think the calls, or lack thereof, this past weekend AT HOME were bad? Wait til we travel to Tuscaloosa. Gonna take a monumental effort to beat two teams next week. CJH needs to be more aggressive with the officials IMO to at least put a little something in their ears to think about.

I said in the game thread. Hype needs to just pay the fine and call the officials out. Not for the holding in the trenches because that happens on both sides but the blatant not throwing flags on PI that are clear as day or not throwing flags in the game that Joe had slid down and stilled got popped

 

[GetYouSomeofThat]

Quite the contrary. I believe we have a great chance to win, straight up. But you cannot deny the officials have been pi** poor

Calls were missed both ways this past Saturday.

With that said; through the first half of the season the officiating has been better than in years past for SEC refs. At least it seems that way to me.

 

[Enigmatic_Vol]

This just in

 

[TheVolsFrog]

Officiating… and the game being on CBS AGAIN. Gary will have Saban’s whole salami inhaled by the half….

The game being on CBS and Gary has really got me thinking about turning the volume down. It sure would be nice if you're streaming it using the CBS app if you could pick an alternate audio like you can for Spanish except you could listen to the radio broadcast
Gary is unbearable

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Losers blame refs. Yeah there’s been plenty of bad calls and every fan base has folks that cry it’s only against them.

Posts like this crack me up.

Officiating is god awful and if you want to ignore it, by all means, go for it.

 

[66volfan]

Posts like this crack me up.

Officiating is god awful and if you want to ignore it, by all means, go for it.

Reading comprehension is kinda difficult.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Reading comprehension is kinda difficult.

Seems like you took a shot at our fan base with the loser comment.

You know damn well Bama gets the courtesy of no calls against them.