Butch's Loyalty?

#26
#26
The play calling was fine.

The O-Line's performance is what limited all of our options and ability to execute plays. If we had a better line last night the game would have been a lot closer. Maybe next season at home you will be able to see a difference.
 
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#27
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GAVol said:
Teams pass on 3rd and 2 all the time. It's not 1982 anymore where you can just lineup and play road grader football . . . especially against Oklahoma with what we trotted out there for a o-line.
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Sure you can. But, if you don't want to be in a power I formation, there are many ways to run the ball. Running the ball on 3rd and 2 inside the 5 with a chance to be first and goal is far and away much more likely to execute verses throwing a ball into the endzone. It just simply is. There's really no arguing that.....
 
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#29
#29
Its not just the Oklahoma game, in the past 2 seasons we have thrown the ball WAY to much when inside the 5 yard line. The defense just gets so packed in down there but he constantly tries wants to throw everytime they get down there. Bad things are going to happen when you constantly want to throw the ball that close to the goal line. And they did last night and have several times over the last 2 yrs. Thats always been my only complaint about Butch and Bajakian.
 
#30
#30
The Vols recruited a 5 star running back who is a tough off tackle runner. The Vols have a gritty senior tough off tackle runner. USE THEIR ASSES WHEN IT IS MATHEMATICALLY APPROPRIATE
 
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#31
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He has to hire a new Offensive Coordinator. The play calling was irrational.

No, he doesn't. The playcallng had a lot to do with the fact that Worley had under 2 1/2 seconds before OU's front 7 was on him. The problem was that until late in the game the OL was unable to open any running lanes inside and the OU D was fast enough to seal the edges. That takes a lot of your plays away.


When game should have been cut to 27-17 the OC put Worley and the offense in a very high risk low reward situation. It was irresponsible to NOT run the ball when Worley took it inside the 5 (with a chance to get another 1st down).

I suspect that if we had run the ball and got stuffed someone would have started a thread blasting Coach Jake for trying to run the ball. It is also likely Worley saw something he liked at the LOS and thought he could hit that quick cross. It's easy in hindsight for us armchair coaches to say we should have done this or that. Other than those 2 nice runs by Hurd the OL had not really opened up many running lanes all night, so I understand the reasoning behind going with a quick hit pass. Unfortuantely it just turned out to be a bad decision.
 
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I will probably get lit up for this but whatever. Don't get me wrong, I think Worley played OUTSTANDING last night, but the kid made the wrong decision. Worley had the option to pull that ball down and run for the two yards and the first down on the goal line. Go back and look at the replay. He probably could've walked into the end zone.
 
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My main complaint on play calling were the deep routes, most of the time worley was getting hit the wrs were still trying to go deep and worley had no one to get it to. We never attacked the middle of the field, and with their blitzes it would have been there
 
#36
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madbamahater said:
At crucial points in the game the play selection was irreirresponsible. Yes, you run the ball every time on 3rd and 2 (wasn't 3rd and goal, had a chance for a first down and goal). Mathematically speaking you always play your percentages there. Every time. The ONLY reason to throw is in a play action situation. Only. It was irresponsible! Did Worley force it? Yes. Did he make a poor decision? Yes. Was he placed in a very high risk low reward position with the set? Yes. Of course!!!!!! That's coaching
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So if you can do better, go send Butch your concerns and resume. Maybe, he will be so impressed with you that he listens and consults you in a critical situation at Georgia in two weeks.

By the way what experience do you have calling plays? Play station or peewee football don't count.
 
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volfan4evr said:
I respectfully disagree. OU's defense limited our play calling tremendously. A run inside the five does not guarantee a TD. Were some of our play calls questionable? Yes. But give credit to their D for that.
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I totally disagree a simple hand off give Hurd a chance.
 
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#38
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volzfanupnorth said:
I will probably get lit up for this but whatever. Don't get me wrong, I think Worley played OUTSTANDING last night, but the kid made the wrong decision. Worley had the option to pull that ball down and run for the two yards and the first down on the goal line. Go back and look at the replay. He probably could've walked into the end zone.
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I'm paint a picture here. College coordinator, 30 years in the game, making lots of money. College kid adrenaline totally jacked that's been getting absolutely destroyed... Call the damn run !
 
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SGMVols said:
No, it was all the injuries to UGA's star players. Without them we would've lost about 34-10.
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Most of their injuries were on offense. Some of these post or threads are offensive and with short term memories.

Give this some time.
 
#42
#42
Only so many play calls you can call when the Oline is just not in the same stratosphere as their front 7.

I think everyone expected that to be a problem. I don't think anyone expected it to be that bad.
 
#43
#43
Other_Guy said:
So 1 bad decision which they may not have picked up the 1st anyway gives cause for a firing?
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Sorry but that was inexcusable. That kind of decision making will lose ball games for you. I don't mind the pass since they were stopping the run, but doing it out of an empty backfield? Again, inexcusable. That was the worst play call of the night and it was a 14 point swing. The game was over after that.

What's worse is if you don't convert the run, kick the field goal. 2 possession game. Empty backfield throw was the worst possible decision.
 
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#44
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SGMVols said:
No, it was all the injuries to UGA's star players. Without them we would've lost about 34-10.
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Did you watch the game? None of UGA's injuries explains away the blocked punt for a TD or any of the points we scored for that matter...and you have us only scoring 10? Come on, Man!
 
#46
#46
The TE was wide open. I don't agree with the decision to go 5 wide, but with 3 men in coverage on the left, there were open receivers on the field. Worley picked one that wasn't
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Sorry but that was inexcusable. That kind of decision making will lose ball games for you. I don't mind the pass since they were stopping the run, but doing it out of an empty backfield? Again, inexcusable. That was the worst play call of the night and it was a 14 point swing. The game was over after that.

What's worse is if you don't convert the run, kick the field goal. 2 possession game. Empty backfield throw was the worst possible decision.
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Of course had they run and fumbled rather than what happened you'd be calling for Jakes head saying with our monsters at receiver and the height mismatch we should have lined it up 5 wide and made them defend the jump ball.

You guys want to fire us out of our obvious progress. Let them work and you just sit there and watch.
 
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madbamahater said:
Sure you can. But, if you don't want to be in a power I formation, there are many ways to run the ball. Running the ball on 3rd and 2 inside the 5 with a chance to be first and goal is far and away much more likely to execute verses throwing a ball into the endzone. It just simply is. There's really no arguing that.....
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oh good grief another "expert", thanks for allowing the board to partake in your knowledge
 
#50
#50
I don't get all these folks calling for staff changes. Those knee jerk reactions have created a lack of continuity over the past ten years that is almost entirely responsible for the state of our program.

For example, 2005 wasn't on Randy sanders IMHO. It was sense of entitlement of a few stars who spent more time reading press clippings instead of playing hard to win ball games. Its not play calling 9 times out 10. Its motivation effort and execution.
 
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