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I was reading a blog from last year and the guy had an interesting observation. UT's defense gave up a lot of points in several losses; 27 to Georgia, 41 to Notre Dame, 28 to Vandy, and 20 to South Carolina.

If UT could have held all of those teams to 14 points, UT could have been 8-3, losing only to Alabama 6-3 and Florida 16-7. And going to overtime against GA instead of losing 27-14.

For the most part last year, Sanders, Fulmer, and the rest of the offense took most of the blame for UT's 5-6 season. Granted the defense spend a huge amount of time on the field, and a lot of points where the result of poor field position, special teams, etc. But maybe the defense wasn't as good as everyone thought it was last year? Maybe it is asking too much to expect the defense to hold Notre Dame and Georgia to 14 points. But what about South Carolina and Vandy?
 
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(oklavol @ Feb 14 said:
Maybe it is asking too much to expect the defense to hold Notre Dame and Georgia to 14 points. But what about South Carolina and Vandy?
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I think it was asking too much of our defense to play the entire game. If you're out there for that long, a team is eventually going to score on you.
 
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Turnovers by the offense led to easy points for our opponents.

I think by the ND game our defense pretty much was spent and kinda gave up. Which I don't blame them at all.

Just look at the national rankings in offensive production and you will see that it was mainly our offense. Special teams didn't help either.
 
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No, we had a spectacular defense. It's just the fact that they were on the field for twice as much time as the offense that depleted the depth and awful special teams frequently gave opponnents great field position for nice short scoring drives. You could see in the way they played week in and week out, particularly in the second half of the season, the fire was just leaving them. It was like they had nothing to play for because the offense was so terrible.
 
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How can you blame our defense for Ainge throwing interceptions that get returned for touchdowns? Our defense was top notch last year, good enough to compete for a NC. They got ZERO help from our offense and was out on the field for much too long and put in some horrible situations. I am surprised they did as well as they did.
 
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For those that have felt UT has had great defenses, wake up. I for one haven't seen us have a GREAT defense in years. But the important point is the defense looked stellar compared to our pathetic offense.

And for certain our defense has won more games in a season than our offense has 6 years. Less last second field goals...
 
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(Orangewhiteblood @ Feb 14 said:
I think it was asking too much of our defense to play the entire game. If you're out there for that long, a team is eventually going to score on you.
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No OWB! OklaVol is right, there are no good qualities what so ever about the VOLS football program. Perhaps UT should shut down the Football program all together. Glass half full my rear. Hell to some we don't even have a glass.
 
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(RealVol @ Feb 14 said:
For those that have felt UT has had great defenses, wake up. I for one haven't seen us have a GREAT defense in years. But the important point is the defense looked stellar compared to our pathetic offense.

And for certain our defense has won more games in a season than our offense has 6 years. Less last second field goals...
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Well i tell you what then, if our defense was so bad why on earth were we ranked in the top 10 in defense? we've had great defenses the past few years.

the difference is, and i don't care how good a defense is, when a defense is put in to bad situations, eventually they're going to get beat.

you want to help the defense? stop going 3 and out. Stop turning the ball over in your own territory. stop turning the ball over on special teams. Build a lead.

nothing left to bitch about huh? time to start picking on the one bright spot from last year.....

OUr defense was good last year. :mf_surrender:
 
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My good people. Chavis is the only good thing we got going for this team. What I would have wanted to see was the offense have 1 good game so that we could really see the defense get after the opposition in the 4th quarter. No one in the nation would have been able to stop our pass rush.
 
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I think it's the flip side. Had our offense produced and gotten one more touchdown a game, then we would have been 8-3. I think the D did everything they possibly could. You really can't keep turning over the ball and keeping the D on the field. Props to Chavis and the defense for doing what they did with the conditions handed to them.
 
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(RealVol @ Feb 14 said:
For those that have felt UT has had great defenses, wake up. I for one haven't seen us have a GREAT defense in years. But the important point is the defense looked stellar compared to our pathetic offense.

And for certain our defense has won more games in a season than our offense has 6 years. Less last second field goals...
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And remind us again why you're a UT fan? :question:
 
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Hey cool down! I did not say we were bad, I simply stated we were not great!

Chavis does a good job, he's stable, usually has his unit prepared & generally you see improvement w his squad during the season. BUT is there any reason why to expect anything less at The University of Tennessee.

Of course our defense has been the banner carrying side of our football team for years now.

Not exceptional in most cases, but very adequate. Frankly, we've had some very good talent on the d squad & as stated they usually appear well prepared.

For goodness sakes can people just be real & not so sensitive.
 
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If I am not mistaken - I think most of the games you mention - there were more than one special teams touchdowns. At least I remember one in the UGA game and at leas one in the ND game - maybe 2 or a long second return by that Zibokowski kid.
 
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I'm just wondering because I've seen you rip on the offense, defense, special teams, coaching and recruiting. How's the band look to you? The hot dogs up to snuff? You bash this team more than a bammer!
 
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(utvolpj @ Feb 14 said:
I'm just wondering because I've seen you rip on the offense, defense, special teams, coaching and recruiting. How's the band look to you? The hot dogs up to snuff? You bash this team more than a bammer!
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Since you mentioned it, no, the hot dogs definately have room for improvement.
And that chicken sandwich? Aghhhh!
Whoever's in charge of that....Fire him!!!
 
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You can thank two of the three parts of our team for last season's catastrophe, and the DEFENSE is not one of them.

Our D has been great. Turnovers, failure to sustain drives, failure to score points, and embarassing "Special" teams play have been our ruin.
 
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(utvolpj @ Feb 14 said:
I'm just wondering because I've seen you rip on the offense, defense, special teams, coaching and recruiting. How's the band look to you? The hot dogs up to snuff? You bash this team more than a bammer!
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:lolabove: Stop it! My stomach is hurting! LOL!
 
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(orange+white=heaven @ Feb 14 said:
Since you mentioned it, no, the hot dogs definately have room for improvement.
And that chicken sandwich? Aghhhh!
Whoever's in charge of that....Fire him!!!
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It's gotta be Fulmer's fault. And why are the cokes so dang expensive now? I just pour half of it out anyway to add the "special ingredients". They need to sell a regular size and a mixer size in the stadium.
 
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(utvolpj @ Feb 14 said:
It's gotta be Fulmer's fault. And why are the cokes so dang expensive now? I just pour half of it out anyway to add the "special ingredients". They need to sell a regular size and a mixer size in the stadium.
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You got that right! If we have a repeat of last season that mixer size will come in handy.
 
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(orange+white=heaven @ Feb 14 said:
Since you mentioned it, no, the hot dogs definately have room for improvement.
And that chicken sandwich? Aghhhh!
Whoever's in charge of that....Fire him!!!
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I agree! There should never be chicken served!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVER.

BEEF, IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER!
 
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(RealVol @ Feb 14 said:
Hey cool down! I did not say we were bad, I simply stated we were not great!

Chavis does a good job, he's stable, usually has his unit prepared & generally you see improvement w his squad during the season. BUT is there any reason why to expect anything less at The University of Tennessee.

Of course our defense has been the banner carrying side of our football team for years now.

Not exceptional in most cases, but very adequate. Frankly, we've had some very good talent on the d squad & as stated they usually appear well prepared.

For goodness sakes can people just be real & not so sensitive.
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this is all fine well and good Real, but this isn't what you alluded to in your original post, hence the pouncing...in your original post, you basically sounded like the D was terrible and we should all "wake up" and realize that it wasnt very good....

not sensitive, just the other side of the arguement, i guess.
 
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Hey guys not much of a hot dog man myself...and could care less about the other stuff.

And YES I will confess I have been critical of the performances issued by special teams, offense & to a lesser extent our recruiting results. ALL in my opinion is a direct reflection of the pathetic coaching Fulmer has settled for over the years. I was NOT critical of our defense & have always felt Coach Chavis has improved as a defensive mind & generally has his unit adequately prepared. Furthermore He & his Staff have been our ONLY light of hope for several seasons now!

My friends that high respect was not how I regarded the former special teams coaches & for damn sure the former Offensive Coaching Staff! I'm soooo sorry if that hurts anyones feelings....

I am a UT FAN because I love UT, the State of Tennessee & take pride in their successes. To me part of the equation here is our Head Coaches are responsibile for maintaining a top flight program. In my opinion Fulmer has allowed our program to slip to a level that should NEVER have been accepted by the real vol fan.

Yes, yes I know there are those that simply believe what Fulmer does, says, believes or leads us into. Is undisputably the only option UT fb has. I simply do not subscribe to that! If I believe UT's Football Staff has gotten lazy, ineffective, overpaid, unproductive, unimaginative, non-innovative, can't develop excellent talent, appear to stay flat the ENTIRE season, and often look like they're clueless, I'm probably going to say that.

Again, I probably need to apologize to some of the more sensitive fans. Hot dogs exclused.
 
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