Hopefully that embarrassing loss galvanizes this team

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Best case scenario from that putrid performance vs. Arkansas, is that the embarrassment of such a sad showing pi$$es them off and serves as motivation to play "hair on fire" for the rest of the season and beyond. The game should be played with ill intent, Period! Should never be played scared or apprehensive. Praying it's galvanizing for them instead of creating doubts.
 
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allvols4life said:
Best case scenario from that putrid performance vs. Arkansas, is that the embarrassment of such a sad showing pi$$es them off and serves as motivation to play "hair on fire" for the rest of the season and beyond. The game should be played with ill intent, Period! Should never be played scared or apprehensive. Praying it's galvanizing for them instead of creating doubts.
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It wasn’t an embarrassing loss and it was always going to be a difficult game on the road except to the Koolaid drinkers just like this Saturday will be
 
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I was worried about the game immediately after the OU game. Now, after the offense looking not stellar at all against ARK, I am worried about the rest of the season. Oh, yeah and Vandy will be as pumped for UT as the were for BAMA.

Can't see everything on TV but I am wondering if the receivers are not getting open. I mean when Nico actually had time.
 
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The thread starter obviously has a bet on the game Saturday, thus the over the top hyperbole - embarrassing, putrid, scared, etc.

I honestly (and naively) believed that the ridiculous toxicity of this fan base would be mostly left in the dumpster with the Pruitt, Jones, and Dooley regimes, and the fact that we have real leadership from chancellor to AD to the head coaches committed to excellence would preclude the kind of idiocy we've seen here all week.

I clearly believed wrong.
 
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Tennessee has always had a problem of playing scared when a little bit of adversity comes into play. Anyone who has been a fan long enough knows what I'm talking about. You can basically feel when it's happening. Especially at the quarterback position and the coaching. They clam up and don't take any chances even though they don't have anything to lose. They gas their own defense from repetitive 3 and outs. If I was a defensive player I would be up in the offensive players faces telling them to get their head out of their 🫏. Play with command and try something else. You never know what you might learn.
 
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For this and every other game this year, coaches should be coaching and players should be playing...with a frenetic "leave it all on the field" energy.
 
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VolStubbs said:
Tennessee has always had a problem of playing scared when a little bit of adversity comes into play. Anyone who has been a fan long enough knows what I'm talking about. You can basically feel when it's happening. Especially at the quarterback position and the coaching. They clam up and don't take any chances even though they don't have anything to lose. They gas their own defense from repetitive 3 and outs. If I was a defensive player I would be up in the offensive players faces telling them to get their head out of their 🫏. Play with command and try something else. You never know what you might learn.
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What the hell does this team have to do with supposed problems that Tennessee, according to you, "always" had? Care to provide some actual evidence to such a ridiculous statement? Please cite your level of expertise to be able to sense the "fear" you claim to have seen last Saturday.
 
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VolStubbs said:
Leaders are not leading. They got to talk each other up. You see no fire on that sideline.
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This was my biggest issue with Saturday night. I actually texted my dad at halftime, "Where is this team's Al Wilson when you need him?"

They haven't had anyone like that in a long time imo, at least not publicly. I truly believe that Al would have been the first person to confront a OL that laid on the ground when trying to go tempo. I hope someone else has done that.
 
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landscapingvol said:
It wasn’t an embarrassing loss and it was always going to be a difficult game on the road except to the Koolaid drinkers just like this Saturday will be
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Exactly. Nothing embarrassing about a road loss in the SEC. Must be trying to speak his feelings into the teams existence.
 
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sami said:
What the hell does this team have to do with supposed problems that Tennessee has, according to you, "always" had? Care to provide some actual evidence to such a ridiculous statement? Please cite your level of expertise to be able to sense the "fear" you claim to have seen last Saturday.
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You did watch the game right? There's your evidence chief. Didn't team, same story for the 30+ years I've watched. Conservative play, 3 and outs, quarterback can't throw, gassed defense, mental mistakes and no player leadership. It just pours on when they are behind. That is a scared mentality.
 
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