How to beat a great offense

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We’re a run first offense. Watch the fourth of the LSU game and the middle 4th of the Alabama game when we run it down their throats.
 
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Boone&Crockett said:
Florida had the right strategy but they were lucky too, if we could have stopped them on a couple of those 4th down attempts it would have been just like the LSU game and blew up in their face.
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We have protected the ball so well, and the offense is so effective that so far opposing defenses have been unable to stop us from scoring. Once they can’t get touchdown for touchdown and either have to kick field goals, or if they don’t make it that far punt the ball or go for it, they are reluctant to give it back to us. If we start to build a lead, which we have been doing early in games, they feel they have to take more chances.
 
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tone357 said:
That was the question in 1998. The Minnesota Vikings had the best offense in the NFL with Dante Culpepper at QB and the dynamic Randy Moss at receiver. The game was the 1998 NFC Championship. Nobody gave the Falcons a chance. But Dan Reeves had other ideas. His plan was to keep that offense on the sideline by running the ball. It worked like a charm. The Falcons beat them and went on to lose the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos. With the Vols having a good run defense, hopefully, this strategy won't work if upcoming opponents try it. But that's the recipe.
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That's what every team has tried to do since wk 2. Doesn't work. As long as our offense especially Hooker stays healthy, we should run the table. Basically unstoppable offense. All we need to do is score more than our defense allows. It's worked great so far!!!
 
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hardyemt_p said:
That's what every team has tried to do since wk 2. Doesn't work. As long as our offense especially Hooker stays healthy, we should run the table. Basically unstoppable offense. All we need to do is score more than our defense allows. It's worked great so far!!!
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I think the biggest difference this year is the offensive line. Hooker and all of his skill guys have all gotten better but he rarely has to be superman. He can still make things happen but they don’t get to him as much as last year, and now when they try he’s able to make them pay much more consistently.
 
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tone357 said:
That was the question in 1998. The Minnesota Vikings had the best offense in the NFL with Dante Culpepper at QB and the dynamic Randy Moss at receiver. The game was the 1998 NFC Championship. Nobody gave the Falcons a chance. But Dan Reeves had other ideas. His plan was to keep that offense on the sideline by running the ball. It worked like a charm. The Falcons beat them and went on to lose the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos. With the Vols having a good run defense, hopefully, this strategy won't work if upcoming opponents try it. But that's the recipe.
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Look no further than the 2014 super bowl. The Denver Broncos fielded the greatest static offense in NFL history. They got absolutely destroyed 43-8. But stopping our offense? At this point I believe the only way to stop our offense if that we would have to play a terrible game. Essentially the only ones who can stop TN is TN.
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
Which is why I've said our offensive line is 3 times more important than the secondary.
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Yeah if you can’t slow down the scoring you have to keep up and few can do that. One thing I have observed looking at Georgia is they move the ball very well but don’t have a lot of big plays. They aren’t throwing many effective deep balls and they throw very few TDs. Most of their red zone TDs are rushing, similar to us. Difference is they have kicked a lot more field goals than we have and been in the red zone more times.

I think it could be challenging for them to match us score for score if we can pressure Stetson Bennett. The quarterback is very accurate but has shown he can get rattled if you can get to him. Good offense for sure, lot of passing and they can run decently too but don’t have a super dominant single back.

When you look at the yards per carry Alabama is in the 6s and they are In the 5s iirc. So far we have kept people from running the ball the way they would like, Bama include. We held them to like 112 yards. Hopefully that holds up.

I’m not convinced Bennett can take the game in his hands and make plays to get them back in the game if they get behind. So they need to match pace or get stops and/or turnovers. Last year their defense was able to get us off the field and limit our scores.

Can they do it again? Many different dudes last year who are gone and were elite. They are still very talented but our offensive line is will be a bigger challenge than it was last time they faced us. I dunno how it will go should be fun to watch.
 
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We need 2 minutes to score 7 points. That’s a losing proposition for anybody who thinks they can limit us to less than 7 possessions. Not to mention they are going to have to abandon that strategy once we get up by 21 points.
 
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tone357 said:
That was the question in 1998. The Minnesota Vikings had the best offense in the NFL with Dante Culpepper at QB and the dynamic Randy Moss at receiver. The game was the 1998 NFC Championship. Nobody gave the Falcons a chance. But Dan Reeves had other ideas. His plan was to keep that offense on the sideline by running the ball. It worked like a charm. The Falcons beat them and went on to lose the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos. With the Vols having a good run defense, hopefully, this strategy won't work if upcoming opponents try it. But that's the recipe.
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Time of possession:
Minnesota 36:48
Atlanta 35:04
 
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