If Chavis has proven one thing over the years...

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General Jack

General Jack

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...its that he can scheme to stop the run. I can only remember one game where we could absolutely not stop the run, the Orange Bowl versus Nebraska after the 1999 season - and that was the wishbone and our problems with that offense are well known.

Arkansas QBs are not world beaters and our secondary is good. So scheming to stop the run, I think we can hold the hogs to 150 or so yards rushing, maybe the same passing because we'll give up a few big plays.

Arkansas is not the team LSU or Florida is, on either side of the ball. Ark can run, yes, but thats all they do much better than average. Chavis and Cutcliffe will earn their paychecks this week and the VOLS overcome adversity to win on the road.

I feel much better about this game than I did the LSU game.
 
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General Jack said:
Arkansas QBs are not world beaters and our secondary is good. So scheming to stop the run, I think we can hold the hogs to 150 or so yards rushing, maybe the same passing because we'll give up a few big plays.

I feel much better about this game than I did the LSU game.
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I believe Mustain was 8/10 in their game against Auburn. The QB's don't have to do much, just not give it away.

I feel just as iffy about this game as I did the LSU game. Especially with the performance our D put on last night.
 
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rockydoc said:
Have you forgotten about Auburn in 2003 and 2004(twice).
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No I haven't. And I haven't forgotten that they were not one dimensional like Ark is. And for that matter, in at least one of those games it wasn't the run beating us, it was Jason Campbell with some crazy 22-25 275 yd performance that beat us.
 
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traditionally he's stopped the run. arkansas will blow us up in the first half and we'll slow them down in the 2nd half. we just have to weather the storm and put up our own points. make it where they have to throw the ball.
 
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In the 2004 SECCG, the defense defended Williams and Brown pretty well. They just couldn't stop Jason Campbell.
 
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The Orange Bowl game was after the '97 season. I don't mean to nitpick, because Nebraska ran it against us pretty well in the Fiesta after the '99 season as well, as I recall. And that Auburn team in '04 ran it pretty well against alot of people with Carnell Williams and Ronnie Brown in the backfield.

The problem I see with this team stopping the run begins with the D line and continues into the linebackers. We don't get the push up front, and we don't have LBs flying into the hole often enough. Our secondary has played well, but any time you have a DB making 15 tackles, as Heffney did against LSU, you've probably got a problem.

All that being said, I still think we have a better team than Arkansas. We will see whose schemes are better Saturday, but I would lay my money on Chavis against a guy who was coaching Springdale High last year.
 
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Just like SC, yall think we are 1 dimensional. we aren't we only run cause it works. You stop us for a couple plays, then we CAN throw it, 200+ against SC
 
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Wish we could run, this will bite us again, running for less than 100 yrds as a team just sux.
 
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This year is different then most years. The DL is as thin as I can remember. They are not very big either.

Considering Arkansas is no. 1 in the SEC in rushing, I think this will be the toughest game yet.
 
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