Kirkland Jr. out

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Remy said:
Non contact is good, significant time possibly missed is not so good. Bituli can handle it and a name we've not heard much of due to injuries for 2 years could come into play as well in young Sapp. Jumper does his best but he has significant weaknesses opponents can and do exploit. Gators didn't most everybody else did down the stretch, Guess who played alot at MLB when USCe and Vandy piled up all their yards on us?
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Non contact is never good, and usually worse than a contact injury by far
 
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CAVPUT said:
Kirkland likely won't be back to full strength until fall camp next year based on our recovery times. Just redshirt him and move on to Bituli and Ignont. Hell...keep it simple. Tell 'em to go get the guy with the ball. As for Jumper, the kid busts his ass and is a durable son of a gun. I would go into a fight with him. Kirkland hasn't done much of anything since his freshman year. At this point, whatever we get from him next year is gravy, but he clearly needs time to get healthy. UT needs to focus on the kids who can play.
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We need to win now.

We pulled that red shirt business with Dobbs. If he gives us the best chance to win at 80%, put him in.
 
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UT_Tix79 said:
Non contact is never good, and usually worse than a contact injury by far
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Oh good grief, ever seen a non contact injury end a career? Let me help you, it's rare. Check some film out of a youngster playing in the SEC not so long ago named Lattimore that played for USCe and there's a guy most Vols know named Inky Johnson that had his career ended with contact injuries, Chuckie Mulins at Ole Miss paralyzed, your response was silly, like first grade silly IMO.
 
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CAVPUT said:
Hell, I've said it before....this team can tear an ACL getting out of bed. I'm fine going with the younger kids and taking my lumps this year. Our upper class guys are just.....well...fragile. It's time to move on and build for the future. If these injury prone players get it together and contribute, that's great, but I'm beyond relying on them. Time to turn the page and look to the future.....and we haven't played a damned game yet!!
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From a post earlier genetics play a role in all the knee injuries.

When you want a youngster to "give all", sometimes they give more than their body can take.
 
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#557
Burger said:
We have a systemic injury problem. We've had major injuries the last 3 years.
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Checkout the injury tracker thread. Bunch of knee injuries.

A different guy each year. Must be the turf. Bring back the carpet.

Anybody got a piece of the old carpet in storage. I've got a shelf waiting for a piece.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
Sub in and sub out LBs based off down and distance.

Instead of an every down MLB, sub to the strength of the individual vs tendencies of GT.

Seems we have many but only a few that have completed their training and can play every down.
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Which "individuals"? That's the question. Our best individual is now hurt and out, his replacement is limited in what he can do and the rest are unproven or have zero experience. Scheme up all the crazy stuff you want, you still gotta have guys who can play/execute.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
Checkout the injury tracker thread. Bunch of knee injuries.

A different guy each year. Must be the turf. Bring back the carpet.

Anybody got a piece of the old carpet in storage. I've got a shelf waiting for a piece.
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Hall and Calbert came into the season with pre-existing knee injuries. Besides those two we've only had two...DKJr and Jones.
 
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KBVol said:
Which "individuals"? That's the question. Our best individual is now hurt and out, his replacement is limited in what he can do and the rest are unproven or have zero experience. Scheme up all the crazy stuff you want, you still gotta have guys who can play/execute.
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There's no reason worrying about it. We have to line up and let it play out at this point.

We do have a couple of younger guys coming up. Not sure they can line everyone up yet.
 
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KBVol said:
Which "individuals"? That's the question. Our best individual is now hurt and out, his replacement is limited in what he can do and the rest are unproven or have zero experience. Scheme up all the crazy stuff you want, you still gotta have guys who can play/execute.
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You posted it yourself quoting the long list of LBs. We have the bodies/players, to let them specialize in a specific aspect of out defense. Don't teach them all the whole package individualize each rep to match what his specialty will be.

It takes a veteran player with great skills to be able to play every down. Split up the work, play the tendencies and rotate out players based off what you think they will run. Guess right and you blow up the play.

Is it crazy to rotate players based of down and distance? Just get more detail with how we sub.
 
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Just more of the curse that has infected the ENTIRE athletic department for the last 10 years.

Anyone own a goat?
 
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volfannbama said:
Ive watched some. Im a fan of the offense, as im a fan of Navy football(second to Tennessee) and they run the same. Obviously, you never want to give up speed as it covers up mistakes. But the single most important factor in defending the option is defensive alignment/ positioning / assignents and that is where Jumper excels. It should go without saying that if DKJR is the best players, thats who you want in there, but GT is the type of offense where Jumper should be fine. And really, lets be honest, if Jumper where at GT he would be starting.
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I don't don't know if Jumper would start at GT or not. He would need to beat out Brant Mitchell, who played well as a freshman and then struggled alearly last year but got better. I think he will actually have a good year this year.
 
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KBVol said:
Which "individuals"? That's the question. Our best individual is now hurt and out, his replacement is limited in what he can do and the rest are unproven or have zero experience. Scheme up all the crazy stuff you want, you still gotta have guys who can play/execute.
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Lack of depth in a critical area. MLB is like QB to the defense. Are Page and Reid OLBs? Weren't Austin Smith, Jaquan Blakely, and Ryan Thaxton recruited originally as LBs? Those guys have the size of a MLB, but we probably have put too much weight on them now as DLs. Probably be too slow. We need guys the size and physicality of AJ Johnson to really rough it up inside and have missed that. Kirkland showed some signs of being that type, but he's been hurt most of his time and we better recognize that we can't count on him. Missed most of last year, held out all spring, and now injured again.
 
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KBVol said:
Which "individuals"? That's the question. Our best individual is now hurt and out, his replacement is limited in what he can do and the rest are unproven or have zero experience. Scheme up all the crazy stuff you want, you still gotta have guys who can play/execute.
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Ignont and Bituli will at the very least match what Kirkland brought.what they need is game expirence. Learning on the fly, cast into the fire. Butch has shown a pattern of not playing the best player. Sickening.
 
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