Monte is looking like a chump right now

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#151
After what the defense has done earlier in the season, I don't think they showed up on Saturday! The team looked pathetic! How's Monte going to explain this one?
 
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jokerama said:
The Vols will lose games under this regime...
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I understand that games will be lost. When I say Spread offenses - 5 and Monte - 0, I am referring to the five teams that we've faced this season that have been able to abuse our defense. I'm not talking necessarily about the games we've lost. I respect Monte greatly, but he has shown a glaring weakness in his scheming against spread offenses.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
I understand that games will be lost. When I say Spread offenses - 5 and Monte - 0, I am referring to the five teams that we've faced this season that have been able to abuse our defense. I'm not talking necessarily about the games we've lost. I respect Monte greatly, but he has shown a glaring weakness in his scheming against spread offenses.
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And you use the definition of "spread offenses" very loosely.
 
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#155
are people really upset with MONTE KIFFIN after one game? I mean really. get a clue. no one said anything about it when bama or fla beat us.
 
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TennFan said:
After what the defense has done earlier in the season, I don't think they showed up on Saturday! The team looked pathetic! How's Monte going to explain this one?
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Probably by saying that there is a lack of depth, players we had at the beginning of the season are either out or playing hurt, and the players that were in position to make a play (like Berry, McCoy, Rogan) missed tackles. Missed tackles doesn't really have anything to do with scheme.
 
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alumvol08 said:
Probably by saying that there is a lack of depth, players we had at the beginning of the season are either out or playing hurt, and the players that were in position to make a play (like Berry, McCoy, Rogan) missed tackles. Missed tackles doesn't really have anything to do with scheme.
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There were a lot of missed tackles, which is not on Monte. Looking at the highlights of McCluster, though, there were many plays where our defense was out of position before the ball was even snapped. In my opinion, that aspect of the defense's struggles is on Monte. Again, I think he is an amazing defensive mind, but he needs to come up with an answer for this. Hopefully, like you've mentioned, fixing the depth problem will remedy our woes and our future denfenses will be able to stifle a spread style offense.
 
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wounded mullet said:
Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!


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Post of the weekend right there.
 
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#159
Do we not think that perhaps having a third string MLB contributed to some of the missed assignments/adjustments?
 
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Kel said:
Do we not think that perhaps having a third string MLB contributed to some of the missed assignments/adjustments?
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That and being razor thing at every position. Depth and having to play walk-ons/backups has contributed to not being able to stop teams.
 
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#162
Thanks to the non-efforts of phil fulmer, monte has little talent to work with on D. It will take a few years to restock the roster with 5 star talent.
 
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bluetickhound16 said:
I know complaining about the officiating is for losers but the refs really handed the game to OM early.... Not a single holding call when they were plentiful and obvious.... Hands in the face on a fair catch? No problemo..... By the time the zebras started calling a more or less fair game it was already decided.....
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:lolabove:Stupid post. It is all part of Slives masterplan...
 
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I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but is it possible they were expecting and schemed against a more pro-style offense for Ole Miss? I haven't watched any Ole Miss games this year, so I'm kind of talking out of my ass, but it seems to me that they hadn't used the McCluster wildcat as prolifically as they did yesterday. I think they watched some tape of us against Bama, saw how the wildcat really worked our defense, and then prepared accordingly. I think UT was more prepared for a pro-style offense with a little bit of wildcat, versus mostly wildcat with a little bit of pro-style. On top of that, I don't think we could adequately adjust against McCluster during the game because of our lack of talent, coupled with the fact that we didn't play with any emotion on Saturday. Does any of this sound plausible to anyone else? Has anyone else watched a lot of Ole Miss games that can affirm that they don't usually go to the wildcat first? I also believe that Monte will definitely work on scheming against spread and wildcat offenses very much in the off-season. He didn't scheme against these kind of offenses in the pros, but I think he will look forward to a new defensive scheming challenge and he will come up with something in the off-season (or before our bowl game). Maybe he will even create a new defense and call it Knoxville-2. Go Vols.
 
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VolsLunatic said:
Ole Miss is the only horrible team that we have lost to this year. Our program will not fully rebuild and recover until we make it through a couple of seasons of beating all the teams we are supposed to beat. This one hurts me more than the Wyoming game.
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I would say UCLA is the only horrible team we have lost to all year and even with them horrible is a tad harsh. People are amazed by this loss but if you would have asked most people at the beginning of the year who would blow UT out, they would have said Ole Miss, Alabama, Florida. Just so happened Ole Miss came through against UT. They played like a top 10 team and we played a bad game. I'm just happy it wasn't Alabama that beat the living daylights out of us.
 
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JayGunna said:
this LB group is the worst in the SEC.
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Maybe, considering our middle linebacker. He's a puppy in a dogfight. We should have been solid at LB but injuries knocked us down to our 3rd string linebacker. I don't know many teams that can play at a very high level with a 3rd string middle linebacker.
 
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These threads kill me, we have a serious lack of depth at two very key positions for yesterdays game and many other positions as well. We don't have a very deep rotation at DT, add the opposing speedster to that mix and it spells trouble, especially when they sustain drives. We are paper thin at LB right now, many guys dinged up and injured, McCoy probably shouldn't have been out there.

Monte will have to learn to scheme the spread and option more effectively as far as the college game goes. We shouldn't try to pretend this was about his failing as a coach. This was much more about a very deflating series of events that culminated in three important players being suspended and the effect that had on the team as well as a lack of depth and quality at certain position. Both of these things will pass and get better. The sky isn't falling.
 
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KB5252 said:
These threads kill me, we have a serious lack of depth at two very key positions for yesterdays game and many other positions as well. We don't have a very deep rotation at DT, add the opposing speedster to that mix and it spells trouble, especially when they sustain drives. We are paper thin at LB right now, many guys dinged up and injured, McCoy probably shouldn't have been out there.

Monte will have to learn to scheme the spread and option more effectively as far as the college game goes. We shouldn't try to pretend this was about his failing as a coach. This was much more about a very deflating series of events that culminated in three important players being suspended and the effect that had on the team as well as a lack of depth and quality at certain position. Both of these things will pass and get better. The sky isn't falling.
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That pretty much sums it up.



CHUMP????? :realmad:
 
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Maybe Monte had the Vol's D ready to play against Florida and Alabama. Maybe they did play over their heads (talent wise) in those games. I say Monte did a lot with little to work with. Consider this - maybe the Vol's D played inspired ball against these two teams and we saw them play more to their talent level against Ole Miss. Maybe getting fired up against as disappointing Ole Miss team was far more difficult than getting ready for Fla or Ala.

I say give Monte credit for having them ready to play vs Fla and Ala.
 
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Also worth noting that Houston Nutt has stopped McCluster more than opposing teams. He didn't start getting McCluster touches until recently, and sat him last week to rest him up for the UT game.
 
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Grow up guys. Our D is beat up, the whole team was in a funk. Bad news does this.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Every other team that Ol' Miss has played was able to keep it respectable with regards to stopping their offense. I know that we have our 3rd MLB in and JJ is out, but we should have still been able to make it respectable.
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Living in Arkansas, all I've heard is 2 things about Dexter McLuster... 1) Ole Miss fans complaining about the lack of touches by McCluster (until now obviously) and 2) Arkansas fans laughing at Houston Nutt for not getting McCluster more touches.
I think McCluster had a season high touches by a wide margin.

I will say that we should have been able to make a halftime adjustment to make Sneed beat us... but when a kid has a day like Saturday, you're just out of luck.
 
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