Offense next year.

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volroadwarrior said:
Another wild card is how the OL will play. If they don't open holes for Hurd, Lane, Scott & company they could have a tough year. If they do, watch out. It's anyone's guess now who the QB will be. If the OL blocks and new receivers develop, whoever wins the QB competition will be fine.
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Agree
 
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volroadwarrior said:
Another wild card is how the OL will play. If they don't open holes for Hurd, Lane, Scott & company they could have a tough year. If they do, watch out. It's anyone's guess now who the QB will be. If the OL blocks and new receivers develop, whoever wins the QB competition will be fine.
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I think because of this :lolabove: we could be a multiple QB year, Worley, and (RF, JD) but note that CBJ must not be happy with the weight RF has put on this winter, he mention that he was still FRAIL at the Big Orange TipOff Club.
 
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Brianchevy said:
ah, the read-option, just what I had hoped to hear in this thread.

How did that offense do for Auburn in the National Championship game? Oh yeah, that's right, it LOST to a drop back passer with Randy Sanders coaching.

Oh, and Nick Marshall is better than any of the 4 Tennessee QB we have, so I suspect we won't have even remotely their success.
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They run an inverted veer way more than they do a read option.
 
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Dobbs looked good on the option. He was a true fr. Also if RF is even a 1/4 of what his backers say we will be ok.
 
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ItsAllVols said:
I think because of this :lolabove: we could be a multiple QB year, Worley, and (RF, JD) but note that CBJ must not be happy with the weight RF has put on this winter, he mention that he was still FRAIL at the Big Orange TipOff Club.
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In part, that's what I'm trying to tell VN, the RF factor that is. Would love to see him come out and be all that's claimed about him. BUT BUT BUT, it's Dobbs that went to California and put himself under the tutelage of a QB trainer. It's Dobbs whose pictures we see showing obvious weight room impact on his physique. It's Dobbs who led the student body in a snowball fight then directed them to transport the battle to Neyland Stadium. It's Dobbs that was reported as working independently with the WRs. It's all Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, in this off season. And no similar Rifleman reports. Just the Dobb Goblin. He's coming.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
In part, that's what I'm trying to tell VN, the RF factor that is. Would love to see him come out and be all that's claimed about him. BUT BUT BUT, it's Dobbs that went to California and put himself under the tutelage of a QB trainer. It's Dobbs whose pictures we see showing obvious weight room impact on his physique. It's Dobbs who led the student body in a snowball fight then directed them to transport the battle to Neyland Stadium. It's Dobbs that was reported as working independently with the WRs. It's all Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, in this off season. And no similar Rifleman reports. Just the Dobb Goblin. He's coming.
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I usually don't pull for anyone in the battle. I actually think Dobbs did fine as a true freshman. It'll be between Dobbs and Ferguson.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
In part, that's what I'm trying to tell VN, the RF factor that is. Would love to see him come out and be all that's claimed about him. BUT BUT BUT, it's Dobbs that went to California and put himself under the tutelage of a QB trainer. It's Dobbs whose pictures we see showing obvious weight room impact on his physique. It's Dobbs who led the student body in a snowball fight then directed them to transport the battle to Neyland Stadium. It's Dobbs that was reported as working independently with the WRs. It's all Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, in this off season. And no similar Rifleman reports. Just the Dobb Goblin. He's coming.
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Some good points here. I'm relatively impartial on the freshmen (I still think Worley starts), but there's no doubt Josh has been for real about this offseason. Should definitely lead to some great competition this spring and fall, which is a good thing for the team.
 
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Read Option not working last year??
It didnt work great under Worley for obvious reasons, but as the season went on he got better at it. In the 4th qt of the UGA game he used it very well
Against USC I believe they scored a 2 TD's using the passing option.
Against Vandy it was the only thing Dobbs used it.
 
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Doyle Hargraves said:
I don't think anything more has been said about RF than was said about Dobbs this time last year.
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I disagree. Dobbs got a lot of chatter last year due to some pretty incredible HS tape, but we'd never even seen 3 out of the 4 QBs play. I read a Bleacher Report thing that said Peterman would start Day 1 because he could run the option (lol). This year we've now seen 3 out of 4 play. Only one's left, so the Backup QB Savioritis hype has been much more focused on him.
 
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We have not seen any of our QBs separate himself from the pack so far. Maybe the Alpha Male will take command this spring. :search:
 
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Christian Lowe said:
What will we run? We're weak at QB, so the Read-Option won't work this year just like it didn't last year. We're strong at WR, and RB.. But we might not have a QB to get it to the WR consistently.

Basically.. Will we see a Running game similar to 2009, or try to be efficient in both areas?
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Please stop. PLEASE STOP.

UT has four.... FOUR... QB's with the talent to be good or even very good SEC QB's. I find it hard to believe Peterman can mentally and emotionally overcome what happened to him at UF but he HAS TALENT. So does Worley. So do Dobbs and Ferguson.

On the few occasions Worley ran, it was effective. Dobbs was VERY effective running the ball.

The biggest problem with the passing game was that the WR's were underdeveloped and lacked experience. For that reason, Worley struggled to develop rapport with them. He could not trust them to be where they were supposed to be and therefore hesitated when throwing. That kind of lack of confidence will ALWAYS make a QB's accuracy inconsistent.

THAT began to improve leading to the efforts we saw in the UGA and USCe games. Those are the two games that Worley MOST deserves to be evaluated by.

As the trust continues to grow ONLY THEN will you see the true "talent" of the QB's.

So PLEASE stop blaming Worley or the QB's generally for the struggles in the passing game last fall. It was more complex than that but PRIMARILY a function of WR inexperience and mistakes.
 
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Were going to run the wishbone out of the I-Formation, replacing TEs with 2 extra OT. North, Pearson, Croom, Pig will all be 24/7 decoy WRs.
 
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sjt18 said:
Please stop. PLEASE STOP.

UT has four.... FOUR... QB's with the talent to be good or even very good SEC QB's. I find it hard to believe Peterman can mentally and emotionally overcome what happened to him at UF but he HAS TALENT. So does Worley. So do Dobbs and Ferguson.

On the few occasions Worley ran, it was effective. Dobbs was VERY effective running the ball.

The biggest problem with the passing game was that the WR's were underdeveloped and lacked experience. For that reason, Worley struggled to develop rapport with them. He could not trust them to be where they were supposed to be and therefore hesitated when throwing. That kind of lack of confidence will ALWAYS make a QB's accuracy inconsistent.

THAT began to improve leading to the efforts we saw in the UGA and USCe games. Those are the two games that Worley MOST deserves to be evaluated by.

As the trust continues to grow ONLY THEN will you see the true "talent" of the QB's.

So PLEASE stop blaming Worley or the QB's generally for the struggles in the passing game last fall. It was more complex than that but PRIMARILY a function of WR inexperience and mistakes.
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Add in Pearson, Malone, another year in the system for North, Croom, and Pig.

What do you get?? Profit!!
 
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Brianchevy said:
ah, the read-option, just what I had hoped to hear in this thread.

How did that offense do for Auburn in the National Championship game? Oh yeah, that's right, it LOST to a drop back passer with Randy Sanders coaching.

Oh, and Nick Marshall is better than any of the 4 Tennessee QB we have, so I suspect we won't have even remotely their success.
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Mr. Short Memory -

Aw-barn was up 21-3 at half. If the defense hadn't forgot how to tackle and contain, the SEC would be showing off its' 8-in-a-row NC trophy.

That offense also ran up 500+ plus yards in the most highly anticipated Iron Bowl - against Mr. Defense (Saban) himself. So Yes, I would say that offense is something to model after.
 
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Brianchevy said:
ah, the read-option, just what I had hoped to hear in this thread.

How did that offense do for Auburn in the National Championship game? Oh yeah, that's right, it LOST to a drop back passer with Randy Sanders coaching.

Oh, and Nick Marshall is better than any of the 4 Tennessee QB we have, so I suspect we won't have even remotely their success.
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Marshall has only thrown for over two hundred yards five times in his career. He's 59 percent passing in his career. He's an athlete playing quarterback. Contrary to what you may think I'll take Dobbs or Fergie with a year in this system over an athlete who can't hit the broad side of a barn. I'll take CBJ's eval of our QB's over Nick. I'll take the playmakers we have coming in over Auburns any day of the week. Now I may be alone in my thinking of our QB's and our talent but something tells me I'm not. Auburn went to the NC and that's great, but they came home with a loss. Why? He can't throw the damn ball. GBO every day all day!
 
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PassedOutAwake said:
I'm not so sure about that. All 4 of our QBs will have another year under their belt running this offense. This will help with the timing of their throws and open up the playbook a little more. It will also help them make the read faster.
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we certainly have nothing proven at QB but I'm with you - I do think there is reason to believe 1 of the 4 could develop in the system and be a competent player for us next year

I think Pearson/Malone/Helm/Hurd - along with maturation of all the other WR's - could really help make the QB job a bit easier than it was this past year
 
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