One Glaring stat from last night…

[greenbacknative]

Obviously, it’s a head thing.
it’s not mechanics because coaches at both Michigan and Tennessee have worked with him on this.
I would try several offbeat approaches With him.
1. hypnosis. Have Him imagine going through his progressions very calmly and then throwing with touch.
2. he’s 21, so give him a couple of alcoholic calming drinks before practice.
3. yoga
4. deep breathing exercises
5. massage (the therapeutic kind not the happy ending kind).

nailed it !

 

[livefaith]

Vandy's corners played 10 + yards off the ball and they played two deep safeties. When the ball was snapped they safeties were back peddling to keep a lid on the secondary. Vandy sold out on the pass . Couple with their LBs being awful, we got so crazy rushing yards. SC has two corners that are good enough that they can play man coverage at times giving their safeties alot more freedom to play in with forward run support leverage. Our offense played well enough to be in that game. There was no "adjusting" per se, they scored 38 against a solid defense.

Watch the 1st TD for Wright when he gets to the sideline and goes 50-60 yards. #21 comes into the picture @ the time Wright is hit breaks tackle and regathers. He still can only get within 5 yards before JW accelerates away for a TD.
That was a DB! 4.9 speed? It takes a masterful coaching job to win 2 SEC games with players like that in the backend!

 

[Sarms58]

Watch the 1st TD for Wright when he gets to the sideline and goes 50-60 yards. #21 comes into the picture @ the time Wright is hit breaks tackle and regathers. He still can only get within 5 yards before JW accelerates away for a TD.
That was a DB! 4.9 speed? It takes a masterful coaching job to win 2 SEC games with players like that in the backend!

After watching us beat Vandy I have no explanation for how either Kentucky or Florida lost to that team…it defies logic

 

[greenbacknative]

Watch the 1st TD for Wright when he gets to the sideline and goes 50-60 yards. #21 comes into the picture @ the time Wright is hit breaks tackle and regathers. He still can only get within 5 yards before JW accelerates away for a TD.
That was a DB! 4.9 speed? It takes a masterful coaching job to win 2 SEC games with players like that in the backend!

Besides coaching, his time in the 40 is telling. I was slow in high school and I ran a 5.0 That won't keep up with an elite back.

 

[jwells]

I watched the replay on ESPN last nite. I know the conditions weren't the best , and Joe played a manageable game. BUT, I counted about 6 passes way overthrown that could've been TDs. All they needed was a little touch on the ball. I think he still struggles with the "touch " pass.

I chalked that up to 1: it was raining and 2: bombing out 90% of the passes meant DBs and Safeties had to stay back to keep up. Plenty of running space.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Obviously, it’s a head thing.
it’s not mechanics because coaches at both Michigan and Tennessee have worked with him on this.
I would try several offbeat approaches With him.
1. hypnosis. Have Him imagine going through his progressions very calmly and then throwing with touch.
2. he’s 21, so give him a couple of alcoholic calming drinks before practice.
3. yoga
4. deep breathing exercises
5. massage (the therapeutic kind not the happy ending kind).

I disagree. The happy kind might lower the octane for an hour or so.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Folks are making too much of Milton in this stat. I mean, he does need to work on accuracy and touch, but that's not really what you see when you study the 0 for 7 on 3rd downs.

• Second Drive of the game - (3rd & 9) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Squirrel White (would then punt on 4th down)
• Third Drive of the game - (3rd & 9) Joe Milton pass complete to Squirrel White for 5 yard gain (would make it on 4th down with another pass)
• Still the Third Drive - (3rd & goal from the 1) Princeton Fant run for no gain (would score TD on next play)
• Fourth Drive of the game - (3rd & 5) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Squirrel White (would punt on 4th down)
• Fifth Drive of the game - (3rd & 4) Jabari Small run for 3 yard gain (would fail to convert on 4th down run, turnover on downs)
• ...halftime...
• Tenth Drive of the game - (3rd & 6) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Ramel Keyton (would then punt on 4th down)
• Thirteenth Drive of the game - (3rd & 4) bad snap got past QB Gaston Moore, he fell on it for 9 yard loss (would punt on 4th down)

Okay, so some conclusions we can draw:

-- just four of the seven were passing attempts: 1 complete (but not enough yardage), 3 incomplete. So out of all the "0 for 7," only 3 were incompletions
-- none of these were for hugely long yardage -- 1 to 9 yards, none required a 20-yard pass to convert...most of Joe's egregious misses the other night (on any down) were shots down range...on the short yardage passes, it was generally about him smoking it in so hard it was tough to get a handle on
-- most of them happened in the first half; we were scoring at will in the 2nd half, never really needed to get to 3rd downs

Given all that, I'd say the one thing for the coaching staff to take from all this is: work on short slant/flat/screen passes with Milton until he can hit his target 10 times out of 10 at shorter distances without knocking the receivers' hands off their arms from the velocity.

Otherwise, this is just a curious stat. Not a lot to be worried about here.

Go Vols!

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

We were 0-7 on third downs…yet won 56-0. Those two just shouldn’t go together but it was Vandy. Did they play without safeties in the second half because none of our running backs saw a safety in the second half. Anyway, that’s just an insane stat.

56 is amazing considering the new 9 million dollar man could only get 22 in similar slimy weather. Guess pirate duty had the other coach better prepared for those conditions. Safety first after the punt return for us for sure.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Obviously, it’s a head thing.
it’s not mechanics because coaches at both Michigan and Tennessee have worked with him on this.
I would try several offbeat approaches With him.
1. hypnosis. Have Him imagine going through his progressions very calmly and then throwing with touch.
2. he’s 21, so give him a couple of alcoholic calming drinks before practice.
3. yoga
4. deep breathing exercises
5. massage (the therapeutic kind not the happy ending kind).

Think I will wait till after the bowl practices and game provide a better idea of what his capabilities really are with a lot of one reps and no wind and rain. He put one on 80 down the sideline one step in bounds and into both hands... replay it and see. The pass over the middle to the TE was on him for sure... he could have just laid it out there, and the one long shot that landed beyond the endline too... the others all had the potential to be under run rather than overthown, especially in those conditions.

 

[Sarms58]

Folks are making too much of Milton in this stat. I mean, he does need to work on accuracy and touch, but that's not really what you see when you study the 0 for 7 on 3rd downs.

• Second Drive of the game - (3rd & 9) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Squirrel White (would then punt on 4th down)
• Third Drive of the game - (3rd & 9) Joe Milton pass complete to Squirrel White for 5 yard gain (would make it on 4th down with another pass)
• Still the Third Drive - (3rd & goal from the 1) Princeton Fant run for no gain (would score TD on next play)
• Fourth Drive of the game - (3rd & 5) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Squirrel White (would punt on 4th down)
• Fifth Drive of the game - (3rd & 4) Jabari Small run for 3 yard gain (would fail to convert on 4th down run, turnover on downs)
• ...halftime...
• Tenth Drive of the game - (3rd & 6) Joe Milton pass incomplete to Ramel Keyton (would then punt on 4th down)
• Thirteenth Drive of the game - (3rd & 4) bad snap got past QB Gaston Moore, he fell on it for 9 yard loss (would punt on 4th down)

Okay, so some conclusions we can draw:

-- just four of the seven were passing attempts: 1 complete (but not enough yardage), 3 incomplete. So out of all the "0 for 7," only 3 were incompletions
-- none of these were for hugely long yardage -- 1 to 9 yards, none required a 20-yard pass to convert...most of Joe's egregious misses the other night (on any down) were shots down range...on the short yardage passes, it was generally about him smoking it in so hard it was tough to get a handle on
-- most of them happened in the first half; we were scoring at will in the 2nd half, never really needed to get to 3rd downs

Given all that, I'd say the one thing for the coaching staff to take from all this is: work on short slant/flat/screen passes with Milton until he can hit his target 10 times out of 10 at shorter distances without knocking the receivers' hands off their arms from the velocity.

Otherwise, this is just a curious stat. Not a lot to be worried about here.

Go Vols!

Probably the most amazing thing was only 2 third downs in the second half …never have I seen a team so checked out as the Vandy D in that second half. We had several “scoring drives” that were one or two plays - 4 breakaway runs of 50+ yards. It’s like their defensive wanted to give their offense a chance to score…just a weird game with several stats that are just weird - like 56 points with 16 minutes time of possession.

The score is what Tennessee Vandy games should always look like…