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Dear CJH and Nico and OL and everyone else on team and coaches,
I speak for all the fans when I say I am sorry for being negative during Florida and Alabama game on the board here. During the Florida game i questioned coaching(4th and 2 and own 11) during the game I questioned play calling and our QB. During the bammer game I questioned qb, i admit i was one of many that was like maybe we should put back up in.. Nico looks like freshman and is in over his head.. Well we saw what our backup did on his one play and then in the second half it was like we came alive.. Nico had a beautiful pass and a nice run and its like the team I saw and had hoped for came alive. You all knew what you had all along and we are blessed to have you as players and coaches and have to always remember you are all giving your all for Tennessee and im an armchair monday morning qb that needs to shut up
I apologize.
I am sure I will be back at it Saturday but it will be while pulling as hard as i can for you from the stands or my couch.. dont know which one yet
GBO
 
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hatingbamaisawayoflife said:
Dear CJH and Nico and OL and everyone else on team and coaches,
I speak for all the fans when I say I am sorry for being negative during Florida and Alabama game on the board here. During the Florida game i questioned coaching(4th and 2 and own 11) during the game I questioned play calling and our QB. During the bammer game I questioned qb, i admit i was one of many that was like maybe we should put back up in.. Nico looks like freshman and is in over his head.. Well we saw what our backup did on his one play and then in the second half it was like we came alive.. Nico had a beautiful pass and a nice run and its like the team I saw and had hoped for came alive. You all knew what you had all along and we are blessed to have you as players and coaches and have to always remember you are all giving your all for Tennessee and im an armchair monday morning qb that needs to shut up
I apologize.
I am sure I will be back at it Saturday but it will be while pulling as hard as i can for you from the stands or my couch.. dont know which one yet
GBO
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Don't speak for me DAMMETT!!!
 
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J C Higgins said:
Quote from a famous football coach but can't remember who, maybe Earl "Red" Blaik

Every man thinks he do three things better than anybody else:
build a fire, run a hotel and coach a football team.
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LOL, that's well and true, I know very little about football - but I knew enough to know Tebow was going to run left.
 
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hatingbamaisawayoflife said:
Dear CJH and Nico and OL and everyone else on team and coaches,
I speak for all the fans when I say I am sorry for being negative during Florida and Alabama game on the board here.
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Speak for yourself, please.

Some of us understand that there are ups and downs for every team, especially in CFB these days.

And we get that Nico (despite the "8 mil" people keep harping on) is still a kid playing his first 6,7,8 games in a pressure cooker league.

And that Josh has lifted this program from the ash heap to respectability and now to elite level in a ridiculously short period of time.

It helps to put it in perspective and not take a game played by 19-21 year olds personally.
 
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sami said:
Speak for yourself, please.

Some of us understand that there are ups and downs for every team, especially in CFB these days.

And we get that Nico (despite the "8 mil" people keep harping on) is still a kid playing his first 6,7,8 games in a pressure cooker league.

And that Josh has lifted this program from the ash heap to respectability and now to elite level in a ridiculously short period of time.

It helps to put it in perspective and not take a game played by 19-21 year olds personally.
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I'd give this post 1,000 likes if I could.

Very, very well said, Sami.

Thanks for it.

Go Vols!
 
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DC_Vol said:
I peeked into the game thread in the first half. Full meltdown underway. 🤣😂🤣😂

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Yah, the internet works fantastically well for many things.

Live "chat" (really yelling into the void) about a subject folks are passionate about, that's not one of them.

I get why Freak has that thread each week (if he didn't, he'd have to invent it), but it's still cancerous. I learned early on never to go there.

Go Vols!
 
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Strangely enough, some of are Tennessee fans, Heupel fans, thrilled with the Alabama game, and still think Josh has developed an unsettling ultra-conservative streak that cost us in the Arkansas game and almost cost us in the Florida game.
 
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hatingbamaisawayoflife said:
Dear CJH and Nico and OL and everyone else on team and coaches,
I speak for all the fans when I say I am sorry for being negative during Florida and Alabama game on the board here. During the Florida game i questioned coaching(4th and 2 and own 11) during the game I questioned play calling and our QB. During the bammer game I questioned qb, i admit i was one of many that was like maybe we should put back up in.. Nico looks like freshman and is in over his head.. Well we saw what our backup did on his one play and then in the second half it was like we came alive.. Nico had a beautiful pass and a nice run and its like the team I saw and had hoped for came alive. You all knew what you had all along and we are blessed to have you as players and coaches and have to always remember you are all giving your all for Tennessee and im an armchair monday morning qb that needs to shut up
I apologize.
I am sure I will be back at it Saturday but it will be while pulling as hard as i can for you from the stands or my couch.. dont know which one yet
GBO
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We appreciate the apology, but don’t lump yourself in with some of the others on this board who only know how to be miserable and want coaching changes in the middle of the game. Those front runners can kick rocks and GTFO.
 
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sami said:
Speak for yourself, please.

Some of us understand that there are ups and downs for every team, especially in CFB these days.

And we get that Nico (despite the "8 mil" people keep harping on) is still a kid playing his first 6,7,8 games in a pressure cooker league.

And that Josh has lifted this program from the ash heap to respectability and now to elite level in a ridiculously short period of time.

It helps to put it in perspective and not take a game played by 19-21 year olds personally.
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Boom
 
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I saw some improvement in the offense the 2nd half of AL. Heading in the right direction. I need to see more consistency and disciple.

I’m not there yet. Keep upgrading talent. Do not take the foot off the pedal.
 
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hatingbamaisawayoflife said:
Dear CJH and Nico and OL and everyone else on team and coaches,
I speak for all the fans when I say I am sorry for being negative during Florida and Alabama game on the board here. During the Florida game i questioned coaching(4th and 2 and own 11) during the game I questioned play calling and our QB. During the bammer game I questioned qb, i admit i was one of many that was like maybe we should put back up in.. Nico looks like freshman and is in over his head.. Well we saw what our backup did on his one play and then in the second half it was like we came alive.. Nico had a beautiful pass and a nice run and its like the team I saw and had hoped for came alive. You all knew what you had all along and we are blessed to have you as players and coaches and have to always remember you are all giving your all for Tennessee and im an armchair monday morning qb that needs to shut up
I apologize.
I am sure I will be back at it Saturday but it will be while pulling as hard as i can for you from the stands or my couch.. dont know which one yet
GBO
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Good Lord...Do you HEAR Yourself??!!
 
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I think we need a family meeting over what a game thread is/isn’t and maybe take a vote on what rules if any we should agree on. IMO, a game thread is a running commentary relevant only at that specific moment. “We suck”, “{player name} ain’t it”, “Heupel’s getting outcoached”, “this game is over” -
All these types of comments reflect what has happened to that particular time of the game. It’s an outlet of frustration for people like me that keeps me from scaring my dog and making my wife mad. I come to game threads to commiserate with fellow Vol fans when things are looking bad and celebrate when it’s going great. The only solution I can think of is to have a separate game thread for the negas and one for the sunshine pumpers. But I really don’t think that works. I know there’s a line that can be crossed with certain comments personally attacking a player/coach but those seem rare and usually get called out quickly by others. A game thread is “enter at your own risk” and you kinda know what your going to see there based on how the game is going. Apologies for my frustration posts during stretches of poor play.
 
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"I speak for all the fans..."
Before you deign to "speak for all the fans", don't you think you should ask all the other fans if they choose you to be their spokesmodel?
I, for one, haven't chosen anyone else to speak for me. Nor did I post any negative commentary during the FL and AL games.

"I am sure I will be back at it Saturday..."
Saturday is a Bye, so you won't see much to criticize. (Unless it's a big upset)
 
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sami said:
Speak for yourself, please.

Some of us understand that there are ups and downs for every team, especially in CFB these days.

And we get that Nico (despite the "8 mil" people keep harping on) is still a kid playing his first 6,7,8 games in a pressure cooker league.

And that Josh has lifted this program from the ash heap to respectability and now to elite level in a ridiculously short period of time.

It helps to put it in perspective and not take a game played by 19-21 year olds personally.
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I think maybe some of the CFP players are younger, as young as 17.
At least I think I've heard that about a thousand times the past couple of weeks hahaha
 
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Nico is a red shirt freshman with 8 combined starts under his belt, 4 of them against well below average teams and 4 against SEC teams, on one play he could look like a SUPERSTAR on the next play look like a backup, we all need to understand that i forget that myself sometime, by next year he will be rolling.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
I think we need a family meeting over what a game thread is/isn’t and maybe take a vote on what rules if any we should agree on. IMO, a game thread is a running commentary relevant only at that specific moment. “We suck”, “{player name} ain’t it”, “Heupel’s getting outcoached”, “this game is over” -
All these types of comments reflect what has happened to that particular time of the game. It’s an outlet of frustration for people like me that keeps me from scaring my dog and making my wife mad. I come to game threads to commiserate with fellow Vol fans when things are looking bad and celebrate when it’s going great. The only solution I can think of is to have a separate game thread for the negas and one for the sunshine pumpers. But I really don’t think that works. I know there’s a line that can be crossed with certain comments personally attacking a player/coach but those seem rare and usually get called out quickly by others. A game thread is “enter at your own risk” and you kinda know what your going to see there based on how the game is going. Apologies for my frustration posts during stretches of poor play.
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Yah, that wouldn't work, CBO. Because, among other reasons, the negas would go to the pumper thread to troll, while the pumpers would similarly go to the nega thread if things were going well.

My approach to VN.com during the games has evolved over the years. Used to be, if I was at home, I'd watch the game with computer in lap, ready to share my thoughts with the rest of you. Mind you, I didn't have time to read what YOU said, I just wanted to let you know what _I_ thought.

That is inherently unhealthy, to be on transmit rather than receive. You learn very little when transmitting.

On top of which, the game thread is cancer, because so many people use it as a raw outpouring of emotion. Unfiltered garbage straight from everyone's amygdala.

So the first evolution I went through was: stay out of the game thread.

And the second, even better, evolution I undertook was: don't even look at VN.com except during halftime and after the game. And ignore pretty much all the threads created during the game, because they're usually just more of that raw emotion poison.

Instead of sharing my game thoughts with you all, I share them with the people around me in the real world. And because I'm (usually) not a petulant child, very little of it is angry or mean-spirited. We have a great time at the game together, laughing and joking or being concerned, whatever the mood fits. But we treat each other like we love each other because...well, we do.

That is an emotion that isn't going to temper us in this forum, because being honest we mostly don't love each other. Though I do think @Behr is kinda cute.

Go Vols!
 
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