'25 Portal Thread

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#12,203
Stoerner Fumbles said:
He’s a smart guy who follows data, but he can be dogmatic about it. We have a high ypc every year doing it his way. It’s hard to question statistically. It works against decent talent. I think it becomes a problem against great teams with fast defenses. Our red zone offense definitely could’ve benefited from developing a more diverse run game, and versatile use of our backs. We have an RPO play that releases the TE and the RB into downfield pass. It’s been bulletproof in practice in the red zone. We haven’t used it once in a game. Same thing with the two back set. It’s hard to understand.
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I’m more worried about the passing game aspect. Seems like we need to be more diverse there. I think the wide splits limit what we can do.

I know it’s a lot different, but I watch some of these NFL offense and the creativity is off the charts and it gives quarterbacks easy check downs.
 
#12,208
#12,208
Stoerner Fumbles said:
He’s a smart guy who follows data, but he can be dogmatic about it. We have a high ypc every year doing it his way. It’s hard to question statistically. It works against decent talent. I think it becomes a problem against great teams with fast defenses. Our red zone offense definitely could’ve benefited from developing a more diverse run game, and versatile use of our backs. We have an RPO play that releases the TE and the RB into downfield pass. It’s been bulletproof in practice in the red zone. We haven’t used it once in a game. Same thing with the two back set. It’s hard to understand.
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Interesting about the RPO. I'd like to see more creativity but to be fair, pretty much every offense struggles against great teams with fast defenses. Even Ohio State struggled offensively against Penn State, Michigan, and Texas. When they didn't struggle against us and Oregon, it was because of great plays by a great player (Jeremiah Smith). Similarly, when Tennessee has looked good against fast defenses, it was also because of great plays by a great player (Jalin Hyatt). I'm sure an unstoppable offense exists, but I can't think of one.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
Interesting about the RPO. I'd like to see more creativity but to be fair, pretty much every offense struggles against great teams with fast defenses. Even Ohio State struggled offensively against Penn State, Michigan, and Texas. When they didn't struggle against us and Oregon, it was because of great plays by a great player (Jeremiah Smith). Similarly, when Tennessee has looked good against fast defenses, it was also because of great plays by a great player (Jalin Hyatt). I'm sure an unstoppable offense exists, but I can't think of one.
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the offense is so vanilla

watching Texas RBs have 100 catches hurts knowing we have had Wright and Sampson the last few yrs.
 
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Man it kinda sucks that we didn't reach out to Dixon now that McCoy is injured. I know we can't foresee the future, but I wish we would have given him a shot. Guess it's too late now, but fwiw I did shoot him a tweet telling him to reach out to us if we haven't already and to come to UT to form an absolute dynamic secondary. Which he will probably never even read but I figured it was worth a shot. LOL!!! HE didn't take his visit to Michigan this past weekend so I assume he is probably heading to UNC to play for Belichek and his former DB coach if I'm not mistaken. If not NC, it's Ole MISS. Feel like with his connection to Inge we could have had a shot. Guess we will wait and see who goes into the portal in the next week or so......... 🥱
 
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bpalmer28 said:
Interesting about the RPO. I'd like to see more creativity but to be fair, pretty much every offense struggles against great teams with fast defenses. Even Ohio State struggled offensively against Penn State, Michigan, and Texas. When they didn't struggle against us and Oregon, it was because of great plays by a great player (Jeremiah Smith). Similarly, when Tennessee has looked good against fast defenses, it was also because of great plays by a great player (Jalin Hyatt). I'm sure an unstoppable offense exists, but I can't think of one.
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I don’t disagree. I just know that our red zone offense has struggled and they came up with some solutions they didn’t ever deploy. They may not have worked. Hard to know.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
Interesting about the RPO. I'd like to see more creativity but to be fair, pretty much every offense struggles against great teams with fast defenses. Even Ohio State struggled offensively against Penn State, Michigan, and Texas. When they didn't struggle against us and Oregon, it was because of great plays by a great player (Jeremiah Smith). Similarly, when Tennessee has looked good against fast defenses, it was also because of great plays by a great player (Jalin Hyatt). I'm sure an unstoppable offense exists, but I can't think of one.
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I wouldn't say they were unstoppable but pretty darn close, The Greatest Show On Turf, LA Rams!!! The year they won the Super Bowl when they beat the Titans and had Warner, I think Faulk, Holt, Bruce, Zahir-Hakim, Proehl, etc. I know its NFL but it just reminded me of them. They were a heck of an offense though.
 
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MarcoVol said:
Hard to say it was a guts thing. Same coach that went for it on 4th down inside his own 20 or whatever it was
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True. May have been a timing thing where he was saving it for a key moment in a big game and it just never happened. We didn't sniff the redzone against UGA in the 2nd half and Ohio State was never a game. Hard to criticize what we did against Bama (24 points in the 2nd half).
 
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EJVOL4LIFE said:
I wouldn't say they were unstoppable but pretty darn close, The Greatest Show On Turf, LA Rams!!! The year they won the Super Bowl when they beat the Titans and had Warner, I think Faulk, Holt, Bruce, Zahir-Hakim, Proehl, etc. I know its NFL but it just reminded me of them. They were a heck of an offense though.
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The early 2000s Rams were a great offense. However, they also struggled some against top defenses. for instance, they scored 23 points against the Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV and 17 against the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
True. May have been a timing thing where he was saving it for a key moment in a big game and it just never happened. We didn't sniff the redzone against UGA in the 2nd half and Ohio State was never a game. Hard to criticize what we did against Bama (24 points in the 2nd half).
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We did struggle in the second half against Georgia but I don't think it was as simple as not sniffing the red zone. For one, our offense only had four possessions in the second half due to Georgia running long methodical drives. Here is how those four possessions went:
-Started on our 25 yard line. Moved the ball 39 yards to the Georgia 36 yard line. Took a delay of game then punted.
-KO returned to the 48 yard line(brought back to the 7 due to an illegal block). Moved the ball 30 yards before having to punt.
-Got the ball on our 18 yard line. Moved the ball 43 yards to the Georgia 41 before a false start pushed us back to the 46, followed by a punt.
-Got the ball on our 25 yard line with 2:26 left following the Georgia TD that basically ended the game. Moved it 21 yards to the 46 yard line before back to back sacks with the second one resulting in a fumble recovery by Georgia.

So, basically, out of four total possessions(only three while the game was still in doubt), we punted twice in Georgia territory and had a penalty wipeout great field position and put us deep in our own territory on a third, in which we still moved the ball enough to flip the field.
 
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Geronimo said:
Tennessee Football:

Where opposing backup quarterbacks look like 1st round draft picks.
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Well, we have had a bit of a history with that. However, this season you had Michael Hawkins for Oklahoma(11/18 for 132 1TD/12 carries for 22 yards), Malachi Singleton for Arkansas(2/3 for 31 yards/4 carries for 12 yards 1TD), DJ Lagway for Florida(9/17 for 98 yards 1TD and 1INT/5 carries for 1 yard), Gavin Wimsatt for KY(4/10 for 69 yards 1TD 1 Int/4 carries for 20 yards). I don't really see any of those as being eye popping numbers.
 
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T2P_Priceless said:
Can you imagine he works himself into 2d string. Lagway starts vs us, goes down with injury. Harrison comes in and wins the game. What a slap in the face 😝 😬
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Every Vol fan in attendance needs to bring sage and burn it in the swamp if that happens.

Also, Casey Clausen must be there on our sideline throat singing.
 
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