Postgame, Fulmer said...

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#26
The offense was clicking. Which brings me to my question...

Who in the hell called that last pass play?

We had seven minutes to go.... If hardesty was tired. Coker was ready and fresh, there was no reason to pass the ball at all.
 
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#28
Crew said:
The offense was clicking. Which brings me to my question...

Who in the hell called that last pass play?

We had seven minutes to go.... If hardesty was tired. Coker was ready and fresh, there was no reason to pass the ball at all.
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Ainge was ripping them all day. It was one play call and a bad decision by Ainge that he admitted. HE had Mech on the sideline wide open to the endzone. He just missed it.
 
#29
#29
I don't think there was anything wrong with the playcall really. We were throwing the ball at will and going for the knockout punch.
 
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#30
GAVol said:
I still have no idea what Deberry was thinking on that playcall. They KILLED us with the option all night long and then on the biggest play of the game, he runs a toss sweep?!

Thank you very much.
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They killed us the entire game with this play as well........it was a good call for AF.

It was a better play by X. Mitchell that kept them out of the endzone.

Go VOLS!!!
 
#31
#31
Wonderful! I see that it took all of 2 weeks for apathy to once again arise in our head coach and a lot of our fans. This is the kind of crap that leads to seasons like last year. Fulmer's attitude is a major problem. You have to fix problems as they arise, not close your eyes and act like everything is fine.
 
#32
#32
When a team is running the triple option that perfectly ANY team in the country is going to habe a hard time stopping it. They put on a clinic last nite against us. It's good for us to have seen it now and time to move on to more traditional schemes. I'm more worried about the play of our special teams than our defense.
 
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#33
Vol423 said:
Wonderful! I see that it took all of 2 weeks for apathy to once again arise in our head coach and a lot of our fans. This is the kind of crap that leads to seasons like last year. Fulmer's attitude is a major problem. You have to fix problems as they arise, not close your eyes and act like everything is fine.
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Look . . . Be mad about our defense if you want, but quit telling me and others that we're being apathetic when we state an opinion about facing the Triple Option. Maybe you don't agree with it, but it's a fact that a lot of good defenses get shredded by the flexbone.

I'm not apathetic just because I disagree with you.
 
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#34
Rocky Top said:
When a team is running the triple option that perfectly ANY team in the country is going to habe a hard time stopping it. They put on a clinic last nite against us. It's good for us to have seen it now and time to move on to more traditional schemes. I'm more worried about the play of our special teams than our defense.
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The triple option is not difficult to stop. It just takes discipline. This is something that Chavis is not instilling in our defense. In addition, while Air Force didn't make mistakes in operating the option, they are not in the same league as Nebraska and Oklahoma were when they used to run the option. Air Force executed well, but they don't have the athletes to raise the triple option to the ultimate level. There is no excuse for UT not shutting them down. We were pathetic last night defensively.
 
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Vol423 said:
The triple option is not difficult to stop. It just takes discipline. This is something that Chavis is not instilling in our defense.
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I just think this defense has turned in enough good performances the past couple of years that you can chalk this up to a bad night against a screwy offense.
 
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Vol423 said:
The triple option is not difficult to stop. It just takes discipline. This is something that Chavis is not instilling in our defense. In addition, while Air Force didn't make mistakes in operating the option, they are not in the same league as Nebraska and Oklahoma were when they used to run the option. Air Force executed well, but they don't have the athletes to raise the triple option to the ultimate level. There is no excuse for UT not shutting them down. We were pathetic last night defensively.
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Wow, shut up. Now you're going to try and bash JOHN CHAVIS? Get real, man.
 
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#38
Vol423 said:
In addition, while Air Force didn't make mistakes in operating the option, they are not in the same league as Nebraska and Oklahoma were when they used to run the option.
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IMO there's not much of a comparison between what Air Force does and those old wishbone attacks. Nebraska and Oklahoma relied a lot more on power and speed while Air Force's offense is more finesse based and relies on deception. Air Force doesn't blow you away at the line of scrimmage.
 
#39
#39
VolinArizona said:
Wow, shut up. Now you're going to try and bash JOHN CHAVIS? Get real, man.
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Let me make this perfectly clear for you, VolinArizona. I'LL SAY WHATEVER I _ _ _ _ WELL PLEASE, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH! This defense played like absolute crap last night.
 
#40
#40
Vol423 said:
The triple option is not difficult to stop. It just takes discipline. This is something that Chavis is not instilling in our defense. In addition, while Air Force didn't make mistakes in operating the option, they are not in the same league as Nebraska and Oklahoma were when they used to run the option. Air Force executed well, but they don't have the athletes to raise the triple option to the ultimate level. There is no excuse for UT not shutting them down. We were pathetic last night defensively.
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I dont know about you, but I never knew who had the ball when they ran an option play.
 
#41
#41
Vol423 said:
Let me make this perfectly clear for you, VolinArizona. I'LL SAY WHATEVER I _ _ _ _ WELL PLEASE, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH! This defense played like absolute crap last night.
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Uh yeah . . .Is there anybody arguing that the defense did a good job last night?
 
#42
#42
smokeyman15 said:
I dont know about you, but I never knew who had the ball when they ran an option play.
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If your defense is coached properly, that's not supposed to be an issue when playing the triple option. You have people dedicated to stopping the dive, the QB and the pitch man. It doesn't matter who has the ball there are men assigned to stop them. It's not difficult to stop, but you have to be disciplined and you have to tackle well.
 
#43
#43
GAVol said:
Uh yeah . . .Is there anybody arguing that the defense did a good job last night?
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Postgame, Fulmer said...
... basically that it wasn't that our D played badly, it was that their O was so weird it confused even him, and (practically with a band playing God Bless America in the background) that AF was made up, after all, of the best, brightest, and most dedicated young men in America.

They played poorly.
 
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#45
Vol423 said:
Postgame, Fulmer said...
... basically that it wasn't that our D played badly, it was that their O was so weird it confused even him, and (practically with a band playing God Bless America in the background) that AF was made up, after all, of the best, brightest, and most dedicated young men in America.

They played poorly.
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That is a common refrain that you almost always hear from coaches after facing the triple option. I remember Mark Richt saying almost the exact same thing a couple of years ago when Ga Southern ran all over UGA. . . Nobody called Mark Richt apathetic after the game.

I'm not trying to be Pollyanna about the performance last night, but you can't just suddenly tell me that our defense that was so good against the run last year and shut down a Heisman trophy candidate last week suddenly has gone in the toilet.
 
#47
#47
Vol423 said:
Let me make this perfectly clear for you, VolinArizona. I'LL SAY WHATEVER I _ _ _ _ WELL PLEASE, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH! This defense played like absolute crap last night.
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Yeah, the defense played poorly last night. It's not 100% on John Chavis either. SOMETIMES, the other team outperforms your unit. It sucks when it happens, and the players will learn the lesson they need to learn. They DON'T need to worry anymore about a perfectly run triple option.

And calm down.

EDIT: Tried finding any of your posts about our defense after the Cal game to see how you felt about the D then. Nope, no posts about the defense that day. Thoughts on our D against Cal?
 
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#49
Vol423 said:
If your defense is coached properly, that's not supposed to be an issue when playing the triple option. You have people dedicated to stopping the dive, the QB and the pitch man. It doesn't matter who has the ball there are men assigned to stop them. It's not difficult to stop, but you have to be disciplined and you have to tackle well.
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Except this is a FLEXBONE. It includes a passing dimension that those older power running triple options didn't have. We had to keep the DB's out there to keep them from ripping big ones in the passing game all night long.
 
#50
#50
Well, the AF Acad' is about discipline, tactics and execution. They showed it last night.

I thought Chavis's post-game explanation was rather lacking.
 
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