Recruiting Football Talk VII

[TheMookieMonster]

I wonder if Heupel may give him more playing time (Nico) after the Alabama game. It makes sense to me to start seeing what we have this year with our young stud QB.

Situational. He's only going to play in blowouts. And from what I have seen so far, I'm not confident we see another blowout this year outside of UCONN and Vandy.

 

[butchna]

I don't know how much Rodney Garner makes but it isn't enough. We need to double his pay. This d-line is a wrecking crew.

If he DEMANDS they double his pay, it’d be on the table…but that has never been him. He’s not a mercenary. He’s never aspired to be a HC or even a coordinator. He wants to teach, coach and be appreciated. Per your question, he was very recently bumped up to $785,000 and with this season’s product, White will get him up to a mil imo…not that he’ll ask for it.

 

[butchna]

Pearce and Baron was being held damn near every passing play.

We missed ONL this game. The push and pass rush up the middle wasn't as frequent. Did like what I saw out of big ES10 tho. Our Dline is legit.

Dominic Bailey was bringing it…as well as Eason.

 

[screenthis]

Are we expecting Keenan Pill back?

 

[mrMet]

7 pm kickoff @ Kentucky

Predictable

 

[Jack Burton]

The NFL is a scam propped up by Vegas.

I’m just waiting for the big scandal that finally comes to light. I know it’s coming and I don’t know when it will be revealed, but there’s too much money involved for it to be all clean.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

7 pm kickoff @ Kentucky

This is what I expected though I hoped for noon. Not sure we’ll get a noon road game this season.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Us losing to UF really put us behind the 8 ball… they could back door their way into Atlanta if UGA drops to us and loses one more somewhere. We have to win out for a shot. If multiple teams had two loss UG would have tie break over us.

UF isn’t beating UGA.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Are we expecting Keenan Pill back?

For UGA was the initial word.

 

[tnvols72]

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

He is behind their bodies though…. he probably didn’t see the arm drag. Please @Ulysees E. McGill font hurt me.

OMG...

 

[Glitch]

The world has one hope to prevent this apocalyptic scenario…View attachment 587633

 

[mr.checkerboards]

7 pm kickoff @ Kentucky

Besides it being cold as ****, I don't think what time of day we play UK changes anything. They suck.

 

[Glitch]

Flag football will be an Olympic sport in 2028.

My church runs a flag football league. Maybe one of those teams will go to the Olympics.

 

[Govolsman98]

Predictable

Meh. Unimpressive and boring environment. I have little doubt we'll win

 

[JT3]

Our OL vs their DL is a better matchup for us than their OL vs our DL is for them. Aside from how crazy that feels to say, I think it’s also not being talked about enough. Does Joe need to play better? Absolutely. But I also think we could win a style of game this week similar to the A&M game.

And we left alot of points on the field. The 2 4th down decisions we didn't convert and Joe's terrible INT well within FG range. We missed at 51 yarder and got super conversative before the half where I thought we needed 12 yards for another FG attempt but elected to run right up the middle. That's potential 15 points.

At worst, it's 29-13 and we all come out of the game feeling even better.

 

[Glitch]

McMurphy is apparently saying Bowers is out for the season.

Would Bowers not be eligible to leave for the draft this year? I would think if he was planning on leaving that he would shut down his season and focus on getting ready to get paid. Of course there is Kirby's three-peat to consider...

 

[Orange_Crush]

Besides it being cold as ****, I don't think what time of day we play UK changes anything. They suck.

And their crowd is very susceptible to being quietened.

 

[SoilVol]

My church runs a flag football league. Maybe one of those teams will go to the Olympics.

We better wipe the floor with everyone. Put Lamar Jackson at QB and Tyreek Hill and Deandre Hopkins at WR. Idec if Hopkins will be like 50

 

[Glitch]

Georgia's passing attack without Bowers is going to be interesting to see I just wish we were playing them sooner.

They'll have plenty of time to figure things out before coming to Neyland.
Bye
Florida
vs Missouri
vs Ole Miss
at Tennessee

We do get them at a good time of year in their schedule as we'll be the last game of a grueling 4 game stretch and a road game.

Do they drop one of those games prior to coming to Knoxville? Ole Miss is putting up a lot of points and has a lot to play for in the west. If Georgia were to drop one of those and come to town with a loss, would they be more dangerous knowing that we could keep them out of the SECCG and likely the playoffs at that point?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I mean, if I were 25, id hold her hand on the first date.

But, i'm old enough to be her Dad. Honestly, some of my friends have grandkids

Edit: She's 33? I sware I cant tell a difference anymore.

The older I get, the younger everybody else looks.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Rusty on Basilio with a heater of a stat:

For the Vols in 2021 and 2022, the percentage of pass interference calls on our incompletions was 22%.

For the Vols in 2023, the percentage of pass interference calls on our incompletions is 3%.

52-49 had It's consequences

 

[SpringBokVol]

If you took the school names out of the equation and just looked at the stats one team is clearly better than the other when it comes to Bama UT matchup.

Its just that the names do mean something as does playing on the road.

The Tennessee stats look more like Bama stats from years when they didn’t have young.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Georgia's passing attack without Bowers is going to be interesting to see I just wish we were playing them sooner.

They'll have plenty of time to figure things out before coming to Neyland.
Bye
Florida
vs Missouri
vs Ole Miss
at Tennessee

We do get them at a good time of year in their schedule as we'll be the last game of a grueling 4 game stretch and a road game.

OTOH, we'll have more film on their post-Bowzer playcalling.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Night games on the road are different and always difficult