Recruiting Football Talk VII

[TN-POSSUM]

MORE STEAM!!!!

 

[tnhunter 10]

Nope, he just keeps proving to me what I thought when he was hired and I find it depressing. He's a really good bridge coach he needs 5-6 years to get the AA mess behind us and then it's time to find your championship coach.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[mrMet]

Hey buddy @B EaZy40, this Komos has a great nose, but seems a tad too smoky for my liking. Almost like it has some additives in it for added sweetness + the agave. It’s certainly not worth the price tag when you can get Corralejo añejo for $32 or so

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

It's not the players It's how he manages games, he manages them as an OC instead of a HC.

Sure do I like going for it on 4th, yes, but does that mean it's the right call, probably not. I also don't get paid millions to make those decisions.

I disagreed with the call to go for it live but I'd rather have an aggressive coach than a conservative one.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

every coach makes bad calls/decisions.

Going for it when he did today was the call of an OC not a HC.

 

[UTSuave’]

 

[thistime]

What can you say...we lost. Bad calls by the refs, iffy calls on 4th down and the inability to run a very potent offense in the red zone. Missed pass, missed open receivers, dropping catchable passes and indecision or inability to read the field at key times along with poor defense in the second half on critical plays all equal on thing....Loss.....simple.

 

[Smokey123]

It wasn’t a fair catch signal. And Dee should have never made the signal for this very reason. He has not clue what har cam will do.

You only make that signal to kill play because the ball is over your head.

That’s the signal they do when they aren’t fielding it… but is that the rules that it’s a dead ball? I’ve searched and can’t find anything on it. The only thing I’ve seen is someone doing that but then returning it for a TD (wasn’t called back)

Did the refs not call it a fair catch anyways? That’s what Gary said like 10000000 times

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I disagreed with the call to go for it live but I'd rather have an aggressive coach than a conservative one.

I think there are times to be aggressive, but with the game flow today they weren't the smartest decisions with how the defense was playing. There were no reasons to go, it wasn't like the offense was eating when he decided to go for it. It screamed of panic tbh.

 

[volbeast33]

Going for it when he did today was the call of an OC not a HC.

our defense was gassed….. easy to second guess when it doesn’t wotk

 

[VOLINVONORE]

The officials were bad but…..

The two 4th and 1 calls were terrible. Qb is 6’5 250 and you don’t sneak it if you’re going to go.

Got away with 1 but when you were up 20-17 and it was on our 49 you have to punt them deep. They had all the momentum and you ABSOLUTELY could not give them the ball 15 yards from scoring territory and on our side of the field.

I love Heupel and his aggressive calls. That cost us today

I can understand why they called thay play. We have a 250 pound QB who runs the QB sneak like a 150 pound QB. However, I will admit that the Oline was pushed back a couple of yards on that play.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Going for it when he did today was the call of an OC not a HC.

The call on 4th and 1 in the SG was a bad call.

 

[UpstateVol613]

Not one to blame refs for losses or think there is some big conspiracy. I think it’s more incompetence on the officiating side(maybe it’s more glaring these days because we have all the TV angles) But for the life of me I can’t understand with all the money from the SEC TV contract they couldn’t pay officials where it is their year round full time job. No second jobs. Big10 and SEC could afford to have the officials right below the NFL level.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

our defense was gassed….. easy to second guess when it doesn’t wotk

When we went for it on our own 30? When the only offense Bama had at that point was one big play? I don't buy that.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Let’s not get carried away. Joe got raddled and it was down hill from that point. His strongest suit today was his running which he did do well.

Hindsight is 20/20. I was quoting a poster blaming Joe for the team losing their “belief” at halftime. Blaming Joe for that is BS. We were up 20-7 and rolling.

 

[thistime]

It was obvious that they were going to make us beat them by throwing the ball and we were unable to do that for the most part. WR screens really doesn't count and we seem to do that a lot for some reason.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

 

[mr.checkerboards]

The call on 4th and 1 in the SG was a bad call.

With Milton it's fine if you run QB power, but I don't understand going wide and then the next time pulling everyone into a 5 yard window and hoping to blow Bama off the ball.

 

[headhunter15]

 

[Smokey123]

I like Huep going for it. However both calls was bad imo. First one ran Milton to the weak side(speed option would have been nice here) 2nd one was straight ass and everyone knew what was coming. Should have been a roll out and have the TE leak and give Milton the option to run or pass. Bama was blowing up our oline in the run game in the 2nd half. Awful call

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Tend to agree, but Heupel is going to need the horses at WR to help Nico. Fingers crossed Matthews lives up to the 5* ranking.

We could lose our entire OL. It's gonna be bad there unless we can get some studs in the portal

 

[Smokey123]

With Milton it's fine if you run QB power, but I don't understand going wide and then the next time pulling everyone into a 5 yard window and hoping to blow Bama off the ball.

I don’t like how we loaded up the left side and then ran to the right with no lead blocker. Would have rather seen a speed option or actually running behind the blockers

 

[VolGee4]

Not one to blame refs for losses or think there is some big conspiracy. I think it’s more incompetence on the officiating side(maybe it’s more glaring these days because we have all the TV angles) But for the life of me I can’t understand with all the money from the SEC TV contract they couldn’t pay officials where it is their year round full time job. No second jobs. Big10 and SEC could afford to have the officials right below the NFL level.

After the Bama game under Pruitt, the Ole Miss game in 2021, and the game today, it will be hard for anyone to convince me that there isn’t a culture of helping the team they think will give them the best chance to continue to win. Today was pretty apparent they weren’t throwing flags on Alabama.

 

[UTgrad2015]

I think we can all stop believing Thornton will have production whatsoever this year. I dont think I saw him out there after that drop either