Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[volbeast33]

Yep...the difference is now, we have a defense that will keep us in a game until the offense figures it out.

I think that it is a huge difference..up until this year, when the offense would bog down, sometimes would look up and be down 14-0 and that made it even tougher because then the opposing defenses could really pin their ears back

Hopefully this defense is not a mirage..I don't think it is..but.

Seems like a good place to mention that our defense was 3rd in the SEC in PPG allowed in the SEC while facing more possessions than most teams. They were also 19 spots above the vaunted Brent Venables defense last year.

This years team is playing at a championship level though. Tim Banks has done an amazing job with this defense.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I've told this on here many times..both sides of my family are from east Tennessee going back to the early mid 1800s, my Dad's from the Sequatcie River Valley and Chattanooga and my Mom's from Sharp's Chapel until it was flooded under Norris lake, then they all moved to Lutrell, Maynardville and finally Knoxville.

My parents moved to Fort Worth, then to Amarillo Texas and we lived out there from 71-75, in early 75 we moved d back to Chattanooga where we lived in East Ridge from 75-79, then in early 80 we moved back to Amarillo-Pampa and stayed there until early 85 when we moved to Knoxville...I was actually 17 when the 85 Sugar Vols season started.

My Dad was not really a sports guy, so I learned to love the 3 major American sports on my own...I loved the Steelers from the late 70s and the NFL was the first sport I got into as a boy, after we moved to Texas I started watching the Braves on TBS and became a rabid baseball fan and since the Steelers started sucking I kinda lost major interest in NFL football...I still watched games, but I was a major baseball fan.

I also started following the NBA during the Bird-Magic-Dr J years and college basketball in the early 80s also...but I didn't really have a die hard love if any teams except for the Braves..that all changed when..

We moved to Knoxville just in time for that awesome beautiful scrappy Sugar Vols season, and finally being with all my Moms family that is typical fanatic VFLs especially my Pappaw..I just fell into what I really was along...I just didn't know it yet.

My blood was turned pure Orange and I have been a Vol ever since...and that is why I say the Sugar Vols will always be my favorite team. They were the epitome of what I personally want to be, and what the Tennessee Volunteer spirit is....pure scrappy heart.

Still one of my favorite Volunteer teams.
I got to go to the Sugar Bowl that year. Miami fans were so obnoxious before the game. They ghosted New Orleans and especially the French Quarter after the game.

 

[knoxvol52]

there are so many nerds that break down film on interwrbs.

They're all wanta be coaches.

 

[volbeast33]

I think scary movies about psycho killers are inherently ones that people watch around the Halloween season. Friday the 13th is just another one of those that bring people a rush of intensity and it just gets lumped into Halloween by the nature of what Halloween is. I certainly wouldn't consider it a Christmas or Easter movie.

Obviously not Christmas…. that is reserved for Die Hard.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I think UF wins irregardless. . .

This didn’t age well

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Lady Vols Soccer team upset #5 Memphis 1-0 this evening .

It’s never, ever an upset when a Tennessee team beats a Memphis team.
That’s the natural order of the universe.

 

[Christian Lowe]

Good thing this is 2024 and not those years

This is Oklahoma, not NCSU.

 

[rikberry31]

Was listening to Kevin Simon in the offseason at somepoint and he thought AJ was just average. Thought he was slow and only showed out because everyone else was bad.

Don't really agree, but who am I to argue with him?

Pili could be better though. That dude looks like an NFL player to me right now. I think as we play better teams we will see more evidence of that. Everyone on our defense has just been decimating all in its path so kinda hard to tell how good everyone actually is.

Pili is a much more well rounded and superior LB, AJ was more in line with Banks.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Not Blitzen, but Blitzendem

What in the… Ok which one of you has a pet deer?

 

[Enki_Amenra]

This didn’t age well

Meh, I just wanted to say "irregardless"

 

[rikberry31]

For those that prefer soundbites this is part 2 of the film study I posted prior.

He gets it.

 

[Pridedad]

We're winning this weekend. With or without Heard

I Heard you!

 

[rikberry31]

Lives in Tampa. Two jobs in Florida could potentially open up. The gators may land our former white whale.

But that's okay because we found our unicorn.

If FU hires Gruden their demise will be complete. Gruden will be a complete failure on and off the field. He is a joke literally and figuratively.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Have any of you ever been hit like this?

 

[Jackcrevol]

We're winning this weekend. With or without Heard

 

[Jackcrevol]

Have any of you ever been hit like this?

Id think the only way to get hit that hard would be to play football, have a skiing accident, or automobile accident.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

@VolsDoc81TX on a heater this morning. May be posting in real-time by kick-off. . . if there was a game thread. . .

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Id think the only way to get hit that hard would be to play football, have a skiing accident, or automobile accident.

I got hit in practice once that felt like I was hit that hard. Probably 1/4 of one of those hits in reality. . . or less.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

 

[knoxvol52]

If FU hires Gruden their demise will be complete. Gruden will be a complete failure on and off the field. He is a joke literally and figuratively.

I read this post and think, isn't This the same Gruden this fan base was clamoring for during every coaching search. I really don't care where Gruden coaches but to say a Super Bowl winning head coach is a fraud is a little extreme. Still yet everyone has a right to an opinion.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Of all the new vehicles ive driven, Dodge Hemi has to be the loudest, and most attention getting engine. Again this is for work, I'm not out burnin' tarrs.

Nicest vehicle ive driven are GMC Sierra, Nissan Frontier, Tahoe, and Ford F150 Tremor.


Biggest hunks of crap - Ford edge, BMW sedan, any Hyundai, Kia, Dodge SUV, and any Jeep SUV

Overrated - Jeep Waggoneer, Dodge Challenger

Best overall - '24 Toyota Tacoma

Drove a Tundy, that was super posh. But V6 with Turbo Charged Engine was noisy. When entering or merging into traffic, that 1-2 second delay was hard to get used too.

Also, short beds. What's the point?

Driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee this week, hybrid Ulysees!

Super posh interior, roomy, with 4 wheel drive. Great sun roof and huge lcd. These are all window dressing to entice the soccer Mom to make an emotional decision, neglecting the turd under the hood. And that it shakes like a tin can when accelerating.

 

[DD4ME]

Finally, a Mayo we can all agree on. VFL.

Potd

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee this week, hybrid Ulysees!

Super posh interior, roomy, with 4 wheel drive. Great sun roof and huge lcd. These are all window dressing to entice the soccer Mom to make an emotional decision, neglecting the turd under the hood. And that it shakes like a tin can when accelerating.

Getcha a Genesis GV90 SUV. Any GV series will work though.

 

[DD4ME]

I read this post and think, isn't This the same Gruden this fan base was clamoring for during every coach search. I really don't care where Gruden coaches but to say a Super Bowl winning head coach is a fraud is a little extreme. Still yet everyone has a right to an opinion.

I mean off the field he showed a likeable image while being a closet bigot/racist/@hole.

On the field yeah he might have done some things. Glad we dodged him.

 

[rikberry31]

I was just watching Josh Pate's prediction...his reasons are exactly what those of us that think this will be a dogfight think will be the reasons why...Venables defense slowing the run and forcing a lot of 3rd and longs, and Venables defense then taking advantage of Nicos inexperience in a hostile environment

Also like us...he is saying that it is either a dogfight or a blowout.

I think Pate is going on a hunch. This is a bad matchup for OU both personnel and scheme wise. Venables has the personnel to load the box and that is what he likes to do. Tennessee creates the conditions that demand a light box and will kill OU if they put seven in the box. We also have an excellent short game. I say we walk them in their house and serve notice to the rest of the SEC. WGWTFA.