Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Enki_Amenra]

You know you're playing good defense when the media is rating you above Iowa.

 

[Orange.]

If I’m spending 8mil I want freshman Jameis Winston type results.

How much did you spend?

You're always bitching about money. And finding satisfaction in everything that goes wrong with the team as a result. You're on a bad trip, I guess.

 

[BaldBiker]

I'm not even gonna talk about how ugly the game was, but I will say...Heupel's nuts must be bowling ball size.

...and using defensive linemen on offense...and it had been planned all week...

Ugly game...ballsy/brilliant coach.

JMO

 

[InVOLuntary]

Who had 23 offense > 24 offense on their bingo card before the season.

 

[Scooter426]

I kept thinking of the Dlineman who injured his chest/shoulder against Air Force and played against Florida the next week before having season ending surgery (for the life of me, I can’t remember his name - McDaniel?). Guys giving their all because they want to beat Florida.

Justin Harrell

 

[screenthis]

Big ole nuts

Kinda nuts?

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Jayden Daniels being THIS good already is insane. He’s incredible.

 

[Orange.]

frustration........doesn't sound like a coach that just won a big rilvary game.....nega-Vols vibes....

A lot of good coaches critique their teams after a big win, in fact. We have to be ready for Bama in a week.

How many times was he asked basically the same question? I haven't watched yet.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Who had 23 offense > 24 offense on their bingo card before the season.

How about 24 defense as best Vols defense in 30 years?

 

[Orange.]

Jayden Daniels being THIS good already is insane. He’s incredible.

We did a great job to beat him year before last, even back then. I think Daniels would have beaten Bama last year if Bama hadn't knocked him out of the game with a no-call deliberate targeting. THe's a player, for sure.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

A lot of good coaches critique their teams after a big win, in fact. We have to be ready for Bama in a week.

How many times was he asked basically the same question? I haven't watched yet.

It's just frustrating for fans, and coaches too, I assume. We've seen what this offense looks like when it's humming with these same players. They're playing tougher opponents now and struggling a bit. The real frustrating thing is knowing Heupel's offenses, everywhere he's been, have looked great with less talent.

I've convinced myself that we should move Campbell to LT and stick Heard at RT or on the bench for Johnson or Davis.

 

[engineerVOL]

He actually both of the guys open

Nico’s not comfortable at all. That was a good enough pocket.

 

[JT3]

That is complete horse .

How do you drop Tennessee and not Bama? What an effing joke.

Bama did beat UGA. Gotta keep that mind.

 

[GVol1966]

how about Heupel going for it on our own 10 yardline?.

Risky

 

[engineerVOL]

How about 24 defense as best Vols defense in 30 years?

30 years? Eh.

Tide will be their first real test, we’ve played a lot of bargain bin offenses.

Cautiously optimistic though.

 

[mrMet]

Classic. Tits just got cooked by the refs

 

[BigSteve09]

30 years? Eh.

Tide will be their first real test, we’ve played a lot of bargain bin offenses.

Cautiously optimistic though.

We have also played three stubborn, borderline moronic, coaches in a row

The last two in particular kept us in it way more than we should have been

 

[tnvols72]

Officating in college and pro sports have ruined the sport

 

[Aesius]

Officating in college and pro sports have ruined the sport

One of the worst no calls I've ever seen just now. Refs are making it hard to watch football. Need to be replaced with AI ASAP

 

[Weezer]

Bama did beat UGA. Gotta keep that mind.

They lost to Vandy. Shouldn't that be kept in mind as well?

 

[rikberry31]

It boggles the mind how many “Vol” fans are so disappointed about a
WIN over Florida. The must be younguns who don’t know what it means. If we win all are games in similar fashion I for one will be overjoyed. If you aren’t, all I can say it must be a miserable existence.

 

[GVol1966]

The second two are direct results of the first.

Not entirely. They are compounded by the first.
The fumble, interception and missing on the deep throws were not on the O line .
Some other throws were not, he’s been pressured plenty but several times he’s had time and just missed or didn’t see open guys.
Every run straight up the middle isn’t either.
The Oline run blocks a lot better than pass block's.
A little more wrinkles on run plays could help the line.

 

[Orange.]

Is there something to the following? I'm asking.

When announcers and the media afterward want to excuse a targeting, they frequently center their conversation on whether the targeting defender struck with the top of his helmet. But "top of the helmet" is not a necessary condition on targeting. It's only one of the ways specified in the rule.

But when they want to support a targeting call, they center their conversation on whether initial contact was to the head. They seem to forget their ad hoc requirement about top of the head. Unless it was top of the head.

Anyone notice or want to keep an eye on it? I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that the Birmingham supervisor on the replay team by remote does the same thing. I can't know that.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

It boggles the mind how many “Vol” fans are so disappointed about a
WIN over Florida. The must be younguns who don’t know what it means. If we win all are games in similar fashion I for one will be overjoyed. If you aren’t, all I can say it must be a miserable existence.

I think you can be both happy that we found a way to win the game and also not feel great ab the long term prospect of this offense. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

 

[Orange.]

At any rate,

That direct hit to the head with launching at Brazzell last night was textbook targeting and a no-call.

FL also committed 2 no-call targeting penalties on one FL's kickoffs last night that I saw for myself. The announcer, interestingly, said that he saw what would have been a third; but then dropped his comment like a hot potato.