Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[knoxvol52]

Jones before the fight: “I want to fight Alex after Miocic”

Dana: “he will fight whoever I tell him, and he will fight Aspinal”

Jones gonna retire now because Dana is a little too big for his pants. Jones gave the belt to Trump. I hope he retires as a big middle finger to Dana.

Jones fighting Aspinal is what's best for business. Aspinal isn't afraid of Jon Jones, why would Jones not want a competition?

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Tennessee deserved to lose for how they played last night. However, no one can deny that the officiating crew was borderline criminal.

The SEC has the most inept and corrupt officials in any level of football.

I mean, what do you expect when you have a former Bama quarterback being the head ref? It’s egregious and they could care less! Heupel is beyond ticked off with it. It’s like Sankey said that he will go to bat for us against the NCAA, but we’re gonna pay a penalty behind closed doors, and this is what we are getting.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Jones fighting Aspinal is what's best for business. Aspinal isn't afraid of Jon Jones, why would Jones not want a competition?

As the best fighter to ever walk through those doors, you let him pick who he wants to fight, especially the champ.

Alex and Jones would be the best match possible

 

[LittleVol]

He very well may flip (UGA has been working him for some time) but I remind you that recruits normally aren’t as emotional as fans

That’s actually the problem in this case.

There’s no knee jerk reaction.
Georgia clearly knows how to use defenders like him, and will always stop Heupels offense. (As it is right now)

Unless Heupel gets some help with strategy- Gass, Hayward, Harmon, Smith will all lose to UGA every year they are here .

 

[knoxvol52]

As the best fighter to ever walk through those doors, you let him pick who he wants to fight, especially the champ.

Alex and Jones would be the best match possible

First of all being the best FIGHTER ever is very debatable. Secondly Dana White is the BOSS..

 

[TrippieRedd]

First of all being the best FIGHTER ever is very debatable. Secondly Dana White is the BOSS..

OK Currently, he’s the best fighter, period.


Sure, he’s the boss. The boss can watch his best fighter walk right out the building.

Tom can fight some nobody then. Everyone losses.

 

[DukeDaisySam]

Yes. Late money is usually sharp money. Them moving late on Tennessee means they believe this line was too high.

This line is preposterous. I honestly can't believe Vegas put it up. Nonetheless I'm hammering that Tennessee moneyline at almost +300.

How did that work out for you?

 

[crawdaddyjc]

He’s pissed, and should be.

being pissed after the game doesnt do squat. i want to see him chew the refs butts. i want to see him explode and show some damn emotion instead of chewing gum and looking at the jumbotron. jump up and down, get in their ears, take the freaking penalty. do something. i lm sick of seeing stupid flags and him just taking it.

 

[knoxvol52]

OK Currently, he’s the best fighter, period.


Sure, he’s the boss. The boss can watch his best fighter walk right out the building.

Tom can fight some nobody then. Everyone losses.

Let em walk, nobody is bigger than the Sport.

 

[Vols4us]

Going to keep it simple. That game highlighted that we are still as work in progress starting with the coaching staff.

DC Banks does not adapt well in game. He usually plans well until last night. Most of America knew Bobo would use his stable of TE's. Banks did not. They had nothing of note at WR and no running game. Pathetic.

Eck's special teams were special.

Heup needs a real OC. No elite coach calls their own plays on one side of the ball. The time takes away from coaching the whole team and inputting into the other areas. Heup's play calling has been predictable for much too long. Fix this. Joey is not an answer.

WR's - get open and catch the ball.

Nico will be better next season. The potential is there, the execution lacks at times primarily due to inexperience.

There is no excuse for the D-line being manhandled even with the obvious uncalled holding. Eason was the only one beating the man across from him consistently.

I am ready for the right side of the O-line to move on. No improvement year to year.

The team did not believe in themselves and it showed as the game wore on. Did not see that coming.

We are still the 3rd to 5th best team in the SEC. A step forward has been taken. To go farther we need changes at the staff level.

Snap and clear.

 

[Jack Burton]

Liar, if you really didn't want to be right, you wouldn't have quoted yourself

No, I don’t like living in the state with all these goobers. I wanted to win, but Vegas usually knows what’s up.

 

[Jack Burton]

I graded them for the ass kicking they gave tonight. They blitzed the safety, the corner, both inside and outside linebacker. They shifted, they were aggressive. Banks rushed 4 down linemen, all night, every play regardless of down and distance or field position. He did this against 6 and 7 blockers. He never adjusted. He looks good when he can get pressure with 4. If he can't he's toast. Always has.

I guess we expected Beck to have a bad game. Worked in the 1st quarter then he settled in and we didn’t adjust.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Yeah he had a bad game. But again this was just one game in a season where his defense has looked dominant.

You said for a championship defensive staff to look to UGA. But they were absolutely lost vs Bama, also just one game this season.

UGA's defense scheme wise is elite compared to the Vols high school level. Tim Banks did nothing. He never adjusted. If you asked GA to outline the perfect defense for them to go against, it would be that one.

The Vols defense looks great if you can pressure the QB with 4/5 guys. When you can't, it's game over. It's the same script we've seen play out since he's been here.

We you call people out when they criticize Banks and they win, you need to accept the beat down when they suck. "Oh, he just had a bad game" doesn't cut it.

I mean the job of the defense is to keep them from scoring, right? 4/5 straight drives isn't doing that. The bend but don't break, broke.

 

[Jack Burton]

I don’t understand how anyone says he isn’t elite x and os when he won back to back
Titles and is in the playoff hunt every year. Last night he out coached us plain and simple. We actually have a team who can match up with them for once. And we did, until they adjusted and out coached us. They had an elite gameplan to stop our pass rush and shut our offense down second half.

This is all true. They do have more talent but that wasn’t the issue last night.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Lotta bad takes in here and they’re all excused (hopefully mine included) because gawd that freaking sucked.

My shite takes:

Defense: Bank’s isnt the problem. They were throwing the ball quick and taking advantage of a talent gap and home field advantage. Looked very South Carolina 2022 esque. Same reason we didn’t get home. Disappointed by some of the lack of disguise. Think we would have sacked and forced INT if Beck was more confused by what we were doing. What I don’t understand is the seam passes that were wide open over and over. No knock on Will brooks because he has way outplayed his pay this year but we need a talent influx. shaedy can’t get here soon enough.

Offense: Big Kudos to Nico, he looked like the man minus a couple misses. Receiver drops, again. Man that’s killing us. Offensive line looked overwhelmed. I don’t think we have the depth there to stay in a game against a team this good on the road, and it shows. Wish we’d power run more, love seeing an extra blocker coming through the hole. Peyton Lewis is good, need him (and Sampson) off the tackles and in space more).

Refs were awful. We weren’t good enough. We lost. Media got what they wanted. There should be no way we beat Bama and Florida and miss the playoffs, and we probably will. Praying for chaos and a change of sentiment from the cfp committee. All I wanted this year was the validation of legitimacy of making the playoff. Please please let it happen still.

Also, f’ uga, bama, and Texas is a baby back bitch too and I hope it gets proven in the seccg.

 

[99Vol]

I graded them for the ass kicking they gave tonight. They blitzed the safety, the corner, both inside and outside linebacker. They shifted, they were aggressive. Banks rushed 4 down linemen, all night, every play regardless of down and distance or field position. He did this against 6 and 7 blockers. He never adjusted. He looks good when he can get pressure with 4. If he can't he's toast. Always has.

Criticism is always fair. I’m guessing Hype feels every unit had room for improvement. The fact is Beck was throwing dimes all night. Bobo called an amazing game and sometimes you just get lucky with calls. It only took 4-5 plays to make a difference. Two Beck examples are the seem TD to tight end for a TD and the back shoulder to Humphreys when McCoy was wearing his uniform coverage was so tight. Agressive blitzing does not always work. Todd Grantham found many pink slips in his locker over the years by going all out exotic blitzing at many stops…. I also don’t think our young LB’s are very good blitzers yet. They are sophomores and much like Beasley who got a heavy dose of criticism as a sophomore starter they will improve along with our 2 sophomore corners and freshman star…

 

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[Jack Burton]

I woke up this morning still pissed. There’s no whitewashing this game. We should have and could have won, but our defense didn’t show up and our WRs, yet again, screwed the pooch. Meanwhile, Heupel still can’t win the big games on the road. And even though I feel we have the more impressive resume, I firmly believe the committee puts us just outside the top 12 and moves Ole Miss up to Top 10. So now our only hope rests in Billy Boy down in the Swamp.

We have some nice WRs but no elite WRs and it showed last night. I’d like to see us bring in a transfer WR that will help us win these big games. The throws were there.

 

[AllVol11717]

UGA's defense scheme wise is elite compared to the Vols high school level. Tim Banks did nothing. He never adjusted. If you asked GA to outline the perfect defense for them to go against, it would be that one.

The Vols defense looks great if you can pressure the QB with 4/5 guys. When you can't, it's game over. It's the same script we've seen play out since he's been here.

We you call people out when they criticize Banks and they win, you need to accept the beat down when they suck. "Oh, he just had a bad game" doesn't cut it.

I mean the job of the defense is to keep them from scoring, right? 4/5 straight drives isn't doing that. The bend but don't break, broke.

Anytime you’re trotting Perry or Smith out there at LB you might as well be playing 9/10 on 11. Could easily maneuver around that by adding an extra rusher or a star/safety like Harrison/Jakobe/Slaughter instead but no we’ll watch these two LB move at G5 speeds while TEs make them look silly.

Banks is a good young DC. But he also still has so much he has to improve on before he’s as good as some people were trying to make him out to be earlier in the season.

 

[JCP201]

I need to explain this to me like I'm three years old. Why are we out of the playoffs as a two game loser, when Bama is in it when we beat them and they lost to Vandy? (that win against LSU wasn't impressive considering what we saw last night from them against Florida, who we also beat)

 

[InVOLuntary]

Part of me worries if CJH is our Mark Richt. Good guy, wins a lot games, loved by his players and their families

Anytime you’re trotting Perry or Smith out there at LB you might as well be playing 9/10 on 11. Could easily maneuver around that by adding an extra rusher or a star/safety like Harrison/Jakobe/Slaughter instead but no we’ll watch these two LB move at G5 speeds while TEs make them look silly.

Banks is a good young DC. But he also still has so much he has to improve on before he’s as good as some people were trying to make him out to be earlier in the season.

I was literally begging for him to do something different. 3rd and 25 and he rushed 4 and dropped everyone else in coverage to the sticks, 25 yards down the field. I knew it was over at that min. He's pulled that crap time and time again. He's not changing.

 

[Adam Sandler]

I graded them for the ass kicking they gave tonight. They blitzed the safety, the corner, both inside and outside linebacker. They shifted, they were aggressive. Banks rushed 4 down linemen, all night, every play regardless of down and distance or field position. He did this against 6 and 7 blockers. He never adjusted. He looks good when he can get pressure with 4. If he can't he's toast. Always has.

Banks brought the blitz and they picked it up easy. I think the problem isn’t the play call but the lack of deception and disguising of coverages pre-play.

Uga does a really good job running an exotic defense and making it hard to recognize what’s about to happen. Combine that with they’re talent and depth, hard to put up big numbers against them.

 

[Jack Burton]

I need to explain this to me like I'm three years old. Why are we out of the playoffs as a two game loser, when Bama is in it when we beat them and they lost to Vandy? (that win against LSU wasn't impressive considering what we saw last night from them against Florida, who we also beat)

Recency bias. Alabama won multiple national championships in the modern era. Their brand draws eyeballs to the games and the committee wants ratings.

We draw eyeballs too but not at that level.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Criticism is always fair. I’m guessing Hype feels every unit had room for improvement. The fact is Beck was throwing dimes all night. Bobo called an amazing game and sometimes you just get lucky with calls. It only took 4-5 plays to make a difference. Two Beck examples are the seem TD to tight end for a TD and the back shoulder to Humphreys when McCoy was wearing his uniform coverage was so tight. Agressive blitzing does not always work. Todd Grantham found many pink slips in his locker over the years by going all out exotic blitzing at many stops…. I also don’t think our young LB’s are very good blitzers yet. They are sophomores and much like Beasley who got a heavy dose of criticism as a sophomore starter they will improve along with our 2 sophomore corners and freshman star…

He was throwing dimes because he was throwing against air most of the time. We weren't getting pressure rushing 4 against 7. It was never going to work yet he never changed things up. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Tim Banks will never, ever field a championship level defense.

 

[JCP201]

Recency bias. Alabama won multiple national championships in the modern era. Their brand draws eyeballs to the games and the committee wants ratings.

We draw eyeballs too but not at that level.

I think we bring ratings if you look at the yearly ratings winners at ESPN, and who doesn't want to see new blood? I sure would.