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[BigSteve09]

This guy gets Waffle House.

Cracks me up every time

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

We also had 4 offensive penalties for 35 yards that helped stall our 2nd half drives. As well as a fumble, blocked punt, & muffed punt. Tons of miscues contributed to stalling in the 2nd half, but 2 quarters isn't enough to call an offense that still scored 34 points and racked up 416 yards horrible.

Outside of 1 quarter and overtime it was horrible. All of those things you mention are part of what made it horrible. It’s okay to say that. Thankfully patti is terrible and couldn’t do anything about it.

That doesn’t mean we are bad. It means in the one game we have played we didn’t show that we are as good as we believe we are. It’s still yet to be seen.

 

[Rocky_Top_Vol13]

 

[mr.checkerboards]

 

[jakez4ut]

And they say Volnation is extreme.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

He didn't just say "in the second half" at first, he said "In the game"

27 pts and 420 yards against a really good defense with multiple NFL players is not "abysmal"...that is a stupid statement.

There are ALWAYS going to be quarters or halves that you can cherry pick to say that about...especially against talented defenses, we aren't playing against cardboard cutouts out there..

Come on man..

It’s a factual statement. Go back and watch it.

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Random thoughts...But you can definitely hit multiple posters with the"Tell me you don't read Volnation without really telling me"..
I get folks don't wanna reread multiple pages but if it's news and over 4hrs ago 90% chance it's been posted.Idk if it's just me or what I just see the same posts over n over n over....

Yep. After I get so far behind just skip to the most recent and move on.

 

[UTSuave’]

it sounds so strange to be so excited about our D.

@Glitch you know what to do buddy….

 

[butchna]

This was before Heupel’s first game here so I would count it.
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Fair enough on your first declaration. Your history as a Basillio Cult apologist/acolyte/agent provocateur made me assume otherwise. Now let’s review your other fine work before and after the hire:

 

[Vol464]

There's nothing wrong with how we have played, but Akron is one of the two worst teams in the MAC and Ball St is middle of the pack to bottom half.

And we are being compared to teams that played a similar schedule.

 

[MarcoVol]

It actually was, 120 yards in the second half total. Hendon has to be more mobile.

Good thing a football game consists of 2 halves

 

[jakez4ut]

This guy gets Waffle House.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Hubbs on guest picker…

I thought Peyton made the most sense, but I'm not sure he would do it. I won't be surprised if it's Candace Parker. She makes a lot of sense to me.

 

[MarcoVol]

Outside of 1 quarter and overtime it was horrible. All of those things you mention are part of what made it horrible. It’s okay to say that. Thankfully patti is terrible and couldn’t do anything about it.

That doesn’t mean we are bad. It means in the one game we have played we didn’t show that we are as good as we believe we are. It’s still yet to be seen.

Vols are better than I thought actually coming into season. I expected 8-4. Now I’ve put eyeballs on everyone. Nobody is as good as they thought/think they are besides UGA. So now I say we have a realistic shot to get to 10 with some breaks.

It’s a damn fun time to be a Vol fan.

 

[RikidyBones]

Miller is listed as questionable

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Vols are better than I thought actually coming into season. I expected 8-4. Now I’ve put eyeballs on everyone. Nobody is as good as they thought/think they are besides UGA. So now I say we have a realistic shot to get to 10 with some breaks.

It’s a damn fun time to be a Vol fan.

Shoot, I’m at 9-3 or 10-2. But we’re going to have to play better than we did against Pitt to get there.

 

[#JuanVol]

its Thursday…. Don’t they know to release news on Friday?

 

[ChattaTNVol]

Without Tillman –

Cedric came in with the 2018 class and for his first 2 years played behind 3 future NFL receivers in Callaway, Jennings, and Palmer. His 3rd year he was playing behind Palmer, Jones, and Hyatt. again behind 2 maybe 3 future NFL receivers. His 4th year, last year, he finally got his opportunity. The thing is I’ve never bought the idea that NOBODY knew about Tillman until last year because there have been at least a few people in this forum that thought Tillman could be a player based on the limited snaps he got behind our other guys at the time. I thought he flashed when he got on the field in those early years. I thought he was pretty athletic and looked the part. A lot of why I noticed that was, being a stargazer, I didn’t really expect all that much out of him when he first signed. I do agree though that not many people knew about Tillman or had any idea that he could be another NFL prospect for us. jmo.

Tillman is a big part of our offense, in the passing game. I think people think that’s determined by Hooker favoring Tillman among his other receivers but I think Golesh is calling the plays under Heupel’s tutelage so it may not be as much Hooker as it is the offensive intelligence directing the show. jmo.

Tillman has proved against the best teams in the league that he can either gain separation or win 50-50 balls. This year, at least in the Pitt game, he was our go-to guy. He had 17 catchable targets and made 9 receptions. He accounted for 6 first downs. On the year Tillman has 10 first down catches to lead the team. He had one TD reception in the Pitt game and that’s it for the year. So out of 9 TDs we’ve scored through the air so far this year, 8 have come from our other receivers. Overall, Tillman has accounted for one-third of our receiving first downs on the year. He’s also been credited with 4 drops.

Over one-third of the passes thrown to Tillman this year have been 50-50 balls. I think the staff may have been trusting him the most in those situations where separation is difficult for our receivers to come by. The thing is that Hyatt and McCoy have done well too so I think the staff will simply adjust and keep rolling.

We used a limited number of receivers against Pitt. If we are without Tillman the staff will have to pull someone else from our receiver room and send them into action against Florida. I think Merrill, Keyton, and Holiday are the likely candidates. We could see White and of course in the second half, Jimmy “fists of fury” Calloway should be available for duty. Here’s the thing about all those guys. They didn’t really play against Pitt but on the season we’ve thrown 102 passes, 11 of which were uncatchable, leaving 91 catchable targets. Tillman has a 68% catch rate on 25 of those targets. Hyatt had a 90% catch rate on 20. McCoy has a 73% catch rate on 11 catchable targets. Though it was against lesser competition our bench of Keyton, Merrill, Holiday, White, and Calloway, caught 20 of 21 of their catchable targets, 95+%.

We’ve had 14 catchable targets go to TEs, RBs, and walkons. I don’t think we’ll likely see any walkons in this game but we could target our TEs and RBs more this week than we have so far this year. jmo.

All of our receivers spent the offseason catching passes on the new jugs machine, by reports up to 10,000 passes per month (500 per day). I think that’s showing up in our catch rates. jmo.

Florida has a lot of “on paper” talent in their secondary, much more than Pitt. We should benefit from our scheme but whoever steps up to replace Tillman’s production is going to have to win one-on-one matchups against some pretty talented defenders. We have a number of talented guys behind our starters in our receiving room and those that have gotten onto the field so far this year have flashed. Now we wait to see who the staff rolls out there and what they have schemed up for the Florida secondary. I think we’re pretty well prepared and we have a number of guys in our receiving room probably hungry and salivating over the opportunity that they could have this Saturday. I think we’re probably good to go. jmo.

All stats referenced are from SECSTATCAT and where possible verified using CFBstats and CBS Sports game stats.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Shoot, I’m at 9-3 or 10-2. But we’re going to have to play better than we did against Pitt to get there.

Why wouldn’t we play better? That’s what good teams do. They get better each week during the season.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

i watched UK beat UF with a basic spy/shadow defense on AR. Then the UK offense only ran for like 70 yards on 38 carries (1.8YPC) with all backups and maybe threw for 200 at most. UK was 4-13 on 3rd down. Don't tell Bass.


Stop being scared of everything. The Vols are good and they can win.

 

[TitanicVolz]

Fair enough on your first declaration. Your history as a Basillio Cult apologist/acolyte/agent provocateur made me assume otherwise. Now let’s review your other fine work before and after the hire:
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[MarcoVol]

Shoot, I’m at 9-3 or 10-2. But we’re going to have to play better than we did against Pitt to get there.

No doubt. Caught one of those breaks in that game (Slovis injury)

 

[Nash_Vol97]

We also had 4 offensive penalties for 35 yards that helped stall our 2nd half drives. As well as a fumble, blocked punt, & muffed punt. Tons of miscues contributed to stalling in the 2nd half, but 2 quarters isn't enough to call an offense that still scored 34 points and racked up 416 yards horrible.

Yeah when I look back at that game I believe it was close to us winning by at least 2+ TDs if we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot. Between the punt issues and the fumble we gave them 3 short fields. I can’t remember if they got points on all 3 of those because I know the kicker missed a couple FG, but if we don’t make mistakes right there I highly doubt they are driving all the way down the field to score. Then you count in that we had at least a couple drives that stalled because of getting behind the sticks from penalties. Take all of that and it was closer to a blowout, but this is football and stuff happens. Need to clean that up for Saturday.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Why wouldn’t we play better? That’s what good teams do. They get better each week during the season.

Who says they can’t? Have to show it tho.