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[TN-POSSUM]

Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Elf
Trading Places
Die Hard

 

[pismonque]

Heupel in to see Nico tonightView attachment 521490

Looks like someone made a good joke right before the blessing. They're all holding back smiles. We've all been there, amen can't get there soon enough.

 

[utvolmaniac]

Brings up a good question...top 5 Christmas movies?

No order

Klaus
Home Alone
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original cartoon)
Elf

Honorable mentions: Die Hard, Gremlins, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

It’s a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
A Christmas Story
Elf

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Heupel in to see Nico tonightView attachment 521490

Looks like Heupel is sneakin’ a bite during the prayer. Shame on him, he should know better.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I want to land Jaheim Bell just to piss off the Cocks. I know how sour it would make their fanbase to lose him to us even after beating us showing just how inconsequential their win was from a program trajectory standpoint.

I am surprised nobody has made a recruiting thread on Bell. Dude is a really good player. He would eat in our offense. I wonder if Heupel goes after him?

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Brings up a good question...top 5 Christmas movies?

No order

Klaus
Home Alone
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original cartoon)
Elf

Honorable mentions: Die Hard, Gremlins, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
It’s a wonderful life
Elf

 

[Brillovol]

See, it's sh!t like this that brought me to the conclusion that the whole religion/church thing is a sham. They are nothing but businesses. When I deal with "church" people, I end seeing the rudist, most bigoted, most self-centered, and hateful type of people. And for your own sake, I don't want you to feel that you putting this request out ended up with someone stumbling in their walk, I felt the way I do well before your post above. Your post (and all the other crap you see out of churches and church people) just triggers an anger (or bitterness/hatred is what you might call it) in me.

You’re just seeing the evidence of darkness in this world. I will say that there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there, the pastor at our former church being one of them. Sadly, many prey on churches because true Christians are actually the forgiving type.

But to give a good example of true Christ-like behavior, we’ve had several dozen (maybe a hundred) people reach out to us to comfort and encourage us.

The light from the good will eventually overshadow the darkness.

 

[MarcoVol]

Ongoing Back door shenanigans for a certain back up Bama QB.

 

[SweetasSoda]

You’re just seeing the evidence of darkness in this world. I will say that there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there, the pastor at our former church being one of them. Sadly, many prey on churches because true Christians are actually the forgiving type.

But to give a good example of true Christ-like behavior, we’ve had several dozen (maybe a hundred) people reach out to us to comfort and encourage us.

The light from the good will eventually overshadow the darkness.

 

[VolNash17]

Side note here. Tennessee finished 5th Nationally in Attendance per game in 2022 at 100,532 per game
1 Michigan 110k
2 Penn State 107k
3 Ohio State 104k
4 LSU
5 Tennessee

 

[VolNash17]

Side note here. Tennessee finished 5th Nationally in Attendance per game in 2022 at 100,532 per game
1 Michigan 110k
2 Penn State 107k
3 Ohio State 104k
4 LSU
5 Tennessee

 

[SweetasSoda]

Side note here. Tennessee finished 5th Nationally in Attendance per game in 2022 at 100,532 per game
1 Michigan 110k
2 Penn State 107k
3 Ohio State 104k
4 LSU
5 Tennessee

So we helped LSU get to #4?

 

[engineerVOL]

I don’t know why I don’t like the movie Elf.

 

[SmokinBob]

Are we expecting any portal news tomorrow? Going to be really busy getting ready to move. Going to be hard to not be checking in.

You’re moving?

 

[Dirty Vol]

I don’t know why I don’t like the movie Elf.

Probably because you're a cotton headed ninny muggins.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

So Stetson got picked because he's a good QB. Interesting thought.

No he got picked because that’s how they do those things. They did the exact same thing with Gino Toretta. He was a average quarterback on a great team. Which I made clear in previous statement. Tennessee is plenty high profile enough to win a Heisman. There has been winners from worse teams. The Heisman has many flaws. Us being up or down had zero with him not winning it. And we have gotten better 2 years in a row. The man had the stats to be invited. It’s a political sham is what it is. GBO

 

[Geronimo]

Man, we have to wait til March for Hyatt to complete the awards screw job? I was hoping to take the cup shot now and get it over with.

 

[GVol1966]

Are we pursuing the Fairweather kid from FIU?

Mmmm, heard he only plays on warm sunny days

 

[The Dog]

Did they Ned Beatty you in Alabama??

A negaVol is like a backache. No matter how hard I try to ignore it, it keeps coming back to annoy me.

At least I can take a pill and my backache will go away for a while.

For some reason, I thought that was his reply to you @Weezer . My bad, wrong poster

 

[Carp]

I just watched all of his throws against Vandy. It's out there on Youtube. He had 6 throws that were incomplete that I would consider deep balls. The one to Fant was roughly 20 yards and off his finger tips.

Of the 6, Keyton flat out dropped one. So, that's really 5. One early in the game, he was trying to fit it in between a CB and safety and wisely missed on the outside. It was a tough pass, and missing inside might have been an INT. The three to Squirrel that he would probably want back. One to Hyatt that was 2 yards long. Hyatt might have laid out, but I understand why he didn't.

I want to see more before I make a determination. His throws between the hashes and inside 15 yards are on point.

Fant stopped running his route on that one. Slowed down and turned his head, then saw the ball coming and sped up.

 

[Carp]

Jon Robinson has been the GM since 2016

His only "hits" in the draft were:
2016: Derrick Henry & Kevin Byard
2017: Jayon Brown? none of the guys are still Titans, and really haven't had great careers. Adoree' Jackson, Corey Davis, and Jonnu Smith were solid for the Titans briefly though.
2018: Evans, Landry, Cruikshank all good players, but Landry is the only one still with Titans and on IR
2019: Simmons, Davis, Hooker, and Long (Brown isn't with the Titans anymore)
2020: No impact guys all backup/depth guys at this point
2021: TBD so far no starters
2022: McCreary & Petit-Frere, rest are TBD

With the amount of turnover it just looks bad. The roster seems to be mostly free agents lots of turnover with his draft picks or just straight up misses.


The real problem though has been in the 1st round and how many misses he's made there.

Jack Conklin - good, but was a Titan just 4 seasons (Kevin Dodd was a 2nd rounder, but a huge miss there)
Corey Davis & Adoree' Jackson - solid, neither player still with Titans
Rashaan Evans - really good, but again moved after 4 seasons here
Jeffery Simmons - the best 1st rounder to date
Isaiah Wilson - BUST
Caleb Farley - hurt when drafted, played 3 games as a rookie, has played 9 games this season but isn't starting
Treylon Burks - missed a few games and hasn't shown much yet (meanwhile AJ Brown is balling in Philly)

If your plan is to build off the draft and rookie contracts then you have to hit more and he hasn't....seems like he drafts badly, then moves on from them rather than paying the 2nd contract bump (instead chases big names in free agency and overpays them instead...cause that makes sense).

So basically Henry, Byard, Simmons have been about it.

JRob completely turned around a floundering franchise. We were the worst team in the NFL before we hired him. Since then, I think only 3 teams have more wins than us.

Was he a great GM? No. But I think it's a situation where you have to be careful what you wish for.

Also, some things you need to remember. While we didn't re-sign any 1st round picks under his tenure, it's important to remember why. We didn't re-sign Conk because we paid Byard instead who was/is an All Pro safety. Granted we could have afforded Conk if we didn't pay like 25 million combined to Clowney and Beasley.

And we couldn't resign Davis/Adoree cause we had to sign Tanne and Henry that same off-season. There was simply no way we had the money to keep everyone that off-season.

The last 2-3 seasons though have been a struggle in the draft. Trading away the best WR our franchise has ever had was a poor decision too (even though I like Burks). I understand the move, but Todd Downing needs to go too.

 

[Carp]

Versus Vandy when game was on the line he overthrew 5-6 WRs which would have been TDs including one horrific miss to Fant down the middle. In close games those are difference in win or loss. Rain doesn't make you overthrow WRs. I want to believe in him and have hope for next year so I am really rooting for him to have a good game vs Clemson

Fant stopped running. That play was on him. Go back and rewatch.

 

[Carp]

No way I can continue to support the man. Home Alone 2?

Why not? Better than the original, imo. I love Tim Curry.

 

[Christian Lowe]

this is Jaheim Bell’s dad 3 days ago. Blatant tampering for the world to see, and nothing will be done about it. But I doubt we got him, he’s going to colorado.

 

[Odiodin]

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this is Jaheim Bell’s dad 3 days ago. Blatant tampering for the world to see, and nothing will be done about it. But I doubt we got him, he’s going to colorado.

Going to get wild really. So many schools right now that are banking on a huge transfer class. Some that will absolutely take 20+.

Go look at the names in the portal right now and tell me there are enough quality players to meet demand. Lots of disappointment is coming, the Spring window might be even worse as people get desperate.