'22 Recruiting Forum: Official Alabama Pregame/Game Thread

[MarcoVol]

If we were 2-3 or 3-2 and playing a nobody, troll us all you’d like.
but right now, we are seeing the incredible resurgence of our program with a real chance to break a 15 game losing streak to our longest and most hated rival.
right now all news about this game, especially injury updates, is important to those of us who bleed orange.
silly fake postings (which I’ve made more than my share of over the years) just aren’t appropriate now.
timing is everything. Read the room, as they say.
it’s time for Vol dudes to put on their cups and Vol dudettes to put on their sports bras.
Lets get it in VolNation! Saturday could be very, very, special and a day we will all remember! Go Vols! Beat Bama!

You might need to smoke a J my friend

 

[csprig9]

Everyone keeps saying this is the best dline we played,
Or we haven’t seen a set ends like this yet, or this is the best corners UT has seen etc, etc……

Well news flash
Bama hasn’t seen a team like us this year either

 

[VOLSONLY]

@nicksjuzunk we're still waiting on your score prediction this week, come on man get with it
@Bassmaster_Vol calked you a chicken just saying

 

[volfaninpa]

In this series when a long winning streak is broken, it is usually broken emphatically.

Everything sets up for this to happen on Saturday.

On another note, I still can't believe the SEC went to the division format 30 years ago and Tennessee has never played Bama in the SEC championship game.

 

[Frosty]

I’m just wondering if @KingNico is a committed QB recruit

 

[jakez4ut]

In this series when a long winning streak is broken, it is usually broken emphatically.

Everything sets up for this to happen on Saturday.

On another note, I still can't believe the SEC went to the division format 30 years ago and Tennessee has never played Bama in the SEC championship game.

same here. i remember when that happened ( i was in HS) and all i could think about were the prospects of beating Alabama twice in the same season. never would have thought we'd never meet in the title game. crazy.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

You might need to smoke a J my friend

Those things are lethal. Can't believe you'd suggest such extreme measures. What if he did "smoke a J" and it killed him? How would you feel about that?

 

[jakez4ut]

I think the comparison to look at here is actually how we did against Pitt. Coming into the year both Bama and Pitts DL was ranked in the top 5 in all of CFB. Currently, as team sacks sit, Pitt is actually tied for 15th in the nation while Bama is tied for 18th in the nation. Bama has 18 sacks on the year, Pitt has 19. Pitt is also similar in that they have multiple rushers. So far this year they haven’t really had that one guy, like Anderson, that sticks out.. but they do have 2 players in the top 100 players in CFB in terms of sacks. Alabama only has Anderson in the top 100.

So all in all, if you look at how we did against Pitt that’s a decent measuring block to see how we could fare vs Bama. I get that Bama has probably played better competition then Pitt so far, but this is probably still the best comparison to who we have faced so far.

Pitt against us: 3 sacks, 6TFL, 1 QB hurry.

And that was in our 2nd game of the year. OL has had more time to gel since and has looked better as the weeks have gone on. I agree though, if the OL holds up, I wouldn’t be scared of a shoot out either.

i tend to agree with you here, though the reason LSU will get more looks is because of the edge play of ojulari comparing to Anderson. and i get that. but across the board, i think Pitt's front 7 is still really good, just not elite. we didn't even try to run the ball against them.....lol. and we just put 260 on the ground against LSU.

which is another reason why i just like how CJH goes about things. he's looking for what makes us the most successful, match up wise. he finds that small open wound you have, and just pokes, and pokes, and pokes it until you can't bear it. so you better be good at self scouting yourself if you're playing us. cause if you have a weakness...he's finding it.

and he may do the same thing against Bama that we did against pitt and say "screw the run, ain't worth it" lol.

and i just have a feeling there's still some sets, formations and plays that we haven't run yet, or haven't run a ton of, that we may see in this game.

one thing i'm curious to see if/how it plays out is how do we attack the middle of the field, if at all, in the passing game? Rb's on screens? TE's? QB run? draws? combo of all?

i'm excited to see how we go about things in this game. and it feels good to know that the coaching staff in Alabama is actually having to prepare for a whole host of issues we're gonna present. think about how many "if/then" situations their defense is going to have to prepare for, recognize to prepare...and then go execute it at a break neck pace....

let's freaking go. i may regret it Saturday night, but i'm just not scared of Alabama this year, and that has a LOT MORE to do with what we do, than anything Bama does.

 

[MarcoVol]

Those things are lethal. Can't believe you'd suggest such extreme measures. What if he did "smoke a J" and it killed him? How would you feel about that?

 

[BigSteve09]

 

[Odiodin]

I have had this game circled since preseason as a possible sh** show to make last year’s Ole Miss game look like a kindergarten game of duck duck goose. (No less than 3 mustard bottles in the first quarter)

However, the media narrative has surprised me. Today I have seen articles claiming this the most anticipated game of the decade, and not only of our Vols but all of college football.

I don’t know about that … but with this I’m not sure we are sufficiently prepared. Something greater lurks…

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I have had this game circled since preseason as a possible sh** show to make last year’s Ole Miss game look like a kindergarten game of duck duck goose. (No less than 3 mustard bottles in the first quarter)

However, the media narrative has surprised me. Today I have seen articles claiming this the most anticipated game of the decade, and not only of our Vols but all of college football.

I don’t know about that … but with this I’m not sure we are sufficiently prepared. Something greater lurks…

WGWTFA

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

I’m just wondering if @KingNico is a committed QB recruit

Idk he might be some kind of barber

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

Well here's what the degenerates are thinking: ‎Bet The Board: College Football Week 7 Picks: Penn State at Michigan, Alabama at Tennessee, USC at Utah on Apple Podcasts

Take the under. Bama tries to play keep away. Line indicates Vegas only 60% confident that Young plays.

 

[Orange Studs]

One thing not being talked about enough: our OL. Before the game the narrative was “TN hasn’t played a defense as good as LSU! They’ll get exposed!” People are now acting like LSU defense just isn’t good. That’s not true at all. BJ Ojulari is the 2nd best pass rusher in the league behind Anderson. He was the big talk before the game. We never heard his name. He never touched Hendo; wasn’t even a threat. And we didn’t even have the starting LT in. We also rushed for 240 or whatever against their defense. Wide receivers were wide open all over the field.

Our offense is operating at an elite level. We will score Saturday and they have to be able to keep up.

I was thinking the same thing about Ojulari. You hardly heard his name mentioned playing against the backup Tackle. For me, its been insane to see the development of this team as a whole. I will admit that at the start of the season I didn't think Banks was going to make it as our DC but after the last two games he has slowly changed my mind. He just needs better talent in the secondary. One other thing, are we going to have to keep hearing that same phrase "They haven't played against a defense like this one" for the rest of the season? LOL

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

4. Redder Zone: Tennessee has scored 100% of the time in the red zone this year, with 78% of those scores being touchdowns. Alabama has scored only 85% of the time, but has a higher TD ratio at 89%, with one more visit to the redzone. What does that mean? Tennessee has settled for more FG's in the redzone.

Are the touchdown percentages a percentage of redzone scores or redzone trips? If they’re a percentage of scores, as your verbiage suggests (“78% of those scores being touchdowns”) then UT has still has a better redzone touchdown ratio than Bama. 78% of 100% is, of course, 78%. 78% of 85% is slightly over 75%.

In that case it would seem less a matter of us settling for field goals more often and more that they have failed to score at all from time to time when we have tended to take the points.

 

[RikidyBones]

I was thinking the same thing about Ojulari. You hardly heard his name mentioned playing against the backup Tackle. For me, its been insane to see the development of this team as a whole. I will admit that at the start of the season I didn't think Banks was going to make it as our DC but after the last two games he has slowly changed my mind. He just needs better talent in the secondary. One other thing, are we going to have to keep hearing that same phrase "They haven't played against a defense like this one" for the rest of the season? LOL

Cant wait for Tennessee Martin say "they havent faced a DL this skinny all season"

 

[Orange Studs]

Cant wait for Tennessee Martin say "they havent faced a DL this skinny all season"

HAHA ! You know what I am saying.

 

[InVOLuntary]

If you look at Bamas schedule, what have they really done? Barely beat two teams in which both teams played their backup QBs. Arkansas I guess would be their most dominant performance but Arkansas as it turns out, ain't all that. Other than that they've just beat up on the patsies.

 

[InVOLuntary]

If Saban ends up playing Young, it will show his hand about how concerned he is.

 

[jakez4ut]

Are the touchdown percentages a percentage of redzone scores or redzone trips? If they’re a percentage of scores, as your verbiage suggests (“78% of those scores being touchdowns”) then UT has still has a better redzone touchdown ratio than Bama. 78% of 100% is, of course, 78%. 78% of 85% is slightly over 75%.

In that case it would seem less a matter of us settling for field goals more often and more that they have failed to score at all from time to time when we have tended to take the points.

yeah, that's a bit of misnoamer, cause i'm not sure how that is calculated. either way, for us, we've scored on every trip inside the 20...and 4/5 of those trips result in a TD, 1/5 FG, so 31 pts per 5 trips inside the red zone, i'll take that.

 

[jakez4ut]

If you look at Bamas schedule, what have they really done? Barely beat two teams in which both teams played their backup QBs. Arkansas I guess would be their most dominant performance but Arkansas as it turns out, ain't all that. Other than that they've just beat up on the patsies.

TN and TX are two different styles of football....but if you're going to look at match ups, that's a good one to look at to see what their o line did against that defense, and what did TX defense do to disrupt Bama's O? sure, things have changed, and adjustments have been made along the way, but there are tendencies i'm sure we've seen in the TX, aTm and Ark games that we can take advantage of.

and you're not wrong, i don't think it's any secret this is by far the best offense they've seen all year, outside TX with QE playing....and that's just a different style of offense all together, and i like their RB a lot. but point is they were able to move the ball and make plays. we just want to up the quantity of those plays...how many opportunities can we create for ourselves?

i'm realtively confident that we're going to be able to do that....just have to take advantage when those opportunities present themselves.

 

[InVOLuntary]

If I had to nit pick anything on the offensive side against LSU is we kicked too many field goals. Need to get TDs in the red zone to beat Bama.

 

[jakez4ut]

If I had to nit pick anything on the offensive side against LSU is we kicked too many field goals. Need to get TDs in the red zone to beat Bama.

i mean, we did, but did we? i kind of talked about that before the LSU game that we may see more FG's because as the field shortens, it helps defenses, especially good ones like LSU's. and it did. i see the same opportunity for Bama.

but 4 TD's and 4 FG's....you do that, you're going win a lot of games.

what you can't do, is kick 6 FG's on your way to a 20 pt total, like we did against FL in 2000. that game felt like a game we'd lose because we couldn't get any TD's. it's what ultimately cost TX the game against Bama, and aTm, well that, and refs that just suck.

so the only way i worry about the FG attempts is if there's only 1 or 2 TD's to go along with them. so if you're sitting there in the 4th qtr with say 26 points...then yeah, i may start thinking about "what might have been" if we had converted a couple of those possessions in to TD's vs FGs....

but kicking your 4th FG to get to 40 pts....? Im cool with that....i'll take that right now in this game......lol

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

If you look at Bamas schedule, what have they really done? Barely beat two teams in which both teams played their backup QBs. Arkansas I guess would be their most dominant performance but Arkansas as it turns out, ain't all that. Other than that they've just beat up on the patsies.

Is there a chance we roll them like LSU? I mean, they haven't looked good at all this year as you said. Are we better than Texas? Certainly without Ewers we are. Are we better than A&M? Absolutely.