'24 Recruiting Forum: Official Arkansas Pregame/Game Thread

[vol4eva]

It might be Arky, but it’s an SEC night road game. We should’ve known Arky wouldn’t roll over for us.

 

[orangejuice]

We are the only team I’ve watched all year when our QB rolls out, the refs call a penalty 100% of the time.

 

[hjeagle1vol]

Time to run the power-i

All we need is a fumble and sum cheese

 

[GoodTimeVol]

OL has been inconsistent Nico hasn’t helped them, but we need to establish the run. They need a hell of a half time speech

 

[orange parmejohn]

Have they passed to Sampson out of the backfield?

 

[jpope9]

They've done good at limiting scores, but they have to get off the field faster. The 8-10min drives will bury us.

That’s what buried bama today

 

[vosams]

Go vols. Not worried one bit.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I’ll roll us a fresh one. What do you drink?

I'll bring the booze if you like bourbon.

 

[Skullbone]

Offense looks terrible. Defense is holding but barely. Not a good performance tonight.

 

[MarcoVol]

South Carolina game all over. Can we adjust?

South Carolina game we gave up 35 points in the 1st half.

 

[UTK]

I don’t think it’s dramatic to say the opening drive of the second half could determine the game. A tuddy and we could start to take control. No points, Arkansas is eventually gonna bust a score on us.

 

[Ttucke11]

Lol, yes. We're lucky. The defense is trash.

Okay. I've seen a lot of trash defense in the last 2 decades. Tonight doesn't sniff it. But cool.

 

[UTK]

South Carolina game we gave up 35 points in the 1st half.

This is the flip flop. Offense doing jack ****

 

[orangejuice]

You mean.. Half time.

So halftime just fixes the OL? Like, we don’t actually have to do anything to fix it? Wow, that makes me feel better

 

[Volbucky]

I hope the OL is embarrassed about that first half performance and come out pissed off and play good. If they don’t we may me in trouble.

They won’t

 

[Volbucky]

Have they passed to Sampson out of the backfield?

Yes

 

[tnhunter 10]

I hope we make Pittman eat those words

What did he say?

 

[MarcoVol]

Lol, yes. We're lucky. The defense is trash.

Isn’t the entire goal of defense to keep the other team from scoring?

 

[Ttucke11]

South Carolina game we gave up 35 points in the 1st half.

People are obviously living in a different reality. O deserves all the criticism possible. Defense..not so much.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I don’t think it’s dramatic to say the opening drive of the second half could determine the game. A tuddy and we could start to take control. No points, Arkansas is eventually gonna bust a score on us.

Yep. Either get our heads out of our collective asses or it’s over. Need points on this opening drive.

 

[SoilVol]

This second half will tell us who we are. Losing won't eliminate us, but we are going to learn if there's any ballers on offense.

Inexcusable not to get Thornton and Bru touches in the first half. Our plays are extremely vanilla, no wrinkles or complex development. Arkansas is just shutting down our basic offense, where we normally out-execute opponents for big runs. They're confusing Nico and making him nervous in the pocket.

 

[BigSteve09]

Would it kill us to call a HB screen

 

[jakez4ut]

It might be Arky, but it’s an SEC night road game. We should’ve known Arky wouldn’t roll over for us.

I don't think anyone expected them to roll over.

But no one expected us to be completely flat on both sides of the ball.

We have not played a clean game at all and the o line has to be a lot better in the second half.

 

[orangejuice]

South Carolina game we gave up 35 points in the 1st half.

Yea but this has those feels where you keep waiting for us to wake up and play normal and then it just never happens.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Wild take, but this is kind of what happens when you blow out teams early in the year. Nico regardless of talent still lacks experience.

Hendo had started over a dozen games before he even took a snap here. Nico just has to start growing & learning. Hopefully this 2nd half is the flip switching for him.