Tennessee @ Mississippi State (October 13, 2012)

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Billy Costigan said:
I love waking up ranked, wish y'all still were. Maybe y'all can get back ranked before we play. We should be ranked for a while now, steadily crawling toward top 12ish by the time we get to beat y'all.
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I will sacrifice our ranking to stay out of MS. I love waking up anywhere besides MS.
 
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Vols4life said:
MSU doesn't have nearly the talent UF has in the front 7
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We are very similar to Florida up front talking pure talent. Is the strength of our entire team, even though the DBs are getting all the press. There are at least 10 guys with likely NFL futures in our front 7 rotation, including 3 that will be drafted this season(overall we are young still). We will rotate 10 on the DL and 7 at LB(and managed to redshirt 2 4* incoming LB prospects).

That said, we have been playing much more vanilla than Florida does. We have to get more aggressiveness going or Bray will pick us apart. These stats are telling about how vanilla we've played the first couple weeks with guys that all project as draft picks. Starting to really bother me honestly.

Sacks: 83rd 1.33/game
TFL: 106th 4.33/game

The "bend don't break" d is getting incredibly tired. Especially in soft zone against crap teams with 2 early round NFL corners(for the first time at MSU since 1999). We should be bringing the heat on every single play, but we aren't.

The philosophy works because we will(again) be top 15ish in scoring d, but we will be lucky to crack top 30 in total d, and that IMO still shows a waste of talent. I guess it's clear at this point that our coaching staff doesn't care at all about style points. I sometimes wish they did though...
 
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engie said:
We are very similar to Florida up front talking pure talent. Is the strength of our entire team, even though the DBs are getting all the press. There are at least 10 guys with likely NFL futures in our front 7 rotation, including 3 that will be drafted this season(overall we are young still). We will rotate 10 on the DL and 7 at LB(and managed to redshirt 2 4* incoming LB prospects).

That said, we have been playing much more vanilla than Florida does. We have to get more aggressiveness going or Bray will pick us apart. These stats are telling about how vanilla we've played the first couple weeks with guys that all project as draft picks. Starting to really bother me honestly.

Sacks: 83rd 1.33/game
TFL: 106th 4.33/game

The "bend don't break" d is getting incredibly tired. Especially in soft zone against crap teams with 2 early round NFL corners(for the first time at MSU since 1999). We should be bringing the heat on every single play, but we aren't.

The philosophy works because we will(again) be top 15ish in scoring d, but we will be lucky to crack top 30 in total d, and that IMO still shows a waste of talent. I guess it's clear at this point that our coaching staff doesn't care at all about style points. I sometimes wish they did though...
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So almost your whole 2 deep in the front 7 has a future in the NFL? I find that hard to believe.
 
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volfanngaytorland said:
So almost your whole 2 deep in the front 7 has a future in the NFL? I find that hard to believe.
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We go more than 2-deep up front. We play 3 full lines of DT's and 2 full lines of DE's. Plus 2 true NTs that we show in an occasional 3-4 look. That may be why my numbers seem somewhat outlandish, because a few of the guys that project are playing now as true fr(we are playing 17-19 guys weekly in the front 7). Found out against Alabama and LSU last season that we were talented enough up front to give them games, but we were not deep enough...hence why they both pulled away from us in the 4th after being very competitive for 3 quarters. The effort to play and prepare so many younger guys is one of the reasons our defense hasn't looked as good against inferior competition as it will in big games.

We will have 2-3 draftees in the front 7 practically every season going forward, and more some seasons. The talent at those spots(moreso than anywhere else on our team) has been consistently upgraded over the past few seasons. Look back at our recruiting on the DL(zero attrition being another big factor). It's not Alabama or LSU, but it can hold it's own against anyone else in the country.

We have already had 5 drafted(plus 1 UDFA that is starting for Patriots) in the front 7 in Mullen's 3 years. Averaging 2/yr with mostly Croom talent...
 
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GLDunlap said:
Troy had 30 first downs and almost 600 yards offense against that vaulted Mississippi State defense.
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My thoughts on the Troy game are well documented on here. There just is not much you can take from that performance. State pulled starters late in the first quarter and didn't put them back in until in the 4th when Troy pulled within 2. 32 different defensive players saw time in that game, including most of the snaps with zero starting experience in the secondary. We had Cedric Jiles(trFR), Taveze Calhoun(rsFR), Kendrick Market(rsFR), and Dee Arrington(SO) in the secondary for 80% of the snaps in that game, and they definitely did get demolished.

I don't like that gameplan/approach, and it will eventually get us beat at some point in a game we should win in the name of "developing depth".
 
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rocktopper16 said:
+1
Team is starting to come together.
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When I heard Bray was outside the locker room crying, it was the best news any of us coulda wished for. And after that and the game, you can no longer say "Bray doesn't give a ****" like everyone was saying before.
 
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UTK said:
When I heard Bray was outside the locker room crying, it was the best news any of us coulda wished for. And after that and the game, you can no longer say "Bray doesn't give a ****" like everyone was saying before.
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No. Now we can just call him a crybaby.
 
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UTK said:
When I heard Bray was outside the locker room crying, it was the best news any of us coulda wished for. And after that and the game, you can no longer say "Bray doesn't give a ****" like everyone was saying before.
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Right.
I hate posting on here anymore. You get flamed for believing in the team or seeing the future.
 
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Billy Costigan said:
ummm, no. It is the biggest in the SEC and the 2nd biggest in the whole world and if you don't believe me you can look it up.
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As usual you don't know what you are talking about..Davis Wade has the 23rd largest video screen which is totally different from what you are implying..Sony quit making Jumbotrons in 2001..So technically you might have the 2nd largest Jumbotron but only because they have been replaced by MUCH better video screens(and bigger)..And I did look it up..here's a link so you can educate yourself before spouting off about it again...

List of largest video screens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


:ermm:
 
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TnScooby said:
As usual you don't know what you are talking about..Davis Wade has the 23rd largest video screen which is totally different from what you are implying..Sony quit making Jumbotrons in 2001..So technically you might have the 2nd largest Jumbotron but only because they have been replaced by MUCH better video screens(and bigger)..And I did look it up..here's a link so you can educate yourself before spouting off about it again...

List of largest video screens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


:ermm:
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yeah...we've been through this.
 
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TnScooby said:
As usual you don't know what you are talking about..Davis Wade has the 23rd largest video screen which is totally different from what you are implying..Sony quit making Jumbotrons in 2001..So technically you might have the 2nd largest Jumbotron but only because they have been replaced by MUCH better video screens(and bigger)..And I did look it up..here's a link so you can educate yourself before spouting off about it again...

List of largest video screens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


:ermm:
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Thanks for the breaking news from June 4th.
 
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Miss st fans do you think your defense is better than Geogia's? whats that NO! Then how are you going to stop us. And with 8 in the box i think you will still run on us just not enough.
 
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