The Official #11/#9 Tennessee @ Florida Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN

[Checker_the_Shire]

Milton is not the reason we lost. Your approach is getting old. This OL is horrible right now and D line got pushed around

If the second half is any indication, aside from dumb penalties, the d-line did fine and the o-line, for the most part, was average. Milton:
Overthrew
Underthrew
Mismanaged
Made bad reads

I put this loss solely on two people: Heupel and Milton. The former for atrocious play calling and obviously not having them ready to play. The latter on horrendous play.

 

[YankeeVol]

between APeay and Virginia?

20-24

 

[sonofUT62]

would say he promised nico it wouldn’t happen..

Why would Nico care if he brought a 4th year senior in from the portal? If Heupel is letting Nico call the shots like that and just left us at the mercy of whatever Milton produces this year, he can go back to Oklahoma.

 

[Vols All Day]

What I would like to know is how a coach (who was a QB) that is making 9 mill per year - with a multi-million dollar freshman QB - doesn’t have an effective QB ready to play. Milton isn’t the guy - apparently Nico isn’t ready - and the rest are walkons.

Inexcusable for Heupel not to have a QB ready that can even be average.

The line stinks.

 

[hardyemt_p]

Nothing you haven't seen for the last 22 years

Florida is our nemesis

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

That was not late.

We play the victim in every game, all game. Heup cries on the sideline all night long, but then after a guy takes a knee and we hit him, somehow that's ok. Embarrassing.

 

[stolitonic]

Joe needs to go

Calm down man. You really wanna throw Nico behind this trash Oline. Get him hurt or destroy his confidence.

 

[Sam I Am]

$9 million dollars.......
.........still a gym teacher.

 

[Butch s]

I honestly don't think we are garbage, but we need Cooper Mays back and we need a QB. Not sure if we can fix the QB this year.

Damn sure can’t fix this one. Looks good in practice just like JG. Has no business ever playing qb again, anywhere. Way too slow to read and react and think on the fly. Can’t coach someone out of that.

 

[Orange931]

Put Nico in.. period. What do we have to lose?

Nothing. You’ll have a few with the “he’s a freshman and he’s not ready for the SEC” type of crap. That’s bs, Saban has played Tua and Bryce Young as freshman just in the last 10 years. If Nico is better, throw him in there.

 

[Volinnooga]

It’s has to be Nico going forward

Nico will get killed behind this OL

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Well that was fun.

fun like a root canal with an auger

 

[BP4Prez]

Classless on Heuple

What did he do

 

[HiltonHeadVol]

Well,this place should be interesting for the next few days until the knee-jerk reactions die down and the calling for Huepel to be "fahred" ease up. Milton just isn't the guy for this system,and it is really obvious. They had to slow down the offense too much,and it still didn't matter. The D did well and made Florida look below average late(like they are) ,but if Milton is airing deepballs 10 yards past his receivers when the game is on the line,what does it matter? The terrible calls against them certainly didn't help an otherwise horrible outing.

Im still a marginal believer n Heup but lets see if he is man enuf to stand up and admit poor job and the loss primarily on him and his failure to prepare this team. If he tries to deflect like Butch then I will stop being in his camp. Everyone fails at some point, everyone falls down. It matters what you do after.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

We will be absolutely LUCKY to win 6 games.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Agree. We ain’t paying $8M in NIL money for him to sit behind this kind of performance.

I think I broke your handle code....... you add all three numbers to get to your football IQ.

 

[jasonvol18]

Can we please man up and NOT blame the refs for the apparent lack of interest or preparation by the Vols tonite?

Thankyou! The ones complaining about the refs sound like the damn bammers last year. The refs didn't help, but they damn sure didn't lose us the game. Horrible tackling, undisciplined penalties, bad playcalling etc. We got beat again at the swamp to an inferior team. Different HC, same results This won't be our last loss, we got 3-4 more coming. Going to be hard to keep the recruits we have playing like we have the first 3 games.

 

[LargeOrange1]

Milton is not the guy. That's plainly obvious. He's a talller, heftier Guarantano. Make the change.

Yeah but he can throw an orange 90+ yards.......

 

[tntornadox]

We play the victim in every game, all game. Heup cries on the sideline all night long, but then after a guy takes a knee and we hit him, somehow that's ok. Embarrassing.

His knee was not down. That was on him for scrambling around trying to be cute.

 

[UTfan94]

He was taking a knee, dumb***. Just **** players

Then he needed to get down. It's called tackle football.

 

[LadyVolette]

Yep...he and the fla player squared up. Kamal threw the first punch.

Oh Lord, we all saw that coming a mile away lol.. he just always runs his mouth all of the time.. sheesh

 

[YankeeVol]

I hope that ends haddens career at UT.

He literally doesn’t deserve to play on scholarship

 

[BP4Prez]

It’s has to be Nico going forward

You’re going to get him killed behind that line

 

[Checker_the_Shire]

Just lost some respect for Heupel right there. That was a Busch League move with the timeout.

Nah man. Let the loss sink in on the players. I completely appreciate it.

 

[cwbytruckers]

The short screen game to me just isnt as fun as watching Manning slice and dice with the entire field.