The Official #17/15 Tennessee vs. #11 Alabama Thread, 3:30 PM ET, CBS

[teeball]

But he can throw it 80 yards!!!!

... and 100 mph !!!!

 

[wmcovol]

I really like Heupel as the coach & don’t want to change but he’s gotta get better at game management. You can’t go for it on your end down there, especially with a lead. If Bama don’t stop You, the refs will screw you on the mark. That didn’t lose the game but it sure helped Alabama impose their will in the Second Half.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Yup. The wr room is very disappointing. we are seriously screwed.

Fyp

 

[jcvol87]

bama went from worst OL to protect their QB to monsters suddenly. Must be nice to hold with no penalty called every play.

 

[vavolfan6]

Saban was so confident at halftime it’s like he knew the game was in the bag.

Very suspiciously too...Almost as if he could rely on someone to have his back and make calls on his behalf...*cough* refs*cough*

 

[C-south]

This is on the coaches, regardless of how bad Milton is, especially whoever is really calling the plays. Two 1st and goals that end in fgs. Abysmal 4th down play calling as was the overall play calling after we got a a lead.

 

[volnutlolol]

Refs sucked but play calling beat refs beat

 

[charleyhorse]

Something must be done w players going down (bama #77) to give coaches to call last second play with out a timeout. #77 played entire 2nd half.

 

[90 Vol]

Milton put training wheels on our offense , and he still crashes in the ditch

Milton played a good 1st half. Heupel put the training wheels on Milton unnecessarily in the second half.

 

[IH8TheHaslams]

He’s in a league all on his own when it comes to football IQ!! The one behind worst..

I just hope that Nico doesn’t pick up his tendencies

 

[butler5]

And that is the epitome of mediocrity , play well in first half, and lay a freaking egg in the second half

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

It kills me to see Saban so happy talking about "after the half" and knowing he out adjusted/out coached Heupel completely in the second half.

I hate seeing him grin like that.

 

[AllVols]

6 defenders back

and? clock was at zero.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Most penalized team in the SEC only had 1 penalty today.

Couldn’t have fooled me.

We may have taken the crown from them today.

 

[teeball]

Man I don't make millions of dollars but what the he'll did Heupel ever see in Milton to think he was ever going to be a good qb..

Got me.

 

[vol24/7/365]

Unfortunately so far I can't disagree. But I don't get why. The ID is offense, you say you're a running team, if so the #1 priority is OL. And by quality OL I mean effective running against Fla, AL and Ga. I could care less about the SFA's and UCONN's of the world.

I disagree. Play calling is the problem. How do you explain the 1st half success vs 2nd half? Just being real

 

[JRich]

The SEC should be ashamed. The amount of holding and PI that Alabama is allowed to get away with is ridiculous, then the audacity to call the two “holding” calls on UT to bail out Alabama on 3rd down.

Don’t understand the “revenge” angle by the media. Is UT not allowed to win?

CJH’s decision making cost UT dearly in this game.

Milton is not it. Put the kid in.

 

[Manchester Vol]

UNREAL A COMPLETE COLLAPSE BY THE WHOLE TEAM!!!! COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM. NOT A SINGLE POINT THE ENTIRE HALF!!!

Methinks some **** is rigged.

 

[djohnnyg]

Milton sucks. Plain and simple.

 

[TheVolunteer002]

Out coached, out schemed, and completely out classed in the second half. Inexcusable is the appropriate term. Halftime adjustments are a thing. Mix in the continued horrible officiating and there aren't many teams who can win with all of that stacked against them.

I'm not sure exactly who is calling the plays on offense or if we're not making the right reads, but there's a lot of them that are just atrocious.

 

[JCHateSteve]

 

[deezvols]

That we went full blown conservative and played it safe by running it up the middle every other time while tossing side passes behind the los and were content with 3 in 3 trips down

That 3>0….

 

[EastTNVol6240]

Yep! This has gone far beyond trying to explain it away by saying “ everyone misses calls”, or even incompetence due to lack of of training. Nobody’s THAT damn incompetent. This is by design. Plain and simple.

Plays aside we didn’t finish. We failed when we couldn’t score in the RZ.

 

[Cartervol]

I could care less who plays QB now

Nope. I mean it really should be preparing for the future win or lose. Milton handicaps this offense so bad I'm tired of watching him.

 

[n_huffhines]

I'm pretty careful about crying about the refs, and I save my capital for days like today. We got jobbed.

If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot, we could have still won that game, but we had an uphill battle with how that game was officiated. We should've had a huge advantage in the trenches, and the refs decided they were going to let Bama hold all day. There was no way to stop their offense when they can just grab jerseys like that. They kept on praising the guy blocking Pearce, but every replay they showed revealed he was tugging on shirts. No defensive holding. Ever. No PI. Not a single bad call that went in Tennessee's favor. How is that even possible?

The most penalized team in the SEC had 1 penalty for 5 yards for an illegal snap...and it saved them from a fumbled snap.