The Official #4 Tennessee @ Arkansas Game Thread, 7:30 PM ET, ABC

[84Volfan]

Clown post right here.

In all honesty probably right. Nothing about tonight built any confidence....

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

Arkansas better than their record. Saban said so and he knows more about football than anybody on here.
Look at their record and how close they were to being 5-0.
I’m not sure what’s going on with the offense, but it appears the OU game exposed some things like tendencies, and Heupel needs to change some things up.
Nico looked awful. I would’ve thought he would be more poised after the OU game. I hope he can get his head right, because this season is not getting easier. Still got a few games out there that the Vols could lose.
Defense is carrying this team, which is a bright spot, but the lack of production on offense is putting too much pressure on them. Especially playing a team that runs the style that Arkansas does.
Good news is that we aren’t the only fan base with a Top 10 team that lost. At least we aren’t Bama
Gotta flush this and get back on the right side next week when Florida comes to Knoxville. Still can make playoffs and much to play for. It’s not like in years past, where a loss would knock you out of the picture.
Praying that Squirrel and our other players are okay.
GB

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

You guys are absolutely freaking stupid. Nico will be fine. With any freshman there are going to be growing moments no matter what they are paid. We had a chance as a team to win this game well before the last play. Stupid mistakes, play calling, penalties you name it. They still have everything to play for. But they have to get better and humble themselves and go to work. To be completely honest I believe this was the worst game plan Heupel has had as a coach here. The Defense did enough but in a close game discipline will get you beat. That is exactly what happened tonight. The OL sucked, Nico got rattled, couple that with the watered down play calls run run pass, welp there you have it. Arkansas played cleaner. Congrats and on to the next game

Nico wasn't the total problem. Josh has turned into a p**** with his play calling. Started last week. Any chance at the playoffs just ended. We got EXPOSED

 

[C-south]

hope the press asks him some real questions about the dogshit play calling

but I doubt they will

Arkansas is not a good team and their defense dominated our Oline

Well we throw the 1 yard routes to set up the deep ball only to overthrow the wide open guy when we take a shot.

 

[BreatheUT]

I think we can definitely say Milton was the better QB last year.

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

This continues the trend of Tennessee playing terrible on the road. It is crazy how different of a team we look like home vs away.

 

[Savannahbayvol]

Yep, outcoached but we were also out played and out smarted. Ross would never play another game for me after the running into the punter play. Absolutely the dumbest play I have seen in 74 years of watching the Vols.

We were exposed today for what we are, a slightly better than average team who still hasn't played anybody. NC State lost to Wake today and OU was lucky to beat Auburn who is one of the 4 worst teams in the conference. We are what we are.

Will lose to UGA and Alabama and be lucky to split Florida and Kentucky.

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

Nope...Nico needs to grow up and earn his friggin money

That's exactly right. You wanna take and Libby for the $$, you gotta take the expectations that come with it.

 

[rgx]

Crushed me tonight. Best friend is a clemson fan. We parlayed. VOLS F’d us both. I was good with losing money but to lose outright to arkansas. BVS

 

[TheVolsFrog]

Coach Huepel and Nico both need to sit next game

 

[GAVol]

Can’t run the ball in that situation. The draw to Sampson. Lost too much valuable time. Our coach panicked tonight. We will beat the gators. First conference game at home. The playoffs are still there for the taking. Go Vols.

It was obviously not a called run.

 

[rocketskates]

Defense was not the issue. If not for the defense we lose by a lot more. The offensive gameplan was absolute crap.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Clown post right here.

What makes you think we can beat UF?

 

[first time caller]

Poor QB play. Poor Secondary play. Poor special teams play. Poor OL play. And poor coaching. And then we got Slaughter laughing in our face. How bad can it get.

 

[OptimisticFan]

Just piss poor coaching, offense, defense

The defense could have been better, but they held them under 20. If you can’t get 20 points, the offense has some tough questions to answer.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Betting on kids is never a smart move.

 

[mindemon]

Call a F’n hold

The first sign a team has lost is when their fans start getting mad at the refs for not helping them win by calling penalties on the other team.

 

[TNVOLFN]

Nico sucks. He throws a flat ball with deep ball touch.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

pathetic plan on offense and defense..tell me im wrong

Don't let special teams have a pass. Not fielding that punt gave Arkansas 20 yards. Plus running into the punter gave Arkansas a first down.

 

[Stacmot]

Huepel does this every year dropping the ball on a road game

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

Losses to UF, Bama, UGA and possibly Vandy now.

We lose 3 of those 4. Absolutely

 

[PerryCountyVol]

His game management was worse than the plan. After the Thornton catch there was 35 second on the clock. 14 seconds ran off before the next snap. Utterly atrocious game management.

Exactly, I was screaming at the TV the whole time as the clock just ran

 

[Bollweevil]

I remember a bad south carolina game.....

 

[GoVols64]

Bottom line for a people are dropping eight and we can’t run the ball effectively to offset it. I’m not sure why but we simply can’t take advantage from f the numbers.

 

[Cartervol]

You have to score more than 14 points. Garbage offense killed them.