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

[RockyTop140]

Point is not much we can do about it is there? They’ll get it fixed. It’s a young team and a long season.

I hope they get it fixed. But we all just witnessed a Joe Milton like performance from our savior 5 star 8 million dollar qb. People will be upset. If you can’t handle it, log off.

 

[Go47]

Nico is not seeing the field. He locks in and only looks away late, usually after the play has broken down. Hopefully that will improve, if not he is not going to be a great QB.

I agree. And everyone saying he is young and it will happen in time . . . Well sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. Time will tell.

 

[Majors]

3 plays from the 25 and not one was a shot at the endzone

 

[Orangeslide]

The running into the punter changed everything in this game. No way you can even get close to the punter in that situation. We were in control to that point.

 

[207 others]

Lost 24-13 to Florida. He isn’t exactly re-writing the book of how to score.

1 bad game on offense vs 2 so far this season (every game that mattered)

 

[Manchester Vol]

Nico is not seeing the field. He locks in and only looks away late, usually after the play has broken down. Hopefully that will improve, if not he is not going to be a great QB.

Nico is 12 years old we will be fine. He will grow up overtime and we will kick booty eventually.

 

[Pride85]

We truly have some useless individuals that post on this site. The team was winning so the MegaNegas couldn't unleash the venomous bike. Now they are spewing it all over this board. I don't even care if this makes Freak upset. I CAN'T STAND FAIR WEATHER FANS!!!!!!

 

[KeyVol14]

Where are the stacked receiver formations? It's like they're completely gone

 

[TheVolsFrog]

When they go over the game film. Nico needs to look at how he stared down his receiver all night, should've took and ran.
OL needs to work on stop jumping because a team freaking shifts, you know the snap count. Stop flitching
Coach Hype needs to look at his poor clock management and why he's gone so conservative with play calling.
Defense did their part for the most part.

 

[BreatheUT]

Yeah but keeping someone to 19 points will win most ballgames in today's era of college football. All around a horrible effort by all fronts (offense, defense, special teams, and coaching)

This is true. Remember the special teams ran into the punter which kept a drive alive. Then our defense didn't stop them and Arky got 3 out of it.

 

[RockyTop140]

DONT EVEN BOTHER TO PURCHASE A TICKET.

Go to bed man. People are upset, and rightfully so. Let people vent

 

[EastTNVol6240]

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

I bet you kept all of your participation trophies.

 

[87&91ALUM]

Gut punched

 

[Majors]

Nico is not seeing the field. He locks in and only looks away late, usually after the play has broken down. Hopefully that will improve, if not he is not going to be a great QB.

Line isn’t helping. Sampson on a swing pass will loosen up the coverage but he somehow can only be used in the middle of the field

 

[LibertyVol]

I agree. And everyone saying he is young and it will happen in time . . . Well sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. Time will tell.

I am not counting on it. Lose next week and 7-5 will be good.

 

[cherokeeeVOL]

I hope they get it fixed. But we all just witnessed a Joe Milton like performance from our savior 5 star 8 million dollar qb. People will be upset. If you can’t handle it, log off.

It’s one loss. Was it bad? Of course it was. I wonder how it feels losing to Vandy? Not great I bet.

 

[Go47]

I don’t know what the deal is, but something is in his head. Watch him stare down receivers and dance the entire time. It’s almost like he’s afraid to go to the second or third options, and when the first option isn’t there, he takes off or takes a sack.

I think he will get there. The talent is undeniable. But I feel like he’s in his head and the playbook has mysteriously disappeared into this vanilla ice cream cone iteration that we see today.

Time will tell.

 

[DaddyChad]

And this is the SEC. If you are going to be scared of getting hit, get out now.

I don’t think he’s scared of getting hit.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

Florida and bama are gonna crush us bro

Blah blah, we will see come back after the games and we will discuss. GBO

 

[Delmar]

Overlook anyone and you will get beat.
Tennessee came in and acted like they could just go through the motions and take it back to Knoxville.

Exactly. Spent too much time reading their press clippings and hearing how great they are. The whole team slept walked thru the game and, just like Bama today, that will get you beat. Add stupid penalties like drive killing false starts and the roughing the punter penalty and a loss is no surprise. Didn’t deserve to win it.

 

[Pride85]

No its been called out plenty of times since he has been here.Clowns like you refuse to see it

And clowns like you are completely useless. Has it been that hard not being able to post crap up until now.

 

[C-south]

3 plays from the 25 and not one was a shot at the endzone

He had a guy wide open around the 10 but decided to throw it over his head out of bounds.

 

[TartanTurff]

Just leave the board, please

Nope, Tennessee just blew a 14-3 lead, against a mediocre SEC team on the road, in what should have been a very winnable game to continue to lay the foundation for a special season, obviously not happening with this team as shown tonight, Heuple looked like Foolmer out there tonight, taking the air off the ball, zero offensive big play threats, the same dysfunction that presented itself against South Carolina two years ago showed up again tonight, coming out of an off week, not sure why this complete breakdown occurs on the road in significant games, but it does

 

[first time caller]

Well, this game just pi##ed away the rest of my weekend. My family aint going to be happy with me.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

He didn’t know he was past the chains

If somebody had caught any of the previous 8 balls that hit them in the hands and couldn't come up with it, we would've run out the clock for victory.

Maybe so, but his situational awareness has to basically be 2 things. 1. Don’t take a sack. 2. Make sure the ball crosses the goal line to give someone a chance to make a play.

Credit to Arkansas’ d for mixing it up tonight, but Nico struggled. He didn’t see what he needed to see, he was hesitant and he didn’t manage the game great. Mostly this falls on the coaching staff, very rarely has Heupel not had our team ready play, especially off of a bye, but we just didn’t look like we had any excitement or purpose during 4/5ths of the game.