The Official #9 Tennessee vs. Austin Peay Game Thread, 5:00 PM ET, SEC Network+

[volmanNC]

I guess a Win is a WIN...!!

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

A win is a win, but the Gators will be 10X harder than this FCS team.

 

[patrick]

Vols will lose 5 games if Joe Milton remains the starting QB. First loss will be Fla.

 

[tnvols72]

Hadden isn't. I've never seen a player get beat so much, yet talk so much $hit. It's impressive how bad he is, and not how good he thinks he is.

I cant believe Heup lets him continue to run his mouth out there

 

[Volnbeers]

Not used to seeing bama have so many calls against them

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Why do people say such stupid things? He LOST to Georgia State.

We have lots of posters where those are their high spots.

 

[nomads-11]

Hats off to AP......they deserve some credit, but to a point. There's a lot of TN not getting out of their own way, big time. Hope Joe can put this one behind him mentally.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Its his job to make sure they were prepared for this. He gets as much blame as the team

Yes. Play calling was atrocious and the team just seemed really uninterested from the opening kick.


Lots of concerns. Need to see how we respond.

 

[SquirrelOrange]

Ugh. Milton just doesn’t have it. It’s obvious. I wish Heupel would have gotten Nico some reps this week, because I think Florida is going to have us in a frustrating position next week.

It depends on which Joe Milton shows up. If it's the Vandy or Clemson Joe Milton, we'll destroy Florida. If it's the Austin Peay Milton, it's going to be a long day.

 

[BADGER_VOL]

Were we just vanilla in the play calling because we play Florida next week or because we couldn't execute?

We’ll see in the coming weeks…

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

This offense is a rhythm offense, and Milton constantly missing throws and missing checks at the line puts them behind the down and distance and it’s a problem. It’s a lot like JG. He doesn’t feel pressure well or improvise when the play breaks down. He just isn’t a very good player and doesn’t seem to be a good fit in this offense.

Yeah man. I had a jackass last week that said I couldn’t be a fan because I thought Milton was not a good qb…. Guess what I still am and he still is not

he’s not, idk why ppl on here are straight up lying to themselves. Coach huep needs to jump on his ass and tell him he needs to step it up or step out of the way, bc the cream of the crop gonna rise to the top, he’ll lose his qb position for the third time to a true freshman.

 

[JCHateSteve]

“Please get me out of Clarksville Josh”

Clarksburg

 

[BallinVol]

I can tell you one thing tonight, we at the stadium were not quiet. We gave Austin Peay and the officiating zebras a vocal barrage. That is all.

Yes. Makes me wonder. I dont think the refs just had money on this game. I'm pretty sure they have an enormous amount of stock in the local hospitals here too.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

We will not "crush" Florida with Milton. Not going to happen. JMO

Maybe the best thing about this game, is that we won’t see as many ridiculous predictions of Vols thrashing Florida.

 

[FranklinVFL]

Florida-31
Vols-21

We won’t score 21

 

[tnvols72]

Look totally unprepared to play football tonight. WTF did they do all week?

Watched Milton work on his dance moves is my guess

 

[Gandalf]

Ugly Game! By design... we won't know for Seven Days. Glad we won but it was Ugly

That was dogs**t ugly. But better to win dogs**t ugly than to lose pretty

 

[rocketskates]

Words escape me at this point bum hoping that I don’t regret going to the swamp and having gators all around me! Talking trash on way back to car. Please Vols don’t let me down next week. Come to play hard!!!

Honestly I think that we were looking ahead a little. Also, AP isn’t an awful team. They lost to Alabama 34-0 last year and finished 9-3 or something like that. So we should’ve won by much more, but each game is different.

 

[BowlBrother85]

This offense is a rhythm offense, and Milton constantly missing throws and missing checks at the line puts them behind the down and distance and it’s a problem. It’s a lot like JG. He doesn’t feel pressure well or improvise when the play breaks down. He just isn’t a very good player and doesn’t seem to be a good fit in this offense.

The Orange Bowl made us forget why he was benched the first time around. We've made him out to be something he isn't on VolNation.

Damn right Nico Iamaleava isn't being redshirted. LOL.

 

[alavolfan]

That is my concern and it explains the very conservative play calling. We may have a hurt QB and it sounds like Nico is hurt as well.

What the matter with Nico?

 

[VaBornVol]

Not sure I could listen to Bob Kesling pump up Austin Peay for one more minute

 

[BADGER_VOL]

Both

Multiple bad throws and drops. We execute like we should and we win by 40.

Agreed and we still would’ve hid the play book.

 

[Vol_guy]

I'm very upset. How are the young guys going to get quality game reps when we can't put an opponent away early?

God help us if Milton or Beasley gets hurt.

 

[TN1111]

Hard to believe we had 460 total yards considering how rough we looked on offense

 

[jcvol87]

All the hot garbage tonight, our O-Line couldn’t block a paper bag tonight. Does Cooper make the trip next week?