The Official Tennessee vs. Georgia State Game Thread, 3:30 PM ET, ESPNU

[maotai]

I told them a boat wasn't going to get it done and that we needed a chicken too.

 

[Tallman]

I expected the offense to be better.
I expected the defense to be better.
Another 4-8 or 5-7 season coming up.

 

[Woke]

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We need some of this today!

 

[KBVol]

Are we talking about the drive that was the result of him not getting a first down or another drive? If the first, yes, I blame that on JG not knowing where the first down was, us punting and them scoring. I like JG, but it is what it is.

Lol. Had 3rd and a foot and because the OL blows chunks, lost a yard vs lowly Georgia State. Come on man.

 

[KeyVol14]

4-8, 5-7..most players from those years have returned (like 90% I think)..so yes..we can be this bad.

Idk man. Everything I read heard and saw over the off-season spelled improvement. Not after that tho

 

[arkyvol]

I'm curious. How many third and longs has Ga. State made?

 

[BleedinOrange98]

Good news is, even if we lose this game, we can still win the SEC.

 

[kerrywoodwins20]

Good grief.....CALM DOWN ALREADY. Its the 1st game of the season and yes we've been sloppy but we will win this game. GBO.

I think people are concerned about the floor vs ceiling discussion that needs to happen now. I figured that the floor with an opponent this poor would be a 21 point win. Not that it'd be up in the air at half. So we have to ask ourselves if the ceiling is much lower as well. It's just logical.

 

[Volfan2012]

Defense just gave up 110 yards but their inability to make a play on third down to get off the field is concerning like it has been for the last several years. We get them in a third and long and then give up the first down. We did it four or five times on their scoring drive.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Clearly the stink of Butch Jones is still on this team

 

[Vol737]

I regret buying tix for the BYU game

Yeah, I’m taking BYU in a close, but ugly game if we continue like this.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

That last drive was all on the coaches (and I like them), not JG.

You get the ball inside the 10 with 2 minutes or so to go, you can run the ball. Instead the were trying to let the clock run.......willing to take it to the locker room. But a couple receptions later it was like crap we screwed up.

They don’t trust JG. To be honest, I don’t either.

 

[Memphisvol87]

Unless we absolutely murder them in the second half, then I doubt I can forgive this team for this **** performance

I’m sure Pruitt is making sure they know that right now. Bunch of quitters in here dude. Grow up and enjoy the Vols regardless man.

 

[A-RodWiLks]

I told them a boat wasn't going to get it done and that we needed a chicken too.

Bones never lie! Where's witchdoctor!!?

 

[jdogvol]

I really thought we would see results from the strength program this season, but it seems like we're still getting pushed around at the line of scrimmage.

 

[chattavol420]

How do we have a former top 20 overall player at qb in his 4th year with Cheney as the oc and get such terrible play out of him? Because we’re tennew. That’s how. Lol. He should be the strength of our team and able to stand back there and absolutely pick apart a defense like ga state. Instead he doesn’t know where the sticks are and slides short, checks down when we he has plenty of time and needs to take a shot, and doesn’t go through progressions and find the open man. That last play he had Palmer was absolutely wide open. He waited way too long to throw it.

 

[Power T-Rev]

Duke would kill ga state

But how do you know that. Granted GSU is bad, but how good is Duke

 

[diehardvolsfan]

Duke is definitely better than Ga. St!

Bama gonna light it up and the Final there will be something like 42-6...

 

[FranklinVFL]

I hate the we’re playing vanilla excuse. Mainly, because we as fans have tricked ourselves into believing this every year. It’s not vanilla, we’re just not that good.

Do good/great teams play vanilla. Nope, they go out and impose their will. Hopefully, the Vols will do that one day too.

We should be able to play vanilla and still be up 3 TDs. The simple fact that it is 17-14 at halftime to a Sunbelt bottom-feeder has red flags flying everywhere!!!

 

[TJVol95]

I hate playing misdirection teams!

 

[508mikey]

I missed the bald remark Leaf made - what was it about ?

 

[VolInNW]

Sometimes apathy is a good thing. Normally I’d be highly upset, now, I just don’t care anymore.

I’m right there myself

 

[OWB]

Lol. Had 3rd and a foot and because the OL blows chunks, lost a yard vs lowly Georgia State. Come on man.

I mean yeah, that sucked too. We can focus on that if ya want.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

Offense hasn’t been the issue (other than the turnover). We’ve scored on 3/5 possessions. Allowing Georgia state to have a 7 minute drive is the issue.

No. Everything is JGs fault. Right?

 

[BIGAL27]

We can't run the ball at will on gsu, this is the most concerning thing to me!!! Ridiculous!!!!