'18 TN DE Emmitt Gooden (Tennessee signee)

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chargervol said:
Group A coping by reverting to BVS and hopelessness. While group B coping by shutting out any possible negative and calling group A names.

Must be fall camp.
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What we need is for Group C to take charge and say some of those big bodies on the roster need to step up and seize their opportunity. Williams, Emerson, Mincey, Harris, Middleton, Simmons and Garland, that would be you.

I'm thinking Pruitt and Fulmer might be in Group C.
 
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LA Vol said:
What we need is for Group C to take charge and say some of those big bodies on the roster need to step up and seize their opportunity. Williams, Emerson, Mincey, Harris, Middleton, Simmons and Garland, that would be you.

I'm thinking Pruitt and Fulmer might be in Group C.
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Let's ride

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LA Vol said:
What we need is for Group C to take charge and say some of those big bodies on the roster need to step up and seize their opportunity. Williams, Emerson, Mincey, Harris, Middleton, Simmons and Garland, that would be you.

I'm thinking Pruitt and Fulmer might be in Group C.
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Group D would like to say let's hear the result from Pruitt first.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Its nuts. VQ is melting down as well. It's like people forget injuries are apart of the game. Or that they happen to everyone. Sure it sucks, especially at DL, but geez the meltdowns over a single injury make me wonder how people get through real life. I have zero patience for a weak mindset. Many of our fans need serious mindset work.
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Ron Swanson, the Craig Fitzgerald for mental exercise. :)
 
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WarMachine said:
Ron Swanson, the Craig Fitzgerald for mental exercise. :)
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Lot's of straw men getting burned around here. If "melting down" means noting the negative impact of losing our only d-lineman with significant SEC game experience, then I guess I'm a puddle. In reality, I quit living and dying with the weekly fortunes of a bunch of 18-22 year olds many years ago, and a decade of irrelevance has moved the importance of college football results even further down my personal hierarchy of priorities.

That said, losing EG by himself isn't going to change our record this year. If we got through the entire season losing one d-lineman to a season ending injury, I'd call that a pretty lucky year. It's not EG by himself that makes this potentially significant, it's that we know we probably will lose a few players at that position during the course of the season when large men are colliding with each other at full speed during games. The problem is we've lost our first (and possibly best) player at a position where our depth is non-existent, and we haven't even had intra-squad scrimmages yet. The next d-lineman we lose probably won't mean another loss either, but if there enough losses like this, we will get to the point where the cumulative effect costs us games (see, e.g. the 2017 season). We are now one step closer to that point, and we haven't even had a week of practices yet.

Not the end of the world, overall expectations haven't changed, but definitely a bad start to fall camp.
 
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I think a lot of you guys are forgetting that we run a 3-4 now. While unfortunate, mostly for Emmitt himself, I don't think this will slow down Pruitt and Ansley.
 
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The possibility of losing Gooden for season sucks and I would much rather have him out there playing, but losing him isn't going to effect what our win loss record is going to be this year. If you think our dl sucks without him then he by himself isn't going to make much of a difference.
 
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jwilliams said:
I think a lot of you guys are forgetting that we run a 3-4 now. While unfortunate, mostly for Emmitt himself, I don't think this will slow down Pruitt and Ansley.
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And as much as teams are passing now, you’ll see a lot of looks with 2 true DTs out of Solomon/Middleton/Williams/Emerson, and our OLBs can scoot down. We’ve still got some size up front.
 
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Dudley Smith said:
Lot's of straw men getting burned around here. If "melting down" means noting the negative impact of losing our only d-lineman with significant SEC game experience, then I guess I'm a puddle. In reality, I quit living and dying with the weekly fortunes of a bunch of 18-22 year olds many years ago, and a decade of irrelevance has moved the importance of college football results even further down my personal hierarchy of priorities.

That said, losing EG by himself isn't going to change our record this year. If we got through the entire season losing one d-lineman to a season ending injury, I'd call that a pretty lucky year. It's not EG by himself that makes this potentially significant, it's that we know we probably will lose a few players at that position during the course of the season when large men are colliding with each other at full speed during games. The problem is we've lost our first (and possibly best) player at a position where our depth is non-existent, and we haven't even had intra-squad scrimmages yet. The next d-lineman we lose probably won't mean another loss either, but if there enough losses like this, we will get to the point where the cumulative effect costs us games (see, e.g. the 2017 season). We are now one step closer to that point, and we haven't even had a week of practices yet.

Not the end of the world, overall expectations haven't changed, but definitely a bad start to fall camp.
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Good post. Agree.
 
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jwilliams said:
I think a lot of you guys are forgetting that we run a 3-4 now. While unfortunate, mostly for Emmitt himself, I don't think this will slow down Pruitt and Ansley.
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Are we actually going to a 3-4 this year? I have not being following too closely so I did not know that. I hope we can recruit the few players that can fill a roster for the 3-4. Big LBs and NTs and DEs. Bama and Georgia will always get first dibs IMO.
 
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