TN defense caught off guard

[Dougie_D]

I think the Gamecocks added a new wrinkle to their offensive plays or has this been the exact scheme they run?

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

It's Willie Martinez. Same bs last time he was here. He has to go.

 

[allvol123]

Throw to wide open guys is in everyone’s playbook, I think.

 

[HighRockvol]

Back to the laughing stock of college football only had a few months away this one sucked

 

[AllVols]

They were caught off guard all night. No two ways about it.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

Back to the laughing stock of college football only had a few months away this one sucked

At 9-2 and probably 10-2? Nah we've had a great year.

 

[Alto1]

I think the Gamecocks added a new wrinkle to their offensive plays or has this been the exact scheme they run?

We should have adjusted. We did not.

 

[IhateGA]

I think the Gamecocks added a new wrinkle to their offensive plays or has this been the exact scheme they run?

Yeah, it was called the forward pass.

 

[VoLBall86]

No excuse for Willie to allow our secondary to be this awful. We had it to rank 1 with one of the worst secondaries in CFB.It was only a matter of time before someone figured out a way to exploit it effectively. Sorry man, you gotta go.

 

[Volholic]

High in our own farts and walked face first into a buzzsaw.

 

[TheVolsFrog]

The coaching staff knew the Wildcat was going to be ran tonight.
They made no changes...Zone, play off the guy 10-15yrds. Same bend, don't break, well if metal keeps getting bent, eventually it fatigues and breaks.
That secondary is horrible. I know it's Jimmys and ]Joes but you can coach players up to be serviceable. I've seen no coaching up. Playing Zone and giving up 7/10 yards constantly and not being able to stop 3rd and forever for 2 seasons has got to be addressed and by addressed some changes on the Defensive staff has to be made...

 

[Switch 625]

Even if we were caught off guard, coaches need to be able to adjust. Ours obviously can’t.

 

[DB1995]

They didn’t do anything that looked groundbreaking to me, just throw it to the guy we forgot to cover and you’re good

 

[Stephen Gray]

I think the Gamecocks added a new wrinkle to their offensive plays or has this been the exact scheme they run?

They just didn’t execute well tonight. I’m not so sure they were caught off guard so much as South Carolina got off to a quick start, they kept the crowd involved, our offense was competent at times but playing catch up and reacting instead of being the ones getting the early momentum, and they were affected and making mistakes they usually did not. On defense we were regularly not in position to make plays in the secondary, and even when we were we were missing tackles or not finishing them. The line play even didn’t look as good as it normally does on both sides of the ball.

 

[BradstarVols]

Never got aggressive enough on D. I don't get it.

 

[kptvol1]

Off guard?!! No excuse in this league in the 11th game of the season and playing into the playoff.

 

[Dergibvol]

Don't think the 92 ranked offense is magically creating wrinkles in week 11. Sadly this was just how bad this defense truly is

 

[C-south]

What? Defense has been a question mark all year. Banks needs the be moving last week, it’s inexcusable to give up 60 to one of te worst teams and n the country with so much at stake.

 

[livefaith]

Caught off guard ehh. Isn't the entire job of a defense to be ON guard by nature?

 

[Alto1]

High in our own farts and walked face first into a buzzsaw.

Now that’s funny and truthful, I don’t care who you are…….

 

[Stephen Gray]

Looked more like “not prepared to play this weeks opponent” than “caught off guard” imho.

 

[CascadeVolunteer]

I got scorched a few days for acting like a nega Vol by purely speculating how we have history of making average and below average QB’s look great. I am not a nega vol, just citing history and concerns as a few days ago when we all had fun hoping we put 60 on the board. Well, that happened tonight 6 freaking TD’s tonight and 60 for the other team.

 

[BenGrimm]

Throw to wide open guys is in everyone’s playbook, I think.

They caught a lot of contested balls too. Some of the wide-open ones were after the D Line chased Rattler all over the field with out getting to him.

 

[peachtreecornersVOL81]

I think our defense will always be mediocre to poor with the style of offense we run. Even Alabama has taken a few steps back after going to the spread in the past few years. Granted it shouldn’t be anywhere near as bad as tonight but it’s not going be anywhere near Georgia anytime soon.

 

[BradstarVols]

I also think Rattler was just on tonight and showed his actual talent. TN just happened to be the opponent.