Week 10 Observations

[Lexvol]

1. For most of the season it appeared that DC was able to run his offense. Last night, because of Crompton's youth and the fact that UT "felt" overmatched by more talented teams CPF left his fingerprints all over that game plan.

2. UT was beaten as badly against Florida and LSU. They were due for a beating like this on the scoreboard. For people that say the Neyland advantage has disappeared should wonder what would have happened had we played Florida or LSU on the road this year.

3. UT had a top five recruiting class in 04. Show me the money.

4. This is the most inept defensive line UT has fielded in my recent memory. They simply have no talent.

5. This football team was flat last night. Their goal was to play for an SEC championship. Unless someone steps up to set a new goal, the next two weeks could be disasterous for this program.

 

[smokeyman15]

I think the graduation of all of last years front seven (Harrel for one complete game) is starting to show. I was guilty of thinking maybe we could pull it together but i was wrong. Too much talent lost last year.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

5. This football team was flat last night. Their goal was to play for an SEC championship. Unless someone steps up to set a new goal, the next two weeks could be disasterous for this program.

WE could actually end up at 7-6. Kentucky is a pretty good team, and Vandy wants to beat us alot more than we want to beat them. We all know how well we do in second tier bowl games.

 

[tidwell]

6. Will Georgia/Auburn 2006 be looked back on as Matt Stafford's coming out party?

 

[VolsWinRLose]

I'm gonna be surprised, astonished, d*mned thunderstruck if we can't get up for beating Vandy after losing to them last year. Never happen. Not 2 years in a row.

 

[cotton]

1. I agree that we couldn't run Cut's offense last night, or at least we couldn't run it well. I attribute it more to starting a freshman, though, than than Fulmer's "fingerprints." The only real difference I saw was that we ran the ball a little better, but we looked out of sinc trying to throw, and Arkansas had Crompton confused all night. With a week to prepare for an inexperienced QB, a top notch SEC team is going to give him fits, and they did.

2. Being away from home was part of the difference. Our ineptitude on offense, and the fact that we couldn't get the McFadden QB package figured out until halftime, made up the rest. I'll have to hand it to that OC from Arkansas--that package killed us.

5. We were flat, but I hope that was due more to having starters stuck in either the training room, limited by injuries, or sitting on the bench because of late night pizza parties. We will see if there is enough leadership to right the ship.

 

[Mullet Vol]

As far as the D-line goes I think it comes down to depth. With the season wearing them down and the loss of Harrell this group is just being asked to do too much. Also, Fisher (injury?) and Bolden not showing up this year have hurt bigtime.

Not having Ainge has really hurt. Not so sure we would have won last night with him, but Crompton overthrew/underthrew at least a dozen passes last night. I give him a pass(no pun inteneded) for last night b/c he is a freshman, but he is not on with the receivers like Ainge was. This is a totally different offense with Ainge. I really noticed that in the LSU game that Crompton was about a second and a half late on all throws where the WR was running a curl or where the WR had to come back to the QB. By that time the defender was all over his back. Whereas with Ainge this year he has delivered the ball when the WR has his back turned and the ball is there right when he turns.

Crompton will get better, but we are a much more dangerous team with Ainge.