Who is our Quaterback next year..

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Justin Worley will be UT's QB in 2014....Fergie will most likely be the backup...At least with Worley We have a chance to win some games.
 
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It will be an open competition. I will support whoever they choose. However, the coaches repeatedly said that Dobbs and Ferguson were neck and neck. Jones repeatedly said neither was ready.

IMO, Worley is the guy until someone else proves they can manage the offense and win.
 
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VOLnMiami said:
Justin Worley will be UT's QB in 2014....Fergie will most likely be the backup...At least with Worley We have a chance to win some games.
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How can you conclude that ferguson doesn't give us a chance to win next season? You can't say that anymore than anybody can say that Ferguson gives us a better chance.

All we can say for a fact is that this past season Worley>Dobbs>Peterman as far as giving us a shot to win.

Saying anything about who will be the better QB between Ferguson and Worley/Dobbs is speculation.
 
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sjt18 said:
It will be an open competition. I will support whoever they choose. However, the coaches repeatedly said that Dobbs and Ferguson were neck and neck. Jones repeatedly said neither was ready.

IMO, Worley is the guy until someone else proves they can manage the offense and win.
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Bajakian publicly stated that both Dobbs and Ferguson were ready somewhere around the Alabama game, week 9 or so. Remember it clearly.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
How can you conclude that ferguson doesn't give us a chance to win next season? You can't say that anymore than anybody can say that Ferguson gives us a better chance.

All we can say for a fact is that this past season Worley>Dobbs>Peterman as far as giving us a shot to win.

Saying anything about who will be the better QB between Ferguson and Worley/Dobbs is speculation.
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Agree. Wild speculation at best.
 
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sjt18 said:
It will be an open competition. I will support whoever they choose. However, the coaches repeatedly said that Dobbs and Ferguson were neck and neck. Jones repeatedly said neither was ready.

IMO, Worley is the guy until someone else proves they can manage the offense and win.
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I think one of the freshmen will overtake Worley. Worley was able to manage the game last year because of experience and time in the system, but he's severely lacking in the natural talent department.

Once Dobbs and Ferguson have had a year in the system I would expect Worley to lose his edge to the guys with superior talent.

But none of us really know. I'll support whoever wins the competition. I think everyone now realizes after what we saw from Dobbs/Peterman that Butch wasn't fibbing when he said Worley gave us the best chance to win at that point.
 
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My guess is that Dobbs has the edge to win the start at the beginning of the season -- experience helps him there. Ferguson should see playing time. Once he gains experience and shows what he can do in game, he may well battle for starter but I doubt the staff will want to repeat the situation of starting someone inexperienced until they get that much needed experience. And there should be no real reason to rush Ferguson in starting when without worrying about his RS he'll have opportunity to get game experience without the pressure of being thrown into the fire.

Unfortunately, looking at the situation from a rather cold perspective Worley must make superhuman changes in the off-season to start. He can't be equal or just as good, or even only slightly better than one of the others. He will be a senior and unless he just burns it up in spring and fall camps it's not worth losing development time and experience on Dobbs and Ferguson to start him for a year. This isn't Worley's fault but it's clear prior staff did both him and Peterman an injustice by spending little to no time on developing them. He could rapidly develop over the off months but he's in a tough position due to Dooley brilliantly deciding to burn his redshirt with just over 9 minutes left in the 4th Quarter against Alabama with us trailing 37-6.

Worley didn't even get to throw a single pass that game (Palardy had more passes with 1 pass for 5 yards and a 1st down). All Worley did that game was try 1 QB sneak for 0 yards and hand it off to Lane a total 5 times -- the final score was exactly the same as when he entered the game 37-6 Bama. It was a desperate, emotional, and epically stupid move by Dooley and it's one Worley and UT are paying for right now.

Peterman is in a similar situation unless he really shows out in camp. He has a little more upside *if* he balls out in camp or even during junk time.

I wouldn't write any of them off -- not even Peterman -- a lot can happen. But Dobbs and Ferguson are currently in position to be our QB over the next couple of years while Worley has one season left.
 
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KBVol said:
Bajakian publicly stated that both Dobbs and Ferguson were ready somewhere around the Alabama game, week 9 or so. Remember it clearly.
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Yes. That statement was made within a week of Jones repeating that they were not ready. I noticed and thought the contradiction was interesting.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
I think one of the freshmen will overtake Worley. Worley was able to manage the game last year because of experience and time in the system, but he's severely lacking in the natural talent department.
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Where do you guys get this non-sense? Worley suffered primarily from having no experienced WR's. He has NFL arm strength and is faster than almost anyone here gives him credit for. He didn't run often but was effective when he did.

Once Dobbs and Ferguson have had a year in the system I would expect Worley to lose his edge to the guys with superior talent.
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Worley has a stronger arm than Dobbs right now. There's no way you or anyone else who is not a coach can assess Ferguson relative to the others yet.

But none of us really know. I'll support whoever wins the competition. I think everyone now realizes after what we saw from Dobbs/Peterman that Butch wasn't fibbing when he said Worley gave us the best chance to win at that point.
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People constantly underestimate decision-making. Worley was light years ahead of Dobbs in that department.
 
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sjt18 said:
Where do you guys get this non-sense? Worley suffered primarily from having no experienced WR's. He has NFL arm strength and is faster than almost anyone here gives him credit for. He didn't run often but was effective when he did.

Worley has a stronger arm than Dobbs right now. There's no way you or anyone else who is not a coach can assess Ferguson relative to the others yet.



People constantly underestimate decision-making. Worley was light years ahead of Dobbs in that department.
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1. Worley's arm strength isn't bad, but no one knows if it's better than Ferguson's or not (there has been talk from media folks that Ferguson has the strongest arm on the team). Idk if you can call it stronger than Dobbs'(Worley had 4-5 passes that were at least 10+ yards underthrown on deep balls this season), though Dobbs does lack touch on the long ball.

However, Worley's accuracy isn't great. He's good for 2-5 passes a game that couldn't be caught by any player on the field. Dobbs was a more accurate passer in his games (59.5% completion on the season, over 60% if you combine his starts).


2. He's not immobile or slow, but he's our least athletic QB. His running was effective because teams didn't bother keeping an eye on him running the ball because he was good for 3 carries a game tops for maybe 2-6 yards a pop with the odd 8-10 yard carry every other game. He's not someone who can or will keep the ball on the zone read enough for those plays to be much of a threat or set up play action.



3. His decision making was better than Dobbs', but that's not saying much. It would be a push to call his decision making "good." If you take out the Austin Peay game, he threw more interceptions than TDs this season. Dobbs' decision making is about on par with Worley's as a freshmen, only Dobbs had less to throw to and didn't get to pad his stats vs MTSU.



4. As far as Ferguson goes, most talk of him is speculation; however, I've watched his film and I think he possesses more natural talent than Worley. Multiple analysts who have seen practices said he was ahead of Dobbs and likely would have burned his redshirt if not for injury. Hell, the coaches even used practice film of Ferguson to sell Malone on the fact that he'd have a QB to throw him the ball while he's here. The fact that that was even necessary doesn't speak too well for Worley.


But I'll admit this all is speculation. No one in the public will know what he brings to the table for sure until we get to see him in the Spring and Fall.


5. I'm not saying Worley can't be an effective QB. When he doesn't turn the ball over and gets everybody lined up, he can win games. But if either Dobbs or Ferguson are able to match him in those departments by next fall, it's a no brainer to start one of them. They have more upside athletically and stand to gain more from the experience.

If either of the freshmen make a big stride in their second year in the system and can match Worley's decision making, Worley won't play.
 
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I think it will be Worley, but I wouldn't be surprised if Ferg or Dobbs won the job. Spring practice will do wonders for those guys.
 
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sjt18 said:
Where do you guys get this non-sense? Worley suffered primarily from having no experienced WR's. He has NFL arm strength and is faster than almost anyone here gives him credit for. He didn't run often but was effective when he did.

Worley has a stronger arm than Dobbs right now. There's no way you or anyone else who is not a coach can assess Ferguson relative to the others yet.



People constantly underestimate decision-making. Worley was light years ahead of Dobbs in that department.
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I agree sjt. Why people dismiss Worley is beyond me. First people were like bring in Dobbs, bring in Dobbs. Now its like bring in Ferguson. Bring in Ferguson.
 
#69
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Ferguson edges out Worley. Dobbs is #3....gasp...reality folks. Worst qb play I have ever seen from a Vol was Dobbs this season
 
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k-town_king said:
Dobbs had passsed him up before the injury. Dobbs out performed him in every game situation. Before Dobbs passed him they were tied. 2a 2b.

Dobbs has the leg up on being the starter.

He started against way better teams than Worley and didn't have the guy (North) who won the SC game and was our only threat for the last two games. Playing better competition than Worley and a true fr to a jr he completed 60 % to 55% and 20 less yards a game.

Comparing him to RF he also has an advantage. He had already passed him up on the depth chart. Every scrimmage or game situation he outplayed him. Now he has the experience edge also. Played well for a true fr against three top five teams. His hs film was also more impressive vs way better comp than RF played.

I wouldn't be surprised if any of the three start though.
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Apparently you believe if you continue to post this same few paragraphs that it will become true. It was common knowledge that Fergs was ahead at the time of his injury. If it turns out that I am wrong and Dobbs becomes the starter, I will pull for him because I am a Tennessee Vol fan!!! I'm afraid the way it is going that half of the fans is going to be pulling for Fergs to fail and the other half will be pulling for Dobbs to fail just so they can claim to have been correct. Hopefully by next Sept everyone will be on the same page and pulling for whoever wins the competition. The only reason I didn't mention Worley is I think Jones will go for the future and the young ones.
 
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I think Worley gets the nod, at least to begin the season. Unless Ferg takes some big leaps in the off season.
 
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