Who knows perhaps we needed this loss

#27
#27
Not sure if this is what the OP was talking about or not, but I will say this.........if a genie came out of a bottle before the UF game and propositioned me with a scenario whereby I could swap a UF loss this year for a guarantee of winning every remaining game this year, I would have taken that without thinking twice. I'm sure a bunch of negavols in here will tell me I'm an idiot, that we never willingly take a UF loss but that's to be expected, and I'd still take that deal any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
 
#30
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I guess our players listened to the people on here not giving us a chance and had no confidence. If a team doesn’t believe they can win you aren’t going to win. The bad thing is the non believers were wrong with a winning confident attitude we could have won. Heupel needs to find out who the believers are with this team and ride with them. He has to make them believe, doubters be damned.
 
#31
#31
See the way LSU has responded after the FSU debacle. Losses can sometimes galvanize a team, or sometimes break a team. We need this to galvanize us. I am very interested to see how we respond against UTSA. We need some confidence going into the USCe game.
 
#32
#32
We got out coached...out schemed...out played by a very average Florida team. IMO that's never a good thing.

It's Monday and I'm still shocked how we looked on both sides Saturday night.
 
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thebane5 said:
Not sure if this is what the OP was talking about or not, but I will say this.........if a genie came out of a bottle before the UF game and propositioned me with a scenario whereby I could swap a UF loss this year for a guarantee of winning every remaining game this year, I would have taken that without thinking twice. I'm sure a bunch of negavols in here will tell me I'm an idiot, that we never willingly take a UF loss but that's to be expected, and I'd still take that deal any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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It’s the road games that may be a problem. Any tough road games left? Alabama, maybe Kentucky? I think a seriously loud/hostile crowd affects Tennessee’s offense. I saw it twice last year vs UGa and SC, and we saw it again Saturday vs FL. Going that fast when you literally can’t hear anything is apparently a problem. Georgia at home will be tough too.
 
#35
#35
The Austin Peay game should have been all the wake up call they needed. This loss (and especially the lack of effort) was inexcusable. This ranks right up there with last year’s South Carolina game with the most pathetic and embarrassing losses of Heupel’s tenure.
Don’t try and sugar coat something so indigestible in an effort to make it seem palatable. There is no silver lining to this.
I still an 💯 behind Heupel; but this kind of showing isn’t going to cut it.
 
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Jaws said:
It’s the road games that may be a problem. Any tough road games left? Alabama, maybe Kentucky? I think a seriously loud/hostile crowd affects Tennessee’s offense. I saw it twice last year vs UGa and SC, and we saw it again Saturday vs FL. Going that fast when you literally can’t hear anything is apparently a problem. Georgia at home will be tough too.
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The crowd noise explains the offensive penalties. It does not explain the p*ss poor examples of what can only be assumed to be attempts at „tackling“.
 
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rocky top buzz said:
I suggested to my kids earlier today that this could be a "Tebow-OIe Miss" moment. That said though, it really probably isn't. It appears that the austin peay game told us more than we would have liked to have thought. The general concensus was the team would take a step back this year. I might like to see Nico come in a la Peyton (without the injury though, because we only have 2 QB's) and give some momentum to build on both for the team and recruiting.
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Exactly. Most of us expected to regress this year, just not as much as AP and UF games seem to indicate. We aren't at the point yet where we can just "reload" after losing players of Hooker/Hyatt etc. caliber.
 
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