Who will be our QB this year?

Who will be our main guy this season?

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#51
#51
I think Jalen Hurd will be 4 times our quarter back ..he will be a full that thus has be 4 times a 'quarter' back
 
#52
#52
I expect Worley to start. I think he'll surprise a lot of people this year. With the weapons he's got this year with the exception of Malone, North, and Pearson, I don't see any reason why he couldn't put up good numbers.
 
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tomq_123 said:
New walk-on Gilligan Manncastle.

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Can we play this Gilligan Mancastle?
 
#55
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Falcons02 said:
Worley will start, but I think the more interesting question is who is the starter at the end of the season? It has been a long, long time since 1 QB took every snap in a season. I can envision a scenario where Worley gets hurt and Dobbs takes over and plays well enough to keep the job after Worley heals.
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Last one was Cromton in '09 wasn't it?
 
#56
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Falcons02 said:
Worley will start, but I think the more interesting question is who is the starter at the end of the season? It has been a long, long time since 1 QB took every snap in a season. I can envision a scenario where Worley gets hurt and Dobbs takes over and plays well enough to keep the job after Worley heals.
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Well, Bray was responsible for all but 23 pass attempts from the quarterback position in 2012. See 2012 Tennessee Volunteers Stats | College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
 
#58
#58
Why do so many of you under rate Worley and over rate Dobbs?

UT was beginning to show a good offense until Worley got hurt last year. Even the Alabama game, Worley was moving the offense--unfortunately they weren't scoring.

Dobbs did not show much in the passing game. He was really terrible in the Missouri game. I know he was a freshman and may improve greatly. But don't forget this Ferguson would have been Worley's replacement if he hadn't been injured. And Ferguson was leaving spring practice as Worley's backup. This tells me Dobbs has a lot of improvement to do before he is ready for the SEC. He wasn't exactly highly recruited.

So Worley will be starter and he will start every game unless he gets injured.
 
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BearBryant said:
Why do so many of you under rate Worley and over rate Dobbs?

UT was beginning to show a good offense until Worley got hurt last year. Even the Alabama game, Worley was moving the offense--unfortunately they weren't scoring.

Dobbs did not show much in the passing game. He was really terrible in the Missouri game. I know he was a freshman and may improve greatly. But don't forget this Ferguson would have been Worley's replacement if he hadn't been injured. And Ferguson was leaving spring practice as Worley's backup. This tells me Dobbs has a lot of improvement to do before he is ready for the SEC. He wasn't exactly highly recruited.

So Worley will be starter and he will start every game unless he gets injured.
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Look, I'm typically a Worley defender but come the hell on.... when Worley got hurt right before the half he had led the Vols to exactly zero points, had a quarterback rating of 8.5 and had just handed Bama their 5th td of the half with a bad pick 6.

Next, Dobbs was horrible vs Missouri?? What? He set a UT freshman record with 26 completions. He threw for nearly 250 yds and was also UT's top rusher. He was easily UTs best player, hell their ONLY player, at top 5 Missouri that night. If you wanna say he was "horrible" vs Auburn or Vandy ok, but vs Missouri?? No way.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
I expect Worley to start. I think he'll surprise a lot of people this year. With the weapons he's got this year with the exception of Malone, North, and Pearson, I don't see any reason why he couldn't put up good numbers.
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I think the offensive line's performance is crucial and unknown to make this assumption, not being a downer, just expecting some major pressure against elite defensive lines since we have little to no SEC play with these guys. We will see, I've agreed with some that this line will impress at times only because they know they have the inexperience and age defecit. Hoping that will drive them to push forward and will not allow them to be complacent. If the line underplays I dont see a pocket qb working out, so it will be Dobbs, while not being Worleys fault directly, it will have to be someone that can roll out. Our runblock will be somewhat weak also bc of the same reasons. Which will put the ball in the hands of the QB alot more than any team would want, if we are put in this situation I would put an hopefully improved Dobbs in as he will be about to utilize his feet as well as his improved arm (Im just guessing that hes had time and taken advantage of improving). Hope I'm wrong and would like to see a prepared line giving enough time for Worley to have a great senior year but im not sure.I am hopeful for this line to prove themselves as young men as a VOL. GBO
 
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bearbryant said:
why do so many of you under rate worley and over rate dobbs?

Ut was beginning to show a good offense until worley got hurt last year. Even the alabama game, worley was moving the offense--unfortunately they weren't scoring.

Dobbs did not show much in the passing game. He was really terrible in the missouri game. I know he was a freshman and may improve greatly. But don't forget this ferguson would have been worley's replacement if he hadn't been injured. And ferguson was leaving spring practice as worley's backup. This tells me dobbs has a lot of improvement to do before he is ready for the sec. He wasn't exactly highly recruited.

So worley will be starter and he will start every game unless he gets injured.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^see above^^^^^^^^^^
 
#66
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KBVol said:
I saw above. More than half of what he said was wrong. Worley played very poorly vs Bama, Dobbs was nowhere near horrible vs Mizzou, and Dobbs was a 4 star recruit.
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lol right ? and I am assuming that he didn't watch the spring game as well..
 
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KBVol said:
I saw above. More than half of what he said was wrong. Worley played very poorly vs Bama, Dobbs was nowhere near horrible vs Mizzou, and Dobbs was a 4 star recruit.
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I was saying see my comment above about the QB situation. :good!:
 
#68
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KBVol said:
I saw above. More than half of what he said was wrong. Worley played very poorly vs Bama, Dobbs was nowhere near horrible vs Mizzou, and Dobbs was a 4 star recruit.
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Stars don't matter. That three star Johnny Manzel did ok for a average recruit
 
#69
#69
Stars don't matter but the truth of the matter is that Worley is at the end of his road, this fall he either performs well enough to suit butch or he dont. With Dobbs (possibly peterman) its clearly a building process for this year and years to come and Dobbs can run the offense that Butch wants to run. Also, if Dobbs can improve his passing game why would you play Worley. I think we've all seen Worley enough to agree that he could improve and play better this year but hes not going to come back and be some phenominal top notch SEC QB in August. I think its a tossup and both QBs should be able to win the games that UT is should be capable of winning this year. Against Top SEC teams, Im not sure. I think with our young line you've almost got to go with a QB that can get out of dangerous situations.
 
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#70
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chatt-townVOL said:
Negative. Barring injury it will begin and end with Worley.

I really don't understand all the "we'll have a new QB by mid season" talk. That will only happen if we're having an awful season, which sounds terrible.
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Don't think so. There is a reason why Worley was listed the #14 QB in the SEC. Wish him well, but if that O-line doesn't hold up he'll be scrambling for his life and he's not a dual threat QB.
 
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SlyStone said:
Don't think so. There is a reason why Worley was listed the #14 QB in the SEC. Wish him well, but if that O-line doesn't hold up he'll be scrambling for his life and he's not a dual threat QB.
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Worley is not a top QB in the SEC but that list was completely bogus. He's not the worst starter in the league nor does he have "more to prove" than Arky, Vandy and Kentucky's QB(s) and other QBs who have never taken a snap for their SEC team. If you want to criticize Worley's play/abilities he's given you a fair amount of ammunition....that sorry list shouldn't be part of it.
 
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KBVol said:
Worley is not a top QB in the SEC but that list was completely bogus. He's not the worst starter in the league nor does he have "more to prove" than Arky, Vandy and Kentucky's QB(s) and other QBs who have never taken a snap for their SEC team. If you want to criticize Worley's play/abilities he's given you a fair amount of ammunition....that sorry list shouldn't be part of it.
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Don't completely agree with that list either, but Worley has been with this team several years now so this season it's ride or die. Looking forward to him proving the list wrong. But if he doesn't some how I believe several will never mention this again. :ermm:
 
#73
#73
SlyStone said:
Don't completely agree with that list either, but Worley has been with this team several years now so this season it's ride or die. Looking forward to him proving the list wrong. But if he doesn't some how I believe several will never mention this again. :ermm:
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Agree that he needs to pick it up and be the guy this year, it's obviously now or never. I personally think the list is wrong either way based on the data we have to date. Idiots like the author of that list shouldn't put something like that out if they're not gonna do their homework and be fair.
 
#74
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KBVol said:
Look, I'm typically a Worley defender but come the hell on.... when Worley got hurt right before the half he had led the Vols to exactly zero points, had a quarterback rating of 8.5 and had just handed Bama their 5th td of the half with a bad pick 6.

Next, Dobbs was horrible vs Missouri?? What? He set a UT freshman record with 26 completions. He threw for nearly 250 yds and was also UT's top rusher. He was easily UTs best player, hell their ONLY player, at top 5 Missouri that night. If you wanna say he was "horrible" vs Auburn or Vandy ok, but vs Missouri?? No way.
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I really don't think the stats tell the story of that night. He did well statistically, but he spent the entire night making poor decision after poor decision. He took several sacks because he just wouldn't get rid of the ball, he threw 2 picks that were just absolutely awful, like picks where it looked like he intended to throw the ball to the DB, he consistently threw into coverage on occasions where he had a man wide open.

I remember one point in the game he took a snap and had a receiver breaking hard to the right, wide open, nothing but green in front of him. Right after the snap Dobbs looked left and never looked back to the right. He just stared down his left the whole time. I was yelling "look to your right Dobbs!!! Look to your right!!!" then he got sacked.

If he had gone through his progressions properly we would have seen he had an open man, but instead his mind was set on throwing to someone on his left after he took the snap.

240 throwing yards is great but he only had a QBR of 18.7 which is awful. Matty Maulk's QBR was 81.0 on just 163 yards. Worley would have kept that game far more competitive.
 
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