Worst excuse for an offense/QBs

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I've followed Tennessee FB since 1955 and can truly say this year's team has the sorriest excuse for an offense/QBs that I've ever seen. They are absolutely terrible and I only hope that Jonathan Crompton fully recovers from his shoulder problem because he's the only hope for UT at QB. What ever has happened to Ainge doesn't appear to be resolved anytime soon. IMO this team loses at least 2 more times - Notre Dame and Vandy and I wouldn't be surprised to see them lose to Memphis/Kentucky as well. I'm sick of hearing the excuses. Sadly as it sounds it just may be time for Mike Hamilton to clean house regarding the FB coaches - at least on the offensive side.

Tell you one thing this season is going to cost UT plenty in way of donations/season ticket sales for next year. Oh BTW, if you don't think recruiting is not going to suffer, you had better think again. This may be the beginning of the end for Phil Fulmer's reign because not sure he can right this ship.
 
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After the defense gave our offense the ball in own territory 4 or 5 times and all we could muster up was 3 points, i lost all confidence I had in our offense. I have enver seen a team have so many dropped passes and fumbles in the red zone (esp. inside the 5) in my entire life! I know everyone (incl. me) is downing PF and RS, but if we don't fumble at the gaol line tonight and last week we are sitting @ 5-2. Maybe 6-1 if we didn't fumble our chances away against Florida.
 
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Originally posted by utvols82@Oct 29, 2005 11:30 PM
...but if we don't fumble at the gaol line tonight and last week we are sitting @ 5-2. Maybe 6-1 if we didn't fumble our chances away against Florida.
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Only because we have an outstanding defense... I shudder to think of our record if our defense wasn't so good.
 
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Originally posted by Vol 4 Life@Oct 29, 2005 11:34 PM
Only because we have an outstanding defense...  I shudder to think of our record if our defense wasn't so good.
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Amen! W/o our outstanding defense we could actually be sitting 0-7. 1-6 possibly.
 
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Fulmer let RC, and the players hijack this offense in the spring. RS better be on his way out tonight.
 
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There was no Ainge project... Fulmer needed to committ to a QB. It never happened, and this is what you get. Complete confusion on offense.
 
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it's just going to get worse we have ND next week and phil will give us the usual lame excuses. he has no answers.
 
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Originally posted by smokedog#3@Oct 29, 2005 10:36 PM
in my 30 years i've never seen a more pathetic offense.
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It will get worse my friend as we deplete our runnin backs further.
 
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Originally posted by utvols82@Oct 29, 2005 11:30 PM
(esp. inside the 5)  :  I know everyone (incl. me) is downing PF and RS, but if we don't fumble at the gaol line tonight and last week we are sitting @ 5-2. Maybe 6-1 if we didn't fumble our chances away against Florida.
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:banghead: IF a frog had wings it wouldn't whomp it's ass on the ground either. Tenn. had all kind of chances not to just win but to BLOW SC OUT and they couldn't move the ball. The worst offense ever? Absolutely! Worst QB's? Niether one of them can throw a basketball into a bathtub at two paces. Solution? Play Cooter and go for the bomb on every play. At least it gives them a chance (albeit a slim one) to score. They can't keep a DRIVE going over 4 plays without three incompletions, a penaty and/or a turnover.
 
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Originally posted by utvols82@Oct 29, 2005 11:30 PM
but if we don't fumble at the gaol line tonight and last week we are sitting @ 5-2. Maybe 6-1 if we didn't fumble our chances away against Florida.
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Or on the flip side, If Jamarcus Russell doesnt brain fart and stay in bounds at the end of the first half of LSU, we are 2-5, so what's your point?
 
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Originally posted by cibai@Oct 30, 2005 8:23 AM
Or on the flip side, If Jamarcus Russell doesnt brain fart and stay in bounds at the end of the first half of LSU, we are 2-5, so what's your point?
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For real... and we're probably only one or two plays away from being 1-6 right now.

Optimism is great, but who in the world would feel good about TN if they WERE 6-1 at this point with the way they've played so far?
 
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Hey All

First time poster here, I just have to vent some fustrations.
It all started in 1999 just after the championship season, Tee Martins 2nd season a big drop off from the previous season. Then came Casey who I thought was a good quarterback, but he took all the heat for the OC lack of coaching for 4 years. Now we have a good quaterback in Ainge but no coaching for him, eventually we are not going to be able to recruit a QB then we want get recievers. We have had the talent to hide the lack of coaching. It has all been make believe since Cutcliff left it has all been hidden by great talent.
Now on defence my only concern here is we let Blake Mitchell find recievers in our secoundary, i think our secoundary coaches are lacking also.
And last but not least our special teams have been missing since Majors was let go, he learned so much from Cafego.
I think Fulmer stays but several assistants have to go.

Thanks for letting me vent.
BC VOL
 
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Originally posted by BC VOL@Oct 30, 2005 8:48 AM
Hey All

First time poster here, I just have to vent some fustrations.
It all started in 1999 just after the championship season, Tee Martins 2nd season a big drop off from the previous season. Then came Casey who I thought was a good quarterback, but he took all the heat for the OC lack of coaching for 4 years. Now we have a good quaterback in Ainge but no coaching for him, eventually we are not going to be able to recruit a QB then we want get recievers. We have had the talent to hide the lack of coaching. It has all been make believe since Cutcliff left it has all been hidden by great talent.
Now on defence my only concern here is we let Blake Mitchell find recievers in our secoundary, i think our secoundary coaches are lacking also.
And last but not least our special teams have been missing since Majors was let go, he learned so much from Cafego.
I think Fulmer stays but several assistants have to go.

Thanks for letting me vent.
BC VOL
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Welcome aboard. There are several here that will agree with you. The QB problem this year rests entirely on RS shoulders. It is unbelievable that the kid has gotten worse.

I hope that you continue to post.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@Oct 30, 2005 12:27 AM
There was no Ainge project... Fulmer needed to committ to a QB. It never happened, and this is what you get. Complete confusion on offense.
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There has been confusion on offense for four years. Ainge has had opportunites; he hasn't produced--and neither has Clausen. They have been bad, the WRs have been bad, the coaches are a joke--everything about UT except the D is pathetic.
 
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Looking at the stats, and reading around online... It didn't seem like Ainge had too bad of a game, just that there was a lot of miscommunication between him and the WR's because the coaches couldn't decide on which QB. Basically the WR's dropped a lot of balls. Somebody on VolTalk said we lead the SEC in dropped passes.
 
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Originally posted by blurbman@Oct 30, 2005 11:41 AM
There has been confusion on offense for four years. Ainge has had opportunites; he hasn't produced--and neither has Clausen. They have been bad, the WRs have been bad, the coaches are a joke--everything about UT except the D is pathetic.
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Am I the only person on the board that thinks part of the QB issues are timing? Seems like if they were not splitting reps the receivers would be more in line with the QBs.

By the way, that out pattern that Clausen threw says everything you need to know about his arm strength.
I know Ainge is playing with happy feet, but he is just a kid, and the only thing that will solve that is game experience.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@Oct 30, 2005 2:52 PM
Looking at the stats, and reading around online... It didn't seem like Ainge had too bad of a game,
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He didn't turn the ball over but 9/21 for 65 yards isn't something to brag about. Especially against South Carolina's defense.
 
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But the dropped passes. I didn't get a chance to see the game, but by most accounts I've read, he put the ball right where it needed to be most of the time and the receivers just didn't grab the ball.

It's not the receivers' fault either, IMO, they just need one QB they consistently play with.
 
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Maybe it was just where I was sitting but his passes still aren't on the money. He threw one in the corner of the endzone to Swain and it had too much on it. He overthrew a bunch of people. Maybe 3 or 4 were legit drops but it wasn't like he was hitting them in the numbers and they were dropping it.
 
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He floated a couple. Most of his overthrows last night were high and hard. He almost threw one into the student section.
 
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Well... Nobody's worried about the QB's anymore, anyways. Everybody is worried about the entire program.
 
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Yep, it's just a mess right now but we still need a QB and some WR's. Not everything was the fault of Ainge last night. It seemed like when is was on they were off and when they were on, he was off. The story of the season.
 
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