The Michael Whitehead Post Game Thread

Discussion in 'Vols Football' started by PilotFlyingJ, Nov 9, 2019.

  1. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    That's every triple option team ever
     
  2. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    I’ve heard stories of one that scored pretty easily against a defense that played three yards off the LOS.
     
  3. BigOrangeBeech

    BigOrangeBeech Poster of the Month, July 2014 and recruiting guy!

    Palmer Johnson and Keyton hopefully be a decent trio Next year.
     
  4. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    Tillman is serviceable
     
  5. chavisut

    chavisut Dan Mullen Fan Club President

    Gibbs
     
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  6. chavisut

    chavisut Dan Mullen Fan Club President

    D Taylor quietly leading the league in sacks.

    Warrior now leading in picks.
     
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  7. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    This stuns me
     
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  8. PilotFlyingJ

    PilotFlyingJ Chieftain

    9:50 mark of this video to see Michael Whitehead's '87 goaline stop of Mark Higgs w/ John Ward's radio call.

     
  9. ptclaus98

    ptclaus98 Contributor

    Decent but not enough to cover for a bad run game. Need to get better in that aspect.
     
  10. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    18:14
    Hope that young man recovered.
     
  11. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

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  12. Tar Volon

    Tar Volon Me Blog @RockyTopTalk.com

    According to Ubben, you called it—the 3rd and 4 play was a called rollout pass and JG tucked and ran because neither receiver was open
     
  13. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    That was clear by the TE looking back for the pass as he was rolling, then transitioning to blocking once JG tucked it.
     
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  14. BigOrangeBeech

    BigOrangeBeech Poster of the Month, July 2014 and recruiting guy!

    It's a perfect play call in that position, roll out, if the receiver is open, hit him if not extend the play as far as you can to draw defenders off the receivers, if they dont bite, just run for it. Great decision by JG to just tuck it and pick it up.
     
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  15. NYY

    NYY Super Moderator

    its a max protect with a flood route. Great play call just by sheer numbers when QB rolls out.
     
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  16. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    But scary when you've got a qb like Guarantano
     
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  17. Ssmiff

    Ssmiff Went to the White House...Again

    I thought for sure when he cut back and i saw a guy diving at him that his helmet was going to hit the ball and shoot it straight to the endzone.
     
  18. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Even back then everyone knew it was hideous
     
  19. PilotFlyingJ

    PilotFlyingJ Chieftain

    Watched a replay of that moment today and saw the exact same thing.
     
  20. Tar Volon

    Tar Volon Me Blog @RockyTopTalk.com

    I know that people are a bit skeptical of Bill C and his fancy proprietary stats, but I was curious how his advanced box score would look, given the massive contrast in styles. A couple features:

    One stat he measures is success rate, which basically measures which percentage of a team’s plays meet the threshold to be considered a successful play. If it’s third or fourth, do you convert? If it’s first or second, do you put yourself ahead of the chains? The national average is 41%, and his figuring had UK at 42% and UT at 37%.

    He also measures explosiveness, and I have no idea how on earth his formula works, but UT came out well above average and UK came out well below average.

    The thing I was most curious about was what he calls postgame win expectancy, which is his attempt to create a Pythag win stat for football. Again, I don’t know how the formula works, but the idea is if you play that same game 100 times, bringing the same quality they did in the real thing, how often does the result go the same way? (For instance, Illinois’ game from this weekend only beats Michigan State 14 out of 100, but Minnesota’s game beats Penn State 74 out of 100). His postgame win expectancy was 84% for Tennessee. I’ve seen a lot of articles write this up as a game that Kentucky was controlling and Tennessee made a couple big plays to luck out a win (which honestly is not how I saw it at all). But Bill’s numbers seem to indicate that Kentucky was fortunate to get as close as they did and that Tennessee clearly deserved the win.



    Tl;dr fancy stats say Tennessee’s explosiveness advantage was a whole lot bigger than Kentucky’s consistency and that the Vols had a decided edge overall.

     
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