Let's be fair, though. He is trying to make a living here in Knoxville, and he cannot do that even if he believed it. So like a lot of people he says "well, he is here, let's give him a chance."
Hyams not carrying water for Butch today. Said "I don't know what they're doing with Tyler Byrd. If you're not going to let him play WR put him on defense".
I totally get that. Doods I have spoken with in that part of the business indicate they like winning from a sheer economics standpoint- when things go south, peeps get apathetic and do not tune. I think they remain objective/skew positive from a business point of view. I also think most people, whether they thought B#tch was the correct hire or not, wanted to see him succeed whether or not they thought it was realistic.
Ainge was supposedly saying that a call for a run from under center was called and Dormady checked out of it. He was getting ripped because I guess we came out in shotgun, didn't audible out to a different formation.
Plays right into the hands of them that would rather throw players under the bus than Butch. Although, according to pj at VN right now, nobody actually says things like that
I don't know about formation. I feel pretty certain that Dormady saw man on the outside and changed the play. The thing is, that doesn't change anything. If your QB, making his first ever SEC start, checks from the play you want to run from the 10 inch line, you call a timeout and tell him to run the ****ing play you called. In fact, your jr. QB thinks it's a good idea for him to make a play change from an inside handoff to a fade on the 10" line on 1st down, you've probably ****ed up long before that point, anyway. But anyway you hack it, it's on the staff for 1) not having the guy prepared and 2) not stopping the action when you saw he wasn't prepared.
He saves those timeouts to ice the opposing kickers, 4 years of study show he's correct in doing that.
Did he shift from under center to the shotgun? I don't believe so, but I only watched it once and don't care to do so again.
I don't remember. I just remember seeing him break the huddle, look to his right and change the play. It was like watching Manning, if Manning were doing something really stupid.
