My thoughts on Kentucky - BLUF - We beat them soundly because they're Kentucky and that's what we do. Vols 34 - 17 or something around there.
I'd like to know who the genius was that thought it was a good idea to move him to T right in the thick of the game.
Or keep a TE in to help. Its not like we are going to use any in between the hashes anyway in the passing game.
Hopefully, our staff learned a valuable lesson from the UGA game. Be prepared to adjust to adjustments 2nd half.
Guarantano got rattled. In his case, he needs to be pulled so he can settle down for a series or two, it's not normal for a qb, but JG isn't a normal QB
Had it been my decision with a 21-17 lead in their house going into the 3rd quarter id’ve told Cheney and our o line guys we’re burning clock running the ball. Come 4th down punt and play defense. Every first down we can get beats UGA. We must have ball security, taking the game outta JG’s hands. Cheney be ready to adjust to what they change on defense. I never saw anything that’d lead me to believe Cheney did anything in the 2nd half to counter for what UGA was doing on defense. That said you might argue JG was unsupported and it directly contributed to the cascade offensive fail.
i'm very tired of not having the ability to make consistent plays with the feet at qb. 3rd and 3 to 6 is a different ballgame and the defense has to defend everything sideline to sideline. Vs UT and JG, what does 3rd and 5 mean to you? A. Staredown slant, late. B. Staredown out at the stick, high C. Back shoulder at the stick. Thats all we have, outside of a couple decent long throws, but most are up for grabs, which is fine with me. A little harder to defend is: A. Rpo, cover slant, rb hitting the gap as they may go for 4th and short, and watch the qb keep. B. Slant C. Seam to TE. Curl to TE. In to TE D. Play action hard to TE over lbs heads E. QB draw. QB right. QB left. F. QB scramble and make a run or dump it late G. rollout either way, run or pass. Qb choice H. skinny post I don't know why any coach would want to make it so easy on a defense as we do
Thing is, if we just run the ball and punt, we still have a chance to win in the 4th quarter, because we wouldn't have give UGA the ball 3 times with short fields and points off turnovers. But I get your point. You want to be able to keep scoring too but given UGAs offense, they weren't going to score many more points on us without us helping them out.
Yeah but you don't get to call plays knowing you're going to fumble two times and throw an interception in a quarter. I get what you all are saying but you're also not going to try to start running out the clock right after halftime either with a 4 point lead.
I mean I wouldn't have started that at the beginning of the half. I'd been trying to figure out a way to get one more td on them, then sit on it.
And if we are going to get the ball quick to somebody, get it to Velus, not Hyatt. Let Hyatt run deep routes right now where his speed in open can help spread the defense. We cannot seriously consider being good offensively if we dont use 10-30 yards off the los between the hashes in the passing game
Against good teams we are scared to try. And you cant tell me we dont have a TE who can run decent and catch a ball in between or over lbs. Even if you hit it once when lbs are crashing to stop the run, itll be a big gain. We wont try it. I can hardly watch other teams as many continue to flow on offense like i wish we would.
Missing Alontae Taylor, but if we have to miss him, this is the game to do it. This is a good opportunity to get some separation between us and the third tier of the SEC. We don’t need to be playing one-score games with the Kentuckys and South Carolinas of the world. Kentucky can absolutely make it ugly—we need to shut them down early, get out in front, and not let them breathe.