Yep. Hard to be worried about the O-Line. Past 16 seasons have shown how easy it is to field an effective unit there.
Fulmer had good olines when he had good offensive coaches. Kiffin took two walkons and had Hardesty at 1,200 yards and Crompton standing upright. Dooley had a good oline in 2011 and 2012. Butch was left with a great oline and completely mismanaged it.
Chandler and Callaway are legit threats to score every time they touch the ball. I don't expect a record breaking offense, but there's plenty of good parts for it to be above average
There were about 2 offensive lines during that time span that I would classify as "good." And by "good" I do not mean "talented" or "good given the completely sucky level of talent."
By what measure do you judge offensive lines? Blocking for 1000 yard rushers and 3000 yard passers? 01 was good to great 02 was bad 03 was bad 04 Tennessee had two 1,000 yard rushers and a good passing game considering there wasn't a single star receiver and there were 3 qbs starting. 05 was a cluster [uck fay] 06 was good (because of Cut playcalling) 07 was good (because of Cut's playcalling) 08 was a cluster [uck fay] 09 was as good as you're going to get for the talent level on the roster 10 was bad, but Simms also held onto the ball for approximately 2 minutes per pass play 11 was a great pass blocking oline, terrible run blocking 12 was great pass blocking oline, good run blocking 13-17 was Butch, who's oline coaches are either at Concord or drawing unemployment
2001 isn't in my 16 years. I would definitely call 2006 and 2012 good O-Lines. 2007 didn't impress me.
Kiffin is an alchemist. That o line was smoke and mirrors. If we had 5 blockers to strung together, we beat bama that year. I' not knocking the twins, they played up and beyond any reasonable expectation. But they were not sec starter quality
Jacques McClendon played in the NFL too. Stocker is still in the NFL, he finished this season with the Titans.
If he put any air under that pass to Jones at all in Baton Rouge, we beat them. Was wide-open for him to run under. (Sorry, I still get upset over that one.)
Yeah I know. That team had close to 10 players that played nfl ball though so they weren't without talent. Hell is take the sullins brothers over everyone but trey Smith last year. They played their assets off on every play.
2006 wasn't good. 2012 wasn't good relative to the potential they had. We should have been bulldozing people with the way we could stretch the field and the amount of NFL talent those five guys had.
