Probably because a team with an all time bad defense was about 6 yards and a hail mary from being 7-5 last year under the most incompetent group of assholes ever assembled on a sideline in Knoxville. No one really had an idea of how bad the roster was because the coaching just flat out wasn't good enough and certain players covered for a lot of weaknesses. Then you had the dumbasses doing the beat for Tennessee telling us how good we looked preseason when they couldn't tell shit from gold.
I still feel good about the general direction we are headed. I do think we need to make adjustments on the offensive side of the ball. I'm not ready to fire anyone yet, but if they continue some of things they've been doing, I will question whether they can get it done on that side of the ball. I like the style, but things like not getting the ball to Ty Chandler more is what I am talking about. Hopefully thats something that the HC can sit down and say, "hey....aight...this guy Chandler, aight...he needs to be touching the ball more, you got me? Aight."
To be clear, I am nowhere near thinking someone should be fired given the time and circumstances. The OC especially needs to earn that money, though.
TAMU isn't very good either. You've got Alabama, LSU and UGA. Auburn doesn't have a functioning offense. MSU is a lot like Auburn. Ole Miss and Arkansas are bad football teams. Kentucky is a good, not great, football team. The East is a pile of suck outside UGA and UK.
A good offense is deceptive. That take setting it up and also risk. Easier to do that with only one person behind the wheel.
You are incorrect. I am demonstrating the fact that picking and choosing plays out of a game to fit a narrative is meaningless. All the plays count. And, in Tennessee’s case, they happen enough and count a lot.
Sure. But had you ever seen 14 on the field? A huge throw to convert a 4th down only to be negated by a fumble into and out of the end zone? The refs not call a guys butt hitting the ground resulting in a kick return for a TD and one of the most embarrassing losses in Tennessee history. FL stealing a victory 2 games in a row (at FL) in last second big plays? What about a backup QB’s shotput throw? That punt return at Arky by Joe X (forgot his last name) that replayed every 5 min on ESPN because UT missed like 25 tackles on 1 return? My point is all plays count and, in the grand scheme of things, fluke plays aren’t that rare at Tennessee.
Its still ok in football for a QB to see the defense and opportunity to get TY in space, and check to it. We cant do that
Ty carried the ball 5 times. JG is terrible pre snap, no arguments there. But Ty not touching the ball enough is not on JG.
I've seen tennessee fumble out of the end zone more than the rest of all other college teams combined. Also never seen a team on any level use a dead ball penalty to win a game except that one time against tennessee. And that one time literally changed the rules so it couldn't happen again.
lol, it was paying for Stoerner until we beat LSU after Katrina and then it was some nasty voodoo until butch jones' tenure where we're now paying for it. I am beginning to believe that UT is having to live through all the different ways Jones fell upstairs to win. Hail Mary from UF last year was payback. Pope fumbling through the endzone was payback. Nauta picking up a strip-sack fumble that he caused and advancing for a TD was payback. We'll be mired in this shit at least for another 2 years.
