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Yummy. Speedy freshman receivers. We have faster, experienced DB’s who will eat them up on deep jump balls.
With Josh’s offense, O line is the critical piece. It only works well if you can have a credible run threat. I hope Elarbee can deliver what you need.
What?! Another top UT prospect chose a different school? How can this be?
I hope he’s able to go 100%. You guys have potential to be a real matchup for us. The game will be a lot more fun with y’all at full strength.
Whoa there Kprez. SDS readers can read past your spirited troll hissy fits. But, none of us appreciate reading your profanity and pedophile accusations. Work on better communication skills. SDS, you need to put a stop to this kind of discourse.
That’s interesting data, EKingGill. But, his entire team didn’t get younger just because he puts freshmen on the field. Those 4 & 5 star sophomores, juniors, and seniors are still on the team. So, aTm isn’t young, lacking upper classman talent. Mullens logic is that he’ll win more after he has a chance to recruit a few more years of talent. So, Mullen is just talking out his rumpus (what’s new). And your data is relevant. But, if Jimbo continues to not develop the talent he recruits, you’ll continue to see similar freshman snaps and win/loss records in the future.
UT is 0-1 in games against UGA this year. Still undefeated in awesome orange and white plaid overalls.
Those games exposed weaknesses in our OL blocking scheme and game plan. Both those teams committed to full box and heavy blitzing. We were stuck on zone blocking overloaded boxes on the run, and not going max protect on the blitzes. Once we started gap blocking late in the Mizz game, the run game returned to something like our normal production. No idea why it took us so long to make that change. Our run game doesn't do much in the second level anyway. As for max protecting, we haven't run into another team with the personnel and the game plan to blitz us that hard again. So, who knows if we’re ready and willing to make that adjustment. Either way, Stetson and the receivers are prone to get crossed wires on blitz adjustments, and he tends to throw over or behind when consistently pressured. For what ever reason, either y’all couldn’t or chose not to blitz well enough. But, you did load the MF out of the box (often 9&10 guys in there). Late in the game, when it was well in hand, we tightened up formations and ran up the middle virtually every play in an effort to eat clock and reduce possessions for y’all. You're loaded boxes were effective then. While it stopped us from moving the chains, it was already to late to change the outcome of the game.
Yea. I wasn’t so worked up about the call not being made. What got me is that despite call/no call, Stetsons brain got injured on a collision that shouldn’t have happened. Maybe not enough to make him loopy in the moment. But, his brain is now much more vulnerable to long term risks over the next several weeks as it heals.
I remember Cadillac and another awesome RB tag team trucking us. Glad to see him livin the good life.
Well, 6 years. isn’t it crazy. Nobody should be counting y’all out of the CFP. Even with 2 losses, the Tide is a legit top 3 caliber team. Mad respect for how Saban put this one on himself. Not so much respect for Gipman thinking Sabans accomplishments entitle her.
OK. So, I guess I could hang this loss on the flu and stuff. But, seriously. What the heck is going on with y’all. You’ve got a good roster. As much as Jimbo’s fast talking and insane contract make it easy to take pot shots at him, he’s not a terrible coach. His track record is that of a very good coach who is prone to weirdly unexpected lapses. This season is different though. Any non-snark insight as to why this years team is off the rails?
Great game Vols. Y’all are back. That would have been a different game if we didn’t play in Athens. I’d like to think we’d win it either way. Hopefully, we’ll get a chance to find out.
Leave it to the Athen Clarke Co police to actually charge him with as many ticky-tacky add on charges as they can. Just charge him with the DUI, and maybe the lane infraction (or whatever prompted the legal basis for the stop in the first place). Not defending Bullard if he was actually intoxicated. But, in Athens, our police exercise their full legal authority to unnecessarily be jerks at every opportunity.
OK, wasn’t willing to sign up for SECN+ or whatever. (Skrew you Disney for trying to make me pay for a subscription AND watch insufferable ads just to watch my team.) Anyway, for any Dawg fans that did watch it, what do you think were the key factors that resulted in a score that (at least) appears to be less dominating as our previous games this season? Hoping it was playing a lot of younger and less experienced guys, and not us getting a previously unrevealed weakness exposed.
AR is going to be fine. Y’all have the talent, coaching, and budding organization to develop into an excellent team. This early, everyone on the team is learning. Even great QB’s need consistent execution from the team around them to perform up to their potential. The entire team needs a little time to get there. Then, we can have a true evaluation of how good he is.
Troups of Stoops, So glad you got to experience St Simons island. Consider us your personal weekend get away. The UGA-UK game this year is going to be epic. Y’all have a team of well coached beasts. It’ll be the toughest game of the regular season for both our teams. No UGA fan (short of a few of these prolific SDS posters) thinks it’s going to anything but a titanic showdown. Win or lose, I look forward to sharing a burbon with some great UK fans in Lexington afterwards.
There’d have to be a metric pant load of financial or competitive gain to kill off the cocktail party. I dont see it happening any time soon.
VFL, this announcement sounds like he’s flat out telling vol fans that he intends to pull a Jimbo, and needs the donors to pony up so he can.
Beck will likely transfer out. But the bigger news is that the Gators have a football team. You may not know that since they didn’t even manage to crack Athelon Sports Top 25 ranking. (I would have posted this on SDS’ recent UF football article, but there isn’t one.
Well, I give White credit. He’s busting his tail to cobble together a team.
Very familiar? Probably not. I seem to only notice him when he’s sounding like a fast talking, word salad saying, salesman. This time he was additionally huffy, but not willing/able to go alpha with specifics that would draw Saban’s ire.
Fisher needs to pony up the details of the alleged wrong doings in Sabans past. Unless, of course, he’s lying about it. Then, just admit you lied.
Interesting that Fisher didn’t have the marbles to use Sabans name directly as he ranted. Nor did he have the courage to detail past Saban recruiting violations that he so strongly alluded to. Come on Jimbo, if you have the goods, tell us about it. Has popcorn.
Excellent priority. Focus the organization on helping players become the best men they can be and to achieve their aspirations. Do that well and you won’t need to worry much about arcane NCAA rules to force players to stay.
Id love to see some quality journalism that digs into why E1 is transferring out rather than leaving it to us to assume that it’s as simple as “New coach?, of course the entire team enters the transfer portal.” I can suspect there are a number of core program problems from before and after White that fueled the last few years worth of cratering along with this years roster defections. But, I haven’t seen any Journalism putting public light to it.