Tennessee head coach Butch Jones has reiterated time and time again that his team needs to execute plays better, particularly in the red zone.

The Volunteers’ offense has been putrid since scoring 42 points in back-to-back weeks to open the 2017 college football season.

The Vols haven’t scored a touchdown since defeating lowly UMass 17-13 on Sept. 23. Since then, they have been shut out 41-0 by Georgia and held to three field goals in a 15-9 loss to South Carolina.

Luckily for Tennessee, it gets to play No. 1 Alabama this week, so scoring shouldn’t be all that hard, right?

Really though, the Vols might end up going over a month without scoring a touchdown.

It makes sense that a head coach wouldn’t want to blame play calling as a reason for offensive deficiencies. But some of Tennessee’s players are behind Jones on this one, according to a report from the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

They believe it comes down to their execution on offense, not play calling.

“I think the right play calls were called,” quarterback Jarrett Guarantano said. “And I think there were times where we just didn’t make the right plays, whether it was blocking the right way or even doing something so little like, for me, just getting the ball off quicker and those types of things. I think there’s little things of execution, and I think that we’re able to learn from it and fix it.”

The Vols’ standout running back, John Kelly, agreed.

“It just comes down to execution,” Kelly said. “It was a couple of plays where if we would have just executed, we would have obviously been in the end zone.”

Of course, not everyone agrees with this sentiment.