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Hopefully we don't have Alex Brown flashbacks.

No excuse to lose this game!

Preach Vinnie! If we go 12 personnel and have an incredibly boring win, that's perfectly acceptable.

High marks until tha exchange

I applaud the fair catch of a punt.

Knew that drive was over as soon as I saw the flag.  We can't overcome those,  ever.

Looked like Nico was pulling it on the fumble

When they went empty, we brought the house

Rickey Gibson is one of the least willing tacklers in college football history.

Pearce was mugged on the 1st 1st down

One turnover and 2 injuries.

This thing is going downhill fast.

Pili concussion?

Pili seemed to walk o.k. going into the locker room.

Gibson was hurt on the sideline

he was wobbly

Lower body is what they said.

if it was, Ottawa the right leg

Oh come on. Two good scrambles by Nico negated by holds. Neither was in the horribly egregious department in my opinion.

meanwhile, Pearce being held most every play with no calls

Welp, out tackles still suck

The first sack was a complete missed read. Kitselman was open about 7 yards in front of Nico.

Davis was in at RT earlier on the drive.

Heard is killing us

Simons is ok

Spraggins or Cooper was bumfuzled by a twist. We gave up a sack with five "blocking" four.

Gibson back in

Zone kills us

Turns out that the were more confused than we were

At least facing Green and Lagway will prepare us for Milroe, or perhaps give Bama lots of tape.

Heup and the white hat had a lengthy convo during the TO

That incoming missile you saw was Gibson

Thank goodness Napier made a dumb ass play call.

Great tackle by Gibson! He's clearly reading this thread.

Kicking FGs against us is a solid plan, but putting us down 10 would have been rough.

Now do something!

we had loaded the box
Should have been under center but not sure the Fr is comfortable with that

Squirrel hurt is shoulder on that pass
Really holding the arm limp coming off the field

That throw "to" Nimrod was six kinds of atrocious.

2X deep shots than last week

I think Nimrod, judging by his actions post play, was at fault

We SUCK

I thought there was no way the offense would regress from last year, but here we are.

Lott not hurt bad

Without Pili the run defense is rough. More statements of the obvious forthcoming shortly.

Elbow down?

That's a fumble. Elbow not down

Fumble gentlemen!

Terrible clock usage. Get to the two minute timeout, and then be aggressive if you get a first down.

OMG!

A large titanium pair our coach has

That was completely stupid, but it worked.

2 minutes and 3 TOs
Let?s do this!

A young boy just stole the show in the dance off
Boo?d Sterl

Same bad read he did against NC State
Same route, same coverage
Same bad read

Interesting TO
Out of them now

We were in press man, single high safety
and we were blitzing

We are very lucky to be down only 3-0.

We actually got a break at the end of the half.

Sun belt Billy with a badly mismanaged 1:11 drill
Boo had a GREAT play on 2nd down and despite an uncalled horse collar got the sack on 3rd down

O. The 2nd down play he immediately read the play, left his man and went to the the inside receiver and made the play
Simply outstanding

On 3rd down we?re in a zone blitz
We clearly showed we were in 2 deep

said the same last week

These refs must be called up from HS for the game
Even worse than normal for SEC refs

He absolutely was, just did a poor job of doing so

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Two wide open misses, unfortunatly  :banghead:

Probably a bad call....but it worked.  :powert:

be hasn?t Squirrel yet in the center off the field
The other was on Nimrod

wouldn?t open

his read of the One read was great
Execution not so much

Nico has been just awful.  Hoping he gets it together 2nd half.

If not, put Moore in.

He has been.  THAT BAD.   :doh: :powert:

Disagree

Turbo gets on the field to start the 2nd half
That sucks - that it?s the first time

This isn't fair, but my comparison for Nico is Heath Shuler given both started their second year in the program.

Heath had a terrific line, but Nico has better receivers. Thus far Nico is far, far behind Heath.

Squirrel with a WHIFF

Good play call, just piss poor execution

We need to feed Bru

Meryl is good
Though we had buckups in the back 7
Charles made that tackle but hasn?t impressed me otherwise
Rather have Thomas in

Despite who we have I. We suck at zone
We don?t disguise it well either

We were in a zone blitz and Gibson blew the coverage

He was supposed to be a deep as the deepest receiver
Got caught up in the eye candy

BTW, we are playing 3 LBs on the early downs

A Carter didn?t get I. Till the last couple of plays on that drive

How long until basketball season? :banghead:

I can still live with 10 points through 37+ minutes.

Nimrod in for Squirrel

Rolling Nico out helps with protections and simplifies reads.

Whew

And we are on the board

the big ugliest laid on some blocks

Arion!

For the first time in like forever we got a proper drop by a LB in zone and it paid off

New game

Bishop in the game with a good block in pass pro

Is Mertz hurt?

Well Vinnie, I didn?t like it

Mertz has been ruled out for the rest of the game

McCoy VOL fans with a perfect pass breakup!

Thanks Japan!

That was a colossally dumb move by Billy.

Nope.  Garbage.

We had a 3rd down for what sighting
Didn?t hear it

Wish my wedges had that much action!

Mertz get hurt on his run?

Did our previous offensive coordinator make that much of a difference? We sure do seem to run up the middle a lot.

We have been substituting like mad everywhere but at corner

A return!

Do my eyes deceive me, or did we field AND return a punt just now? Is that even allowed?

Whew. Finally some breathing room...sort of.

Finally!

No.  It was weird thing where he pulled a muscle in his leg after handing off. He wasn't running, just kind of twisting a bit.  No Vol within 5 yards of him.

We pulled the entire left side of the line
The LG with a nice kick out and Hears, yes Heard leading Sampson through the hole

That run was for you Droner. They heard you complain about a diet of dives.

POUR ON MORE STEAM!!!   :powert:

I was shouting loud enough.  :biggrin:

I'm shouting again.

Low line drive kick

Sucks that Nimrod couldn't quite make the catch, but I like that we tried it.  That's the mentality we need. Could not finish pigz last week, gotta kill these gaytors this week

Looks a lot like he did.

Another nice tackle by Gibson

No timeout from Napier?

2 bad kicks in a row

But we don't make them burn a TO

Keeshond, can we screw this up even worse??

4 more plays D, let's go.  :powert:

Please don't ask such questions.

I refer you to the Butch Jones era.

Our three incomplete passes the preceding two possessions are mind-boggling.

 :dielaughing:

Though its not really funny...shudder  :powert:


I would observe, Butch is NOT on the sidelines though  :dance:

If they score Billy will go for two.

he has nothing g to lose,to save his job

3 verticals

Whew. Now we better try to win in regulation.

Ole Billy lost his nerve. Disappointed in that 3rd down play, but maybe we can get a quick strike and a FG

Or perhaps we go gently into that good night

I just can?t understand how the guy who was dropping absolute dimes early in the season is now missing receivers this badly. I know the competition level has ramped up, but these guys have been wide open, and Nico is just missing them. :banghead:

Obviously, I don't get it.

Why not sling it to the end zone? Time would run out. Yea, they could intercept and return it for a TD but I would rather take my chances with that rather than go to overtime.

Now we run three dives and kick.

OMG!

Dear Lord, Thank you.  I was yelling for a missed FG. And you heard my yelling.  :rolleyes:

Is it possible for a coach to have the 3rd ranked team one week and two weeks later be on the hot seat. Might be a couple of coaches in that position

Are you really going to show up now with that?

Of course he does!

Do not feed the troll

YES!

I have 150 bottles of wine in my vault and out in racks. And that may not be enough to celebrate a win over the Gators.

Uncork the next one!  :clap:

Heard led the TD run
VOLS win

No. Sir. EE!.  No. Sir. EE! No. Sir. EE!

Somewhere John is smiling.   :biggrin: :powert:

We have lived through the Butch Jones debacles so it's fine to celebrate this, or at least be relieved.

Eason's tackle for loss was the play of the game.

Anytime you beat the crocs, it?s a good day.

But we?re not a good team right now.

Gonna be two very tentative squads squaring off next week. I?m glad it?s in Neyland.

Well, if I was mean, I would say, "it's about time he did something other than get holding penalties".

But I'm not mean. So I won't.

EDIT: I thought we'd have a 20-17 final.

100%. Not sure what's gotten into Nico the last 8-10 quarters, but he did look better in the second half. Still not anywhere near where he needs to be, but maybe that momentum carries over to next week.

Nearly did!  23-17 is just fine though.  :naughty: :powert:

There will be no easy conference games, thats for sure.

So you are impressed with their performance? I'm not. No need to sugar cote things. A win is a win. But no excuse for the timid offense. Again.

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So you are impressed with their performance? I'm not. No need to sugar cote things. A win is a win. But no excuse for the timid offense. Again.
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The point is, when we are agonizing through a tight game against a major rival and then manage to pull out a win, it isn't the appropriate time to ask whether the coach is on the hot seat.

As the saying goes, read the room.

That's a Sunday or Monday question, especially after a win.

And no, he's not on the hot seat.

Enjoy the win.The autopsy can begin tomorrow.

Oh, and it's "sugar coat".  :biggrin:

Thanks Grammar dick!

Well, I see that we have devolved into name calling. The last resort of the hopeless.

I've been called worse.

I'm a lawyer.

My my, sensitive we are

Me sensitive...I think it's you snowflakes that are sensitive. Oh well, beat Bama and the world will be back in line. Hard to figure what type of game it will be. I think our d is the difference. For the better.

Vandy keeps going. Beat UK. Where did this come from?

I see someone is taking this win pretty hard.   :laugh:

 :hi5:

 :rolleyes:

Petulant 5 year old

I don't think they would fire DeBoer that quickly.

You have to remember, you are replying to bamaperry's son

 :laugh: :dude:

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