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After today's less than impressive showings elsewhere we may not need style points. Just win baby.

Josephs in early

Don't.get.so.far.upfield. Rushing past quasi -mobile QBs isn't helpful.

They faked a sweep to the left and nobody covered him
Fortunately we flush rather to the right

We were in zone on 4th down
Tank slow as molasses

On the TD, did anyone cover the RB?
Opposite corner from my seat

That’s more like it
Hell of a job by the center of the line

They were paying a LOT of attention to Hyatt

Beasley has to make that tackle

That's a helpful penalty.

Or not. Let's not make Rattler look like we made Richardson look.

Tank again

Not a bad play by Slaughter with a safety over the top
But …

I am really hoping Christian Harrison and some of the freshmen can shore up the secondary quickly next year.

Gotta do a better job of getting home with the rush too.

So much for taking the crowd out of the game

It’s not like we didn’t expect them to throw that football tonight, is it?

Spraggins is getting worked

He cannot block his man

Haden in at corner

Zero pressure

Nice play on the ball Turnage

No pressure and our secondary can’t cover nor tackle

he knew the play and covered it well

2nd they brought the back out and nobody covered him

We have Hyatt and Squirrel in the game

Why did the clock keep running to end the qtr?  We got a 1st down...

Ok, we have weathered the sandstorm
Now put on more steam and bring the lightning

Hopefully this is a redux of '06 UGA, or whenever it was. Tereshinsky (sp?) played out of his mind early, but we won going away.

I was there
Flew in from California that morning

Kick it.

The Dawgs reverted to the mean. Hopefully Carolina does the same.

disagree
Need to get 7

Sc Didn't get the memo they was suppose to lose.

Glad to be wrong! Please send the memo ASAP tshadow.

Me: kick the Fg

Also me: WOOHOO!

Just tuned in... Durn :eek:

We are getting a taste of our own medicine

Amen

Here's the thing. Nothing is linear. They're not going to score 84...I hope.

We haven’t stopped them yet

On first and goal Walker read it well and the ran right by the runner

Walker was in at Star that drive

Haden and Turnage at corners

The usual suspects at safety

Is 5 their B/U QB  or just a wildcat guy?

Mitchell whiffed on the long run, but there's plenty of blame to go around.

Wildcat

I was just thankful that Tank managed to get in his way

One thing I noticed tonight is that Williams is the up back

Sampson in the game

Looked like classic targeting to me
Crown of the helmet

Fatigue has not been the cause of our defensive woes. Just make a stop before the half.

yes

Probably just a lack of talent ? In most cases

Charles in for Turnage
Flowers was playing Star a couple of plays

Memphis '96.  :frown:

it’s not fatigue

That's definitely a factor, but surely South Carolina wouldn't be the one to expose it this badly.

I like the upside of Charles.

Upside isn't the present.

I genuinely don't know if I've ever seen any game where one team scores TDs every possession in a half.

Right in front of me
Not at all sure what the fizzle Charles was doing

I'm not an expert but I think that it probably would help if our defensive backs looked for the ball.

The good news
They didn’t score on that possession  :naughty:

Would you be willing to instruct these young men on said principle for $750k/annually?

They do a far better job saluti g the troops than we do
Of course having Ft Jackson and Shaw AFB near helps

 :patriot: What a salute to the troops! :thumbup:

What a weird day in college football.

That’s the most disappointed in a first half of football in a while. Of course for years there wasn’t a lot of hope, but that half hurt my heart.

Haden and Slaughter were the corners
The usual suspects at safety

3 and out, a start

Mincey has gone all the way at LT

Nice stop by the D.  (FINALLY!)

Now offense needs to get it back.  Should have scored on that first drive.

Just hope the defense is due to adjustments and that it continues

Defense playing better
Though that is faint praise

THATS MORE LIKE IT!!!


Now stop them again D

15+ yard cushion

A big issue with the secondary is ZERO pressure on the QB

I stood here and called #3 getting the ball
It was that obvious

Can we freakin leave Willie Martinez in Columbia? This is embarrassing.

A couple of notes
Haden is the boundary corner and Slaughter the field corner

Haden needs to STFU and play better! :bird:
He always barki g after the (first down) catch

Cocks seem to have a LOT of injuries in the first half 9 “cramped” up and then STAYED in the game!

Pitt game all over again

Where is the leadership? This may be the first game where we pay for our poor defense.

Charles is in for Hadden

This is a total choke job. Not one single position on the field playing well.

Rattler has flat outplayed Hooker tonight. He's looked really good.

Not one. But we do-have several playing terrible

fizzleing zone
LBs both will poor drops

3rd and 20? Really?

Play any young guy on the trip. I don't care.

That was pathetic!

Not sure why Bru isn’t playing
We subbed him out in the middle of a series and he hasn’t Ben in the last 2 drives
Though he has his helmet on

Also, for the first time we have gone 4 wideouts at times

Have we considered just forcing a field goal?

7/8 ….. TDs/possessions

Who had the hands to the face?
Their PA system with the refs is worse than Neyland

Baron, supposedly.

And it is not even close.

Back down to earth. Vanderbilt beat Florida. Wow. 28 points. Yuck.

What a nightmare.

Milton the rest of the year

Practice the rest of the year.

Note to self: We've been playing with house money... No it doesn't work. Not at the hands of SCjr.

Milton and the receivers had a long discussion

Hooker still in the tent

Absolutely. It stinks, but this will let us know what we have before the bullets start flying next fall.

We put it off as long as we could. A poor defense was bound to catch up with us at some point.

Tonight was the night.

We know what we have. We need a defensive coach with some bite. I don’t think our head coach has any. He is responsible for this. This performance does not surprise anyone
. We just hoped it would not hhappen now.

8/9 …… TDs/possessions

I meant at QB, but agree we absolutely have to fix the defense.

Hooker just walked to the locker room
Sans jersey
Walking pretty good, no. Noticeable limp

I’d be shocked if he wasn’t done.

Agree with comparisons to the '01 SEC Championship Game

IN what way?  This wasn't nearly as high stakes, I mean the regular season's not over.  And 2001 was a close game.  And LSU was a good team even though we were heavily favored. 

Tonight is probably a worse loss than '01 LSU. We were a 23-point favorite. To have been beaten at all would've been one of the biggest upsets in program history. To get beat in the style in which we did...I just don't know how you even put words to that. LSU '01 was a pretty good team -- except they were playing a 3rd string QB and 2nd string RB. It was an inexcusable loss.

And I think that's why the comparisons are being drawn. Both were inexcusable losses, given what was at stake. And, yes, the stakes were pretty damn close to the same in both games. Tonight wasn't for an SEC championship, but it was for a trip to the playoffs and the potential to play for a national championship. LSU '01 was for an appearance in the BCSNCG. Take away the SEC trophy, and the stakes are pretty similar.

Agree Creek. Both games would have allowed the Vols to advance toward a national title, but were thwarted by inferior competition.

It's not a perfect comparison, but there are similarities.

I still don't fully agree on the 2001 comparison.   That felt like the end of something.

This is, one would hope, the beginning of something.   It's all been house money this year.   No one expected is to win like we've won.  A natty?  No one could've imagined we'd be in that conversation.   It was fun, and this is so disappointing... but 2001 was the collapse of something bigger than a single season. How can one say that about this year when this is only Heupels 2nd year?  He's just getting started.

Win in 2001 and we are guranteed a trip to the MNC.  Win this, we still have to beat vandy (very likely, but after last night  :doh:), but we were in no way guaranteed a playoff spot.  Likely maybe, but not a sure thing.

But we are not disagreeing.  This was a worst loss in light that USC is a bottom feeder and they flat out whipped our ass. I say as much above.

Stakes were not quite as high in this one.  Still high though.