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GBO! Hopefully Milton hits some deep shots , and the D holds them under 25.

Officially OUT
QB Hendon Hooker
WR Cedric Tillman
DB Doneiko Slaughter
CB Brandon Turnage
DB DeShawn Rucker
DB Tre Flowers
OL Gerald Mincey

Very thin i the secondary
B/Us at corner in suspect are Rucker and Wright

Bru was going through warmups on TV, at least to some degree.

I think he starts
How long he plays ??

Looks like he has a lot of padding

As an aside, we've had really good weather this season.

Great start!

Squirrel starting for Bru, Hyatt at Z

Nice start

Underthrow more acceptable than an overthrow IMO

Corner gave Hyatt a massive cushion, and still was badly toasted

Banks starting with Beasley

Banks active early

Tank with good coverage :eek:

Bend but don't break.

I expect a lot of bending.

Play before the fumble the LB took a terrible angle, allowed a first down

Good read on Squirrel, but just threw a rope. Probably should have tucked and run on first down.

I'm fine with bending tonight if breakage is minimal.

Keyton was open

3 and out

Sampson with a nice blitz pickup

again

I was just logging in say that. He slid over nicely.

West in with the jumbo package. Good job by Davis to push Fant in.

Can't say we are abandoning the run game ...

Can't say I've seen that package before

Hadden keeping his mouth shut tonight

Nice miss. A TD may put this game away early.

His head-up play on the near pick and tackle were quite impressive. He has upside.

Pretty good coverage in the secondary
T-Mac was physical

Flat punt = house call

Williams to the House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did Williams pull a hammie?

That's my only guess as to why Squirrel was in.

Deep shots will be there all night, but they may be low percentage plays.

I know we're protecting Milton, but running him a few times can't hurt.

Gotta think someone his size would be pretty effective in short yardage situations like that.

agreed

I'm really pulling for Milton to pick up next year where Hooker left off this season, but he has overthrown 4 wide open deep routes tonight.

Well said

Milton really looks no better than last year. Get tired of the media talking about his 70 yard ropes. Does not matter if he can't hit his target.

1st half notes

Offense:
OL not blocking the run game well at all.
Part of the issue in the throw game is the lack of an effective run game
We finished the 1st half with two B/U OGs in the game

Milton is a bit off, needs to settle down
I expect he will be given some safer throws early in the 2nd half to get his confidence up
I do hope they give him an opportunity run as I think that will open up the offense

Defense:
The DL has been playing better, seem much more aggressive tonight
Banks makes a difference in the play of the defense, he has been very active tonight

In a shocker we have played much better zone tonight! :crazy:
Beasley really played one zone well for example

The secondary has played much better, at least in the same zip code most of the 1st half

Banks missed a tackle or two and a couple of other missed tackles or bad angles but much fewer than last week

Special teams:
Punting a bit poor on length but OTOH coverage has been good, though I think the wind is part of that
PR has been good
KO not up to standards

Well, maybe run blocking improved?

76 back in, but 75 and 53 out

Nice first half synopsis. Nice move by Small to get a lot more than I thought was there.

Also, I thought Vandy would use a hard count instead of actually snapping and running into the teeth of the defense.

I would not be surprised if the staff doesn't want Milton running due to our current QB depth.

I thought that the QB should have definitely kept that ball on the 4th down play. The end defender crashed down and he had a blocker on the edge.

WOW, the run game shows up!

Lane at LG and Davis at LT both drives this half

I've been pleasantly surprised their QB hasn't kept much. They also haven't tried as much misdirection as anticipated.

I agree, but on this play the RDE did not crash till he released the ball, he hesitated, which may have influenced QB to give the ball to the RB

At the line the defensive alignment screamed read option to the left

Thrilled that we are dominating the game but, sadly, Joe Milton is still Joe Milton. Such a physical specimen but can’t connect on the deep ball to save his life. I don’t know how you fix that at this point.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt in this one, given the circumstances and the weather. But let’s see how he looks in the bowl after a month’s worth of practice with the 1’s.

We are aggressive on defense
We have several TFLs
Coverage better

Big lead, shizzlety weather, and guys getting hurt every other play. If CJH is ever going to slow it down, now’s the time. Let’s just burn clock and get out of this one as healthy as possible.

Watching how dominant this team looks today on both sides of the ball almost makes me more depressed than if we were struggling, in a weird sort of way. Even without Hooker we are one of the best teams in America. What might have been.  :bawl:

Also, watching this game should make it clear that Tennessee is the best 2-loss team in the country. It almost certainly won’t matter but there’s no way in hell Alabama (or any other 2-loss team) should be ranked ahead of us.

Back to the secondary that can't play zone

I'll take 42-0. Will I ever. But yes, I think touch probably can't be taught.

I think the fans should do with Milton what baseball fans do with great strikeout pitchers.  But instead of hanging up backwards Ks, they should hang up cards with jetliner profiles for every frickin flyover

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Jeesh, remember how to cover

Banks stumbled in front of the receiver in zone
I'll take it

5 carries for 160 - redonkulous!

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We got to be 250+ yards rushing now

289

Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the team was into the game as much as they were. I thought that they would be flat and phone it in. But they have played hard.

369

My goodness. I don't remember a game like this.

That was my expectation as well.  Glad to see this team didn't quit.  Tells me something about the coach.

 :wow:

When is the last time we ran on someone this completely?

Score again! In honor of Single Wing, wherever he is.

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If Milton goes down, we're in trouble.

Back to back 80+ yard runs, when we have never had two 80+ yard runs in a game in our (long) history.

I think we can safely conclude that vandy gave up.  :dielaughing:

But hey, we made them.

I'm going to push back on Milton a bit. 

He obviously still has a long way to go and still misses a lot.

But he is definitely better than last season.  Last season he was just awful at times, now I think he just underperforms.

I guess we will find out eventually how good he can be.  Not holding my breath that he will ever approach Hooker, but hopefully we can at least have a decent season next year while breaking in Jackson or Iaemaleva (sp)

He won the job out of camp last year, and no one questioned it. Per all reports, he has the utmost confidence of his coaches and teammates. That leads me to believe that he’s making these throws in practice. Is it all in his head? Does he get stage fright in front of big crowds? Maybe he needs to see a sports psychologist. :dunno:

I think the proof is in the way he's played this season. While it was obviously in very limited situations, he was making those throws in mop-up duty this season. Then as soon as he went into a game where it mattered (although South Carolina had us beat by that point, in all reality), he started over-throwing his targets. Maybe Heup needs to find a way to hypnotize him before the start of the game and make him think he's trotting out with a 50-0 lead.