Defense gassed after 18 minutes...

[WracerX]

The OL adjusted to us rushing 3 and started to block downfield.

 

[ibeeballin]

What happened to the linebackers? Are you saying the secondary has to stop the pass and the run? Do you know what you are saying?

No I don't. Football is a foreign concept to me.

 

[beej67]

No I don't. Football is a foreign concept to me.

 

[ElTechelero]

My untrained eye says UT found something in that 4th quarter more than we were gassed. The thing they discovered was the read option was killing us with their very good RB. Once they started hitting on the read option, they were able to exploit some matchups with their wideouts. We could've really helped ourselves with some better open field tackling and generating a pass rush. Both of these can be improved or schemed.

If accurate then TN is slow on the uptake because the read option has destroyed our D forever.

 

[ibeeballin]

My untrained eye says UT found something in that 4th quarter more than we were gassed. The thing they discovered was the read option was killing us with their very good RB. Once they started hitting on the read option, they were able to exploit some matchups with their wideouts. We could've really helped ourselves with some better open field tackling and generating a pass rush. Both of these can be improved or schemed.

Tennessee didn't do anything different in the 2nd half. Our defense just regressed to the mean and began to make silly mistakes and miss Turnover opportunities (I.e Branch grabbing Kelly on a well defended screen, letting UT convert a 3rd & 9 when there were more defenders than blockers, 2-3 INTs dropped, bad angles from DBs, & LBs disregarding read keys)

 

[goldeagle]

Come on, seriously? We keep seeing the same öööö from Roof year in and year out: different versions of the prevent defense where we consistently miss tackles and generate no pass rush. I doubt he's going to scheme or be able to improve it, based on his track record.

But CTR is a Tech man, black watch defense , etc. Maybe former GT players are not necessarily what we need as coaches?

 

[aeromech]

But CTR is a Tech man, black watch defense , etc. Maybe former GT players are not necessarily what we need as coaches?

Tech players typically spend to much time studying for their academic classes to properly study football. Haven't you notice that the former players that occasionally post of stingtalk never know what they are talking about.