Tennessee Coaches and The Option

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The Vols have plenty of experience in facing the option on their coaching staff between Warren, defensive line coach Brady Hoke and defensive coordinator Bob Shoop.

Warren played at Air Force and coached there for nearly a decade, so he would have faced the triple option on a daily basis in practice in addition to facing Army and Navy. Warren spent the past two seasons at North Carolina and faced Georgia Tech twice. The Tar Heels won 48-20 last season despite allowing 374 rushing yards (6.3 yards per carry) and 38-31 in 2015 when they allowed 249 yards on the ground.

Hoke split a pair of meetings against Air Force while at San Diego State. The Aztecs allowed 243 yards in a loss in 2009 and won by two against then-No. 23 Air Force despite allowing 312 yards in 2010. Hoke's Michigan team beat Air Force 31-25 in 2012 and allowed 290 rushing yards (4.1 yards per carry) in the win.

Shoop faced options teams like Navy, Georgia Southern and Army during his stops at Massachusetts, William & Mary and Penn State.

Though Warren has the most direct experience against Georgia Tech, he said it's been a group effort among those coaches.

“I think between myself and Coach Hoke -- because Coach Hoke, when he was at San Diego State, played Air Force when I was a coach at Air Force -- and Coach Shoop has played it at William & Mary and Penn State," Warren said. "It’s not more lean-on; it’s just been a collaborative effort among the three heads because we’ve all dealt with the triple option at a lengthy point of our careers.”
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I guess CPJ has seen a whole lot of tape on how these guys will defend, then.
 
Sounds like they're going with bend but don't break and hope for turnovers. At that point, they're depending on the offense to win the game for them. That could be a tall order against our experienced D. We will need to control the clock and limit turnovers on O.
 
Our players on offense have spent a lot more time learning and running the option than the Tennessee defense has spent being coached to defend it. With an experienced OL and ABs, I think CPJ will have a big advantage on Monday night. I don't think the UT coaches will determine the outcome.
 
Please please sit back and play read and react. EVEN BETTER, line your D-line up a yard off the LOS. Unless they have LSU/Iowa State type of D linemen who can just manhandle our guys, we will eat this style of defense up.

The only people who give us trouble are physically superior and/or play rock-paper-scissors on random blitzes. But even that only works sometimes and sometimes means we get a TD.
 
WreckRod said:
Please please sit back and play read and react. EVEN BETTER, line your D-line up a yard off the LOS. Unless they have LSU/Iowa State type of D linemen who can just manhandle our guys, we will eat this style of defense up.

The only people who give us trouble are physically superior and/or play rock-paper-scissors on random blitzes. But even that only works sometimes and sometimes means we get a TD.
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They will have physically superior linemen than we do. Butch Jones has been playing the sign em all and cut them later oversigning games for a while now.

He just sucks at it.
 
WreckRod said:
Please please sit back and play read and react. EVEN BETTER, line your D-line up a yard off the LOS. Unless they have LSU/Iowa State type of D linemen who can just manhandle our guys, we will eat this style of defense up.

The only people who give us trouble are physically superior and/or play rock-paper-scissors on random blitzes. But even that only works sometimes and sometimes means we get a TD.
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Of course, EVERY team struggles with a dominant DL. The two teams with the best DL's in the country played for the National Championship last season
 
Diseqc said:
They will have physically superior linemen than we do. Butch Jones has been playing the sign em all and cut them later oversigning games for a while now.

He just sucks at it.
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Don't give them too much credit for their DL. They are not Clemson, FSU, or Miami
 
Tbh, they've got a really good coaching staff. Makes you wonder why they haven't turned the corner to get back to fulmer level success and if there's some program level reason above and beyond personnel. I can only hope uga goes through similar turmoil.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Tbh, they've got a really good coaching staff.
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