Good as always Cover.
If I had to point at the main thing to me that just magnified our weaknesses....."False start on the offense, #74, #74, #74, ......." An offense with weaknesses like we do cannot afford it. Most of those FS's were when we had made positive yardage and blew up drives. Fumbles, no excuse. As far as LDR, many times in the box chat yesterday several kept saying he's constantly throwing off the back foot. Yes, he was. LDR is not the best QB by far, but I did see some better play calling with him in there. Is it Nussy or does LDR know how to run that offense better than Nuss. But in all that knee is not well by a long shot. So the underthrowing and "floating" that we were chatting about...is going to happen.
Perrine and Scarlett. I think as you do that Scarlett is a great back. But at this point I think Perrine is the real deal. There was not many times or opportunities for him to pass block but when he gets the rock we see what he can do with it. I guess it doesn't matter if they're 1-2 but they are by far our best combo. Time to dump the committee crap. Scarlett showed he cannot pick up the strong side help when protecting LDR. After the play fake he drifts away to the weak side and leaves the oncoming LB or corner coming hard. It should be easy, take the fake, drift over and help the strong side and chip a blocker if needed.
The Defense to me was the best thing of the day. Most of the yardage to me seemed to come with the 2's and 3's in the game. There were some times that Side Hat would put us in a scheme where all the LB's stunted and blitzed and the RB's and once they made it through the LOS they were getting big yards. Corners played well and Davis and Anzalone were all over the place. I will be anxiously awaiting the report on Davis today. Thank goodness we have another bye week.
I know alot of it is not what we are expecting out of this team, but I'll take the win. Not sure if anyone wants to tangle with Bama right now. Now I know why all of the Vols were bytching about us playing LSU. They know they are not for real and cannot win it out. But we already knew that.
Thanks for the insight.