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This was a game Tennessee earned a chance to win by a great defensive effort play but lost. Georgia was a game UT earned a loss but thanks to Georgia's boneheadedness, they won.
Tennessee vs Texas A&M
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A&M had the game iced but for the dumbazz runner that let up at the 10 and allowed a desperate TN defender to catch him and punch the ball out at the 3 - touchback. 7 turnovers put the inbreds down. It was a miracle they were even in the game after all those TO's. But that was one helluva SEC football game. Did you watch, Mac?
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I hate the Vols as much as anybody here, but the best team did not win the game yesterday folks, a&m defense looks as bad as ours, they never did figure how to cover the back coming outta the backfield.,
- Jun 9, 2014
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If A&M's defense is bad, what does that make Tennessee's?
- Jun 10, 2014
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Yeah, they've had one bad half this season, therefore they suck.
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Other than Ole Miss last year, tell me when they've stopped a decent offense.
- Jun 10, 2014
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They held their own fine against both FSU and Bama until the offense went 3 and out every single drive and they ran out of gas. Doesn't matter how good your defense is, if they get one minute breaks between drives, they'll falter eventually.
- Jun 10, 2014
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So, they haven't...unless we make excuses for them. Got it!
- Jun 11, 2014
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Sas and I don't see eye to eye when it comes to politics, but he's right about this. The level of competition has had little to do with our defensive performances. It's pretty much always been when our offense starts sputtering and sending our defense back out on the field without a rest when things start falling apart on us quickly. There's definitely a direct correlation.So, they haven't...unless we make excuses for them. Got it!
- Jun 13, 2014
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No excuse for the Tenn game - heck they were scoring in every drive except one in just 3 or 4 plays not enough to even cause the defense to tire besides the crazy length of TV timeouts. Our offense only ran one less play than them in the 2nd half I think because they were scoring so fast on our bad defense that 2nd half.
- Jun 11, 2014
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There can be no doubt they capitalized on Tabor being in the locker room for one TD, and then again when he slipped to the ground. That pretty much opened the flood gates, but it also directly correlated with our offense all the sudden going into the fetal position and refusing to get a 1st down for practically a whole dang quarter. Momentum matters.
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We used to have this tired defense debate in 2014 also but the stats showed then our defense was getting more rest than every team in college football except one when you look at how many plays they defended for the game. That was probably due to Muschamp's time of possession mess.
- Jun 13, 2014
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I agree it can probably can be a mental thing but they collapsed so quickly even with us still leading they don't really have an excuse for it.
- Jun 10, 2014
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I'm sorry, but I can't defend our defense when they get steamrolled in EVERY game we play against a quality opponent. It's been happening far too long to make excuses for them. Keep believing it's because of this or because of that, but it will not change the fact that it's true. If they were truly an elite defense like we would LIKE to believe, then it wouldn't happen EVERY time. Worse than average offense, mediocre defense, mediocre special teams equals a mediocre football team. It's who we are at this point in time. :(
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- Jun 14, 2014
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The defense can control the length of time they're on the field by shutting down the offense they face.??
Our D allowed Dobbs to beat them with passing.?? The Florida Gators have a long way to go and they
had better get going ASAP.
Here's a sequence for us all :
aTm is only good because they have this miraculous Heisman QB. Once he's gone they will drop.
Well, aTm lost their miracle QB and NFL WRs and they remained contenders = good coaches.
We need to get a coach-recruiter who recruits Texas. Flip an aTm coach? a Baylor coach?
a Texas coach? a Houston coach? ... Hell, the state of Texas H.S. football is so die-hard we
probably could get a coach superior to one of those we've already got.?
Our D allowed Dobbs to beat them with passing.?? The Florida Gators have a long way to go and they
had better get going ASAP.
Here's a sequence for us all :
aTm is only good because they have this miraculous Heisman QB. Once he's gone they will drop.
Well, aTm lost their miracle QB and NFL WRs and they remained contenders = good coaches.
We need to get a coach-recruiter who recruits Texas. Flip an aTm coach? a Baylor coach?
a Texas coach? a Houston coach? ... Hell, the state of Texas H.S. football is so die-hard we
probably could get a coach superior to one of those we've already got.?
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- Jun 14, 2014
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Actually they did not play well the first half of the Tennessee game, they were just lucky that open Tennessee receivers were dropping passes.
I agree that the defense last year was good (outside of the first half of the LSU game, but this year the D has played one good team and did not play well. I don't think you can blame that on the offense at all because Tennessee was moving the ball the entire game.
The reality is that Tennessee is a really good football team. They run the read option extremely well and nobody has really stopped it well yet. Tennessee has stopped themselves. They had 6 turnovers against A&M and still went to OT! That in itself is incredible. Dobbs has been good enough throwing the ball to make defenses pay when they stack the box and the OL has given him protection.
I still think Bama beats them.
