I was at the TENN game, thoughts

Posted on: October 5, 2020 at 10:56:37 CT

First off, their stadium is old af. It's bigger, would not say it's nicer. Beautiful setting on the water though. Their fans are pretty meh. **** em.

On to the team:

QBs - F--K. Robinson looked worse than he did against Bama. Why does Robinson get the start? Because all of camp he consistently was better. He does not have the arm Bazelak does, for sure. But he is reliable and accurate. You saw that against Bama, you did not see that against Tenn. He looked like he was having PTSD out there. He looks good running the ball in practice, too, but that's against our slow and awful defense. As you can see, everyone looks good running against them. Extremely disappointing.

Bazelak looks good passing but he has two major things to work on: he makes extremely slow decisions and doesn't read the field super well yet.

I'm extremely disappointed about Robinson's performance, but knowing Bazelak's shortcomings, you will see Robinson play significant time this year more than likely.

Grade: Robinson - F, Bazelak: B (the one pick and some missed open guys)

OL: looked better (shocking!) this is probably about as good as they will look all year, except for maybe against Vandy.

Grade: B

Receivers: Yeah, Gicinto should never playa again. Dropspalooza. Knox even got into the drop game. Terrible

Grade: C-

Running Backs: Did aight, they aren't very fast. Grade: B-


DEFENSE: Wow, I am so discouraged. They won't stop anyone this year. Absolutely terrible at basically all levels. Bledsoe is very, very slow. He got beat on essentially every play. Rakestraw let's his guy catch the ball, but at least he tackles on the spot. The D-line sucks ass. Not even going to break this down all the way. How many punts did they force? 3, I think? Absolutely terrible. Grade: F

Special teams: still looks good! Grade: A

Coaching/Playcalling - The defense was often in the wrong look it seemed. Talent isn't there, but not good. Offensively, once again, Drink got the guys open. A couple of TDs missed, but guys were open. The only thing with playcalling is the jet sweep **** that both Bama and Tenn tackled behind the line every single time. Stop doing this **** against better teams, Drink!

Grade: B-

Overall, I was very encouraged after the Bama game. Seems like every unit took a step back against a lesser opponent. I think we are looking at a 2, maybe 3 win season if we are lucky. Complete Mulligan. No talent almost anywhere on the field. Unless Drink starts getting some more transfers from other D1 programs, we might seriously be looking at 2023 as the first year where the talent is SEC-caliber again.

ONE FINAL NOTE: Everyone keeps saying that Tennessee is picked as the 3rd best in the sec east. You know what that means? They will likely finish in the middle of the crowd. They probably win 5 or 6 games. Their secondary is terrible. Losing to them is one thing. Losing this convincingly to a team as bad as Tenn will be this year is nothing short of embarrassment.


Edited by BigTexasTigers at 11:07:17 on 10/05/20