Tennessee Postgame Discussion

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[IthacaMatt]

I'm pretty hard to bring down.

Because I'm fat.

Me, too. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.

 

[cuseguy]

The frustrating part is that we finally got the right head coach and we can’t give him the money to truly be successful

He’s already been successful. He’s already getting more money, but he’ll never get the type of money that SEC and Big 10 schools get. Most of them are state schools with huge fan bases and a ton of money. Syracuse, a private university with a much smaller fan base, isn’t equipped to raise as much money. But Brown and others are working tirelessly to gain support and financial backing. It’s not easy.

 

[Todoubled23]

Man I miss Tony White.

Seeing FSU defense tee off on Bama makes me sad.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Man I miss Tony White.

Seeing FSU defense tee off on Bama makes me sad.

He's really good. Makes a difference.

 

[David321]

Man I miss Tony White.

Seeing FSU defense tee off on Bama makes me sad.

FSU fans are going to be insufferable this year.

 

[tbonezone]

FSU fans are going to be insufferable this year.

it's a tough school to get into. admission test requires 25 consecutive minutes of tomahawk chops with both arms.

 

[Lukeyloo]

I honestly don't think he has a system. There's no situational awareness at all. Rush with the line only, provide too much cushion and pray.

E Rob seems to think he’s working with T A&M talent and that guys will just win their matchups. We are, and will probably remain, at a talent disadvantage against the top teams.

Need to be able to scheme up pressure when facing a talent disadvantage, can’t let offenses get comfortable. Not impressed with E Rob as a DC.

 

[cuseguy]

Man I miss Tony White.

Seeing FSU defense tee off on Bama makes me sad.

The talent level at FSU is far superior to SU.

 

[CanadianSU]

If this loss was in like week 5 it’d feel a little more “digestible”. It’s that we were all excited and then yeah boom.

 

[IthacaMatt]

E Rob seems to think he’s working with T A&M talent and that guys will just win their matchups. We are, and will probably remain, at a talent disadvantage against the top teams.

Need to be able to scheme up pressure when facing a talent disadvantage, can’t let offenses get comfortable. Not impressed with E Rob as a DC.

I agree with this 100%.

 

[IthacaMatt]

If this loss was in like week 5 it’d feel a little more “digestible”. It’s that we were all excited and then yeah boom.

The early hole sucked, but they came back reasonably well. There were a bunch of positives among the too-many negatives.

In the middle of the season, I don't know that a game like this is that useful.

Here, after game 1, we have a real measuring stick, instead of beating up a MAC team.

We know what we need to do to get better, and these guys have played against top level competition.

 

[Lukeyloo]

Why can’t the best recruiters in the country attract top talent?

Just how drunk are you? Lol

 

[Todoubled23]

The talent level at FSU is far superior to SU.

Definitely better, but even when he was here and we had were undersized and less athletic almost across the board he schemed us up well defensively.

I don't have fear of our offense being terrible anymore. As opposed to back when White was DC I never was scared that our defense would be terrible either.

 

[Briancuse]

it's a tough school to get into. admission test requires 25 consecutive minutes of tomahawk chops with both arms.

Its like the old rick majerus line when he said he could get a plant into fsu.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Definitely better, but even when he was here and we had were undersized and less athletic almost across the board he schemed us up well defensively.

I don't have fear of our offense being terrible anymore. As opposed to back when White was DC I never was scared that our defense would be terrible either.

Shafer as the DC was the same way; when you don't have the same physical talent, you have to attack, you have to hide your coverages, you have to do things to keep the other team off balance.

We do very little of that under Robinson. He coaches like we have top talent. And that's fine; our talent does look much better than those teams of 15 years ago.

But he's not coaching to attack; he's coaching to contain. That seems to be his nature. Try to limit mistakes by not over-committing. Our coverage makes too many mistakes, and we don't get to the QB without blitzing, at least not against the top teams.

We need to gamble more on defense. We're not a great team. And our tackling under Robinson has been poor so far. That's got to improve and soon.

 

[Janner]

Was there any presser after the game? Or did I miss the video

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Shafer as the DC was the same way; when you don't have the same physical talent, you have to attack, you have to hide your coverages, you have to do things to keep the other team off balance.

We do very little of that under Robinson. He coaches like we have top talent. And that's fine; our talent does look much better than those teams of 15 years ago.

But he's not coaching to attack; he's coaching to contain. That seems to be his nature. Try to limit mistakes by not over-committing. Our coverage makes too many mistakes, and we don't get to the QB without blitzing, at least not against the top teams.

We need to gamble more on defense. We're not a great team. And our tackling under Robinson has been poor so far. That's got to improve and soon.

I did think the tackling was better today. There was more wrapping up.

It's just the missed tackles end up being really glaring.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Was there any presser after the game? Or did I miss the video

Did you look in the "Fran / Players Postgame Presser" thread?

 

[richmondcuse03]

The fact that we had tremble playing a hybrid defensive edge / LB role says a lot about the defense. And if we don’t have the talent, we have to adjust the scheme.

 

[rocklloyd]

The good news is norvell bought himself another year with that win

 

[wfschrec]

The fact that we had tremble playing a hybrid defensive edge / LB role says a lot about the defense. And if we don’t have the talent, we have to adjust the scheme.

They wasn’t Tremble pretty sure that was Gary Bryant they both wear 13

 

[OrangeXtreme]

The fact that we had tremble playing a hybrid defensive edge / LB role says a lot about the defense. And if we don’t have the talent, we have to adjust the scheme.

They wasn’t Tremble pretty sure that was Gary Bryant they both wear 13

Pretty sure that was Matt Park being Matt Park. Didn't realize that Tremble switched to #82 today.

Did anyone screenshot the one play "on defense" he was allegedly in?

 

[DomeHolmes]

I don't see that in big games . To slow, poor reaction time,does not read defense well.

This was a big game! He led our offense to over 400 yards (minus sacks) and 24 first downs! 271 passing yards. against a top notch defense.

Angeli wasn’t perfect but I feel great about him leading the offense going forward.

This was not Devito vs Notre Dame. Angeli and the offense played good enough to win.

From what I’ve seen today against elite defenses, our offense looks better than Texas, Alabama and LSU

 

[Lukeyloo]

One more thought, for Fran to specifically coach/work with the DBs, they are not up to snuff. I figured he would’ve been able to pick up some higher quality transfers there.