Tennessee Postgame Discussion

[JKinUtah]

Look, our 17 year old athletic freak will learn at an incredible pace. Doubt we see too many front 7's this goid. Willis is a stud, Angell is cool under heat. We will be ok. IMO if Fran keeps the guys we need to keep SU will be decent this year and will steamroll people in 2026.

It’s always been about setting up to make a run in 2026. With this years schedule we always are facing an uphill battle.

 

[RedtheGOB]

Brother. Respectfully what are you watching. Devito was a great kid but he was the 3 and out KING. Angeli was not the problem today. People need to take a step back. It’s tough to follow McCord the next year. Dude literally broke ACC records and had the best SINGLE season of ANY Cuse QB. 99% of QBs are going to be a step back from that. Angeli is no McCord. But he’s not a slouch either. By the time Angeli is done at the hill, I bet he has much better career here than Devito

Agreed. Someone should run Devitos #’s against ranked teams on the road and then compare it with what Angeli did today. A lot of Devitos big games were against Wagner or Holy Cross rabble or ACC bottom feeders.

 

[nocohalo]

Angeli is most definitely capable. He seems like a tough player. My only concern is mobility. I think it's maybe a closer game by a score or so if he was able to extend plays. He looked like he was running with concrete shoes on some of the plays. You're going to face tough teams like that again and the only way to win is through extended drives where potential sacks turn into first downs. There's quite a lot to like on offense, it just remains to be seen if this offense got up because they were playing a hard opponent or if that's truly their week to week capability.

 

[grepal]

It’s always been about setting up to make a run in 2026. With this years schedule we always are facing an uphill battle.

Yeah but I think we make a bowl this year.

 

[Archimedes]

I'll tell you one thing. We need to stop getting trounced in the first quarter. Opponents have beaten Syracuse by a combined 97-30 since UNLV and we were underwhelming again today.

I don't know if these results are signal or noise, but our offense doesn't look as suited to playing from behind this year. It's a weird stat. Despite the poor first quarters, we went 6-3 in these games with a dynamic offense that could score from anywhere quickly.

Since UNLV:

Cuse 3 NC State 0
Cuse 0 Pitt 17
Cuse 0 VPI 14
Cuse 0 BC 7
Cuse 6 Cal 0
Cuse 7 UConn 7
Cuse 0 Miami 14
Cuse 14 Wash St 21
Cuse 0 Tenny 17

*We're excellent in the third quarter. Whatever the staffs says at halftime seems to work. That's where we make it back.

 

[PAcuse]

Rewatching some of the clips of the game McDonald did not have a good game at all.
Need to find some kind of blitz package and not this bend and break defense we are playing.
Offense looked pretty good for playing a top 5-10 defense.
Some good things out of the game and some things to really clean up or even change completely.

 

[Orangefan1]

what's crazy is that ABC actually cut away to show the pregame warmups for the NOLES.
i;m watching a dude on a horse with a burning spear instead of live football.

A bad omen I spend 100’s of dollars a month to ensure I don’t miss a Syracuse game and it was ripped away from me with 4 minutes left even though I knew we were done…unacceptable regardless if whatever new revenue sharing bs they have.

 

[wiseman3]

A bad omen I spend 100’s of dollars a month to ensure I don’t miss a Syracuse game and it was ripped away from me with 4 minutes left even though I knew we were done…unacceptable regardless if whatever new revenue sharing bs they have.

Do you not get ESPN News? It just switched over...just change the channel

 

[orangeinohio]

Do you not get ESPN News? It just switched over...just change the channel

What is this sorcery that you speak of?!!!

 

[orangeinohio]

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

We lost for several reasons. It’s fair to say that Angeli had, overall, a bad day in Week 1. He had some excellent things to build on, also. Its not the time to replace him.

 

[CuseFan]

A bad omen I spend 100’s of dollars a month to ensure I don’t miss a Syracuse game and it was ripped away from me with 4 minutes left even though I knew we were done…unacceptable regardless if whatever new revenue sharing bs they have.

there was a warning on the broadcast that they were moving the game to ESPNnews.
Doesn't help if you DVR'd the game though.

 

[sufan59]

We lost for several reasons. It’s fair to say that Angeli had, overall, a bad day in Week 1. He had some excellent things to build on, also. Its not the time to replace him.

Angeli had 274 yards on 23/40 1 td 1 int. This was against the number 6 defense in the country in 2024. He held his own out there. We had to make tackles on defense and scheme pressure in the pass rush.

 

[sdhall01]

I'm pretty hard to bring down.

Because I'm fat.

 

[Newhouser]

I'm in the minority but I wasn't all that impressed with Tenn. We did some positive things. We aren't physical enough.

 

[Yeti]

I think UConn comes down to 4th quarter, close game

We’re beating UConn by atleast 20.

 

[anomander]

Rewatching some of the clips of the game McDonald did not have a good game at all.
Need to find some kind of blitz package and not this bend and break defense we are playing.
Offense looked pretty good for playing a top 5-10 defense.
Some good things out of the game and some things to really clean up or even change completely.

It’s amazing that we don’t have 1 really good player at by far the easiest position to recruit for in college footbal. Hoping Antoine can be that guy since he got that start, but i think the lights were a bit too bright this early. Plus, it shows the decline in McDonald beating him out.

Don’t really see anything in the pipeline either. Was hoping Caden Brown could have taken the leap because he has the measurable's, but that didn’t happen.

 

[Orangefan1]

Do you not get ESPN News? It just switched over...just change the channel

I do but it’s not on a regular tv channel for me because I have it for the app and by the time you log in and figure out passwords the game is over, I’ll look to ensure that’s all taken care of next time but it’s still a pain

 

[SUMBA]

Angeli was good except for the two disastrous turnovers.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

 

[SURules]

I'll tell you one thing. We need to stop getting trounced in the first quarter. Opponents have beaten Syracuse by a combined 97-30 since UNLV and we were underwhelming again today.

I don't know if these results are signal or noise, but our offense doesn't look as suited to playing from behind this year. It's a weird stat. Despite the poor first quarters, we went 6-3 in these games with a dynamic offense that could score from anywhere quickly.

Since UNLV:

Cuse 3 NC State 0
Cuse 0 Pitt 17
Cuse 0 VPI 14
Cuse 0 BC 7
Cuse 6 Cal 0
Cuse 7 UConn 7
Cuse 0 Miami 14
Cuse 14 Wash St 21
Cuse 0 Tenny 17

*We're excellent in the third quarter. Whatever the staffs says at halftime seems to work. That's where we make it back.

Exactly, we lost the UT game in the 1st quarter by some costly mistakes. Look at the scores per quarter;
1st: 0-17 (down 17 points)
2nd: 14-14
3rd: 6-7 (should have kicked the PAT)
4th: 6-7 (see above).

We were down 12 (should have been 10) points with 12 minutes to go.

I said before the game, which team could jell the fastest, limit mistakes, and turnovers would win the game. We lost on all of those.

Defense concerns me much more than Offense right now.

Oh and some of the UT fans were pretty obnoxious. The number of UT fans behind us talking about how they wanted to push us in front of the subway train before and after the game was crazy. They have some mental health issues.

 

[690West]

I think UConn comes down to 4th quarter, close game

We’re beating UConn by atleast 20.

I am fascinated with what the UConn line will be when it comes out later today.

 

[sdhall01]

Also, the entire fourth quarter, we weren't tackling. We were--intentionally--trying to go for the ball. It's clear as day the last two TN drives.

 

[PAcuse]

It’s amazing that we don’t have 1 really good player at by far the easiest position to recruit for in college footbal. Hoping Antoine can be that guy since he got that start, but i think the lights were a bit too bright this early. Plus, it shows the decline in McDonald beating him out.

Don’t really see anything in the pipeline either. Was hoping Caden Brown could have taken the leap because he has the measurable's, but that didn’t happen.

Agreed I had high hopes for Brown. We are going to have to hit the portal again and again for some depth back there.
We've not done great with it minus this year.
Might be the biggest piece missing not have a Wax, Franklin, etc running the defense.

 

[PAcuse]

Angeli was good except for the two disastrous turnovers.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

He's only had one shot




I'll see myself out

 

[FrancoPizza]

We need disrupters on defense, and we need someone that can actually scheme something that makes sense on that side of the ball.

 

[PhatOrange]

I think another problem I’ve seen said once or twice but not talked about enough is, we don’t do stunts or anything on the d-line we play gaps which never generates pressure. Same can be said for offense Tennessee would send 4 guys and would shoot different gaps and the O-line would look lost as Angeli had a guy in his face within a second.

Bingo! This is spot on.

wish someone would ask Fran this question.