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The Power Four => SEC => Tennessee => Topic started by: fuzzynavol on September 26, 2026, 04:30:10 PM

Title: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: fuzzynavol on September 26, 2026, 04:30:10 PM
Plenty of blame to go around, but what was the worst part of the offense?  
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: jgvol on September 26, 2026, 04:47:52 PM
Offensive line clearly #1. 

But, Huepel is still the worst clock management coach to ever man the sidelines. 

And seems to have lost his aggression.  
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: TREX on September 26, 2026, 05:11:39 PM
Yap

Yep

Yap

And Fazon panicked like Freaman
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: ATexasVol on September 26, 2026, 05:13:48 PM
We should cut Faizon some slack.  He's still a true freshman, and he got little support from the run game or from his OL in pass protection.   Texas' DL is clearly head-and-shoulders ahead of our OL.   

Despite that, we almost had a miraculous finish that would go down in the annals of Tennessee football history.   
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: fuzzynavol on September 26, 2026, 05:51:17 PM
We should cut Faizon some slack.  He's still a true freshman, and he got little support from the run game or from his OL in pass protection.  Texas' DL is clearly head-and-shoulders ahead of our OL. 

Despite that, we almost had a miraculous finish that would go down in the annals of Tennessee football history. 
Would like to have seen at least one replay of that final hail-mary.  
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: roadvol on September 26, 2026, 06:03:54 PM
Hard to fault time management when Texas has the ball with about 3 minutes on the clock and a 10 pt lead and 2 minutes later we're 3 pts behind with the ball.
The difference between winning and losing was a freshman QB who  was not able to execute with the game on the line.
Had read all week that Texas had the best D-line in the country and they clearly outclassed our OL today.
Our freshman QB will learn and get better. 
Hope our OL can improve

Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: roadvol on September 26, 2026, 06:05:59 PM
If Texas is the #1 team in the country we wont play a better team so am optimistic
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: ATexasVol on September 26, 2026, 06:11:26 PM
Hard to fault time management when Texas has the ball with about 3 minutes on the clock and a 10 pt lead and 2 minutes later we're 3 pts behind with the ball.
The difference between winning and losing was a freshman QB who  was not able to execute with the game on the line.
Had read all week that Texas had the best D-line in the country and they clearly outclassed our OL today.
Our freshman QB will learn and get better.
Hope our OL can improve

Agreed.   I can't point to one play where time management was an issue.   
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: roadvol on September 26, 2026, 06:25:51 PM
Agreed.  I can't point to one play where time management was an issue. 
We were on about the 45 yd line with 30'-40 seconds left and told my wife the only thing we couldnt take was a sack.....we then took a sack.
Freshman QB has got to learn to get rid of ball even if he thows it out of bounds.
He did that all day. He'll learn.
Title: Re: Where do you point the finger???
Post by: HK_Vol on September 26, 2026, 07:32:38 PM
Was unimpressed with our O-Line and our receivers.  When the line gave him time, no one was open.

Defense looked good overall and Texas is a talented team.