Tennessee had a huge lockeroom situation event right before the SC game and the defense completely laid down that game. Offense was out of sync as well..

Jeremy Banks our star linebacker went after Hooker on nil pay for offensive players compared to defensive players and it caused a temporary rift between the units abd even led to Milton knocking banks on his arse in defense of Hooker.

You can call it an excuse, but compare the way our defense played against Mizzou, Vandy & Clemson vs SC which were all at the end of the season.

SC has come together and is a good team though. Taking nothing away from them. But we all saw what a fully dualed in Tennessee did to Clemson despite missing a lot of key starters.

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Posted by DawginSC

Member since Aug 2022

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Posted on 8/21/23 at 4:35 pm to BBQRick

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You can call it an excuse, but compare the way our defense played against Mizzou, Vandy & Clemson vs SC which were all at the end of the season.

The only thing your defense did well against Clemson was to take advantage of a true freshman QB in his second career start and get turnovers.

Clemson outgained Tennessee 484-375. 320-251 passing.

Mizzou? Your offense was incredible against them, but your defense gave up 389 yards and 24 points. That 24 points was the second highest point total Mizzou had to a P5 team (behind 29 against Arkansas). Same is true for yards (only vs Arkansas did they have more). And they did that at Knoxville.

Vandy? Come on. Bragging on a performance against Vandy is just sad.

I'm sorry, UT's defense was fairly weak all season.

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Posted by so_comfort

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Posted on 8/22/23 at 8:57 am to BBQRick

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Tennessee had a huge lockeroom situation event right before the SC game and the defense completely laid down that game. Offense was out of sync as well..

How did Heupel allow this level of team disfunction to happen? Seriously, you're saying that your defense threw a game because of feelings, and you aren't pissed that the man in charge allowed that to happen? Unreal.

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Posted by DawgsLife

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Posted on 8/22/23 at 12:34 pm to BBQRick

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Tennessee had a huge lockeroom situation event right before the SC game and the defense completely laid down that game. Offense was out of sync as well..

Your team has a ton of problems if they laid down while they were a shoo-in to go to the playoffs with a win. You have players and entire units laying down and as a result missing the playoffs? That is a culture problem not just a one off incident.

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You can call it an excuse, but compare the way our defense played against Mizzou, Vandy & Clemson vs SC which were all at the end of the season.

Mizzou came before the South Carolina, but congrats on that huge effort against Vanderbilt.