re: Tennessee fans: how did you lose to Arkansas?

We should really be 4-1 right now. Tech just beat us straight up. However, Toledo was an absolute fluke with the 5 trips inside the red zone, four inside the 5 yard line, that yielded just 3 points. A&M was also a huge frick up. They had that game in the bag but it's almost like they think they aren't allowed to beat A&M with how they blew a late lead AGAIN against the Aggies.

We'll lose to Bama for sure but every other game on the schedule is winnable if they play like they have the last two weeks. The likelihood of that happening isn't high though and I imagine we'll finish up 4-8 or 5-7.

Dude I watched the second half of that game and Arky fricking dominated them. Arky should have had 2-3 more td's or at least fg's, but they called retarded fake fg's and have a shitty kicker.

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You were the better team

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I found the problem in your argument.

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Tennessee fans: how did you lose to Arkansas? by ForeverGator

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Why the frick are you asking the fans? They have no idea. All they were doing was watching... lol... yall crack me the hell up.

Except the ones on a losing streak to the Hogs

Everyone acts like Tennessee is the better team because of stars. But when you look at the players, who would you rather have?

Brandon Allen is better than Dobbs
AC and RWIII are both better than Hurd
Our O-line is better than theirs
Our D-line (outside of Barnett) is better than theirs
Secondary is probably a draw
Tenn probably has better LBs

We have far better coaches and player development as evidenced by the fact that a bunch of 3 and 4 stars beat their top-ranked recruiting classes on the road.

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I think both coaches did such a great job in that game, both should be given contract extensions. I feel most of the other SEC schools would agree?

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I agree.

We were in the redzone either 4 or 5 times in the first half. One TD, two FGs, one Fumble at the 5 and one doink off the goalpost from the kicker.

Then in the second half we abandoned the run for some reason after Arkansas tied it up (Hurd only had 4 carries in the 2nd half) and Arkansas started dominating the line of scrimmage against our D. We only had 4 offensive possession in the second half which hurt even worse when we stopped running it.

Hope that paints the terrible picture.

Bumping this until V&S shows up with a brick

We're on a similar trajectory as we were last season where we get quite a bit better throughout the season, just happen to be missing a shite ton of starters due to injuries. I think we wouldn't have started the season so slow/badly if the team was at full strength, although I'm still not sure we would've beaten TTech or A&M either way. Our LBs are a HUGE weakness on this team, with the "best" one being a true freshman and they got shredded during those games. AC also took until the last 2 games to get really going and Rawleigh Williams (another TF) is getting better and better every game.

While I completely agree that TN played a shitshow of a game, Arkansas still controlled the game from about mid 2nd quarter on. We're having to gameplan around basically not having a kicker and that really hurt us in this game on multiple levels. If we had a decent kicker that could get touchbacks it would've been even worse for TN score-wise.
Arkansas is not a bad team by any means, Toledo just came ready to play that day and we didn't whatsoever. It was the sloppiest game I've ever seen on our end, with 3 TDs and several big gains called back from penalties, defenders being out of position, and BA making several WTF plays.

The other 2 losses are understandable, we just couldn't stop their offense when it counted. But that Toledo loss is what's really giving this team a bad name, understandably so.