re: What is one area your team may struggle at?

football

we did not create a neutral environment at UTK.

Auburn: not being able to beat daddy bama and stepdad uga consistently.

You: working on punctuation

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our fans will need to find a way to take over opposing stadiums.

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Nope. We are too broke from last year Those trips got expensive fast.

Oline blocking as a whole and LB/Secondary depth and FG kicking.

Secondary, as others have said. We will find out alot the first game I think.

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That was far from neutral. Pretty loud stadium that got shut up by the onslaught Kirby unleashed. UGA fans only remember it as neutral because we had Neyland all to ourselves in the 2nd half.

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To be fair, I think it had less to do with UGA dominating (though you certainly did) than it had to do with us universally deciding that Butch Jones needed to die a horrible death for the complete incompetence we were seeing.

Most fans can tolerate losing to a superior team but asking us to tolerate the level of incompetence that we saw that day was too much for anyone. We all knew it before then but that was the day that everyone regardless of how bad they wanted him to succeed pulled the plug on Butch.

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Swift is a proven badass but doubts exist on whether he can be an every-down back.

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Luckily, we don't need an every-down back. This ain't the Gus Bus where good RBs go to die.

UGA will play 4 backs a lot. Swift is primary. Holyfield is going to surprise some for kid. He is much quicker than people want to give him credit for. Herrien is a nice car change of pace guy after Swift and Holyfield have been bruising through defenses. Everyone will learn about Dslvin Cook’s little brother. He will make some plays.

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I can't call up someone and get a report if that's what you mean.

I have a couple of friends who have contacts. There's also good info from people who attend practice if you sign up for pay MBs that have good information.

I am told EH has improved on assignment blocking and consistency. Running was never a problem.

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Thanks.

My worry is 2016.
SEC Rushing TDs 2016

SEC Rushing TDs Allowed 2016

Those were the same players in 2016 as we had in 2017.

I really believe that we are better in the trenches on offense and defense. But can our OLBs contain the run in the redzone (Bellamy and Carter couldn't in 2016).
Can our RBs make 1 guy miss in the backfield in the redzone?

Maybe I'm not worried about reverting to 2016 levels. But we were damn good at those in 2017. It took a second season season to be best in conference.