re: This got damn team

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Chatt, Vandy... Don't feel good about UK or Carolina now

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Carolina and UK have no where near the defense UF has, especially not the front 7. In that regard Bama and OM are the only two we should be worried about having this kind of game against our line.

There is nothing worse than this feeling, nothing. I won't sleep for days.

Yep. I saw it coming during the half too.

I though after that pick to start the half that we could close it...
... But nope.

Put the bottle down...

Dude, Bajakian is fricking terrible and everyone knows it.

Yeah, the OL sucks but he hasn't done a thing to make shite any easier. His play calling is downright bizarre as well.

I've felt for a while that 2015 would be the year but I'm starting to get on the fence.

Sigh. No, we assume Bajakian is terrible. Fact of the matter is we don't know. We can't run block or pass block and unless we learn to do that it doesn't matter what play is called or what offense is run. Worley also isn't the greatest vertical/deep pass threat either. That's a pretty deadly mixture.

The reason he is terrible is not only his playcalling but he doesn't tailor his offense to his players' strengths. Baja and maybe Butch to an extent, tried to push a square peg into a round hole. It doesn't fricking work with this team.

We have a young and shitty OL combined with a pocket passing QB. What does he like to do? Use these slow developing rushing plays where the RB is standing still as he gets the ball. Baja does nothing to counter this offense's weaknesses.


I watched Kiffin 5 years ago deal with with a patchwork line with two 260 pound Linemen and a head case at QB. We finished the season with over 2000 yards rushing and Kiffin turned Crompton into an upper echelon SEC QB.

Baja/Butch needs to start rolling Worley out so that he can see the field with not as much pressure and quit running the goddamn read no read option no option offense until we have a QB on campus with the skillset to make it effective.

Blaming the OL is appealing, but the fact is you can't look at last week's game and this week's game and not question the role of coaching. I just don't believe Florida's DL is THAT much better than Georgia's. Given the way we performed last week on the road offensively versus how we looked this week at home against a reeling team that did everything they could to give us the game, the blame falls squarely on the coaches' shoulders.

Good staffs augment their playcalling to hide their team's weaknesses. Bajakian, it seems, has his gameplan and is sticking to it come hell or high water. The staff coached scared or stupid or both. Our -11 yards in the redzone is unacceptable -- I don't care HOW bad the offensive line is.

But then, let's consider how bad the OL is and ask why, up 9-0 nearing the 4th quarter, our OC is STILL insisting that Worley drop back to pass. He's unprotected, he fumbles the ball, Florida recovers, and look what happens. A redzone turnover leads to a score, something we couldn't manage in spite of every opportunity. Florida couldn't move the ball. If we just run and punt up 9-0 we would have won.

We're probably never going to see a Florida team that bad roll into Neyland Stadium again. And we still couldn't get it done. I'm not giving up on Butch yet, but the offensive philosophy is a mess. That's a game you have to win.

Butch isn't Dooley, but yesterday was downright Dooley-esque in terms of the performance. It was that deflated feeling of knowing anything you did on offense was futile. The staff really screwed up.

It's the Oline, the coaching, and the QB, and none of them are helping each other. Since it sucks to blame college kids who are obviously trying, and trying hard (Worley is a gamer), then I have no choice but to blame coaching. And on that front, firing coaches would do no good. The offense is Butch's. Firing Butch would officially kill UT.

So just accept it. We need Butch to recruit us to 8 wins and keep us there until we have enough money to fire another coach.

The problem isn't the offensive philosophy, it's the execution. We're running the read option, that's what this offense is based around. However, that play will NEVER work if the QB never keeps the ball. The DE will always crash down on the RB and we will look absolutely retarded running the ball.

Our OL isn't good enough to blow people off the line of scrimmage so the only way for us to have a decent run game is for the QB to be a viable run threat out of the read option. THAT is our problem, THAT is why we can't run it(the team that has the most rushing yards wins between UF and UT), and THAT is why our offense is so bad.

We can't throw because no one respects our ground game. Florida played press man and DARED us to beat them through the air. We didn't, because they were also blitzing and getting pressure on Worley almost every play.