Not sure if you knew but CPJ did try to hire a top D coach but didn't have the money to do so.
I think playing UT would benefit us because it would mean they won the east over UF. I wouldn't mind playing UF or Auburn though.
They don't lol
The kicking problem will hopefully be resolved with King returning from injury. We shall see. What I don't understand about the D is that they played lights out in the first quarter, not too bad in the second quarter, and atrocious in the second half. I really don't see how you can blame CPJ. As Tech_Wreck said, CPJ tried to hire a big time DC, but it wasn't it MBob's budget, so he settled for Roof, a fan favorite because of his playing days. Unfortunately, I am afraid that Roof is never going to get any better, so we are stuck until he either leaves (which he won't) or is fired (which is also not a certainty).
I don't think they like rematches on bowl games unless it's something like the orange bowl where it's a set team from the ACC and either SEC or Big Ten. That imo is the only way we see UT again this year.
Who knows the game on Monday was such a shootout they might want those extreme fireworks for their Bowl Game.
Did they really, or did UT drop balls or throw it away on third downs?
UT DID drop a lot of balls, but we were still getting in the backfield on almost every play, and, regardless of how it happened, we stopped them on every drive. Luck, maybe, but at least it looked good....and a helluva lot better than it looked in the second half.
Dropped two balls I believe, but the D still played way better in the first half than what I have seen the past few years.
It's was a combination of butter fingers and Dormady not being able to hit the side of a barn with anything but short passes.
I don't think we saw even a minute part of the play book Saturday night. First game, first QB start, first BB start. Those guys were so new they probably met for the first time in the huddle. Johnson stirs it in as the season moves along and if you recall there was even a time when he "simplified" the offense for Thomas, and by that time Thomas was experienced. We saw a lot of midline and speed options and the usual fling-it-deep passing when we threw, but I think we might even see something Saturday we haven't seen if he gets an advantage and wants to find something out. But we did learn that Marshall and Benson are tough kids.
And we had a few DBs put their facemasks on the ball before it could be tucked.
