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Evans finished the night with 212 yards passing. That's not a worldbeater, but it's healthy contribution by the passing game.

Ford and Bucky were drawing double coverage much of the night.

Wiggins has basically said Murphy is not a complete receiver right now.

And Shai looks great, but did you fall asleep during Dragon's 69 yard TD run?

Well considering we only had about 200 yards total after the first quarter, the total rushing yards after the first quarter isn't going to be impressive. But that's more because we gave the ball away too damn many times.

We had more drives end by lost fumble than by punt. That really says it all. We were moving the ball effectively, and Tennessee didn't have any real answers for what we were doing. We handed the game away.

Understand that all Fuente had to go off of coming in was practice and four quarters against Liberty. I think it's very possible Chung was outperforming Gallo and simply wilted under the immense spectacle of this game. I would want to write my name with 156,000 people watching me.

I think you're just wrong about this one. Trying to force a passing game when the defense is clearly playing against the pass is something Bryan Stinespring would have done. Fuente and Cornelson were taking what the Vols gave us and exploiting it to fullest potential.

Look at this another way: how many of our drives ended with a Vols defensive stop vs a fumble? The Vols did not have much of an answer for our offense tonight, and if we hadn't unraveled with the turnovers I think we win. And not by a little.

Cornelson called a better game tonight than Stiney or Lefty ever called during their careers at VT. Everything that went wrong on offense was because of mental mistakes and execution errors tonight.

Systemic. That is a great description of the problem. I fully expect to see fumbles go down as Fuente's system is installed. If it doesn't, we suddenly have some bizarre issue on our hands that was not a problem last season.

I'm not excusing the fumbles. They're inexcusable. But as you watch this game, it's obvious that they're happening when the ball carrier is fighting for extra yards. Right now, the skill position players on O are trying almost too hard to adapt to the new scheme. They just need to settle in, secure the ball, and carry a ball every damn place they go this coming week. This offense will slow down for these players the more they play in it, and unfortunately you can't simulate game speed. They have to learn how to do this live, and right now they're too into their own heads.

The deal with the snaps just has to get fixed. When we take 95% of our snaps from shotgun, that snap needs to hit Evans in the chest every damn time. Vance Vice needs to address that yesterday.

The scheme is awesome and im excited. We gave away a game tonight, but even after that loss all I can do is dream about what it will look like when we are firing on all cylinders.

Get yourselves right, guys. The future is bright.

I thought Bucky was gonna throw it.

OMFG Wyatt.

Hate that third down call.

Jesus, Wyatt.