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Larry Fedora was cheering against Jon Snow in the battle of the bastards.

give me another 8 or so hours i might do another 3 AM forecast update tonight when the latest batch of data comes through currently occupying myself writing a lit review which....TOTALLY sucks

Eh, I don't blame the defense, but I'm not going to try to other people that our defense is great because look at the Bristol game! Basically I'm not insulting them, I'm not complimenting them, I'm just skipping over that performance. They made some good llays, they made some bad plays, but we're not helped out by the offense at all.

So, can you confirm that we will definitely be playing football this Saturday, October 8, at 3:30pm in Chapel Hill? But we should probably expect it to be as wet as '09 Miami?

Tenn still scored a lot of points. I know we fumbled a lot, but that doesn't all of a sudden mean that game was a net positive for the defense, it just means that they weren't as bad as it seemed.

I believe we are essentially in agreement, as it's hard to give the defense an overall positive grade against UT since turnovers started so many of their possessions, but I think it's misguided to categorize the defense's performance as a negative at all. UT needed 13 yards to score 17 of their points. Three more TD drives were 43, 53, and 58 yards. Out of 8 drives that started behind their own 40, UT scored a total of 7 points.

It wasn't simply the number of turnovers that contributed to the final score but I would argue that special teams was the next most important factor due to poor punting and field position after receiving kickoffs. The defense could have defended the run more effectively but ultimately I believe UT scored 45 points largely because of the other two phases of the game

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