Jonathon Crompton trying to throw it through Hancock’s helmet.

That’s all I got….

Me. I was sitting in DD row 1. I was write on the 50 yard line, had a great view of how the plays open up and could really see the whole field. Unfortunately, I felt like I was surrounded by a bunch of GVX commenters.

Is this game not even going to be on PPV ? If so thats just sad !

This was one of Crompton’s best performances I’ve ever seen him have. Yes, he made some inexcusably good passes, especially in the first half, but second-half Crompton was what we need and expect from him, and I have to give him props for that. How many of Crompton’s passes were dropped by receivers? While, yes, many of his passes should have been thrown about a foot farther in front of the receiver, some of those were catcheable.

I will say that I don’t think the football-to-the-helmet of Hancock was his fault, or Crompton’s. It looked, to me, like a very well busted screen play. Hancock was looking to block, not to catch, and the linemen were looking to pull, not protect. Crompton looked the way of the RB, but that was completely busted, so he tosses it to Hancock, hoping that he would sense what was going on. He didn’t, incomplete, better than a large loss, a sure incompletion, or an INT or Fumble from the RB being blasted, or him being hit as he threw.

The fumbled snap was horrible, but UT should have recovered. From what I’ve heard, Warren is way in the doghouse. He needed to pounce on that ball and cover it up, like Crompton was trying to do.

Our defense played well, but it did not make the plays it needed to. At all. Still, if we can play like we did in the 4th quarter, we can still be a goodish football team. Crompton was making the reads he needed to make, he was throwing the ball where it needed to be thrown, and he had great protection.

We need to build on that going on the road to Georgia. We really need a win here, moreso now than against Auburn. Georgia has shown themselves to not be an elite football team this year, whereas the teams we have lost to have combined to lose just 1 game, UCLA’s 23-16 loss at Stanford, who is 4-1 to date and playing very well. Georgia, though, is 2-2, with losses to both the ranked teams it has played. They are beatable, though Tennessee will have to play at the best we’ve seen from it this season to get that W.