Upon further review: Tennessee offense v. Florida defense

With a major chest bump to Brian at MGoBlog, I decided to try my hand at an Upon Further Review for Tennessee's offense against Florida last week. Because I'm already stealing the idea, I figured I might as well steal the disclaimer as well:

Hello! If you’re new here, UFR is a play by play breakdown of [games]. I try to grade out players, give an overall impression of their performance, and tell you just what happened on that play or that other play. As always, this is the work of a dedicated amateur, may occasionally be flat wrong, and does not constitute legal advice.

Strike "dedicated" and "occasionally" and we have it. Onward. The chart is after the jump, but first the observations.

Observations

A plethora of anathema. We killed our offensive drives in a variety of ways. How many ways? Let me count the ways:

• Bad down and distance, courtesy of a personal foul penalty.
• Decided to pass on 3rd and 2. Three offensive linemen on one side had no one to block. Pressure came from -- surprise! -- the other side. Crompton had no time and threw to a covered receiver. Resulted in punt to Brandon James for a TD.
• Fumble at the one yard line.
• Interception at the one yard line on 4th and 1 after poor clock management necessitated a passing play on 3rd and 1.
• Poor throw on 2nd and 6. Everybody covered on 3rd and 6.
• Holding penalty, which put us in 2nd and 21 and 3rd and 17.
• Poor pass on 4th and 2.
• Good defense.

Spread the misery. Tally chart:

• Jonathan Crompon did some good things, including (1) making good reads and getting the ball out quickly and on target in the face of pressure, (2) sneaking for a TD with a nice, twisting second effort, and (3) checking down his receivers and dumping off to running backs when a play broke down. Unfortunately, this good was outweighed by a fumble, an interception, and four poor throws.
• Arian Foster killed the first drive with his 15-yard personal foul penalty and later put the team in poor down and distance by whiffing on a block for Jones out of the G-Gun.
• Coaching probably killed the second TD opportunity with poor clock management and was probably the culprit for James' punt return for a TD. Either make sure the ball is kicked out of bounds or teach at least one guy to tackle on punt returns.
• The o-line was disappointing, considering their experience. On one single play, Scott got beat by the DE and Crompton's pass up the middle went off the helmet of a leaping defender who probably should have been cut. To make matters worse, Crompton was hit hard up the middle as he was releasing. The fact that nobody helped him up was very disconcerting. Add to that play a false start by Ramon Foster, Scott's drive-killing holding penalty, and McNeil's holding penalty that probably killed another drive, and this unit was disappointing.

More observations

• Gerald Jones and Luke Stocker were the offensive players of the game. Stocker is a weapon in the red zone. He can catch the ball and drag multiple defenders around. Jones is, of course, Jones. He appears to be the only truly dynamic playmaker on offense. Note, though, that even he makes mistakes (delay of game).
• Note early in the game that Jones handed off to Foster out of the G-Gun for five and the next he kept it for nine. We tried the same combination later in the game for one and zero yards. A third wrinkle is called for, don't you think?
• Goals for Saturday: eliminate the fumbles, interceptions, penalties. We can probably live with a few poor throws here and there, but it would be nice to get rid of those as well. Didn't somebody once say "the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win?" Seems I've heard that somewhere before. Anyway, do that and we could be just fine.

Full play by play after the jump because the chart just don't fit here, k?