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Tennessee STUNNED By South Carolina | Vols Updates | Gamecoks · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Tennessee crossed the goal line six times in Columbia today. Six. However,
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  Speaker 1: three of them were the only ones that counted. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to start there. You've got to sit with that
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  Speaker 1: for a second. Because tomorrow morning, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are going to glance at a final score and see
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  Speaker 1: walk-off field goal in the headline and understand or think
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  Speaker 1: they understand what happened at Williams-Brice Stadium. They don't. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a team that got outclassed. This wasn't a team
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  Speaker 1: that got exposed. This was a team that played well
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  Speaker 1: enough to win as a road dog, scored enough to win,
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  Speaker 1: and still walked off the field with its head unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: held down. So how does that happen? And more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean for everything Tennessee still wants out
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  Speaker 1: of this season? My name is TJ Pittenger. This is
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  Speaker 1: a Vols fan and watching this, I know how this feels.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly one week ago, you guys were on top of
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  Speaker 1: the world. Third Saturday in October, Alabama comes to Knoxville.
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  Speaker 1: They leave with a 26 to 10 loss, five sacks
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  Speaker 1: on their quarterback and barely more than 50 rushing yards.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee won both lines of scrimmage. Deshaun Bishop went crazy
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  Speaker 1: and the whole country starts saying the same thing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Maybe Tennessee is for real. Then you
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  Speaker 1: go on the road, you face a South Carolina team
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  Speaker 1: that's sitting at 500, a team that had just won
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  Speaker 1: at Florida. Sure. But a team that started oh, and
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  Speaker 1: three in conference play and a head coach who's seat
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  Speaker 1: may have cooled a little bit because of that game
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  Speaker 1: in Gainesville, but it was certainly still very, very warm.
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  Speaker 1: And Tennessee was ranked 11th in the country. They somehow
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  Speaker 1: walked into that stadium today as an underdog, not by much.
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  Speaker 1: It was about a field goal or so, but Vegas
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  Speaker 1: saw what else was happening in this matchup. They were
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  Speaker 1: arrested home team off of a buy. It was a
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  Speaker 1: hostile crowd. It was a quarterback in Lenora Sellers who
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  Speaker 1: can wreck your entire afternoon with his legs. And for
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  Speaker 1: about the first seven minutes, Vegas looked like geniuses. I
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  Speaker 1: want to walk through this game real quick because the
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  Speaker 1: story isn't the ending. It's everything that happened before it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about three things that stuck out
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  Speaker 1: to me in this, and then we'll move on. South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina gets the ball first. They go 10 plays, 75 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Sellers is completing everything. Short throws, quick rhythm. Nothing complicated
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  Speaker 1: on first and 15 from the Tennessee 17. He dumped
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  Speaker 1: it off to Bennett Jr. Bennett finds an open lane
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the end zone. It's 7-0. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: goes three and out. An incompletion, a false start, a
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  Speaker 1: short completion, another incompletion, a punt. And it gets worse.
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  Speaker 1: Two plays. That's all South Carolina needed to find DJ
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  Speaker 1: Black for 27 yards. On the very next snap, Sellers
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  Speaker 1: pulls it, escapes the poppikit, and runs for a 31-yard
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  Speaker 1: touchdown to go up 14-0. The Tennessee defense, a unit
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  Speaker 1: that came into this game giving up under 15 points
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  Speaker 1: a game, top 10 in the country, looked completely lost.
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  Speaker 1: Sellers had over 120 yards and two scores before the
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  Speaker 1: Volunteers even had a first down. Now, I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this is where you find out what your team is
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  Speaker 1: made of. Because A lot of teams down two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: on the road in the SEC start pressing. They abandon
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  Speaker 1: what they do. They try to throw their way back
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  Speaker 1: into a game. Tennessee didn't do that. They went to
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Bishop, and they went to Bishop again and again.
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  Speaker 1: A drive that lasted more than nine minutes. They even...
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  Speaker 1: had a 35-yard touchdown along the way, but an illegal
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  Speaker 1: shift brought it back. None of that mattered. They kept grinding.
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  Speaker 1: They faced a fourth and one at the South Carolina 33.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop moved the chains. They ground it and ground it
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  Speaker 1: and ground it, and finally Bishop grounds it in from
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  Speaker 1: one yard out. 14-7. More importantly, Sellers spent nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: standing on the sidelines. The defense finally shows up. Sellers
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  Speaker 1: throws one he shouldn't. Metcalf picks it up, sets the
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  Speaker 1: Vols deep in Gamecock territory. Tennessee gets inside the one.
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  Speaker 1: They don't go to Bishop. They go to your tight end,
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  Speaker 1: and he walks it in. 14-all. South Carolina answers with
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  Speaker 1: a long drive of their own. 17 plays, more than
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  Speaker 1: six minutes. They get to first and goal at the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee 5. The Tennessee defense says no. South Carolina has
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  Speaker 1: to settle for a field goal at 17-14. That goal
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  Speaker 1: line stand, a four-point swing, it felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: going to matter. On the next drive for Tennessee, South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina loses a key piece of the secondary. Vakari Swain,
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  Speaker 1: who also handles their punt return duties, gets flagged for targeting.
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  Speaker 1: That's upheld on review. He's done for the day. The
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  Speaker 1: Volunteers take advantage. They drive the field. Mike Matthews takes
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  Speaker 1: it in on an eight-yard touchdown run for the Volunteers
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  Speaker 1: to go up 21-17 at the half. I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: when I started to write this out from the first half,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, man, what an impressive way to come back.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be our storyline. Tennessee scored on
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  Speaker 1: three straight possessions to take a lead in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: It was a championship caliber response. Fortunately, things didn't stay
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  Speaker 1: that way. I'll go on in just a moment, but
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  Speaker 1: I do want to tell you guys about something. I've
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  Speaker 1: told you guys about things that I believed in in
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  Speaker 1: the past, and so I'll tell you about this, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll move on I know a family that lives
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Tennessee where you guys are, and
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  Speaker 1: they've run into some trouble. You guys have helped with
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  Speaker 1: things in the past when people are kind of down
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  Speaker 1: and hard on their luck. I was hoping you guys
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  Speaker 1: would win because you'd be in a better mood, but
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  Speaker 1: I do believe in this community. I believe in this
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  Speaker 1: fan base. They, not to go into too much detail,
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  Speaker 1: but got in a pretty bad accident. They've got insurance,
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  Speaker 1: but the insurance company's kind of jerking them around. If
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  Speaker 1: to just hit my Venmo and write family on the
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  Speaker 1: about doing a GoFundMe because you guys have done great
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want their name and info out. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: we will send along their way. Now on to the
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  Speaker 1: second half. And this is where everything started to turn,
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  Speaker 1: not on the scoreboard, but underneath it. Both teams trade
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  Speaker 1: three and outs to open the third quarter. Tennessee breaks one,
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  Speaker 1: a 48-yard touchdown. The Tennessee sideline is going crazy. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought in that moment, that's it, man. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they needed to do. Flags. Offsetting penalties. The play comes
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  Speaker 1: off the board. That was the second touchdown to come
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  Speaker 1: off the board. Third quarter turns into a rock fight.
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  Speaker 1: There's no points. You've got less than 100 combined yards
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  Speaker 1: between the two teams. in the entire 15-minute period. Sellers
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  Speaker 1: gets banged up. He's clearly in pain on one play.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina out of field goal range, goes for it
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down. Gillum chases Sellers out of bounds, well
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  Speaker 1: short of the sticks. It's a turnover on downs. Tennessee's
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  Speaker 1: got the ball on their own 43 with a minute
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  Speaker 1: and a half left in the quarter. This is the moment, man.
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  Speaker 1: This was the chance to step on their throat. Staley
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  Speaker 1: makes a big catch to get into scoring range. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: punches it into the end zone again. Yet there's another flag.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown number three erased. And instead of a touchdown, up
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  Speaker 1: two scores on the road in the SEC. It's third
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  Speaker 1: and 22. George McIntyre hits Mike Matthews for a screen
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  Speaker 1: for 10 and he hit a field goal to go
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  Speaker 1: up by seven. 1148 to play. And in a vacuum,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's fine. A seven-point road lead in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Your defense has been dominant since the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you'll take that if I presented it to
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  Speaker 1: you before the game. But it should have been more.
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  Speaker 1: It should have been way more. South Carolina was still breathing.
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  Speaker 1: With under three minutes to go, it was 24-17. That's
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  Speaker 1: when it slipped. South Carolina found the end zone to
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  Speaker 1: tie it at 24. The play by Sellers, hats off, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: The way that they got... into the end zone there
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  Speaker 1: the way that his effort was what finished that off
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  Speaker 1: hats off man player made a play and then you
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  Speaker 1: have the fumble by McIntyre I thought you maybe could
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  Speaker 1: have made a case that his hand was slightly coming
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  Speaker 1: forward I don't know that it was a full throwing
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  Speaker 1: motion just yet I'm not here to blame officials you
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  Speaker 1: guys had too much come off the board that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have it was called that way on the field I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was going to stand the way that it
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  Speaker 1: was called I thought Josh certainly thought it was going forward.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was, but maybe there was a
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  Speaker 1: hint of it starting to progress forward. They get a
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  Speaker 1: chance at the end. They make the field goal, 27-24 walk-off. Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: a team that reached the end zone more times than
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina did today, loses its second game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Three quick takeaways for you. The obvious one, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way around it. Tennessee had three touchdowns taken off the
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  Speaker 1: board because of penalties. Now, I'm not here to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that any of those calls were wrong. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to blame the officials. An illegal shift is an
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  Speaker 1: illegal shift. Offsetting penalties are offsetting penalties. They threw a
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  Speaker 1: flag on that other team, too. Some of those flags
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  Speaker 1: were earned. But I just want you to think about
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  Speaker 1: the math here for a second. If just one of
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  Speaker 1: those touchdowns stands, Tennessee's up two scores in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and the entire final three minutes looks a lot different.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina is no longer playing to tie. They're playing
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  Speaker 1: to survive. It's different play calls. It's a different clock.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different pressure on a quarterback who had already
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  Speaker 1: been banged up. One touchdown, that's the difference between a
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  Speaker 1: walk-off loss and a game that's over before the final
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  Speaker 1: drive even starts. And here's what makes this so frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just late. The Volunteers had three penalties for
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  Speaker 1: 25 yards before the game was even seven minutes old.
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  Speaker 1: A defensive offsides on the very first South Carolina drive.
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  Speaker 1: A fall start on the opening possession. The illegal shift
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  Speaker 1: that took away the first touchdown. The sloppiness was there
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  Speaker 1: from the very first snap. This Tennessee team plays a
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  Speaker 1: different style than the hypo teams in the past that
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  Speaker 1: you may remember. More two tight end looks. More downhill running.
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  Speaker 1: More grind. Shane Beamer said it himself this week. This
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  Speaker 1: is a team that's winning a little different this year.
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  Speaker 1: And that style is great. It beat Bama. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing about winning ugly. It shrinks your margin at times.
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  Speaker 1: When you're throwing it all over the yard and scoring 45,
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  Speaker 1: you can survive a penalty or two. When you're grinding
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  Speaker 1: out nine-minute drives every possession, it does come out a
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  Speaker 1: little differently sometimes. Every flag costs you a meal. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: didn't lose this game because South Carolina was better today.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee lost this game because it kept handing points back
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  Speaker 1: to the opponent. Now that is fixable, but it has
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  Speaker 1: to get fixed now. Takeaway number two, closing is a skill.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the part that's probably going to sting if the
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  Speaker 1: six touchdowns on the board that only half counted didn't enough.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to rub it in. You guys know
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  Speaker 1: I like you. But for most of this game, the
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee defense was outstanding. After that opening 14, South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: scored three points until the final minutes of the game.
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  Speaker 1: The goal line stand before the half, the Metcalf interception,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth down stop in the third quarter. Sellers, who
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  Speaker 1: looked unstoppable early, got hit, he got hurt, he was contained.
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  Speaker 1: That's the defense that came into this game ranked among
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  Speaker 1: the best in the country. But defenses with that kind
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  Speaker 1: of reputation don't get judged on the second and third quarters.
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  Speaker 1: They get judged on the last drive. And twice in
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  Speaker 1: the final stretches of this one, South Carolina got just
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  Speaker 1: what it needed. Now that's not all on the defense,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. When you're up seven with 11 minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: the offense has a job too. When your offense has
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns taken off the board, they certainly deserve fault too.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. You need to make it a two-score
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  Speaker 1: game or make sure the other team gets the ball
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  Speaker 1: back with no time to do anything with it. Win
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  Speaker 1: the four-minute drill, right? Run the clock, close the door.
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  Speaker 1: It's straightforward. Unfortunately, Tennessee wasn't able to do either. And
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  Speaker 1: some of that, I think, is where this offense is
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  Speaker 1: right now. And George McIntyre having to make his first
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  Speaker 1: real start in a road environment, a hostile SEC road environment.
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  Speaker 1: And when Tennessee needed to throw, like that third and
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  Speaker 1: 22 in the fourth quarter, the options were pretty limited.
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  Speaker 1: You're throwing to a screen to Mike Matthews and hoping
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  Speaker 1: for a field goal. And that's not a knock on McIntyre.
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  Speaker 1: I've been impressed with the way he has played. When
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  Speaker 1: that pressure's coming in, though, and he doesn't have the
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  Speaker 1: experience and the reps to get out of it to
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  Speaker 1: protect the ball, that's hard. But it does tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: When Tennessee gets off schedule, this offense doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of answers just yet. The run game is the engine.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop is the engine. And when the run game builds
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  Speaker 1: you a lead, somebody has to protect it. This team
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  Speaker 1: has proven that it can punch people in the mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It beat Alabama doing exactly that. What it hasn't proven
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  Speaker 1: yet is that it can finish. Takeaway number three, the
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  Speaker 1: season is not over. It did just get a lot harder, though.
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  Speaker 1: Here's where I think you have to take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee is 6-2. They're 3-2 in the SEC. If I
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  Speaker 1: would have offered you that before the season started, you
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  Speaker 1: probably would have taken it, especially with a true freshman
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  Speaker 1: starting game one. And if I'd have told you that
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  Speaker 1: in that season, your true freshman starter was going to
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  Speaker 1: go down with an injury and you were going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go to the backup, the guy that didn't
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  Speaker 1: win the job in fall camp and through the spring
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  Speaker 1: and through the summer, you're probably taking six and two.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a missed opportunity. I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: lost opportunity, but you do have to take a quick breath.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a stat that'll make you want to shut my
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  Speaker 1: video off right now. The two losses, Texas back in
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  Speaker 1: September and South Carolina tonight came by a combined six points.
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  Speaker 1: Two games, three points apiece. This is not a bad team.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good team that hasn't learned how to
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  Speaker 1: win the close ones yet. And in this playoff era,
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  Speaker 1: a two-loss SEC team with a win over Alabama on
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  Speaker 1: its resume is absolutely still alive. But the margin for
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  Speaker 1: error is gone. There's nothing left in the bank. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the good news. The timing of the bye week could
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  Speaker 1: not get better. You're off next Saturday. You have a
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  Speaker 1: week to get healthy, to get McIntyre reps and clean
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  Speaker 1: up whatever is causing all the flags. Because look at
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  Speaker 1: what's waiting on the other side. You've got Kentucky coming
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  Speaker 1: to Knoxville on November 7th. They're ranked 12th in the country.
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  Speaker 1: They're six and one currently losing to Vandy right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd have told volunteers fans in August that the
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky game would be one of the biggest games on
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  Speaker 1: the schedule, they might've laughed at you. Nobody's laughing at
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  Speaker 1: that now. Then you've got a road trip to Texas
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  Speaker 1: A & M, a team you can absolutely beat if
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  Speaker 1: you finish on the road. Then you've got LSU, ranked
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  Speaker 1: 18th currently. That'll go up a little tomorrow. They're coming
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  Speaker 1: to Neyland. And then the regular season finale at Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 1: It is a different kind of gauntlet, but it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely the kind of gauntlet that Tennessee can go 3-1
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  Speaker 1: or 4-0 in. Every one of those games can go
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  Speaker 1: either way. So the question isn't whether Tennessee is good enough.
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  Speaker 1: We know it's good enough. You saw it against Bama.
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  Speaker 1: You saw the way this team responded to a 14-0
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  Speaker 1: hole tonight. Three straight touchdown drives on the road. The
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  Speaker 1: question is how this team responds to its first real
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  Speaker 1: gut punch. Because there are two kind of teams that
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  Speaker 1: come out of this. There's the team that lets it linger,
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  Speaker 1: that starts pointing fingers at the officials, at the play calls,
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  Speaker 1: at each other. The team that shows up flat against
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky and suddenly you're looking at 6-3. You're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a bowl game in Orlando. And then there's the team
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  Speaker 1: that gets angry, that watches the film of the three
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns that came off the board and decides it's never
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  Speaker 1: happening again. There's a team that takes the bye week
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  Speaker 1: and comes back a heck of a lot sharper. What
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  Speaker 1: I want to know is which Tennessee team is this?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to find out on November 7th. I appreciate
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