Tennessee vs. Texas A&M fourth quarter

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Did some math here: Daylon Mack is listed at 320 pounds, Daeshon Hall at 270. Wikipedia has Josh Dobbs at 194. Since 310 kg of person falls 2 meters at a speed of 6.26 meters per second per second, they all three hit the ground with a force of 1,940 newtons, or enough to power all the rehab equipment Dobbs will need when he gets back to Knoxville.

If the UT ball carriers went down as easily as the linesman does when Justin Evans hit them, they'd have gained way less yardage. That was a textbook Justin Evans tackle, though.

Is the screen pass the new wheel route? I remember a time when the words "wheel route" sent me into a panic attack. I'm just getting over the period from 2003-2011 when every time the announcer said "He's going deep, he's got a man!" I started hyperventilating.

Throwing a pass in the flat to a small, frail white guy is the closest thing you get to a hanging curveball in football. 

I'm afraid that "you know, Daeshon Hall used to play basketball" is going to become the new "You know, Antonio Gates was a college basketball player."

One of Trevor's main advantages as a big, lumpy white dude is that safeties don't think he's as fast as he is. So they take horrific angles and get shredded. Trevor Knight is John Cleese running toward the wedding in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

"Trevor Knight lined up in the shotgun, this drive brought to you by Normangee Tractor and Equipment Company, come in today and ask about exclusive deals on the Cub Cadet mowers he hands it off to that guy and he will advance the ball for three yards and he will be caught and dropped and ... he got away, he may score, Dave! He's at the 20, the 10, touchdown!!! That's Trayveon Williams!! [20 seconds of silence] And ... did he fumble? ... the ref is indicating a touchback. It will be Tennessee ball at the 20, Dave."

~ Dave South on this play (probably)

Serious question: did anyone NOT see this coming? I guess if you're going to miss wide left, do it flamboyantly. It did give us a good shot of all the Corps fish waiting to rush the field, their eyes wide with hope and enthusiasm until decades of consistent mediocrity crush them down to the bitter husk of a football fan who writes these captions.

I get that you want to go all Leroy Jenkins and plunge ahead for a first down while the other team is lining up. But discretion is the better part of valor and they still outnumber you up front.

Forcing pressure with a bull rush is the best, manliest way of rushing the passer. Tackling someone with their own dude is like ripping off someone's arm and beating them to death with it.

Josh Dobbs is a superhuman, but he's not a "complete a pass into triple coverage while getting a forced lap dance from your own left tackle" superhuman.