Circle the wagons. It's going to be a long season. And the criticism has started raining down. Fire Richt. Fire Bobo. Fire Searels. Fire Martinez. Fire Van Halanger. Fire Fabris. Fire Cox. Fire UGA 7. Fire'm all.
    Back to reality for a moment. Credit Tennessee's Jonathan Crompton for delivering a nice performance. The Vols receivers finally made some plays. Monte Kiffin obviously knows what he's doing on defense. Tennessee's defense was tough. Those guys played their best football game of the season.
    The Bulldogs couldn't defend the bootleg and naked play-action roll-outs. Crompton had a career day just executing those two plays. I believe they only had 2 drop-back passes called all day. When you have a defense focused on ganging up against the run, those boots cause big problems. Couple of thoughts: Rambo has got to start over Evans. The 'Dogs were still in this game, when Rambo's INTC return for a TD made it 24-19. But then, the defense allowed a long TD drive on the next series. Game over.
    The 'Dogs offense simply couldn't block them. There were no holes to run through. And they got pressure on Cox most of the game. Monte played a heavy dose of Cover 2--which he has made famous---and when you can't run it against a Cover 2, the QB is in for a long, long day. Vince Vance started but didn't block anyone. Ben Jones continues to struggle at center. TE play is bad. Ealey was looking for a place to fall. It was ugly.
    This was tough to watch. 
    Sounds like Lane Kiffin has circled Georgia on the calender as Tennessee's "must win game." It's because of the recruiting angle. The Vols need to recruit successfully in Georgia to be good. the way to recruit Georgia successfully is to be the Bulldogs on the field, and then go tell the Super 11 guys that Tennessee is better than Georgia.  
    Sounds like trouble. Circle the Wagons. Let's see what Richt does now.