Cordarrelle Patterson

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Does anyone else see something special in this kid? I think Cooper is the better pure receiver, but watching a 6'3 210 receiver cut/slash and stop and start on a dime was entertaining as heck. The Vols have some problems, but I see this kid having a bright future in the NFL. I think he will be a member of 2014 draft unless he goes early?

I can't think of anyone else with his size that moves like that. He did some Palmerish cut slants in heavy traffic that was really spectacular imo. He has a huge upside with his 3.4 speed and size.

We saw two future NFL star receivers with him and Amari.
 

92tide

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Does anyone else see something special in this kid? I think Cooper is the better pure receiver, but watching a 6'3 210 receiver cut/slash and stop and start on a dime was entertaining as heck. The Vols have some problems, but I see this kid having a bright future in the NFL. I think he will be a member of 2014 draft unless he goes early?

I can't think of anyone else with his size that moves like that. He did some Palmerish cut slants in heavy traffic that was really spectacular imo. He has a huge upside with his 3.4 speed and size.

We saw two future NFL star receivers with him and Amari.
he is freakishly talented. and belue did a bang up job covering him most of the night.
 

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Does anyone else see something special in this kid? I think Cooper is the better pure receiver, but watching a 6'3 210 receiver cut/slash and stop and start on a dime was entertaining as heck. The Vols have some problems, but I see this kid having a bright future in the NFL. I think he will be a member of 2014 draft unless he goes early?

I can't think of anyone else with his size that moves like that. He did some Palmerish cut slants in heavy traffic that was really spectacular imo. He has a huge upside with his 3.4 speed and size.

We saw two future NFL star receivers with him and Amari.
Might have been the best pure athlete on the field last Saturday night. He`s really a guy to respect, if not fear.
 

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Freak talent who will leave early for the NFL this winter. Every opinion I value says that he reminds them so much of Julio that it is scary. Hate that we missed on him.
 

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The thing about Tennessee is that I truly believe if they kept some continuity in their staff, they could be a lethal team next year. I am sure you remember the garbage fire that was our 2007 defensive secondary. This is what they're experiencing right now: a little bit of a size issue up front (mainly at LB surprisingly), a little bit of scheme absorption issue on the backend. Their offense isn't that bad but the defense is a work in progress. The risk is losing all this offensive talent by kicking the coaching staff to the curb. Bray, Hunter, and Patterson are all Juniors. The offensive line are mostly Juniors and Sophomores eligible to declare early too.

Their best plan of attack is to give him one more season. They finally have the scheme I think Dooley wants on defense, but they have to let the 3-4 over/under take hold mentally with their defenders. They look far closer to getting it together than Kentucky or Auburn. Their problem isn't coaching, it's execution by the players on defense. The defense is throwing the whole thing out of whack this year because they give up too many points to allow them to stay offensively balanced. Personally, Tennessee pulling the quick trigger is a great thing for the SEC because I truly feel like Dooley is close to having Tennessee relevant regardless of what the record and box scores against Alabama show. He doesn't deserve to be paired with Joker Phillips - who has allowed a pretty decent program left by Rich Brooks to go down the tube with the quickness - or Gene Chizik who has only one truly worthwhile season at two different jobs.
 

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Agree 100%. They have a promising 1st year D coordinator with a complicated system and some athletes on both side of the ball. Bray and the two receivers will be in the NFL. If they can get the running game going next year, have a better defense, this could be a division winning team. They might throw all that away changing this year. If they do keep Dooley, which I think they will, let him go when they stop improving from next season on. That's what killed Chiz. He is such a weak coach that he basically just went along for the ride with Cam and Gus, and when they left it was like day 1 all over again except with a monkey on your back. Dooley is at least improving, although slow. But his father also had a painfully slow start at Georgia.
 

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The thing about Tennessee is that I truly believe if they kept some continuity in their staff, they could be a lethal team next year. I am sure you remember the garbage fire that was our 2007 defensive secondary. This is what they're experiencing right now: a little bit of a size issue up front (mainly at LB surprisingly), a little bit of scheme absorption issue on the backend. Their offense isn't that bad but the defense is a work in progress. The risk is losing all this offensive talent by kicking the coaching staff to the curb. Bray, Hunter, and Patterson are all Juniors. The offensive line are mostly Juniors and Sophomores eligible to declare early too.

Their best plan of attack is to give him one more season. They finally have the scheme I think Dooley wants on defense, but they have to let the 3-4 over/under take hold mentally with their defenders. They look far closer to getting it together than Kentucky or Auburn. Their problem isn't coaching, it's execution by the players on defense. The defense is throwing the whole thing out of whack this year because they give up too many points to allow them to stay offensively balanced. Personally, Tennessee pulling the quick trigger is a great thing for the SEC because I truly feel like Dooley is close to having Tennessee relevant regardless of what the record and box scores against Alabama show. He doesn't deserve to be paired with Joker Phillips - who has allowed a pretty decent program left by Rich Brooks to go down the tube with the quickness - or Gene Chizik who has only one truly worthwhile season at two different jobs.
Not sure even more turnover would really help the Vols unless they hit the proverbial home run hire -- this would be the fourth coach six years, which rarely ends well -- but giving Dooley another year is probably just delaying the inevitable.

Hunter and Patterson will leave early and Rogers and Rivera are seniors, so their absence will cause the offense to largely tank. The defense cannot get any worse, but I doubt it gets a whole lot better, mainly because most of their current problems aren't related to the typical scheme turnover issues. Usually the problem you get transitioning from a 4-3 to a 3-4 is lack of size in the front seven, but Tennessee doesn't have that issue. Their problem is that they cannot rush the passer and their defensive backs are outright terrible, routinely struggling just to avoid blowing assignments left and right. Don't see how those things are going to magically fix themselves next year.

For the most part I don't think it really matters what Tennessee does with Dooley. Realistically, he gets fired late this November, or late next November. Highly doubt it makes much of a difference either way in the long-run.
 

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I think Dooley has a bright future and they should give him more time. He took over a bad situation and I think its trending to where it needs to go. Defensively they need to fix the pass rush and have some continuity in the 3-4, but Sunseri's first year here showed a noted improvement in the pass rush and that is something he's been known to coach very well in the pros and now the SEC.

I think whether Dooley is fired or not, Tennessee is 2 years away from being where they want to be.
 

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Does anyone else see something special in this kid? I think Cooper is the better pure receiver, but watching a 6'3 210 receiver cut/slash and stop and start on a dime was entertaining as heck. The Vols have some problems, but I see this kid having a bright future in the NFL. I think he will be a member of 2014 draft unless he goes early?

I can't think of anyone else with his size that moves like that. He did some Palmerish cut slants in heavy traffic that was really spectacular imo. He has a huge upside with his 3.4 speed and size.

We saw two future NFL star receivers with him and Amari.
one catch, just sayin.
Outran his QB's range with that "3.4" speed! :biggrin:

RTR!!!
 

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