Greeneville Football at Oak Ridge

[SweetScience]

2 minutes ago, Knoxvegas865 said:

Yup I think the injuries made them lose their mojo as well. They really haven’t had bad losses except this game. Losing to 6a schools who are on the rise and defending state champs in Powell and now a 4a power house. I heard Powell’s coach saying he wants to meet whoever makes their schedules cause they aren’t doing them any favor. I think you could say the same about OR. 

It certainly hasn’t helped. It’s extremely tough to foster unity when you have a brand new coaching staff, along with the all the injuries we’ve had throughout the season. Call it excuses, whatever you want, but it’s the facts.

[justafan75]

9 minutes ago, SweetScience said:

This is not Cummings’ fault. It’s his first season, and a whole new philosophical approach from the previous staff. It’s gonna take some time, and we’re seeing that now with the growing pains we’re having, but I’m behind him 100 percentile. To he$& with Josh Jones. We do things the right way @ OR.

Gaddis left tons of talent on that squad. Cummings has wrecked the wildcat Ferrari. Next man up, injuries happen everywhere. Hope they get healthy for playoffs if they make it. OR has more talent than Bearden and Scott Cummings OR staff was outcoached

[WillieTheWildcats]

2 hours ago, 4xchamps said:

This aged well

Most of my posts end up in the garbage.

[SweetScience]

17 minutes ago, justafan75 said:

Gaddis left tons of talent on that squad. Cummings has wrecked the wildcat Ferrari. Next man up, injuries happen everywhere. Hope they get healthy for playoffs if they make it. OR has more talent than Bearden and Scott Cummings OR staff was outcoached

We do have a lot of skill talent, we did last year as well, but bud, this has been expounded upon numerous times the past few years. If you don’t have the men up front to block for them fellas, it doesn’t matter if you have Payton, Barry Sanders, Csonka, Rocky Bleir, Mercury Morris, whoever the he$& you wanna name, it means zero. I’m not sure what’s so hard to comprehend about this, but apparently it is for some folks.

Edited October 8, 2022 by SweetScience

[Cactus Jack]

It's been a long time since I saw an Oak Ridge team get scragged like that at home, OR was never in it, 3 fumbles deep in OR territory, 3 quick Greeneville scores, plus one 70-yard drive and it was 28-0 with 4 minutes left in the 1st Quarter.  Things seemed to stabilize a bit after that, as Greeneville scored to go up 35-0 and then OR hit a long ball to cut it to 35-7 at halftime.  OR got a Greeneville fumble but could not score in the red zone and missed a field goal.  The 3rd quarter seemed to go back and forth and then it the last quarter a pick six and a kickoff that was not picked up cost OR two more scores. OR got a 75-yard run for a score before Greeneville tacked on those last two scores.  Obviously the first item of business if the Wildcats are to win another game this year is to eliminate the turnovers, take them out and this is a 14-14 game. Up front, the Green Devils bulldozed the OR defensive line in the first half, piling up a 136 to 3 yard advantage in rushing. No doubt the holes up front really hurts there. The lines have to get their injured guys back or if not forget about it and find guys that can play there if they are going to have a chance to even win one more game.  They also need to play harder and smarter, should never let a punt hit the return man inside the 20, and never let a kickoff roll around on the ground only to have the other team recover it for another short field score. Those are not paying attention to detail errors. If the QB throws the ball up and there are 3 dbs around the receiver, someone go for the football and pick it, don't stand there and let the receiver catch it. It was awful, it was ugly and while they may not have been able to win against a very good Greeneville team, they didn't need to get run out of Blankenship either. No sugar coating, it was bad. 

[SweetScience]

5 minutes ago, Cactus Jack said:

It's been a long time since I saw an Oak Ridge team get scragged like that at home, OR was never in it, 3 fumbles deep in OR territory, 3 quick Greeneville scores, plus one 70-yard drive and it was 28-0 with 4 minutes left in the 1st Quarter.  Things seemed to stabilize a bit after that, as Greeneville scored to go up 35-0 and then OR hit a long ball to cut it to 35-7 at halftime.  OR got a Greeneville fumble but could not score in the red zone and missed a field goal.  The 3rd quarter seemed to go back and forth and then it the last quarter a pick six and a kickoff that was not picked up cost OR two more scores. OR got a 75-yard run for a score before Greeneville tacked on those last two scores.  Obviously the first item of business if the Wildcats are to win another game this year is to eliminate the turnovers, take them out and this is a 14-14 game. Up front, the Green Devils bulldozed the OR defensive line in the first half, piling up a 136 to 3 yard advantage in rushing. No doubt the holes up front really hurts there. The lines have to get their injured guys back or if not forget about it and find guys that can play there if they are going to have a chance to even win one more game.  They also need to play harder and smarter, should never let a punt hit the return man inside the 20, and never let a kickoff roll around on the ground only to have the other team recover it for another short field score. Those are not paying attention to detail errors. If the QB throws the ball up and there are 3 dbs around the receiver, someone go for the football and pick it, don't stand there and let the receiver catch it. It was awful, it was ugly and while they may not have been able to win against a very good Greeneville team, they didn't need to get run out of Blankenship either. No sugar coating, it was bad. 

I think the last time I saw us get beat like that @ home it was 2008 in the Stanton Stevens years by a Jacques Smith led Ooltewah team. You’re right, it was plum fugly. Turnovers and injuries have completely doomed the OR team all season long.

[Cactus Jack]

Just now, SweetScience said:

I think the last time I saw us get beat like that @ home it was 2008 in the Stanton Stevens years by a Jacques Smith led Ooltewah team. You’re right, it was plum fugly. Turnovers and injuries have completely doomed the OR team all season long.

That is exactly what I was thinking about, that Ooltewah game in 2008, when only 300 people showed up for the game and they only reason that one wasn't worse was Benny Monrow called off the dogs, but it was Stanton's swan song too. 

[SweetScience]

5 minutes ago, Cactus Jack said:

That is exactly what I was thinking about, that Ooltewah game in 2008, when only 300 people showed up for the game and they only reason that one wasn't worse was Benny Monrow called off the dogs, but it was Stanton's swan song too. 

Yeah that pretty much capped off his short tenure at OR. Hopefully the Cummings tenure doesn’t result in the same abrupt ending.

[blitzinbuc]

13 minutes ago, SweetScience said:

Yeah that pretty much capped off his short tenure at OR. Hopefully the Cummings tenure doesn’t result in the same abrupt ending.

I have no dog in the race, but Cleveland fans predicted OR fans would be ready to fire Cummings after the second year. 

[SweetScience]

9 minutes ago, blitzinbuc said:

I have no dog in the race, but Cleveland fans predicted OR fans would be ready to fire Cummings after the second year. 

I’m not ready for that yet, at all. The guy inherited a 3-8 team, and  is implementing a whole new philosophical approach, not to mention a culture change. It’s gonna take more than one or two years before I even come close to making that kind of call. 

Edited October 8, 2022 by SweetScience

[blitzinbuc]

6 minutes ago, SweetScience said:

I’m not ready for that yet, at all. The guy inherited a 3-8 team, and  is implementing a whole new philosophical approach, not to mention a culture change. It’s gonna take more than one or two years before I even come close to making that kind of call. 

He left a bad taste in the mouths of Cleveland fans early on. 
I think most any decent coach deserves 3 years to see what they can do. 

[SweetScience]

3 minutes ago, blitzinbuc said:

He left a bad taste in the mouths of Cleveland fans early on. 
I think most any decent coach deserves 3 years to see what they can do. 

Agreed buddy.