3. Kick coverage. We have to expect Adams will play but hope we can contain him. We cannot afford a TD return in a game that’s likely to be a shootout - especially since we seem incapable of breaking one ourselves.

2. Hog Pass Rush. We need to give Garcia some easy underneath dump-offs, as well as screens and swing plays in the flats. Our UT play-calling seemed to abandon what worked against the Commodores - even though we didn’t force the Vols to prove they could beat it. Strange. I continue to think (a) combining Maddox and Lattimore in the same backfield gives Garcia an extra blocker and an extra underneath target and (b) that Garcia needs to look for DiMarco as an escape route, rather than only on designed plays. Maybe someone can straighten me out if this is wrong, though.

1. Ditto comment on having Maddox and Lattimore on the field together. It looks like we’ve shelved the wild-cock. I do like how Garcia feels confident running again. Can’t imagine we wont have 200+ total rushing yards, even in a loss.

The more we have the ball the less often they can score. I trust their offense to score more often than ours, so we need to waste clock and make each teams’ number of possessions as small as possible. Hopefully, Carolina can do that the whole game, and not have to switch to catch up mode. Every possession may be make or break.

Arkansas’ kickoff return team is atrocious…even Vandy averaged close to 30 yards per return against us. Against Auburn, it was way more than that…they had multiple returns into our territory, which was probably the biggest single reason we lost that game (our offense actually outgained theirs by a decent margin).