Three former Vols named among NFL's 25 most dominant

[sangle wang]

The Sporting News today listed the 25 most dominant players in the NFL as chosen by a panel of scouts and former coaches. Peyton Manning ranked #1 overall. Albert Haynesworth and Jason Witten also made the elite list.

The University of Miami also had three former players listed (Reggie Wayne, Ed Reed, Andre Johnson).

No other SEC team had a player listed in the group.

[BrassVols]

JW and AH in 2001 SECCG....dominant? Nice coaching Phil.

[wagee12]

As has been stated here before, PhilsVeryDoughboy's coaching career evolved to the point where he could have fallen off into a barrell of tits and come up sucking his own thumb!

[Tim Riggins]

K-Dub and Stallworth at WR and Stephens running wild at RB, we should have put up 40 on everyone we played. A couple of untimely TO's hurt us, and Chief's inability to defend a QB draw with a back-up QB absolutely killed us. With Haynesworth and Henderson as our DT's, it should have been a non-issue. That game still pisses me off and, IMO, was the beginning of the end for Fulmer, even more than the 99 season when we underachieved and failed to find a way to block Alex Brown!!

[Voluble2]

We would probably do pretty well on the all-time list as well. I can easily see Reggie White or Doug Atkins on the list.

[LegendofNation]

K-Dub and Stallworth at WR and Stephens running wild at RB, we should have put up 40 on everyone we played. A couple of untimely TO's hurt us, and Chief's inability to defend a QB draw with a back-up QB absolutely killed us. With Haynesworth and Henderson as our DT's, it should have been a non-issue. That game still pisses me off and, IMO, was the beginning of the end for Fulmer, even more than the 99 season when we underachieved and failed to find a way to block Alex Brown!!

People keep saying that but the "backup" QB was better than the starter. If whatshisname had stayed in the game we would have won easily.

I just dont lay that one on Fulmer as much as some do. Stallworth dropped a sure TD pass right before halftime, and fumbled inside the 15 in the 2nd half, and Stephens fumbled inside the 20.

They came out with a totally diff game plan in the 2nd half. No one would have seen what they did coming, NO ONE. Plus Mauck could frickin' run. The just crashed straight ahead with their huge line, and when we bunched the line to stop it, they drug that little WR named Josh something across the middle. Call out Fulmer all you want but it was Haynesworth (who has laid down before, several times in his college AND nfl Career, and Henderson's job to get off blocks). You can call out Chavis all you want as well, but he did all he could to stop it, we just cuddnt do it. Its just 2 ez for people to start calling out the coaches when their team loses. Its not always the coaches fault, and it wasnt that game, and how could that been the start of the downfall for foolmer? We went to 2 seccg's after that one.... plus blew out Michigan that year and finished 4th.

People forget how frickin' good LSU was that year. They had an outstanding O-line, RB, WR, and Mauck was a great college QB.

We won the 1st half, they won the 2nd. Just too many damn fumbles.

[SonofGryllus]

Phil vs Saban is as bad a mismatch as Carrottop vs Floyd Mayweather

[rosefeathers]

As for the 2001 SCECG, there is no excuse for the BS that went down in that game. Easily one of the five biggest choke jobs in college football in the past decade. Leggo, LSU was DECENT that year but far from great. Remember how bad we put it on them in Neyland earlier that year?

I think the fact that the Vols had three in the top 25 is a testament to how far we've fallen. We are currently scouring JUCO rosters and chasing down HS back ups for ANYBODY that can throw a ball in a straight line...and we used to have Peyton Freaking Manning and Tee Martin on the same team.

[el Jeffe]

If we had won that game wouldn't we have played for a NC? Yep, one of the biggest coaching failures I have ever witnessed. It reinforced the fact that our coaches were terrible at making adjustments during games. Phoolmore stuck to his gameplans to the bitter end, no matter what the opposition did. Also see 08 UCLA game. :appl:

[Tim Riggins]

with Saban, obviously being well coached, there is absolutely no excuse for UT losing that one. We were up 17-7 at one point and no excuses for not being able to make any defensive adjustments in the 2nd Half with the talent that we had. If Fulmer coaches the team to a win that game, he pretty much has close to lifetime equity, and he and his staff and his team could not get it done when it counted.