Vols stat rankings update: The Heuper Drive is giving me the vapors.

Goodness. I am digging this whole Heuper Speed offense and the complementary defense. Plus, a good special teams unit and improvement in penalties and turnovers. It’s all making emotions fun again.

Offense

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High fives: I don’t think I’ve ever had this problem before. There are seven categories in which the Vols’ offense is in the Top 25, and I don’t want to write them all down. Idea: shorter synonyms. Clean, on schedule, running, scoring, total. Woo. Yeah, that’ll do it.

Attaboys (improving): Um, completion percentage?

Fix this next: The offense is still allowing an embarrassing amount of sacks. I’m flummoxed as to how the offense is so good despite wasting so many plays due to sacks.

Defense

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High fives: The Vols are third in the nation in TFLs. They’re also very good at intercepting passes and converting turnovers into touchdowns.

Attaboys (improving): Total defense (yards), sacks, and red zone defense.

Fix this next: Still more work to do on each of the attaboys, plus we’ve slipped a bit on first (and third) downs.

Special Teams

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High fives: Protecting our kickers, blocking punts, punt return defense.

Attaboys (improving): Kickoff returns, punt returns, kickoff return defense.

Fix this next: Net punting.

Turnovers and Penalties

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Penalties. Okay, so the number of penalties is improving, but the ones we do have are of larger denominations. Still, good progress this week and last. We dug a big hole early in the season.

Turnovers. Everything got better again this week, although we still have much ground to make up on fumbles lost.