This is going to hurt some people’s feelings.

The message board and X spent all week saying Elarbee and the OL were garbage and burnt-ass. What happened tonight is going to be really inconvenient.

Last week Tennessee gave up ten sacks against Texas and the message board fired Glen Elarbee before breakfast. The line was garbage. Elarbee couldn’t coach. Sam Pittman was unemployed. Call him. Only he can fix this mess.

Then Auburn showed up.

Inexplicably Tennessee ran for 237 yards. DeSean Bishop had 220 on 34 carries and three touchdowns. Before long somebody asked:

“Does the OL still suck?”

“Give me a status.”

Well.

Faizon Brandon started and got sacked twice on back-to-back plays. Heupel went to GMac.

GMac was sacked zero times.

Same offensive line.

Awkward.

Maybe all ten sacks against Texas weren’t Elarbee’s. Faizon held the ball there. He held it again Saturday. The game is fast for him right now. Sometimes the protection breaks down. Sometimes the freshman holds the football until the protection dies of natural causes.

Maybe Faizon needs a timeout.

Then RustyVol opened a thread.

OL needs apology

“From a bunch of yall.”

There it was.

And these fucks do not like being wrong.

The Ball Knowers got busy. One game. Still fire Elarbee. GMac and Bishop made the line look better.

Sure. Apparently GMac and Bishop blocked Auburn themselves while five enormous bastards in orange stood around enjoying the weather and girls in tube tops.

Now the escape hatch is recruiting. Elarbee has supposedly never recruited a high-school lineman who made the NFL Draft. That is an impressively specific piece of message-board folklore. Wright? Doesn’t count. Mays? Transfer. Development? Different category.

The warranty has terms and conditions now.

These fucks don’t change their minds. They just get more specific about why they were right.

Then somebody brought up Sam Pittman again.

LWSVOL body checked the user:

“Pittman is drinking beer.”

Good. Let the man drink.

Bishop had 220 yards. GMac hadn’t been sacked. Elarbee still had a job. And RustyVol was waiting on a bunch of y’all who suddenly had somewhere else to be.

Nobody has to sign.

We know who you are.

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