Just took a glance at his games after a bye week in his 6 year bowl run:
L @ Miss State
W vs Vandy
W vs Arkansas
W vs Vandy
L @ Miss State
W vs Miss State
4-0 at home, 0-2 on the road.
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L @ Miss State
W vs Vandy
W vs Arkansas
W vs Vandy
L @ Miss State
W vs Miss State
4-0 at home, 0-2 on the road.
We haven’t gotten pressure on the QB all year
This. Must run zone and tackle.
Playing ole miss will help us not be shocked by the pace.
We got some on Rogwrs last night. We were held several times through with no call. But we have to do more.
They made we didn't win last year
I meant to say the refs played a role in last years game here with obvious facemask not being called and then throwing a flag on coach for arguing about it. It was beyond pitiful.
Let's be real here. Our chances of beating UT aren't great. We need a dam near perfect game if we are to win. Good news is we haven't played close to a perfect game yet, so we are do. But sadly it's gonna take something special to take them out. They are flat out good and makes me sick to say that, but facts are facts.
That's why Ole Miss and SC losses stung so bad. We should have won both of those. Then you lose to UGA and UT and are only a two loss team. Oh well, maybe we get that perfect game and can go 9-3, because even if we manage to beat UT, don't see us beating UGA
That's why Ole Miss and SC losses stung so bad. We should have won both of those. Then you lose to UGA and UT and are only a two loss team. Oh well, maybe we get that perfect game and can go 9-3, because even if we manage to beat UT, don't see us beating UGA
At the very least Kentucky should be 6-1. The Tennessee game is exactly like the Louisville game the year Lamar Jackson won the Heisman, Kentucky should go into calm and loose and see what happens
Y’all dominated time of possession last year 3-1 AT HOME and still lost.
Tennessee’s winning by at least 3 TD’s. GBO 🍊
LMAO might be one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen. GBO 🍊
Speed. That’s all you need to know. And that’s how they win. If you can’t match that speed, you have no chance. None. Nada. Never happen. You can’t turn speed on and off or use it every other or every third play. They use it on every play on offense. Their secondary gets away with a lot of holding, grabbing, physical play. I guess they can’t call it all the time. Being a realist here, this one had loss on it the day the schedule came out. It’s a game you play, hope you don’t get any injuries, then you move on.
We follow it up with a road game at Missouri which won’t be a cakewalk before coming home to face Vanderbilt, Georgia and Looeyville. Optimistically speaking, we go 3-2 and finish 8-4. A successful season for most but I think a tad bit disappointing especially losing to a team like South Carolina. No matter the circumstances, that was the straw that broke the season. At least the season we were all hoping for.
We follow it up with a road game at Missouri which won’t be a cakewalk before coming home to face Vanderbilt, Georgia and Looeyville. Optimistically speaking, we go 3-2 and finish 8-4. A successful season for most but I think a tad bit disappointing especially losing to a team like South Carolina. No matter the circumstances, that was the straw that broke the season. At least the season we were all hoping for.
Why you gotta crush our dreams, let us live for a week first
The defensive secondary will have to defend the deep ball against TN. They have the speed to beat our db’s and a qb that can make the accurate deep throw.
I am glad we have the bye, but I cannot remember a Stoops team coming out of the bye week and playing great. Seems like we start slow and have a rough day. Hope we can keep our intensity. I mean a chance to play a top 5 team on the road should get the juices flowing. We will see. Bama could not do much with them. Brad White better have them hitting on all cylinders and lets hope Tennessee offense is on the field less than Miss State last night. That is how we can have a chance. Tennessee with only about 20 minutes of offense.
Honestly I want y’all to be good every single week of the season except the week you guys play us. If y’all go 12-1 every year with a lone loss to UT every year I’m fine with it.
As others have mentioned Stoops record is awful after a Bye week. Yes we need to heal up and Bye is Great but I don't expect Stoops to come up with some Amazing adjustments after a Bye week
Even taking just those 6 games he listed it’s not even the record it’s how they looked. We all remember what the game at Miss State looked like last season. They just didn’t look prepared or have any wrinkles. The other msu loss was 45-7. The two wins against Vandy were a 14-7 sludge and a gave up 33 points to a team that couldn’t score but thankfully it was Vandy. The other two were good outings especially the gran revamping the offense for bowden year. But even if you go back to prior seasons you could argue we didn’t have personnel but several of our out of bye weeks are marred by mistakes and ‘what are we doings?’ that you expect to have less of with two weeks to prep and rest.
Not sure how you force Hooker to dink and dunk. The UT offense typically dictates what it wants to do. It is going with those wide splits, focing the D to make a choice - do you put 7 in the box to match up with what the UT offense has in the box, and hope your DBs, which includes your safeties, to cover UT's speed one-on-one on the outside, which most teams don't have the speed in their secondary to do. Or do you bring more help outside, giving UT the advantage in numbers in the box to utilize their run game, in which thet have 3 RBs who can take it to the house on any play. And then you have to add UT's tempo into the equation.
Not trying to say UK can't win the game, only that I think UK's chance of winning will come down more to whether or not UK's offense can be explosive, more so than whether UK's defense can contain UT's offense. JMO.
1. UK defense is a good better than Bama. UT is tremendous offense for sure, best in SEC, but Bama never adjusting to covering the slot WR was rather terrible scheme was it not? Singling up their safety on #11 was just a terrible idea that they literally never adjusted from. Ajian, Zion Childress and expect to see a ton of Dre Phillips should hold up better than Bama...and we'll keep Square, Jones, Afari to help underneath.
2. I don't think UK will be able to bring a ton of pressure....we don't really even try to with our 3 man front. But UK will try to throttle Hooker on the QB runs and pitch a near shutout to the RB game. UK has been tackling in space tremendous for the most part this year. Will UT stay patient and not for go the jugular....I'll argue they are very capable of doing that but maybe at times they won't stay patient. And no matter what....UT will hit you with chunk plays.
3. It boils down to this....UT just bring pressure all the time...and UK struggle mighty vs. pressure. UT is likely to flood the box and dare UK to throw it....can CROd run into those looks? And can Levis burn Tennessee with Brown, Key and Tayvion....?
I think UK can hold UT in the 30s....can UK score in the 30s...i don't know.
2. I don't think UK will be able to bring a ton of pressure....we don't really even try to with our 3 man front. But UK will try to throttle Hooker on the QB runs and pitch a near shutout to the RB game. UK has been tackling in space tremendous for the most part this year. Will UT stay patient and not for go the jugular....I'll argue they are very capable of doing that but maybe at times they won't stay patient. And no matter what....UT will hit you with chunk plays.
3. It boils down to this....UT just bring pressure all the time...and UK struggle mighty vs. pressure. UT is likely to flood the box and dare UK to throw it....can CROd run into those looks? And can Levis burn Tennessee with Brown, Key and Tayvion....?
I think UK can hold UT in the 30s....can UK score in the 30s...i don't know.
It probably wouldn’t work, but trying is better than watching him hit 50 yard bombs to Hyatt and Tillman all game
This game would be a good time for the o-line to have their best performance, and for CROD to step up again
Ball control, Hooker can't complete passes if he doesn't have the ball. UK frustrated Miss St's experienced QB, can do the same with TN's. My biggest concern is SEC stripes continuing to allow the cheap shots on Levis. That and the inevitable "Knoxville effect" on stripes...a 17 penalty repeat would seem likely.
I understand the reasoning, just not sure how a D can implement it. So far this season, the occasional lulls in UT's offense have been of their own making - a TO, a penalty putting the offense behindbthe chains, missed throws, etc.
Watching yall's game against MSU last night I thought Leach called a horrible offensive game. After running the ball I think 37 times agsinst Arkansas with great success, which was a nice complement to his air raid, he inexplicably went away from the run game last night, handing the ball off only 7 times, making that offense one dimensional without the UK D having to try to do it. Heupel is much more aggressive than Leach in how he attacks a defense.
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I honestly don’t know how Kentucky defends Tennessee, the offense has to help some, and maybe have to get some turnovers which hooker rarely does
They lost by 3 which is Kentuckys fault, but that’s our point controlling the clock is our best bet of staying in the game
Speaking of allowing cheap shots on Levis. Didn’t you love that they reviews Smiths hit on the MSU receiver bc he was wrapped up and sling around (even tho his feet was still under him)….yet Levis was airborne and about to hit the ground and an identical but much more vicious and actual head to head spear happened that resulted in a key fumble and no review “just to see” (which they can do at anytime flag thrown or not).
you think if they were going tk review one and not the other it would have been the bigger collision on a QB and not the glancing blow in a WR
Which gave UK their best chance to win, thanks for making my point.
Just curious why are you here trolling if you are so confident in winning, why waste time coming to a Kentucky board
I think it might be time for our Vol visitors to take a hiatus from this board.
I’m aware, but if your Tennessee fan why are you visiting a Kentucky board
That’s what I say nothing to lose in the grand scheme play to win. Be aggressive and have fun.
But we won’t we will come out with our butthole so tight a fart can’t get out and we will eat eat eat clock. Book it.
