Kentucky should cover Bowers
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It's like Auburn didnt get the memo.
Bowers is big, fast, has great hands and runs excellent routes. The only thing I don’t like about him is that he doesn’t play for Kentucky.
People have been unsuccessfully trying for 3 years.
Sounds like a pretty solid gameplan to me.
He's the best in the business. Gonna be tough
Nahhh. Let’s just do what we did against Pistol Pete. Let him get his and shut down everyone else!!
Bowers is probably the best player in college football.
We don't have anyone who can cover that guy and neither does anyone else. He's an NFL All-Pro still playing in college. What we have to do is put UGa's QB on his ass so he can't throw to Superman.
You neutralize him some that definitely takes a ton away from them.
I wonder what his stats would look like if he played for Kentucky instead of Georgia 🤔
I have wondered that very thing, but not so much UK, but a coach who wanted to put up offensive stats, instead of defensive stats. UGA targeted him 14 times today, the majority in 2nd half. I think he should get 20 targets a game.
Which is why it's a good thing that we play 3-3-5 with zone on the back end and have Afari and Wallace covering short zones.
Bowers' speed is a weapon. Our safeties will have to tackle well. With Walker and Silver pushing the pocket into Carson Beck's lap, we will see what happens. I may eat these words, but Beck hasn't looked invincible so far. We aren't going to shut Bowers out. We didn't shut Ricky Pearsall out, either.
The elephant in the room is that our starting WRs Key and Brown can do our football team a big favor by catching the damned football. We score more points and these other issues become less of a concern. While stipulating that Barion is helping the offense in other ways, these two guys are committing more drops than Verizon. Key has been a no-show and it's unacceptable. You tend to overlook it when we win, especially when Ray Davis rushes for >200 yards in the first half. But our QB is struggling, and a significant part if that is due to drops by Key and Brown. That dropped TD pass by Brown in the back of the end zone yesterday was inept. And Key killed a potentially important drive by dropping a first down catch when we needed it. They aren't focusing on their job. This has been going on throughout the month of September and has become a liability for our football team. I get it that our numbers are thin at outside receiver. But what is Woody doing about this? He should require Key to carry a football in his hands 8 hours a day so Dane and the football can become acquainted.
You would just get Vandagriff instead of Beck. But you have the right idea. Getting pressure on the QB, collapsing his pocket, and hurrying his decisions, are the first steps in neutralizing a talented group of receivers. For zone coverages to work, you have to hurry the QB. We hurried Graham Mertz yesterday, especially in the first half, and we got results. Hurrying Beck is one of the keys for us next Saturday. But there are others, not the least of which is lighting a fire under our passing game and somehow waking up Dane Key.
Could you call Kirby and suggest he start doing that AFTER this Saturday? We'd be so appreciative if you did.
We really covered him well last year. We always play Georgia well. Imo this is the closest we've been to them in years. I actually think we'd win if the game was in Lexington.
I was just joking dawg, I don’t think any TE at Kentucky has been targeted 14 times in their entire career much less in one game, hence the Bowers stat line. If I had a vote he would get mine for Heisman 🍺
I believe we can win it in Athens. I'm sure Mark Stoops and our coordinators and players believe we can.
Gotta hold him to 5 catches- 50 yrds. We can't let him get loose. Being able to pressure without the help of the LBers will be key
Doesn’t work that way in football. Object in football is keeping the other team out of the endzone. Can’t let him go off and get 3 or 4 scores
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