Think the Bowden experiment has run its course
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Don’t forget about TBCat...he says this is the worst offense he’s ever seen. It needs to end.
Damn you have to feel dumb about now.
My favorite thread was by the guy who said we had to play a perfect game to keep it within two scores of Missouri
So many clueless dudes on here - we could throw it more - it’s not Bowdens fault we don’t- he doesn’t call plays
My favorite was UKWinsAgainYep starting two threads that both got deleted. One thread he was asking for Matt Roark because Lynn was so bad and the last one he was mad because the coaches were letting Lynn run too much because he’s so valuable. SMH
I was saying it for weeks, I couldn’t understand these people shaking in their boots scared of Missouri like they were Alabama or something
It is Bowden’s fault we don’t throw more.
He keeps gaining 200 yards on the ground, limiting our passing opportunities!
I hope we work on it during the bye week and get it corrected!
There is some logic to your line of thinking. But OTOH, Missouri is probably the best team we will face the rest of the way, and Bowden just rushed for around 200 yards against their highly ranked defense while blew them off the field.
You post too much nonsense. That's why you find yourself forced to walk it back so often.
Well, I’m good enough; I’m smart enough; and I’m darn well worth it!
[A fellow graduate of the Stuart Smiley School of Self-Esteem!].
Spot on observation. Not meant as criticism but it never fails when one makes "this is the best ever" or "this is the worst ever" comments it always goes bad,.
Bowden has force fed me crow. Love it. Keep it coming superman.
These kids are going "what the.....".
If by “original thought” you mean consistently miserable then yes- and I would imagine you know more about being proven wrong than almost anyone else on this board since it happens every week and not just “once in awhile.”
Because hes good enough, hes smart enough and doggone people like him.
If you are gonna put your opinion out on a public forum then you have to have the balls fo stand in the fire when it blows up in your face. Stop whining
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It’s because he started a thread saying we needed Matt Roark because Lynn was bad.
This door swings both ways It's silly to throw Bowden under the bus for his less than stellar play at Georgia, but it's just as silly to act like he'd be QB#1 if Smith was completely healthy. Bowden is a non-QB doing an excellent job of running a gimmick offense in the absence of a true quarterback. I'm stoked that we beat Mizzou (Barry Odom, the gift that keeps giving), but I'm not naive enough to think that you can run this kind of offense week after week with success.
Mizzou has the #10 defense in the country in YPG allowed.
That was probably the toughest defense we had left on the schedule. If it worked against Mizz it will work against the rest of 'em.
I know UK football fans have PTSD but it's OK to acknowledge that Bowden has, in fact, been pretty spectacular. Not gimmicky. Just really good.
I said on another thread that if they sit Bowden for anything other than injury, irrespective of Smith's health, it's coaching malpractice. Bowden gives us our best chance to win. Period.
Making univariate analysis of data sets based on broad assumptions is a dangerous business. You risk letting your wishes and conclusions become one and the same. You insist the following is true: #10 defense = best defense we will play
From this, you form the following syllogism:
Major Premise: Missouri has a better defense than the rest of our opponents
Minor Premise: Kentucky's Bowden Centered offense whipped Missouri's defense
Conclusion: Therefore, Kentucky's Bowden Centered offense will work "against the rest of 'em".
What that #10 ranking means is that in the previous seven games before they played UK they gave up less yards than all but 9 teams in the country. And while that can give you some idea of the team that they were before they played us, it gives you far less of an idea of who they are as they played us. That #10 ranking ignores strength of schedule, matchups, weather, schemes, and any one of dozens of other variables. Simply put, you can't look at a single (univariate) defensive ranking based on what they did in weeks ago and make assertions as to who they are now. Nor can you look at, say, Tennessee's current rankings and have any idea of what team we will meet in two weeks. (The UT team that lost to BYU has been replaced by the one that whipped USC).
It's more likely that you simply want UK to win out and you like watching Bowden run wild. (So do I, by the way). You have made the mistake of taking that one variable (#10 ranking) and building a whole fantasy around it. The truth is that we have no idea how Bowden at QB will work out vs. UT, Vandy, or UofL.
If we keep cranking out 250 yards on the ground a game I'll be stoked. But if one, two, or even all three of these teams "figure us out", I won't be surprised. One dimensional offenses are usually not long for the world. Our best hope is to move back toward something like a balanced offense as soon as Smith is healthy. Each week that goes by with Bowden at the helm is one more week for film for the team that eventually figures us out.
So what statistics do you have that would lead you to believe that a healthy Smith is our best option? Nothing against the kid but he couldn’t win the QB job at Troy. While I realize he’s been hurt, I don’t know how we know he would be a better option than Lynn. I suspect the coaching staff will make the right decision...my guess is LB is our QB the rest of the season.
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