Kentucky 31, Louisville 27: Threepeat, Baybeee!

In addition to all the players you mentioned above, I thought Sam Maxwell played an excellent game. He was always wrapping up players at the line of scrimmage or behind. I loved to seem him get that INT on the tipped ball.

Brooks should have the player’s attention this week. The turnovers, mental errors, and costly penalties, especially the personal fouls, cannot be afforded against UF

Good:

Locke (except for the fumble)

Cobb (he didn’t get the ball enough, but when he did he made it count big)

Red Zone defense

Offensive Line (Hartline never came close to getting sacked. Nice job in the running game too)

Offense (when they weren’t turning it over, they mostly had their way)

Bad:

Defensive line (almost no pressure on Burke, could not contain cut back runs)

Turnovers (epic fail in the third quarter. epic.)

Clock management (from Hartline, the coaching staff, and the damn time-keeper…SERIOUSLY!?)

Idiotic penalties (4 personal fouls? At KEY moments, too.)

Secondary (I expected better from this group)

Kentucky seemed to have some difficulty in tackling. I saw a lot of people trying to throw body blocks instead of wrapping people up.
Louisville came in to Lexington and played a good ball game. If they are going to finish as predicted, last in the Big East, then the Big East is a lot tougher than we give them credit for. Kentucky won, but I don’t think they’ll be able to give up three straight turnovers against many teams in the conference. I want to rewatch it to make a better assessment but I didn’t think either team was that good on defense. Not with that many points being scored by both teams.
We won, and that’s important.

I thought the O-line played better than any other unit. I agree with W. Weasel that I see a long SEC season ahead if the other units do not improve. I disagree about Joker. I thought he called a great game. Turnovers, missed tackles , and lack of focus were the problems today.

Locke played a good game but I disagree with Tru, he could have better protected the ball on the fumble, He did not have the ball by the point making it possible for the defender to strip it. Still, he was trying to make a play so who can complain about that?

Cobb had the play when it was needed most.
Cobbs 4th quater TD was totally the left guard—-watch the slow mo——He blocked 2 defenders in opening that hole!

 Micah played 3 bad quaters but played better in the fourth.

Lindley didn’t look like he was having fun. Maybe he is waiting on the SEC?

Fun game to watch and a win so that is always nice. However, I just don’t see this team being any better than last year.

you could tell the talent level difference when we turned on the jets, but if Hartline doesnt manage the game better, and we do not learn to hang on to the ball, we will be lucky to get that 4-8 that the experts were predicting

… one thing I should mention that I didn’t was that I though the Louisville communications between the sideline and the team were really shaky. All those early time-outs wound up really costing them.

A Special Teams miscue followed by 3 straight turnovers…
Kentucky was the better team. When the offense held onto the ball, they usually moved it — running and passing.

’nuff said…

As all of you know I am not one of you. I watched todays game and thought from everything I read before the game, it was ours by a “blowout”. Like I said I am not an expert on football, but if this was an indication of this teams ability, it will be a long year! With Florida next week-WOW

Florida is going to want to make a statement next week. Their offense was good today, no big mistakes, with the exception of Tebow’s fumble and the interception. The defensive back for Tennessee, Brown, is for real.
Everyone one that thinks the Vols are going to be easy this year got a wakeup call.
The defenses for both schools showed a lot of speed.
We didn’t see the ‘wildat’ formation today. I guess we’re saving that for Florida and Alabama.

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The Good:
1- That our overall talent level is such that we can overcome an effort like this and still come out of the game with a win. Against a team that people have heard of.
2- Cobb and Locke. Those guys are good.
3- Another Louisville coach seems to be coming unglued.

The Bad:
1- Tackling.
2- The secondary.

The Ugly:
1- Game management.
1A- The end of the first half was a complete and utter embarrassment. Hard to believe that a clock operator who had fallen asleep at the wheel actually had less to be embarrassed about than (1) whoever made that ridiculous call (Joker?) and (2) whoever executed it (Hartline).
1B- Trailing in the 4th Quarter Cobb makes a fabulous run off a screen pass to keep a go-ahead drive alive on 3rd and 10 near midfield… The problem? It was a typical “give up” call (Joker?) that Cobb just happened to miraculously turn into a first down. The play never should have made it.

Next Game:
God have mercy.

Now we can’t be critical of our coach in waiting. He is hand picked by Brooks and got the stamp of approval by Barnhart. I could have gone with a proimise that Joker will get a nice long look when Brooks retires but they didn’t see it that way.
I bet someone, somewhere, might have put their name in the pot that we might have looked at. But we don’t have to. Ours is now the head coach in charge of the offense, Poor Ole Randy Sanders is the offensive coordinator but he is the third person down the chain of command when it comes to play calling.
Maybe we’re into the old perdictiment of too many chiefs.

davw, we’re an SEC team playing the team finished next to last in the Big East. It was a win. Right on schedule for another bowl. That’s all that matters.
Was it a respect grabber?
Was it good enough effort to win against the teams in the Eastern Division of our confererence?
I’m a realist, not rah rah, and I didn’t see an effort today that will beat many SEC schools.
Did you?

While stuck in traffic…….a win is a win, but take away the turnovers and UK wins by 3 scores.

sloppy win tonight, but down the stretch i think hartline looked like the experienced qb he is and the defense made some great 3rd down stops. but as for the florida game, i think its going to be alot closer than ppl think. tennessee kept it relatively close and i believe we are a better team than the vols. what kept them in it was their running game and while our running game isnt as good as theirs, its pretty close. we have a better qbs, wrs that can catch the ball, an experienced o line, and a pretty darn good defense. so call me crazy but i think we have a shot at upseting the gators.

Florida has given up one touchdown this year. We didn’t score one last year so any this year will be extremely good.

It would have given us a touchdown just before half – no doubt! But I understand Brooks’ thinking. We can’t have Hartline taking us to the red zone and then bring in Cobb to get the score every time. We will need to do that under certain circumstances against certain teams, but Hartline and the REGULAR offense needs to be able to score when we get to the red zone too. I believe we will use the WILDCAT more as the year goes on and it will win us a couple of games where we’re not favored. BE PATIENT, YOUNG PADAWANS!