- Jun 10, 2014
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I have many thoughts about last night, some good, some bad.
1. Demarcus Robinson is good. REALLY good.
2. Secondary outside of VH3 is going to be 2007-esque. It's going to be like it was last night all year, where they just throw away from VH3 almost exclusively, so they need to start making some plays. Lots of raw talent, but the inexperience showed big time. Full credit to Poole for making the play on the deep ball in the 3rd OT, though, showed lots of guts to knock that one away.
3. Driskel had an awful first half, just awful. But his receivers dropping passes, the endless onslaught of deep balls, and o-line's shaky protection didn't exactly help his cause. Roper called a lot more short passes and "sure things" for him in the 2nd half, which got him more in rhythm, and he did fine after that. Only truly bad decision he made all night was the pick. The play where the UK defender dropped the pick and D-Rob caught it was actually D-Rob's fault, he slipped on his out cut and Driskel had already thrown the ball on timing. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, I guess.
4. Matt Jones is for real. Taylor did a little too much dancing in the backfield last night, and I'm sure that's why Jones was getting the bulk of the carries late in the game.
5. Offensive line is what it is. UK runs a 3-4, which can be tricky for protection because of all the blitzes, but I'm not sure why Roper didn't call a few screens to slow those blitzes down.
6. The offense isn't going to truly open up like it should until they take the handcuffs off Driskel and let him run the ball. He's a great runner, and I understand the need to keep him healthy, but they need to let him run. Just the threat of him running will open a lot more things up for us.
7. I'll eat all the crow you want for saying we would roll past UK. They came to play and almost got an historic win.
That's about it. It's such a weird time when our basketball team has an easier time beating UK than our football team, but hey, at least they still won. Obviously not thrilled about our trip to Tuscaloosa, but we'll see how this team responds and if they can correct some of the horrific mental errors they made last night.
1. Demarcus Robinson is good. REALLY good.
2. Secondary outside of VH3 is going to be 2007-esque. It's going to be like it was last night all year, where they just throw away from VH3 almost exclusively, so they need to start making some plays. Lots of raw talent, but the inexperience showed big time. Full credit to Poole for making the play on the deep ball in the 3rd OT, though, showed lots of guts to knock that one away.
3. Driskel had an awful first half, just awful. But his receivers dropping passes, the endless onslaught of deep balls, and o-line's shaky protection didn't exactly help his cause. Roper called a lot more short passes and "sure things" for him in the 2nd half, which got him more in rhythm, and he did fine after that. Only truly bad decision he made all night was the pick. The play where the UK defender dropped the pick and D-Rob caught it was actually D-Rob's fault, he slipped on his out cut and Driskel had already thrown the ball on timing. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, I guess.
4. Matt Jones is for real. Taylor did a little too much dancing in the backfield last night, and I'm sure that's why Jones was getting the bulk of the carries late in the game.
5. Offensive line is what it is. UK runs a 3-4, which can be tricky for protection because of all the blitzes, but I'm not sure why Roper didn't call a few screens to slow those blitzes down.
6. The offense isn't going to truly open up like it should until they take the handcuffs off Driskel and let him run the ball. He's a great runner, and I understand the need to keep him healthy, but they need to let him run. Just the threat of him running will open a lot more things up for us.
7. I'll eat all the crow you want for saying we would roll past UK. They came to play and almost got an historic win.
That's about it. It's such a weird time when our basketball team has an easier time beating UK than our football team, but hey, at least they still won. Obviously not thrilled about our trip to Tuscaloosa, but we'll see how this team responds and if they can correct some of the horrific mental errors they made last night.
