The House of Blue

Never said the refs were the cause of the defeat. What I said is you have to adjust to the way they are calling the game. Big Difference.

Our backs played very well sans the fumbles. The first man never took them down and they averaged 8 yards+ a carry collectivelly.

The first fumble is how most fumbles happen. Sanders was fighting for more yards. Sanders looked damn good. He was faster and much quicker.

Williams looked good too catching the ball and running. His fumble actually wasn't a fumble. I slowed it down and his knee was down for at least 3 slow mo frames before the ball came out.

In terms of the defense it boils down to three issues.

A. The reason uofl ran the ball so well in the first half is simple. They had us outflanked on every play due to is being lost in terms of how to adjust when they changed the strength of their formation. We were lost. In the second half we adjusted and that helped.

B. our play at will linebacker was awful. This hurt us in the run game and pass game. No more needs to be said

C. Lastly, uofl passed the ball so well because we were terrible in our Pass
Rush and our young db's. You can't ask young db's to play coverage for 5 seconds.

I am most worried about #3. We have to generate a Padd rush.

Wrong.... In 2009 DeQuin Evans finished 7th in the SEC in sacks.

I thought sanders looked good as well. Great bursts of speed.

Honestly, I think the 2 fumbles came more from great plays by the Louisville defense, putting their nose on the ball, then really anything wrong the rbs did. But yes they still HAVE to protect the ball.

Cobble got PISSED in the second half and really started making some plays, I
Hope that rolls over into the rest of the season.

Defense, face palm. Need lbers to scrape and play downhill and the corners to wake the heck up.

In regards to your B. post - this is what happens when the coaching staff puts a player at that position 2 weeks prior to first game when the player didn't practice or play that position prior to that. Kid went out and did the best he could with that kind of preparation, yet everyone wants to chew him up and spit him out! And some are voting to put the player he was trying to replace back in there. No doubt the kid struggled there. What do you think his comfort zone was with that kind of preparation. At this level you have not time to think. You gotta read the offense and react. Looked like at times he got caught thinking. So is that really his fault with 2 weeks of prep? Others want to say he played soft. It's hard to play aggressive when you are not comfortable with the position. On top of that, there was so much confusion on the plays being called by the ML that were incorrect plays. Go out and read/listen to our ML himself this week. He took it on him and stepped up and said he struggled making the reads and calls.. if the other LB's are getting wrong calls (which some of them knew were wrong) or delayed calls would that not impact your speed, reaction and aggressiveness?! I am not making excuses for either of our WIL LB's. I am just saying I think (IMO) that many are being to rough on them. And do they deserve a chance to redeem themselves. I would say yes, but unfortunately may never get it. And now with a "simplified" defense we plan to go to this week, that would be the time to give them a chance at redemption. Coaches would know early if they can do it. If not, don't go the whole game. Sub in and move on. Doesn't matter my opinion or anyone else other than the coaches. We will see what the young guys can do.

Those two fumbles and the missed field goal made about half of the yardage that UKs offense gained worthless. Ball security is of paramount importance. Turn overs are game killers.

I doubt UK could have won the game because of the way their defense stunk up the field but they IMO should have put 30 plus points on the board if they had maintained ball security and hit that easy FG chance.

Production in games is more difficult than in practice.

Williams and Sanders have performed well in practice with respect to fumbling. Every back is going to fumble in a game from time to time. Williams and Sanders fumbles in this game are not indicative of something bad.

Gainer and Russell didn't produce in practice, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they produced fumbles in practice. There is no reason to expect BETTER in a game.

I just don't see any evidence to support the claim that some how Sanders and Williams are getting a better deal than Gainer and Russell.

Louisville had one Or two fumbles. Difference? They recovered their's because they happened close to the Los. Our's Happened way down field and that's why we couldn't recover. I might add, after watching coshik's it actually wasn't a fumble. His knee was down for 3 Frames in my slow mo before the ball came out.

IMO it's time to let this one go guys. On to the next one.