The House of Blue

No, I'm not buying this.

Reasonable points otherwise, though.

I disagree. Teddy bridge water was outstanding. He hit guys on the money all day. He may be the 2nd best qb we play all year after Aaron Murray. Make no mistake. An average qb like bray, Rodgers etc. misses some of those 3rd down throws
And we get off the field. He is very good.

We made him look good a lot today but he also played nearly perfect. Put will stein out there and take away our two/one turnovers and you have a nail biter.

I don't think UK can sustain a no huddle, 50 pass per game offense all season. I hope Joker has some other items in his play book.

UK did not rush the ball particularly well, but it didn't really seem like they tried.

UK's pass rush was weak. Got through a couple of times, but generally speaking Bridgewater had all the time in the world to throw.

UK was effective while in the no huddle at catching our defense out of position. Again, I don't think UK can do this all season and expect success.

Maxwell Smith was the right choice at QB.

He just tossed balls to wide open receivers 18/20 times, threw a good ball to a covered receiver where our CB never looked for it or challenged the WR, and he threw it away once. He had no or very little pressure during the entire game.

I'm not saying he isn't the greatest quarterback in the nation, but any D1 QB worth his salt puts up virtually the exact same numbers against UK today. He'll have to play a defense that doesn't allow him to check to his 4th and 5th read while somehow simultaneously allowing a 5 yard halo around every WR before I consider him "outstanding."

The team with the best talent won tonight.

Agreed. Max can throw the deep ball. You can tell by the way he throws other passes. He let one rip in traffic today that was beautiful. UL was keeping a safety way back patrolling for the deep ball. Which is part of the reason why the run game was effective. If we don't fumble on those two drives we probably score. Sanders looked quick today and Coshik ran effective. So offensively we'll be OK as long as the Oline is healthy and the backs improve their pass blocking.

Of course Joker can't be excused for the D. Thats pretty obvious. We've got to improve in a major way defensively. The Dline was pitiful, Bud and Simpson did next to nothing. Those are guys at positions where we need to make some plays, TFL and sacks. They did none of that. Our coverage was the worst I've seen. Passes were completed and guys were 10 yards away. I don't know if we're just slower then I thought we were, if guys were loafing or scheme wise we were seriously lacking. I'm really not sure.

Can there be a rule or something that says NO ONE in Tenn can be a UK catfan?

People had it right last year before UK beat UT. Before that game pretty much everyone was calling for Joker to be fired as he should be. Then suddenly everyone jumped back on the Joker bandwagon cause he beat a horrible UT team in the midst of an exodus. He should have been fired last year. He's a good OC and a horrible HC. Some people just don't have what it takes to be a HC. Joker is one of those people. You can see it in a lot of his interviews. He knows he's in over his head. I predicted 3 wins this year and got my head bit off for it. Nothing I saw today changed my mind on that prediction. Except maybe I was too kind. Just pathetic.

I don't care how good a QB is no one should ever complete 90% of their passes on you. That's flat embarassing! The defense looked totally lost yesterday! Brause is probably a really smart football player but he doesn't have the speed to be D-1 linebacker.Cobble and Rumph didn't even show up. The secondary well just see the 90% above. If your going to play that bad just play all young guys so they can learn in actual game situations.

On the other side though the offense actually didn't look bad. They had to play from behind all day. Smith played well even though UL knew he was going to throw the ball almost every snap. The fumbles just can't happen. Williams and Sanders are nice situational backs but not every down backs. UK has to play Clemons, Mobley and Taylor when going for the tough yards. Also thought the 0-line played well yesterday.

The most disspointing aspect of yesterday was the discrepency in level of physical play. UL was so much more physical than UK in every key matchup. Their offensive line (3 true sophmores) absolutely mauled our big, veteran defensive front. It was that way all over the field.

So tired of all this "bigger, stronger, faster" talk coming from Joker and Rock Oliver. Our guys got absolutey shoved around all day by a Big East team comprised of mostly sophmores and only 10 seniors on the entire roster.

Both Strong and Joker took over their programs at the same exact time. The direction each program has taken since that time can't be denied or argued. Strong and his staff of former UF assistants that were hand picked by Urban Meyer when he was at UF have lapped Joker and his staff every step along the way since the day they were hired.

Wasn't that way on the other side of the ball. Charlie Strong even flat said UK's offensive line won that battle. So it wasn't 'every key matchup'. It was on defense, which played a horrendous and indefensible game.

bluecatntn, you're smoking crack if you think UofL is better than all those SEC teams. Don't get me wrong, Charlie Strong has done a fantastic job, but I don't think they could beat any conference team other than UK.