October 11, 2024 • 20 mins
Jeremy Jarmon & Morgan Newton preview Kentucky vs Vanderbilt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Behind Kentucky Football, presented by District seven Social
QB one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morgan Newton in the house. What's going on, man, how's
everything going on?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
What's happening? Everything's going good? Excited to talk a little ball,
a lot of good ball. Crazy crazy weekend this last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Man, super crazy weekend. Obviously, you know Vanderbilt Alabama, which
we'll get to. What were some of the storylines that
caught your attention this week, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Man, I was listening to Matt Ruhle from Nebraska talk
about how much parody there is in college football now
based on that's insane, based on the nil and he
could he attributes a lot of it to nil. But
I mean we we think back fifteen years ago when
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we played you know a lot of these teams that
we competed against on a week to week basis. I mean,
they really did stack up five star behind four star
behind five star. And I think a lot of these
guys are transferring now, so it definitely impacts the on
the field product. And I don't know, I think six
top twenty five teams lost last weekend. So it's a
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crazy weekend for you know week what is it what
are we in We we see the peaks of the season,
so it's unbelievable, Morgan, make it make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Vanderbilt after beating top ranked Alabama, they're three and two.
We're three and two with the win on the road
at Ole Miss on the road against top five top sixteen,
depending on which you know, which ranking you look at
coaches versus media, Vanderbilt twenty six votes to be ranked
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this week, UK receiving one.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thoughts on that, And it seems like UK never gets
the props they deserve in these top twenty five polls,
coaches polls. It seems like we do in basketball in
football football doesn't seem like we get the proper credit.
And and then you know, this team is a is
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a defensive led team, which you know sometimes doesn't attract
you know, pole polars and voters. So you know, I
don't know. I do think after UK's last game against
Old Miss, you know, the coaching staff came up with
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a formula to be successful and to really win games,
and one I hope to see carry on. And they're
gonna they're gonna need a really good formula coming up
against Vandy because Vandy's coming off of major maybe probably
the biggest winning their program history.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All without a doubt, the biggest winning their program history.
And it was demonstrative the way that they did it.
I mean, they had a defensive touchdown that they took
to the house. Uh, but also just offensively, it seemed
like that they got into a them offensive coordinator Tim Beck,
there were some things that he just took advantage of with,
you know, one of them being matchups. It looks like
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he caught Alabama and a lot of man the man situations.
Vanderbilt obviously their quarterback, I mean just just had a day,
had an absolute day where he was able to get
the ball into the hands of their playmakers. And we
saw the pandemonium that struck down and struck down in Nashville.
(03:31):
What are your thoughts on scene seeing the celebration there
after the game there in Nashville, tearing down the goal posts.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, good for them. I was a little confused
why they would take that goal post and dumping in
and dumping in the in the river there. That didn't
make a whole lot of sense to me. But I
know they were excited and as they as they should be.
You know, I think I saw something where coach Shaven
talks about how the visiting fans pour into that place
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and you know, we've been there a few times ourselves,
and it's a it's it's a really fun trip for
Kentucky fans to go to being in Nashville, and so
you know, Vanderbilt was excited. They were on fire, and look,
it was a pack stadium. It looked like the van
the Vanderbilt students and fans really showed up for that game.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Diego Pavia a lot of awards this past week Morgan
for his performance. What are your thoughts on him? His
journey guy it starts off and and junior college essentially
has uh no major offers. I saw a report this
week where going through the recruiting process, how he just
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did a really good job of selling himself to UH, Vanderbilt,
their GM and ultimately Clark Lee.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It just seems like a very gritty guy who just
who believes in himself. Maybe some mental toughness, uh, physical toughness,
spiritual toughness. Based on some of the words that he
said just talking about how he had watched UH essentially
he had watched he feels like the Alabama UH, the
(05:17):
Alabama game where they're upset by text saying them with
Johnny Manziel. He says he thinks he's watched it over
a hundred times and that and that he, uh, he
had a vision coming to Vanderbilt that they would slay Alabama.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, well he got it. I mean, he got it done.
You know there's something about you know, really envisioning, you
know what you're gonna do, what you're trying to accomplish
before you go and play the game. And you know
from I was able to watch some of it amongst
a few other games live and then watched it, watched
it since then many they do some really amazing stuff
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in misdirection. They do some really good stuff in the
run game, gap scheme, some scheme runs, a lot of
QB run, waggles, boots. You know, he's a big part
of what they do offensively. He's our lead, you know,
he's one of their leading rushers. I believe he might
even be their leading rusher. You know, he's I think
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everything starts and stops with him. And we've talked about
it all the time. When you're in the pack, when
you're and you've got a quarterback that can move he
can pull it down and run it. That's one other guy.
The defense it's got to account for versus when that
guy is primarily a passing quarterback.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not a very tall guy six foot. They get creative
organ on how they you know, with some of the misdirections,
a lot of eye candy.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They like to get him out in space. And to
seeing that he's averaging almost seventy yards a game rushing
the football, just seems to be a very well rounded quarterback.
How do you slow him down?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Coming off of a victory like this, you know, the
sentiment uh, and the belief in the building, it just
has to be at just record highs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean, look, getting them off the field is is
is gonna be priority number one. And in order to
achieve that, right, it's trying to put them in scenarios
where they're predictable with what they're calling and doing offensively.
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You know, if if you put yourself on their side
of the ball, if you're a Vanderbilt coach, if you're
if you are Tim Beck, right, he's talking about staying
ahead of the chains. He's talking about getting into manageable
third downs. You know, those types of things are gonna
be the opposite is what UK is going to everyoneant
to stone them on first down when they have high
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rush tendencies. You know they're gonna want to get them
in situations where you're gonna have third in medium or
further and when that happens, and it's far more on
a six foot quarterback to operate and function the pocket.
So another priority, and you know how this goes. If
you've got a shorter quarterback, they're gonna want to get
out of the pocket because it helps them see helps
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them see what they're looking at down the field. So
for a defensive group like UK, they're going to keep
him in there, keep them in the kind of keep
men that keep him in the barrel and make him
make throws out of the pocket. I mean, that's that's
going to be critical and it's going to be into
our zone coverage. So I think those are going to
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be a couple of the top priorities you know, from
Brad White and company. Get them in predictable scenarios from
a tendency standpoint, and then try to keep try to
keep that that shorter quarterback in the barrel. Don't let
him get out where he can make place and see
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things better.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just looking at some of the stats, looks like they
were twelve for eighteen on third down opportunities. More than
you mentioned keeping them off the field.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They possessed the football for forty two minutes in the game,
kept the Alabama defense off balance all day long, essentially
scoring forty points.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't think anybody saw this come now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You know we talk about it all the time. The
number one indicator winning and losing turnovers number one, not
even not even really close. But the number two indicator
is is time of possessions. Now, Hypole may not believe
that at Tennessee. You know, he doesn't prioritize time of possessions.
But you know, most offensive teams and defense, you know
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they're they're thinking about time and possesions. When you possess
the ball for forty two minutes, that's a really key
indicator to tell who's kind of in control of the game.
And you know, sometimes the score is an indicative of that.
But I can tell you that fatigue, I can tell
you that the depth, what who's who's in a rhythm
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call and plays a lot of it's indicative of who's
who's leading. The time of possession and who's in control
of the games completion.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
As a former quarterback, what is the difference between a
team playing on the road and playing at home. Vanderbilt,
there are only two losses this year on the road
at Georgia State and at Missouri. At home, it seems
like they're homing at a I mean, just they're they're
they're running this offense, they're playing well defensively at a
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high clip, and their stumbles are on the road. Is
that a good sign for Kentucky? And you know, just
talk about just kind of your perspective on road and
the road and home games.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, you know, I think for for Vanderbilt, it's unique.
Every time they leave their building, they're they're more than
likely going to a place where, you know, the opposing
fans are significantly more of an impact on the game
than the ones that they get when they're at home.
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And so I think, you know, for a lot of teams, right,
for Bamba for example, or for some of these others,
when they're at home, that gives them a distinct advantage.
I'd say for Vanderbilt when they're at home, it just
doesn't give them a disadvantage, right, It's a little bit.
Vanderbilt is unique in the conference. Now, Kentucky is a
place that is I think has a very underrated home
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field advantage, and specifically this time of year when the
fan base is engaged. You know, there's not a lot
of better places, you know, really sec Arenas then Kroger
Field when the fan base is engaged. So it's gonna
be difficult for them to have to turn around after,
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like we said, one of the biggest games in their
program's history and show up again. It's going to be
really difficult for them to do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Brad White with another great another great game plan, able
to slow down old mess at home, the top offense
and FBS, how do they get off the bus again
this week against this Vanderbilt team who seems to just
they seem to just be in a rhythm offensively.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think Vanderbilt, coming off one of
their biggest wins. Like we said, a program history really
has about five days to turn it around and play Kentucky.
Fortunately for Kentucky one of the biggest road wins in
a long long time. Kentucky has twelve, thirteen, fourteen days
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to prepare for Vanderbilt and to kind of come off
that high of winning on the road, as you will.
And so you know, you kind of hear the chirping,
you know, Brad right, coach Doops Bush. They hear the
chirping about the post bye week record and some of
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the performances after a bye and so you got to
think that the staff was looking at different ways of
how to approach the bye week and so how to
get those guys reared up and ready to go post
you know, post the buye and something. They've had some
challenges and after after the bye week in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So, you know, just a few clips we'll jump into here.
First play from first play from scrimmage, you know for
the Cats, boom, they opened this thing up right away,
getting your guy dang key involved. We've talked a little
bit Morgan about how do you get your quarterback in
the rhythm, talk about this being the first play from
scrimmage for us offensively after I believe it was a
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six play, eighty three yard scoring drive over about two
minutes for old Miss down seven nothing right off the
back at how big was you know? This first drive?
Fifteen play drive sixty three yards, you get three points.
What are your thoughts on just how they got Brock
into a rhythm early.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Man, We've talked about it for a couple of weeks now,
and if you go back to South Carolina, you know,
one of the biggest challenges I thought from being a
former quarterback is I didn't think that the team did
good enough job to get Brock and rhythm in the
passing game early. And it doesn't take long. All it
takes is a three and out and three out here
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having success running it sometimes makes it difficult for the
quarterback to get in a rhythm. I thought in the
Ole Miss game, you know, Brock and Bush did a
great job of getting the rhythm early in those scripted
those Bill Loss scripted plays to start and finding him
some completions, finding those completions early.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And they continue to just show his versatility as well
as Gavin's uh not afraid to bring Gavin in even
in the red zone on the road, first first drive
of the game. Talk about that interchangeability and and and
what kind of challenges that poses for a defense.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, I'm really interested to see how that pack, how
those packages with Gavin continue to evolve over the year.
I mean, he's a big talented guy and he can
punish you at the end of runs and really fall forward.
He's got a he's got a great skill set, and
I'd like to see them continue to obviously use him
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as a threat in the run game, but also bring
him in and see what he can do from a
passing perspective to kind of keep the defense honest.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Hadn't hadn't seen that triple option, that triple option. Look here, Uh,
you know too much, but I mean they just I
mean they're showing bush Hondens showing He's given teams all
types of looks. I feel like with you know, with
both of these quarterbacks, and you see Demi here with
just showing that burst and that speed out here in
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space being able to pick up a first down here.
He had a really good game for the Cats this
past week as well.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, this is option is a great way to attack
really athletic defensive Endsnament tournament, the types of players they
may not want to be a lot of those really
athletic defensive ends want to go and get sacks, and
sometimes the best thing you can do is make them
make them become run defenders. And that's option helps you
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helps you make those guys become run Defenders.
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Speaker 3 (17:00):
This game coming up, is it's a I mean, it
just screams flat spots for Bandy. It's scream it screams it.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But what is it scream for Kentucky? Because if there
was a chance that you were going to have a
letdown against Bandy coming off of a bye. We know
that historically Coach Stoops's teams have not played well coming
off of a bye. But don't you think that it's
probably different this week.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think they know, you know this is like they
know how they are off bys, right, somebody's told them
and and maybe it's the media.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Maybe the media has.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Told them, And I think they'll switch stuff up and
I think they're going to be trying to manufacture energy
this week going into this game. It's a critical, critical,
critical game for Kentucky. One of those pivotal games that
they have have to really win.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Seven kickoff? What do you think that the crowd will
be like in this game? Traditionally, you know the Bandy game,
it's homecoming. Uh so there'll be a lot of people
that are back in town. But with Bandy coming off
of a win over top ranked number one Kentucky coming
off of a huge win, probably the biggest win of
the Mark stoops Era at Ole, Miss, what do you
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expect the climate to be like in Lexington?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Seven forty five Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, that's a lake. That's a lake kickoff from one
for two. It's also Keenland, which you know, Keenland can go.
Keenland can go one or two ways, right. Sometimes Keenland
can mean that they're more ready for the football game.
Sometimes Keenland can mean they tired too for a long day.
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So you know, I've had several friends from out of
town reach out and say, hey, you know, keep find
his tickets. Can you find his tickets because we want
to come down and take the family to Keenlan. You
go to the game, So look, I think the atmosphere
should be pretty darn good. And then this is like
we're getting to like the last few weeks of that
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prime kind of fall weather before it gets starts getting
really cold. So it's but again, it just I really
like the spot for Kentucky. I just like the spot.
I like this whole idea of playing against a team
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that primarily wants to run it at us, Like I
just feel like we're built to stop the run and
to manage the run, be in control of the run.
They just got to keep this guy Diego from making
a lot of like second reaction plays. It's screwing the
game up.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I agree, man Morgan, I appreciate you joining us tonight.
Look forward to doing this with you again next week,
got Cats. Hopefully I'll see you at Keenelan and catch
you with the exacta at Kroger Field this Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
All right, Jermy, thanks
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QB one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morgan Newton in the house. What's going on, man, how's
everything going on?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
What's happening? Everything's going good? Excited to talk a little ball,
a lot of good ball. Crazy crazy weekend this last weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Man, super crazy weekend. Obviously, you know Vanderbilt Alabama, which
we'll get to. What were some of the storylines that
caught your attention this week, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Man, I was listening to Matt Ruhle from Nebraska talk
about how much parody there is in college football now
based on that's insane, based on the nil and he
could he attributes a lot of it to nil. But
I mean we we think back fifteen years ago when
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we played you know a lot of these teams that
we competed against on a week to week basis. I mean,
they really did stack up five star behind four star
behind five star. And I think a lot of these
guys are transferring now, so it definitely impacts the on
the field product. And I don't know, I think six
top twenty five teams lost last weekend. So it's a
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crazy weekend for you know week what is it what
are we in We we see the peaks of the season,
so it's unbelievable, Morgan, make it make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Vanderbilt after beating top ranked Alabama, they're three and two.
We're three and two with the win on the road
at Ole Miss on the road against top five top sixteen,
depending on which you know, which ranking you look at
coaches versus media, Vanderbilt twenty six votes to be ranked
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this week, UK receiving one.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thoughts on that, And it seems like UK never gets
the props they deserve in these top twenty five polls,
coaches polls. It seems like we do in basketball in
football football doesn't seem like we get the proper credit.
And and then you know, this team is a is
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a defensive led team, which you know sometimes doesn't attract
you know, pole polars and voters. So you know, I
don't know. I do think after UK's last game against
Old Miss, you know, the coaching staff came up with
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a formula to be successful and to really win games,
and one I hope to see carry on. And they're
gonna they're gonna need a really good formula coming up
against Vandy because Vandy's coming off of major maybe probably
the biggest winning their program history.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All without a doubt, the biggest winning their program history.
And it was demonstrative the way that they did it.
I mean, they had a defensive touchdown that they took
to the house. Uh, but also just offensively, it seemed
like that they got into a them offensive coordinator Tim Beck,
there were some things that he just took advantage of with,
you know, one of them being matchups. It looks like
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he caught Alabama and a lot of man the man situations.
Vanderbilt obviously their quarterback, I mean just just had a day,
had an absolute day where he was able to get
the ball into the hands of their playmakers. And we
saw the pandemonium that struck down and struck down in Nashville.
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What are your thoughts on scene seeing the celebration there
after the game there in Nashville, tearing down the goal posts.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, good for them. I was a little confused
why they would take that goal post and dumping in
and dumping in the in the river there. That didn't
make a whole lot of sense to me. But I
know they were excited and as they as they should be.
You know, I think I saw something where coach Shaven
talks about how the visiting fans pour into that place
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and you know, we've been there a few times ourselves,
and it's a it's it's a really fun trip for
Kentucky fans to go to being in Nashville, and so
you know, Vanderbilt was excited. They were on fire, and look,
it was a pack stadium. It looked like the van
the Vanderbilt students and fans really showed up for that game.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Diego Pavia a lot of awards this past week Morgan
for his performance. What are your thoughts on him? His
journey guy it starts off and and junior college essentially
has uh no major offers. I saw a report this
week where going through the recruiting process, how he just
(04:47):
did a really good job of selling himself to UH, Vanderbilt,
their GM and ultimately Clark Lee.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It just seems like a very gritty guy who just
who believes in himself. Maybe some mental toughness, uh, physical toughness,
spiritual toughness. Based on some of the words that he
said just talking about how he had watched UH essentially
he had watched he feels like the Alabama UH, the
(05:17):
Alabama game where they're upset by text saying them with
Johnny Manziel. He says he thinks he's watched it over
a hundred times and that and that he, uh, he
had a vision coming to Vanderbilt that they would slay Alabama.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, well he got it. I mean, he got it done.
You know there's something about you know, really envisioning, you
know what you're gonna do, what you're trying to accomplish
before you go and play the game. And you know
from I was able to watch some of it amongst
a few other games live and then watched it, watched
it since then many they do some really amazing stuff
(05:55):
in misdirection. They do some really good stuff in the
run game, gap scheme, some scheme runs, a lot of
QB run, waggles, boots. You know, he's a big part
of what they do offensively. He's our lead, you know,
he's one of their leading rushers. I believe he might
even be their leading rusher. You know, he's I think
(06:17):
everything starts and stops with him. And we've talked about
it all the time. When you're in the pack, when
you're and you've got a quarterback that can move he
can pull it down and run it. That's one other guy.
The defense it's got to account for versus when that
guy is primarily a passing quarterback.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Not a very tall guy six foot. They get creative
organ on how they you know, with some of the misdirections,
a lot of eye candy.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They like to get him out in space. And to
seeing that he's averaging almost seventy yards a game rushing
the football, just seems to be a very well rounded quarterback.
How do you slow him down?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Coming off of a victory like this, you know, the
sentiment uh, and the belief in the building, it just
has to be at just record highs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean, look, getting them off the field is is
is gonna be priority number one. And in order to
achieve that, right, it's trying to put them in scenarios
where they're predictable with what they're calling and doing offensively.
(07:29):
You know, if if you put yourself on their side
of the ball, if you're a Vanderbilt coach, if you're
if you are Tim Beck, right, he's talking about staying
ahead of the chains. He's talking about getting into manageable
third downs. You know, those types of things are gonna
be the opposite is what UK is going to everyoneant
to stone them on first down when they have high
(07:50):
rush tendencies. You know they're gonna want to get them
in situations where you're gonna have third in medium or
further and when that happens, and it's far more on
a six foot quarterback to operate and function the pocket.
So another priority, and you know how this goes. If
you've got a shorter quarterback, they're gonna want to get
out of the pocket because it helps them see helps
(08:11):
them see what they're looking at down the field. So
for a defensive group like UK, they're going to keep
him in there, keep them in the kind of keep
men that keep him in the barrel and make him
make throws out of the pocket. I mean, that's that's
going to be critical and it's going to be into
our zone coverage. So I think those are going to
(08:32):
be a couple of the top priorities you know, from
Brad White and company. Get them in predictable scenarios from
a tendency standpoint, and then try to keep try to
keep that that shorter quarterback in the barrel. Don't let
him get out where he can make place and see
(08:53):
things better.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just looking at some of the stats, looks like they
were twelve for eighteen on third down opportunities. More than
you mentioned keeping them off the field.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They possessed the football for forty two minutes in the game,
kept the Alabama defense off balance all day long, essentially
scoring forty points.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't think anybody saw this come now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You know we talk about it all the time. The
number one indicator winning and losing turnovers number one, not
even not even really close. But the number two indicator
is is time of possessions. Now, Hypole may not believe
that at Tennessee. You know, he doesn't prioritize time of possessions.
But you know, most offensive teams and defense, you know
(09:45):
they're they're thinking about time and possesions. When you possess
the ball for forty two minutes, that's a really key
indicator to tell who's kind of in control of the game.
And you know, sometimes the score is an indicative of that.
But I can tell you that fatigue, I can tell
you that the depth, what who's who's in a rhythm
(10:09):
call and plays a lot of it's indicative of who's
who's leading. The time of possession and who's in control
of the games completion.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
As a former quarterback, what is the difference between a
team playing on the road and playing at home. Vanderbilt,
there are only two losses this year on the road
at Georgia State and at Missouri. At home, it seems
like they're homing at a I mean, just they're they're
they're running this offense, they're playing well defensively at a
(10:36):
high clip, and their stumbles are on the road. Is
that a good sign for Kentucky? And you know, just
talk about just kind of your perspective on road and
the road and home games.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, you know, I think for for Vanderbilt, it's unique.
Every time they leave their building, they're they're more than
likely going to a place where, you know, the opposing
fans are significantly more of an impact on the game
than the ones that they get when they're at home.
(11:09):
And so I think, you know, for a lot of teams, right,
for Bamba for example, or for some of these others,
when they're at home, that gives them a distinct advantage.
I'd say for Vanderbilt when they're at home, it just
doesn't give them a disadvantage, right, It's a little bit.
Vanderbilt is unique in the conference. Now, Kentucky is a
place that is I think has a very underrated home
(11:33):
field advantage, and specifically this time of year when the
fan base is engaged. You know, there's not a lot
of better places, you know, really sec Arenas then Kroger
Field when the fan base is engaged. So it's gonna
be difficult for them to have to turn around after,
(11:56):
like we said, one of the biggest games in their
program's history and show up again. It's going to be
really difficult for them to do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Brad White with another great another great game plan, able
to slow down old mess at home, the top offense
and FBS, how do they get off the bus again
this week against this Vanderbilt team who seems to just
they seem to just be in a rhythm offensively.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think Vanderbilt, coming off one of
their biggest wins. Like we said, a program history really
has about five days to turn it around and play Kentucky.
Fortunately for Kentucky one of the biggest road wins in
a long long time. Kentucky has twelve, thirteen, fourteen days
(12:49):
to prepare for Vanderbilt and to kind of come off
that high of winning on the road, as you will.
And so you know, you kind of hear the chirping,
you know, Brad right, coach Doops Bush. They hear the
chirping about the post bye week record and some of
(13:10):
the performances after a bye and so you got to
think that the staff was looking at different ways of
how to approach the bye week and so how to
get those guys reared up and ready to go post
you know, post the buye and something. They've had some
challenges and after after the bye week in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So, you know, just a few clips we'll jump into here.
First play from first play from scrimmage, you know for
the Cats, boom, they opened this thing up right away,
getting your guy dang key involved. We've talked a little
bit Morgan about how do you get your quarterback in
the rhythm, talk about this being the first play from
scrimmage for us offensively after I believe it was a
(13:52):
six play, eighty three yard scoring drive over about two
minutes for old Miss down seven nothing right off the
back at how big was you know? This first drive?
Fifteen play drive sixty three yards, you get three points.
What are your thoughts on just how they got Brock
into a rhythm early.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Man, We've talked about it for a couple of weeks now,
and if you go back to South Carolina, you know,
one of the biggest challenges I thought from being a
former quarterback is I didn't think that the team did
good enough job to get Brock and rhythm in the
passing game early. And it doesn't take long. All it
takes is a three and out and three out here
(14:35):
having success running it sometimes makes it difficult for the
quarterback to get in a rhythm. I thought in the
Ole Miss game, you know, Brock and Bush did a
great job of getting the rhythm early in those scripted
those Bill Loss scripted plays to start and finding him
some completions, finding those completions early.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And they continue to just show his versatility as well
as Gavin's uh not afraid to bring Gavin in even
in the red zone on the road, first first drive
of the game. Talk about that interchangeability and and and
what kind of challenges that poses for a defense.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, I'm really interested to see how that pack, how
those packages with Gavin continue to evolve over the year.
I mean, he's a big talented guy and he can
punish you at the end of runs and really fall forward.
He's got a he's got a great skill set, and
I'd like to see them continue to obviously use him
(15:36):
as a threat in the run game, but also bring
him in and see what he can do from a
passing perspective to kind of keep the defense honest.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Hadn't hadn't seen that triple option, that triple option. Look here, Uh,
you know too much, but I mean they just I
mean they're showing bush Hondens showing He's given teams all
types of looks. I feel like with you know, with
both of these quarterbacks, and you see Demi here with
just showing that burst and that speed out here in
(16:05):
space being able to pick up a first down here.
He had a really good game for the Cats this
past week as well.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, this is option is a great way to attack
really athletic defensive Endsnament tournament, the types of players they
may not want to be a lot of those really
athletic defensive ends want to go and get sacks, and
sometimes the best thing you can do is make them
make them become run defenders. And that's option helps you
(16:35):
helps you make those guys become run Defenders.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
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Speaker 3 (17:00):
This game coming up, is it's a I mean, it
just screams flat spots for Bandy. It's scream it screams it.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But what is it scream for Kentucky? Because if there
was a chance that you were going to have a
letdown against Bandy coming off of a bye. We know
that historically Coach Stoops's teams have not played well coming
off of a bye. But don't you think that it's
probably different this week.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think they know, you know this is like they
know how they are off bys, right, somebody's told them
and and maybe it's the media.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Maybe the media has.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Told them, And I think they'll switch stuff up and
I think they're going to be trying to manufacture energy
this week going into this game. It's a critical, critical,
critical game for Kentucky. One of those pivotal games that
they have have to really win.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Seven kickoff? What do you think that the crowd will
be like in this game? Traditionally, you know the Bandy game,
it's homecoming. Uh so there'll be a lot of people
that are back in town. But with Bandy coming off
of a win over top ranked number one Kentucky coming
off of a huge win, probably the biggest win of
the Mark stoops Era at Ole, Miss, what do you
(18:28):
expect the climate to be like in Lexington?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Seven forty five Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well, that's a lake. That's a lake kickoff from one
for two. It's also Keenland, which you know, Keenland can go.
Keenland can go one or two ways, right. Sometimes Keenland
can mean that they're more ready for the football game.
Sometimes Keenland can mean they tired too for a long day.
(18:58):
So you know, I've had several friends from out of
town reach out and say, hey, you know, keep find
his tickets. Can you find his tickets because we want
to come down and take the family to Keenlan. You
go to the game, So look, I think the atmosphere
should be pretty darn good. And then this is like
we're getting to like the last few weeks of that
(19:20):
prime kind of fall weather before it gets starts getting
really cold. So it's but again, it just I really
like the spot for Kentucky. I just like the spot.
I like this whole idea of playing against a team
(19:41):
that primarily wants to run it at us, Like I
just feel like we're built to stop the run and
to manage the run, be in control of the run.
They just got to keep this guy Diego from making
a lot of like second reaction plays. It's screwing the
game up.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I agree, man Morgan, I appreciate you joining us tonight.
Look forward to doing this with you again next week,
got Cats. Hopefully I'll see you at Keenelan and catch
you with the exacta at Kroger Field this Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
All right, Jermy, thanks
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