October 16, 2025 • 14 mins
Wildcat Whip with Tom Leach, Jeff Piecoro & Dick Gabriel
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Wildcat Whip, Tom Leachs. Jeff Accourier truly did, Gabriel.
Let's talk about Kentucky Texas football. The long Horns appearing
at I keep wanting to say Commonwealth Stadium. And that's
how old this team is in terms of the uh,
the tradition of Texas football. But it's Kroger Field, Saturday
(00:23):
Night's supposed to be a nice day. It could be
a little rain.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In the forecast, TG said it's not going to rain
till after the game.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Uh huh. So we can hold him to that.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We will, Yes, we can.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I know you will.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Anyhow, I keep flashing back, Jeff, to last year, and
I've talked to you about this on my show, that
one moment during the game, early in the game. And
you guys, of course, study all week, you prepare your chart,
you write everything down. But when you first eyeballed that
Texas O line, you were you were speechless. You were
stammering about how big they were. Yeah, same thing this year.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right, Yeah, and even a freshman. And they're starting a
freshman on the left side at guard and he's what
six seven three forty nine or something. It's just it's amazing.
And again it's everything's bigger in Texas. Yeah, And it's
like you always say, it's about the Jimmy's and Joe's,
you know, not the ex'es and o's. And when you've
got depth like that, and that's the thing Tom and
I think. Look, Kentucky's come up several degrees and what
(01:21):
the backups used to be to now. But when you
talk about the elite teams, and Texas is one of those,
obviously the preseason number one. They've been to the semi
finals in the tournament the last two years. They're just
really good. The top forty four players on both sides
of the ball are just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
They do have a little bit of an injury issue.
Their availability report came out Wednesday night, the first one
they're starting centers out. I was reading about the Longhorns
this week. In it, I think there was a thought
that CJ. Baxter was going to get back their best
running back. Now he's doubtful on the availability report. And
then a couple of other guys that are in the rotation,
(02:01):
like a DV and a wide receiver, so they're a
little ding dup fors Kentucky is pretty much everybody that
they're counting on is is good to go. Waller's back
and uh the gallons should be available.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So think about it. I think a half dozen kids
with their backups for the most part.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But remember last year Kentucky gets the strip sack for
the touchdown. Oh yeah, and they're I mean, it wasn't
a blow. It was a close game the entire game.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The one thing the Cats couldn't get in that game
was explosive. Now when when uh Cutter comes in, he
does make a nice a couple of nice throws down
the field. One I remember on the sidelines a really
nice pass to tight end. I think it was Joshkatis
who caught that one. But they're gonna have to have that.
And the one thing Texas does every game, they're going
to take about eight shots eight to ten shots down
(02:50):
the field. And they're they're old school. They play it
too deep like a Tampa two. The their their safety
stay on this and they don't play a lot of
man because they're so good in what they do and
their front is so good you don't have time to
get deepasses down the field because they're all over the quarterback.
They're an aggressive defense, you jump.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
From offense to defense taking those shots down the field.
Do you think we see more mando man? You guys
haven't met with Brad White yet and he doesn't give
you the game plan on the record, but if we
see more man to man in Kentucky, that makes arch
Manning much more dangerous to run the football on a
broken play or design play.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, in Kentucky's never been a big man de man team,
So the fact that they've been struggling, I would suspect
they'll probably just try to do what they normally do
and do it better. I went over for the interviews
with the defensive guys on Wednesday and Ty Bryant was
one of the guys who talked, and he said they
(03:51):
had a meeting as a whole defensive unit and talked
about some things. And I'd say that the emphasis from
Brad White was just get back to and he talked
a little bit about this when he did the Stoop
Show week before last. Just getting back to playing football
and just cutting loose and playing confidently and attacking and
(04:12):
not hesitating, and that's kind of it sounds like been
the point of emphasis. And they seem very energetic at practice.
So all of that looks good. They still got to
add and make the plays. But I think Waller back
is a big plus, huge plus. He was playing as
well as anybody in on the defense, not just the
secondary coming into the season, and so it gives them
(04:32):
kind of three essential starters to rotate among those two cornerbacks,
so they don't have to play guys as many snaps
as they have been.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Dick, I think it really you strengthen in two positions
there because Waller coming back is a huge plus. But
it also puts nickel Tyre, you know, back try and
back at you know, that third corner spot. So now
you're really kind of strengthening both if you're going to
run with the three corners instead of adding that extra
safety that comes down as well.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And if Texas has taking shots down the field, you've
got to be able to rotate those guys and get
him a blow, right correct. Yeah, absolutely, Well let's talk
about arch Manning, a guy who was supposed to be
the Heisman winner, was supposed to be the overall number one.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's a lot putting on somebody's shoulders.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It is, it is, But for whatever faults he's had
and by the way, let's go out and play Ohio
State in our first game, you know, and it was
in Columbus.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
In Columbus.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Now, to me, the most puzzling game of the year
was them losing at Florida. Yeah, that which is we
all know had its problems. But then they turn around,
come back and beat Oklahoma convincingly. And I know Oklahoma's
quarterback was coming off that broken hand, but Texas made plays.
And I'm thinking up now, they're on top of their
(05:44):
game heading into lectioning, and aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, maybe Arch's best game. Not the numbers, but he
was twenty one or twenty seven. That was got only
on her sixty six yards, but he just made good decisions.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Take him what the defense get exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And didn't try to force anything to her andovers. I
was looking at those numbers earlier today actually, and Texas
is tied for the lead and takeaways there with twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Twenty two interceptions last year, if that tells anything.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Kentucky's minus four in its last two games. So those
are two trends that they can't continue to have any
kind of a chance. So that's the first place to start,
is you know, reversing those trends, your cutter. They did
some things differently in the Georgia game, giving him some
shorter throws, safer throws, and I think that's I liked
(06:30):
the idea of doing that, especially early, to get him
some confidence. So hopefully he builds on that and just
make good decisions and find a way to maybe force
a fumble. Kentucky has not had recovered a fumble this year.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The forced a bunch. Yeah, yeah, they're bouncing the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, but maybe one of these days they bounced the
right way.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But you know, you said, let's start with Arch and
I want to go back to that, and look, the
kid's a nice quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He is.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That is so much to put on somebody just because
of your last name. And it's really it's unfair to
him because if they make it to the championship game,
and let's say they lose, you know, or if he
even carries him to the championship game, it's almost like
damned if you do and damned if you don't, you know,
because if he does it, well you were supposed to.
You're the greatest quarterback in the history of mankind. And
(07:16):
if you you know, and then if he doesn't, it's
what's wrong with arch Manning. So I just think that's
a lot to put on a kid. He's getting better,
but like Tom just said, he's not beating the team.
He's twenty one of twenty seven. We only missed six passes,
but their defense wasn't giving him those deep strikes. So
you take what they give you, which is and that
is what Cutter is learning to do. And we saw
(07:38):
that in the last couple of games where his percentage
just started to get up in the high sixties. And
that's exactly what you want from a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
To me, the danger in arch Manning, having seen him play,
not in person, but watching him against Oklahoma, even in
the losses, is his ability, good feet, his ability to
extend play.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah he's not Peyton, No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And even Peyton and College couldn't do that, didn't do
it very much. But that's been a problem for Kentucky.
His quarterbacks. Leonora Sellers did it this year, not as
much as he did last year, but yeah, mobile quarterback.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Sometimes it was with Sellers, they had it defended and
didn't finish the tackle. Yet the tackling has been an issue.
That's what it'll be. We'll be watching for I think
early in the game is to see if Kentucky has
improved in that area. You have to think with what
you look at what Red White's defenses have done in
(08:33):
his time here, and this year is an outlier if
you look at the numbers. So yeah, I would think
that over time they'll kind of get it better. May
it may not obviously be one of you know, up
there with some of his better ones, but that they
will get better, and if they do, this would be
a great place to start.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Arch Is I said as the stoops the other night,
I said, he's probably a closer to Archie is great. Yeah,
Archie brother successful.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Arch to run for his life, at least in the pros,
not so much in college. He played for a great
college team, which is why he was such a great quarterback.
But then Archie was still a great quarterback in the NFL,
but played for the worst team in the league.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, the one thing that Tom said there that I
think is the difference between Texas's defense and Kentucky's defenses.
They make tackles, they do not miss tackles. Their back
seven is ridiculously good, and their defensive backs are probably
the best position on the entire team when you're just
looking at him. They brought in a couple of guys
(09:41):
that are are the really really good five star type
players that aren't even seeing the field because those guys
are so good back there. But that's something I think
Kentucky has to shore up, is what Tom said. They
were there in position you've got to make the play.
They had Sellers caught several times. They couldn't bring him down.
That can't happen at yards after contact is huge in
(10:03):
this game. And if you said turnovers are are are
big as well.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Alex Safari has been Kentucky's most effective statistically linebacker. He
is an undersized backer. You've talked about it, Jeff all year,
a safety moved to the linebacker, not unlike Wesley Woodyard.
But Wesley was a cut above. We know that, and
Wesley was surrounded I think by probably better talent than Alexafari.
(10:27):
But I do think that the linebackers for Kentucky from
this point on need to make a move forward this year.
You know, we haven't called their names much this season,
have we.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Uh well, Afari we did with some tackles, but uh yeah,
not as much Rainer, But yeah, they've got a h
and maybe you get some other guys that will help
you too. We're seeing Watson a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, he gives a little thump.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Antoine Smith is back out there now. He was dinged
up a little bit so. And then CJ Works made
some plays in the Georgia game, and he's the guy
that obviously they're very very high on, and maybe he
continues to emerge. Cam Miller on the offensive side, that's
where I was about to bring him up off an
open date heading into the second half of the season.
(11:11):
This was your opportunity to get some guys in and
see if they can give you a spark. And Cam's
one of those guys. J Works one of those guys.
Maybe DJ Miller another receiver Wish a good size that
can you know, help you just making a few plays.
It it's the what Kentucky's really lacking is a lot
(11:33):
of the the explosive plays, not just in long runs
and passes, but explosive plays in sacks yep and getting
a strip sack fumble, and that's those kinds of things,
and that's what maybe some of those new guys can
give you a little little boost there, which would be huge.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think before we wrap this up, Jeff, we've talked
about the receivers all year. Can they get open to
they have time to get open? Last week or two
weeks ago, I thought Kentucky took a big step forward
and the pace of its offense cutter bully getting the
ball out of his hand quicker. But what does that
(12:14):
mean for the receivers Because when they've tried to go deep,
it's been rare that they've been able to get this separation,
and a couple of times they've had it and cutters missfire.
So if you're talking about step step throw, which I
think we'll see against this Texas zone, what does that
mean for the receivers.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're going to have those two guys safeties that are
going to be sitting on the hash mark. So that
alleviates the post that Kentucky likes to do a lot.
But the one thing you can do is what we
call a dig. You go down about twelve to fourteen
yards and you come across in front of the quarterback space,
so you cause you're making their eyes go horizontally instead
of vertically on the defense and you're hoping that you
(12:55):
can maybe have one guy a little deeper on one
guy underneath him, and you hit those type of passes,
you bring that guy crossed to you. As Tom Brady says,
something rip the scene. Mean that tight end goes right
up the scene and if you can draw that safety,
that's going to open up a hole for him in
the middle.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Let me he add one other thing before we close
out here. I thought this would end up on the
Steve Shaw, the National Director Officiating, puts out a video
each week and Ben Oldham sends this to a former official,
and I figured that Willie Rodriguez play would show up
on there, and it did, and he explained why they
made the right call. Huh, And I said, Willie got robbed,
(13:33):
and I still believe he did. I think it's by
the rule, and I think the officials called it correctly
in the way that they're told to call it. And
what he explained was Willy makes the catch, secures the ball,
gets two feet down, gets tackled, hits the ground, and
to me, he hits the ground and about a second later,
(13:57):
half second maybe even the ball pops out. Well, they
the by rule that he explained in this video. They
are told the officials to call it the way they
called it. If the replay overturned it, if the ball
is knock comes loose, like nobody even knocks it loose,
that's a ridiculous rule or interpretation.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
If that's in the field to play, would that have
been a fumble?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
See that's my question. If it's a fumble, then why
is it not a cat?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And why was I?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Why was I in children snut?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Thank you against Georgia. You all right, that's gonna do
it for the Wildcat Whip and we'll see you next
week right here. Thanks everybody,
Welcome to the Wildcat Whip, Tom Leachs. Jeff Accourier truly did, Gabriel.
Let's talk about Kentucky Texas football. The long Horns appearing
at I keep wanting to say Commonwealth Stadium. And that's
how old this team is in terms of the uh,
the tradition of Texas football. But it's Kroger Field, Saturday
(00:23):
Night's supposed to be a nice day. It could be
a little rain.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In the forecast, TG said it's not going to rain
till after the game.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Uh huh. So we can hold him to that.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We will, Yes, we can.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I know you will.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Anyhow, I keep flashing back, Jeff, to last year, and
I've talked to you about this on my show, that
one moment during the game, early in the game. And
you guys, of course, study all week, you prepare your chart,
you write everything down. But when you first eyeballed that
Texas O line, you were you were speechless. You were
stammering about how big they were. Yeah, same thing this year.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right, Yeah, and even a freshman. And they're starting a
freshman on the left side at guard and he's what
six seven three forty nine or something. It's just it's amazing.
And again it's everything's bigger in Texas. Yeah, And it's
like you always say, it's about the Jimmy's and Joe's,
you know, not the ex'es and o's. And when you've
got depth like that, and that's the thing Tom and
I think. Look, Kentucky's come up several degrees and what
(01:21):
the backups used to be to now. But when you
talk about the elite teams, and Texas is one of those,
obviously the preseason number one. They've been to the semi
finals in the tournament the last two years. They're just
really good. The top forty four players on both sides
of the ball are just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
They do have a little bit of an injury issue.
Their availability report came out Wednesday night, the first one
they're starting centers out. I was reading about the Longhorns
this week. In it, I think there was a thought
that CJ. Baxter was going to get back their best
running back. Now he's doubtful on the availability report. And
then a couple of other guys that are in the rotation,
(02:01):
like a DV and a wide receiver, so they're a
little ding dup fors Kentucky is pretty much everybody that
they're counting on is is good to go. Waller's back
and uh the gallons should be available.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So think about it. I think a half dozen kids
with their backups for the most part.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But remember last year Kentucky gets the strip sack for
the touchdown. Oh yeah, and they're I mean, it wasn't
a blow. It was a close game the entire game.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The one thing the Cats couldn't get in that game
was explosive. Now when when uh Cutter comes in, he
does make a nice a couple of nice throws down
the field. One I remember on the sidelines a really
nice pass to tight end. I think it was Joshkatis
who caught that one. But they're gonna have to have that.
And the one thing Texas does every game, they're going
to take about eight shots eight to ten shots down
(02:50):
the field. And they're they're old school. They play it
too deep like a Tampa two. The their their safety
stay on this and they don't play a lot of
man because they're so good in what they do and
their front is so good you don't have time to
get deepasses down the field because they're all over the quarterback.
They're an aggressive defense, you jump.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
From offense to defense taking those shots down the field.
Do you think we see more mando man? You guys
haven't met with Brad White yet and he doesn't give
you the game plan on the record, but if we
see more man to man in Kentucky, that makes arch
Manning much more dangerous to run the football on a
broken play or design play.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, in Kentucky's never been a big man de man team,
So the fact that they've been struggling, I would suspect
they'll probably just try to do what they normally do
and do it better. I went over for the interviews
with the defensive guys on Wednesday and Ty Bryant was
one of the guys who talked, and he said they
(03:51):
had a meeting as a whole defensive unit and talked
about some things. And I'd say that the emphasis from
Brad White was just get back to and he talked
a little bit about this when he did the Stoop
Show week before last. Just getting back to playing football
and just cutting loose and playing confidently and attacking and
(04:12):
not hesitating, and that's kind of it sounds like been
the point of emphasis. And they seem very energetic at practice.
So all of that looks good. They still got to
add and make the plays. But I think Waller back
is a big plus, huge plus. He was playing as
well as anybody in on the defense, not just the
secondary coming into the season, and so it gives them
(04:32):
kind of three essential starters to rotate among those two cornerbacks,
so they don't have to play guys as many snaps
as they have been.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Dick, I think it really you strengthen in two positions
there because Waller coming back is a huge plus. But
it also puts nickel Tyre, you know, back try and
back at you know, that third corner spot. So now
you're really kind of strengthening both if you're going to
run with the three corners instead of adding that extra
safety that comes down as well.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And if Texas has taking shots down the field, you've
got to be able to rotate those guys and get
him a blow, right correct. Yeah, absolutely, Well let's talk
about arch Manning, a guy who was supposed to be
the Heisman winner, was supposed to be the overall number one.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's a lot putting on somebody's shoulders.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It is, it is, But for whatever faults he's had
and by the way, let's go out and play Ohio
State in our first game, you know, and it was
in Columbus.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
In Columbus.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Now, to me, the most puzzling game of the year
was them losing at Florida. Yeah, that which is we
all know had its problems. But then they turn around,
come back and beat Oklahoma convincingly. And I know Oklahoma's
quarterback was coming off that broken hand, but Texas made plays.
And I'm thinking up now, they're on top of their
(05:44):
game heading into lectioning, and aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, maybe Arch's best game. Not the numbers, but he
was twenty one or twenty seven. That was got only
on her sixty six yards, but he just made good decisions.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Take him what the defense get exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And didn't try to force anything to her andovers. I
was looking at those numbers earlier today actually, and Texas
is tied for the lead and takeaways there with twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Twenty two interceptions last year, if that tells anything.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Kentucky's minus four in its last two games. So those
are two trends that they can't continue to have any
kind of a chance. So that's the first place to start,
is you know, reversing those trends, your cutter. They did
some things differently in the Georgia game, giving him some
shorter throws, safer throws, and I think that's I liked
(06:30):
the idea of doing that, especially early, to get him
some confidence. So hopefully he builds on that and just
make good decisions and find a way to maybe force
a fumble. Kentucky has not had recovered a fumble this year.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The forced a bunch. Yeah, yeah, they're bouncing the wrong way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, but maybe one of these days they bounced the
right way.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But you know, you said, let's start with Arch and
I want to go back to that, and look, the
kid's a nice quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
He is.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That is so much to put on somebody just because
of your last name. And it's really it's unfair to
him because if they make it to the championship game,
and let's say they lose, you know, or if he
even carries him to the championship game, it's almost like
damned if you do and damned if you don't, you know,
because if he does it, well you were supposed to.
You're the greatest quarterback in the history of mankind. And
(07:16):
if you you know, and then if he doesn't, it's
what's wrong with arch Manning. So I just think that's
a lot to put on a kid. He's getting better,
but like Tom just said, he's not beating the team.
He's twenty one of twenty seven. We only missed six passes,
but their defense wasn't giving him those deep strikes. So
you take what they give you, which is and that
is what Cutter is learning to do. And we saw
(07:38):
that in the last couple of games where his percentage
just started to get up in the high sixties. And
that's exactly what you want from a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
To me, the danger in arch Manning, having seen him play,
not in person, but watching him against Oklahoma, even in
the losses, is his ability, good feet, his ability to
extend play.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah he's not Peyton, No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And even Peyton and College couldn't do that, didn't do
it very much. But that's been a problem for Kentucky.
His quarterbacks. Leonora Sellers did it this year, not as
much as he did last year, but yeah, mobile quarterback.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Sometimes it was with Sellers, they had it defended and
didn't finish the tackle. Yet the tackling has been an issue.
That's what it'll be. We'll be watching for I think
early in the game is to see if Kentucky has
improved in that area. You have to think with what
you look at what Red White's defenses have done in
(08:33):
his time here, and this year is an outlier if
you look at the numbers. So yeah, I would think
that over time they'll kind of get it better. May
it may not obviously be one of you know, up
there with some of his better ones, but that they
will get better, and if they do, this would be
a great place to start.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Arch Is I said as the stoops the other night,
I said, he's probably a closer to Archie is great. Yeah,
Archie brother successful.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Arch to run for his life, at least in the pros,
not so much in college. He played for a great
college team, which is why he was such a great quarterback.
But then Archie was still a great quarterback in the NFL,
but played for the worst team in the league.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, the one thing that Tom said there that I
think is the difference between Texas's defense and Kentucky's defenses.
They make tackles, they do not miss tackles. Their back
seven is ridiculously good, and their defensive backs are probably
the best position on the entire team when you're just
looking at him. They brought in a couple of guys
(09:41):
that are are the really really good five star type
players that aren't even seeing the field because those guys
are so good back there. But that's something I think
Kentucky has to shore up, is what Tom said. They
were there in position you've got to make the play.
They had Sellers caught several times. They couldn't bring him down.
That can't happen at yards after contact is huge in
(10:03):
this game. And if you said turnovers are are are
big as well.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Alex Safari has been Kentucky's most effective statistically linebacker. He
is an undersized backer. You've talked about it, Jeff all year,
a safety moved to the linebacker, not unlike Wesley Woodyard.
But Wesley was a cut above. We know that, and
Wesley was surrounded I think by probably better talent than Alexafari.
(10:27):
But I do think that the linebackers for Kentucky from
this point on need to make a move forward this year.
You know, we haven't called their names much this season,
have we.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Uh well, Afari we did with some tackles, but uh yeah,
not as much Rainer, But yeah, they've got a h
and maybe you get some other guys that will help
you too. We're seeing Watson a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, he gives a little thump.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Antoine Smith is back out there now. He was dinged
up a little bit so. And then CJ Works made
some plays in the Georgia game, and he's the guy
that obviously they're very very high on, and maybe he
continues to emerge. Cam Miller on the offensive side, that's
where I was about to bring him up off an
open date heading into the second half of the season.
(11:11):
This was your opportunity to get some guys in and
see if they can give you a spark. And Cam's
one of those guys. J Works one of those guys.
Maybe DJ Miller another receiver Wish a good size that
can you know, help you just making a few plays.
It it's the what Kentucky's really lacking is a lot
(11:33):
of the the explosive plays, not just in long runs
and passes, but explosive plays in sacks yep and getting
a strip sack fumble, and that's those kinds of things,
and that's what maybe some of those new guys can
give you a little little boost there, which would be huge.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I think before we wrap this up, Jeff, we've talked
about the receivers all year. Can they get open to
they have time to get open? Last week or two
weeks ago, I thought Kentucky took a big step forward
and the pace of its offense cutter bully getting the
ball out of his hand quicker. But what does that
(12:14):
mean for the receivers Because when they've tried to go deep,
it's been rare that they've been able to get this separation,
and a couple of times they've had it and cutters missfire.
So if you're talking about step step throw, which I
think we'll see against this Texas zone, what does that
mean for the receivers.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're going to have those two guys safeties that are
going to be sitting on the hash mark. So that
alleviates the post that Kentucky likes to do a lot.
But the one thing you can do is what we
call a dig. You go down about twelve to fourteen
yards and you come across in front of the quarterback space,
so you cause you're making their eyes go horizontally instead
of vertically on the defense and you're hoping that you
(12:55):
can maybe have one guy a little deeper on one
guy underneath him, and you hit those type of passes,
you bring that guy crossed to you. As Tom Brady says,
something rip the scene. Mean that tight end goes right
up the scene and if you can draw that safety,
that's going to open up a hole for him in
the middle.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Let me he add one other thing before we close
out here. I thought this would end up on the
Steve Shaw, the National Director Officiating, puts out a video
each week and Ben Oldham sends this to a former official,
and I figured that Willie Rodriguez play would show up
on there, and it did, and he explained why they
made the right call. Huh, And I said, Willie got robbed,
(13:33):
and I still believe he did. I think it's by
the rule, and I think the officials called it correctly
in the way that they're told to call it. And
what he explained was Willy makes the catch, secures the ball,
gets two feet down, gets tackled, hits the ground, and
to me, he hits the ground and about a second later,
(13:57):
half second maybe even the ball pops out. Well, they
the by rule that he explained in this video. They
are told the officials to call it the way they
called it. If the replay overturned it, if the ball
is knock comes loose, like nobody even knocks it loose,
that's a ridiculous rule or interpretation.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
If that's in the field to play, would that have
been a fumble?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
See that's my question. If it's a fumble, then why
is it not a cat?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And why was I?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Why was I in children snut?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Thank you against Georgia. You all right, that's gonna do
it for the Wildcat Whip and we'll see you next
week right here. Thanks everybody,
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