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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-29-2006, 03:43 PM:
 
mike archer has had a lot of criticism thrown at him this year but today he had a great game plan and his defensive players followed that plan to a letter. hopefully he will get some love by all the great kentucky fans...
 

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Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 12-29-2006, 03:45 PM:
 
I loved the announcers commenting that if KY was the 100 and whatever ranked defense in the country that the stats were'nt completely accurate.

They had big stops against the run today!
 

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Posted by eleem (Member # 884) on 12-29-2006, 03:53 PM:
 
I agree catman let's give Mike some credit he has
paid a big price for. Things should be a lot
better next year. GO CATS
 

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Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 12-29-2006, 04:00 PM:
 
For a few minutes there in the third quarter I was beginning to think that our rush defense looked as good as the Steelers in the last few years.

YOu had to runningbacks who averaged almost 200 yards a game all season long and I don't think either one of them got over 100 yards.

LIke I told my family while we were watching the game, If we could be a 2 score or better team into the second half they would have to pass the ball more and go away from the run game. It worked to our advantage!!!
 

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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-29-2006, 04:23 PM:
 
i think one of the things that has hurt our defense in the past few years is that we have had to use a lot of our scholarships on the offensive side of the ball. i'm not saying this is wrong it isn't, but it has hurt the defensive side. archer now can really start building the numbers with our scholarships back to normal. numbers are so important in the sec as there are so many injuries. we now have loi's for a dozen freshman coming in next year that are defensive players!
 

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Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 12-29-2006, 04:26 PM:
 
Depth has been a big problem at KY for decades! It will be good to see some depth on the defense.

It's always been a thing that our starteers could usually compete with anyone else in the SEC it was our reserves that hurt us!
 

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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-29-2006, 04:50 PM:
 
right on mh! numbers are sooo important.
 

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Posted by ALA_KAT2 (Member # 1559) on 12-29-2006, 07:58 PM:
 
The defense played very good for most of the game, and I'll give Archer some credit for that. But what I do not understand is why any team goes to the "prevent" defense just to let the other eam have easy scores. On Clemson's last score, we put NO PRESSURE on their quarterback, dropping everyone into deep coverage, just to give him ample time to pick out an open receiver.

To UK's credit though, we had built up a 16 point margin that was too large for Clemson to overcome.

Great win for the Cats, and it feels good having the national media talk about our win and how Brooks is building the program up.
 

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Posted by rmckenz (Member # 520) on 12-30-2006, 05:49 AM:
 

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i think one of the things that has hurt our defense in the past few years is that we have had to use a lot of our scholarships on the offensive side of the ball.

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