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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 11-20-2020, 10:30 AM:

While the Kentucky offense has left a bit to be desired over the course of the 2020 season, their defense has been one of the better units in the SEC, holding Mississippi State to 2 points, Tennessee to 7 points, and Georgia to 14. Like Alabama, though, they got absolutely shredded by Ole Miss and the Lane Kiffin offense for 42 points. It wasn’t pretty, but that can be forgiven.

What can’t be forgiven is giving up 35 points to Vanderbilt last week. That’s.... Not good. When you almost blow a game against one of the worse Vanderbilt teams of the last decade, there’s bound to be some unrest.

Overall, though, they’re only giving up 23 points per game, 6.5 yards per pass, and an outstanding 3.8 yards per rush.

Defensive coordinator Brad White enters his second season as a playcaller after spending the first few years of his career coaching pass rushers with the Indianapolis Colts. His 2019 season saw the Wildcats hold every single opponent to less than 30 points and were at top 20 defense nationally in almost every category, and nearly every starter returned for the 2020 season.

White runs a true 3-4 defense with a focus on featuring linebackers rushing the passer from nearly any position on any given play. Along the defensive line, nose guard Marquan McCall is a 380-lb mountain of a man occupying that old “Terrance Cody” role that Alabama fans will remember from the early Saban years. 6th year senior Phil Hoskins occupies the shaded interior tackle role, and junior Josh Paschal is a big defensive end.

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