I would say that we stunk up the joint on Saturday with that showing against Kentucky. In fact, I’ll say it: We stunk up the joint.
It turns out that when you have all new coordinators on both offense and defense, and a mostly new an inexperienced offensive line you’re going to struggle. It doesn’t help probably that you’re old DC now works for your opponent, but it really shouldn’t matter.
Love him or hate him, Elko is going to go for it a lot on 4th down. I guess when it works you love it, and when it doesn’t work you hate it. At least I do. I think we were down like 14-7 or 21-7, 4th and 2 or something, at our own 30-40 yard line, and we go for it. Reed was flushed out of the pocket, or maybe it was designed that way. Either way he was throwing on the run and had a guy wide open and just missed it.
I was really surprised that our defense struggled so hard, and they struggled last week as well vs ASU even though the final score was very lopsided, I didn’t think we played that well for 3 quarters.
Reed looks like he’s regressing, back to a 50% passer. Lot of missed easy throws, lot of unforced INTs. I’m not even sure who our #2 guy is, but I won’t be surprised if he gets some playing time soon.