Kyle Tucker of SEC Country looks at the Kentucky Football defensive secondary and says there is no way they should be this bad in Mark Stoops 5th year.
In relation to the Ole Miss game last night, they just have to be better.
It was a spectacular play, no real shame in being on the losing end of that one, but it was yet another twist of the knife in a wound the Wildcats just can’t seem to close. Ole Miss 37, Kentucky 34 served as a bitter reminder that in Year 5 under a head coach whose specialty is tutoring defensive backs, the Cats are helpless to defend the pass.
“You know, there’s only so many things you can do,” said a defeated-sounding Mark Stoops of his secondary Saturday night. “I mean, we tried rolling [coverage]. We tried playing zone. We tried playing man. We tried pressing. We tried playing off. We tried a bit of everything.”
None of it worked — in this game or really any others so far this season. Kentucky came into this game 6-2 in spite of its pass defense and exited 6-3 and mathematically eliminated from the SEC East race because of a hapless secondary.
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DK METCALF … FOR THE WIN!!!@OleMissFB takes a 36-34 lead with 5 seconds left in the game. pic.twitter.com/hcFHnLpDrZ
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) November 4, 2017
