re: Fixating on Brian Kelly being the problem

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Amount of players has nothing to do with not playing Harold Pekins. It has nothing to do with how atrocious we are in special teams.

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I think it does affect special teams. Deeper teams have more quality guys on special teams. We have more scrubs, which affects blocking and tackling.

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No one minds losing that game but getting 40 dropped on you and not playing your best defensive player?

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He's a true freshman, maybe he wasn't comfortable with the scheme vs Tennessee?

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Your telling me you felt good about the 4th and 10 at midfield?

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step back and look at this- Tennessee, as you said, dropped 40 on us.

Maybe Kelly understood that was likely to happen, and our only chance was to score TDs, and lots of them. He left a couple FG attempts on the sidelines, and a few deep punts. Maybe Kelly wasn't playing to lose 37-24, he was playing to win 41-37. To get to that, you have to score TDs on a lot of drives.

I hated the sack on 4th down, but I don't mind him going for it. We were down 20-7, it was under 30 seconds on the clock, and we were on Tennessee's 45. 2 plays earlier, we missed a possible TD to Jenkins by inches... it may have been tipped, but Jenkins got both hands on it in stride. We score a TD on that drive, and it's similar to the Auburn game- we play terrible most of the half, but game's in reach at the break.
It didn't work.

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Quickly someone tell Heupel to bench his best defensive player and start going for retarded fourth downs

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I don't think Heupel cares that much about his defense, to be honest. And I do seem to remember them going for it against Ole Miss last year, in a similar type of game... they did better than we did, and the score was closer. But they lost and the stadium threw mustard bottles and golf balls.