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RedwoodHigh

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Yes the early holding call hurt especially when we got a first down in Tn territory.
The interception was bad timing .
The missed Pass interference call in Red Zone was a momentum killer.
But Tenn has a football STADIUM & 105,000 screaming fans. But don’t let the Vols beat us twice.
Let’s take the L & move on to pounding the Gators Next Saturday.
Missouri looks tough & Louisville will be ready. 10 -2 is still possible.
Go Kats💙
 

BBN-N-WI

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My issue is the timing of penalties. Our BS penalties killed the drive. Theirs did not. Didn’t seal the victory for them. I still feel we beat ourselves. 100% feel like our lack execution cost us the game. We were the better team. We have let next week. We win. But we don’t. So we lost. Still in good shape for the playoffs layoffs. Can easily win the next 3. Games wanted this one bad. Just didn’t get it. Can’t stand UT.
 

Cats_2010

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My issue is the timing of penalties. Our BS penalties killed the drive. Theirs did not. Didn’t seal the victory for them. I still feel we beat ourselves. 100% feel like our lack execution cost us the game. We were the better team. We have let next week. We win. But we don’t. So we lost. Still in good shape for the playoffs layoffs. Can easily win the next 3. Games wanted this one bad. Just didn’t get it. Can’t stand UT.
I’m with you. We did beat ourselves. Horrible defensive call on a first down play leading to their first TD. Horrible pass by Minchey. Holding by right tackle call on a sweep run to the left. Fumble by Barnes. Multiple bubble screens for some odd reason when it was apparent they were shutting that down. Malachi Wood falling asleep and letting his man run by him untouched for a sack and forced fumble. Just really bad play calling tonight in the 2nd half. Hate we lost 34-6 but that score was not indicative of how we played. I know one thing. If I’m stein I’m remembering that last TD and first chance I get I’m running the score on Huepples *** and will tell him about it afterwards.
 

Omega_X

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Brother we got our assed blasted yeah they made some bad calls but they were just much better than us
I really don’t even think they are. I’ve seen every game of both teams all year. That first half we were clearly better than them. The penalties and turnovers killed us. Plus the refs. We had double time of possession and a lot more yards. Half of their first half yards came on the one long run. That one play hurt. It should have been tied at half.

The score looks bad but their last few touchdowns they scored it was clear our defense had quit.

UTjr is not as good as the score showed. Their record is a product of their schedule. They got every single one of their tough games at home. South Carolina is the only team even remotely decent they played on the road and they lost.
 

Jazzycat

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Turnovers hurt badly and UK could not move the ball. UT had a chip on their shoulder about UK doing well and put all their eggs in one basket. Let’s see how they play from here on out. UK needs to learn from this and win 2 of the next 3. Still an incredible season, folks.
 

Cats_2010

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I really don’t even think they are. I’ve seen every game of both teams all year. That first half we were clearly better than them. The penalties and turnovers killed us. Plus the refs. We had double time of possession and a lot more yards. Half of their first half yards came on the one long run. That one play hurt. It should have been tied at half.

The score looks bad but their last few touchdowns they scored it was clear our defense had quit.

UTjr is not as good as the score showed. Their record is a product of their schedule. They got every single one of their tough games at home. South Carolina is the only team even remotely decent they played on the road and they lost.
Their road games for the year, Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Vandy. Arkansas gave them all they wanted, lost at USCjr and wouldn’t surprise me to see them go down next week at A&M.

We did a good job on the defensively last night sans a couple plays here and there. They out gained us by 28 yards but had several more explosive plays than we did and they aren’t an explosive team. Not sure what the hell we were doing with a corner blitz on first down that gave them their first TD. Just a very bad defensive call there. We played like total trash, credit to UT’s defense for that, but was still a one score game when their player jumped offsides (with no call) and sacked Minchey for the fumble. That turned the game and we never recovered. They aren’t better than us. We win 6 out of 10 IMO but they got the one that counted, so be it.
 
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They come to our board bragging, the funny part is they think they're a football power that is still relevant. I always got a big laugh out of Spurrier beating their asses & making fun of fat Phil & Manning. He was once asked why Manning came back for his senior year & his response was "so he can be the only 2 time MVP of the citrus bowl" 🤣🤣
 

theBlues

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Kentucky did not lose because of the refs but two things can be true at once...the refs and Kentucky both sucked last night. With fair officiating Kentucky might have lost by 18 instead of 28.
 

Chadrock

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Kentucky did not lose because of the refs but two things can be true at once...the refs and Kentucky both sucked last night.
True - my favorite non call was when their #4 caught a pass, got pushed out of bounds and threw three punches I could count before he got back to their huddle.
 
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theBlues

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True - my favorite non call was when their #4 caught a pass, got pushed out of bounds and threw three punches I could count before he got back to their huddle.
yeah, I saw that one; somehow the play being called a no play meant the personal foul didn't happen either lol
 
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FunkyFatCan

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hard to blame the refs when you lose by 4 TDs. TOs killed us pure and simple. Offense produced yards, did well enough on 3rd down and still got run out of the stadium.
 
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K_TIME

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hard to blame the refs when you lose by 4 TDs. TOs killed us pure and simple. Offense produced yards, did well enough on 3rd down and still got run out of the stadium.
I get the point but…..

what if Ky doesn’t have 2 holding calls in first qtr …both if which negated first downs…no replay I saw on either to show how legitimate

what if pass interference was called end of first half (and it was pretty blatant)..hell that alone would have 10-10 at half vs 10-6

If we call a blatant offside that was 100% reason for a strip sack at end of 3rs qtr. the game was 13-6 at that point

If officiating was even to start the game the entire game would be different vs Ky letting go of the rope. Tennessee would have had to make their qb do more Va just run the ball

I ain’t going to say we lost on officiating….but I damn sure wasn’t close to even and did alter the game…and Kyn isn’t good enough to overcome that yet
 

Chadrock

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I get the point but…..

what if Ky doesn’t have 2 holding calls in first qtr …both if which negated first downs…no replay I saw on either to show how legitimate

what if pass interference was called end of first half (and it was pretty blatant)..hell that alone would have 10-10 at half vs 10-6

If we call a blatant offside that was 100% reason for a strip sack at end of 3rs qtr. the game was 13-6 at that point

If officiating was even to start the game the entire game would be different vs Ky letting go of the rope. Tennessee would have had to make their qb do more Va just run the ball

I ain’t going to say we lost on officiating….but I damn sure wasn’t close to even and did alter the game…and Kyn isn’t good enough to overcome that yet
And you could come up with more of these non UK officiating decisions…we aren’t there yet but I trust CWS will have us in better positions in the future to not be blatantly screwed as we have always been.
 
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Cats_2010

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I get the point but…..

what if Ky doesn’t have 2 holding calls in first qtr …both if which negated first downs…no replay I saw on either to show how legitimate

what if pass interference was called end of first half (and it was pretty blatant)..hell that alone would have 10-10 at half vs 10-6

If we call a blatant offside that was 100% reason for a strip sack at end of 3rs qtr. the game was 13-6 at that point

If officiating was even to start the game the entire game would be different vs Ky letting go of the rope. Tennessee would have had to make their qb do more Va just run the ball

I ain’t going to say we lost on officiating….but I damn sure wasn’t close to even and did alter the game…and Kyn isn’t good enough to overcome that yet
Great post. Some of these idiots on this board can’t use deductive reasoning to come to such realizations. Pointing out officiating that did not go in our favor vs blaming officiating for the loss is two totally separate things but beyond the pay grade for some. That strip sack alone toward the end of the 3rd changed the trajectory of the game. We didn’t lose because of that but it sure helped TN cruise to a victory. TN takes over inside our 40 instead of us having 3rd and 3 just across midfield in a one score game.
 
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K_TIME

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Great post. Some of these idiots on this board can’t use deductive reasoning to come to such realizations. Pointing out officiating that did not go in our favor vs blaming officiating for the loss is two totally separate things but beyond the pay grade for some. That strip sack alone toward the end of the 3rd changed the trajectory of the game. We didn’t lose because of that but it sure helped TN cruise to a victory. TN takes over inside our 40 instead of us having 3rd and 3 just across midfield in a one score game.
A great portion of this message board are over-emotional fanbase and it's usually "same old Ky" nonsense (even though wev'e been winning plenty of close games and making bounces go our way for over the past decade +) or Coach is dumb, or players are terrible, etcc...

Playing the game for years helps me understand what goes into winning a football game in teh details vs. just blaming it all on emotional responses.
 
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