We don’t realize until Kentucky just how much Bowers and Ladd were covering up.
We got down 7-0 on the road and we needed someone to make a play. Instead we get a bad OPI penalty trying to set a pick.
We get down 14-0 and we throw a bad INT on what looked like a miscommunication (or just a terrible throw?)
We get down 21-0 and we can’t get a first down.
We needed a guy like Ladd or Brock early in that game to get open and make a play and stop the bleeding. We didn’t have it. We did have guys make some great plays downfield in a game Bama thought they’d won already (remember how poorly we defended against UF and LSU in 2022 after we got up big?), and maybe that’s something to build on but that game was lost in the first 20 minutes when no one stepped up on offense to bail our defense out and keep them off the field.
We got down 7-0 on the road and we needed someone to make a play. Instead we get a bad OPI penalty trying to set a pick.
We get down 14-0 and we throw a bad INT on what looked like a miscommunication (or just a terrible throw?)
We get down 21-0 and we can’t get a first down.
We needed a guy like Ladd or Brock early in that game to get open and make a play and stop the bleeding. We didn’t have it. We did have guys make some great plays downfield in a game Bama thought they’d won already (remember how poorly we defended against UF and LSU in 2022 after we got up big?), and maybe that’s something to build on but that game was lost in the first 20 minutes when no one stepped up on offense to bail our defense out and keep them off the field.
