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Title: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: Volznut on November 12, 2018, 05:42:05 EST If they can pressure Locke, he can be rattled. If not, they will torch our secondary.
Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: BanditVol on November 12, 2018, 11:04:18 EST Yes. Secondary playing better though. I'm really impressed with the development of true frosh Thompson and Taylor, and Osborne had a great game after he came in for Thompson. Theo Jackson made some plays also. And older players Warrior and Abernathy seem to be doing well also. I think our DB is much better than earlier this season and will continue to improve.
Having said that, Locke is a first round NFL draft pick and we will have our hands full. Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: volsboy on November 13, 2018, 04:46:21 EST Yep, if we don't pressure Locke, it will be hard to beat them. I don't think we can keep up with them if its a track meet.
Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: Tnphil on November 13, 2018, 05:04:40 EST We need to run the football....burn time off the clock and score some points. Do all we can to keep their offense on the sideline.
Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: Coupe De VOL on November 13, 2018, 09:06:25 EST Is it fair to say the UK and Mizzou are very similar teams? Mizzou does have a better QB and maybe a slightly better receiving corps. However, UK came in a little too overconfident, and you can hardly blame them for overlooking us a little bit. Mizzou, OTOH has gotten a wake up call about this game from the results of last Saturday. They will be ready for us. If we can play a solid game like we did last week, it should be a close game. GO VOLS!
Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: Tnphil on November 13, 2018, 09:54:32 EST Mizzou is more balanced than KY. Much better in the passing game and QB spot....good running game too. Our game plan against KY was to shut down Snell and we did and KY didn't have the passing game to beat us......Mizzou does.
Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: Volznut on November 13, 2018, 09:56:46 EST Is it fair to say the UK and Mizzou are very similar teams? Mizzou does have a better QB and maybe a slightly better receiving corps. However, UK came in a little too overconfident, and you can hardly blame them for overlooking us a little bit. Mizzou, OTOH has gotten a wake up call about this game from the results of last Saturday. They will be ready for us. If we can play a solid game like we did last week, it should be a close game. GO VOLS! Based on numbers they are pretty different. Mizzou is a much better offensive team, more balanced, and has a NFL QB. UK has a better D Title: Re: Key to beating Mizzou will be Taylor and DL play Post by: BanditVol on November 13, 2018, 10:04:58 EST Is it fair to say the UK and Mizzou are very similar teams? Mizzou does have a better QB and maybe a slightly better receiving corps. However, UK came in a little too overconfident, and you can hardly blame them for overlooking us a little bit. Mizzou, OTOH has gotten a wake up call about this game from the results of last Saturday. They will be ready for us. If we can play a solid game like we did last week, it should be a close game. GO VOLS! Hm. I'd say night and day on offense. UK has a very marginal passing attack and have relied almost exclusively on running the ball. Missouri has one of the top passing attacks in the conference, if not the country and a decent run game to go with it. Defensively, Missouri is a bit better against the run (30th vs. 42nd for Kentucky), but in the all-important scoring defense Kentucky is a suprising 10th and Missouri 70th(!). Kentucky's rank may be skewed a bit by teams not having to score much against them, but even factoring that in, it's a significant difference. Also encouraging is the Missouri Pass Efficiency D is 86th in the country (UK is 22nd). On paper, Vol offense matches up well against the Missouri D. The big question is can we stop or slow their passing offense? We are currently 66th, but have faced Will Grier, Tua, Fromm, and Bentley, and were much lower earlier in the year. As I state above, I am impressed by the improvement in our defensive backfield. They will be tested Saturday. I hope we can pressure Locke, but Missouri is only allowing 1 sack per game, tied for 17th best in the country. As others state above, if Darrell Taylor can come close to his performance against UK, we should do well. I will throw in that I also hope to see the same aggressive play from our OL. |