[Wildcatk23]

After watching the Alabama game yesterday on Tivo and being able to rewind and look at some things over, Mike Hartline and the play of our QB is not the MAIN issue.

Now, Hartline has improved tremendously from last season. However, there are still a lot of things he needs to work on (i.e., leading receivers, throwing the ball away (Woodson had the same issue), not just throwing the ball up for grabs, etc.), but he is still our best option RIGHT now. Fidler is a back-up for a reason and Newton just isn't ready. But all of that has been well debated and probably will continue to be debated the rest of the season.

Two things that have KILLED Kentucky this season, in wins and losses, are stupid penalties and poor execution on defense. Kentucky numerous personal foul/unsportsmanlike conduct penalties against Lousiville, but they won so they didn't get noticed all that much. Yesterday, how many 15-yard penalties did UK have? 4? 5? At least 3 came on drives where the offense was moving the ball fairly well, and then a flag would be thrown. Things like that are inexcusable and at times are the difference between a win and a loss.

The tackling is beyond pititful. They tackled poorly against Miami. They couldn't bring down Louisville. I didn't see a whole lot of the Florida game, but I can't imagine it being any worse than yesterday. The defensive backs need to stop worrying so much about laying the lumber to someone and just bring him down. The 32-yard run by Ingram was just horrible. He ran through all 11 of Kentucky's defenders and ran untouched to the endzone. Defense wins championships, Kentucky will be lucky to beat EKU and LA-Monroe if they don't learn to tackle people.

Some of this is true, but how do u know hartline is are best option? clearly he shouldnt even be an option for us! If your saying we are going to bearely beat these teams and loose the rest of are SEC games then we should go with one of the freshmen quarterbacks, remeber hartline was benched last year and got a chance because cobb was injured, he needs to be setting on the bench, are defense played great in the first half and for what? us to move the ball 5 yards then kick a field goal. eventually your defense gets tired and see that theres no point to them even trying.