Big question tonight: Do they drop 8 like UPig did?

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I imagine they spent all week talking about and working on route modifications in zone coverage. Zone is not infallible or else everyone would run it all the time.
 

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I would assume they will drop 8, because more often than not that’s what people do when they face Leach’s offense. That’s what most people have been doing for 20 years plus. If the offense is executed the way it needs to be executed and the QB remains patient it shouldn’t matter. Yeah, I realize that if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his *** every time he jumped, either. Regardless, our fortunes tonight will be about what our offense does more than about what Kentucky’s defense does. Stoops is a defensive coach, and he is going to do what he percieves gives him the best chance of stopping Mike Leach’s offense-that means rushing 3 and dropping 8. It ain’t rocket science. Leach is expecting it because he has faced it many times. If our offense is putting together 15 play scoring drives, that will mean that we are being patient and executing the way Leach likes it.
 
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