re: Your team's weakest position group?

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Probably. Brini came in as a 3-star and stuck with it and got a little bit better each year. He made some good plays in the Cincy game.

Not sure it really matters who starts at STAR. Brini can play all 3 safety positions so he will get a ton of playing time rotating in for the other 3 guys.

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I see chistopher smith listed on the depth chart. Who the hell is that? Did he play last year. Thought tyreke would play the star and brini would slide over to the other safety position?

Also FWIW PFF has tyreke as the best slot cover safety last year. Seems good news for the star postion.

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Position group? Curious to hear from a Wildcat fan

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Its tough to tell. Kentucky just doesn't have the depth like the big players.

Easy answer is QB - its been that way for a while. But, again, part of that is ... we think and hope ... the Eddie Gran effect. Great dude, never should have been an OC. Hell of an RB coach.

Don't know if the new guy is any better. We'll see. At least by Lexington standards - which ain't Tuscaloosa standards - Kentucky has done a great job of developing OL - and a good job at DL, LB, DB, and RB. QB and WR never seems to get any better. That magical mystery position called TE just never got used - even though they had two or three pretty good ones move through there.

Most worried about QB. OL will be fine, they'll run for 100 yards every weekend. Defense will hang in there like they always do with the bend and don't break concept. Will they be dynamic enough on offense to score ? Don't know.

Q & OL are our most unknown position groups. I wouldn't really call any of them weak per say.

King doesn't have the high floor of a 3.5-year returning starter would, but he also has a higher ceiling than Mond and a schedule that eases him in. Plus with a strong WR, TE, and RB group he won't be asked to do too much.

The OL is similar to the QB position. We had a group of upperclassmen who worked well together. But they weren't overly gifted except for All American Green who is back. Again, probably a lower floor due to so many new players coming together, but a much higher ceiling.

I think both groups will be significantly better towards the end of the year vs the start.

If I have to pick the weakest, then I will go with CB. The run defense outshined the pass last year. Not that I think Jones, Johnson, Young, or Harmon are bad. All are highly recruited with stars out the arse. I just need to see it to believe it.

Gumps,

I haven’t seen you play yet but you are young at a lot of key positions. I saw Saban win a national championship with a squad like this when you beat Georgia in Natty so I never underestimate you, I just look for kinks in the armor. This team will not go undefeated but so what.

Your secondary is a probable concern, crazy with Saban being originally a secondary coach but it was same at LSU.

You typically have huge dline but those are the issue with those is with HUNH which almost half the teams run you can wear those guys out, and they often will get injured trying to run all over the place.

You Oline is same issue if your opponent has NFL quality edge rushers. Saban getting that edge rusher Tim out of North Louisiana was deadly to us. You eliminated a huge threat and added a huge asset. If we get him you lose one Natty. (You had had on making sure we didn’t get Klavon Thibodeaux too. You never had real shot but you want him out of SEC). 3 level chess.

I would guess secondary on defense, and WR on offense.

Ole Miss is likely a bad match up for you guys again too, just like it is for us

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I think we only have 1 returning starter.

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But none of the guys that left got drafted correct? Do you know the new projected starting 5?

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ScoggDog, I thought y'all were suppose to have like a top 3 SEC offensive line last year...what happened?

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They did. But they were probably the least dynamic team I've ever watched.

I'm no ball coach. Never played a down of high school ball. I am, however, a student of game theory. Pretty decent poker player and such. I watch patterns.

Every team that plays Kentucky walks their DBs up. They always play single safety. The DBs play off the inside shoulder of the WR. The DLs hardly ever go off a free release. The LBs always react to that single RB in an Ace set. When Kentucky went to a stack backfield, the SS just walks up to the line. Sometimes teams would over-shift when Gran would go trips to one side - because they're following their assignments. That was a sure run to the other side.

Kentucky returns three linemen - and one key kid that was basically the sixth Rolling Stone. But they lost their center. That's a problem. That kid was something else.

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Thanks bleach headed UCF coach.

Shanahan at C, Deculus and Cam Wire at RT/LT with Garrett Dellinger and Marcus Dumervil getting a lot of praise, Ed Ingram and Chasen Hines at guard & a few good backups but not proven,