Just a few notes after the rewatch - Please feel free to enter your own grades!
Special Teams A+ - I'm going to mention them first as they are often 3rd on everyone's mind. People here though like Buc and many, many others understand the importance of this phase of the game. "Hot Pod" seems to be Blankenship 2.0 without the awesome glasses. He calmly nailed all of his chances and looks to continue the strong tradition at PK. Jake Camarda has been a game changer all year. That continued Saturday, and flipped the field twice when UT thought they had gained a field position advantage.
Defense A - The D line gets an A+. They completely dominated; swarming the running game and disrupting the passing game with pressure, strip sacks, caused interceptions. If you have to put your "finger" on anything this game, the D line overwhelming Cade Mays and his mates would be it. DB's get an A- The defensive backs were solid as the man I first told you about as a Freshmen, Eric Stokes has proven to be a shutdown corner. We did give up two big plays on the other side but one was an under-throw with man on man and that is ALWAYS a huge advantage for the receiver, and the other was just a pass dropped in perfectly: Sometimes you don't do anything wrong and the other team makes a play. The only knock was there were a couple of 3rd downs where we didn't get off the field giving up some underneath crossing stuff.
Linebackers were an A as well but you sometimes don't notice with the play of the line in front of them.
More to follow - Next up the Grades on offense:
God Bless and Go Dawgs
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