Jay Bateman

If he throws for 300, I will live with being wrong.

What I absolutely cannot live with, if I'm Jay Bateman, Kentucky defensive coordinator, is third and eight, Kentucky covers everything.

Russell breaks contain, he's able to gain 14-ish yards, he's able to pick up a first down, and he does that over and over and over.

He gets to second and six, zone read, he keeps it, 12 more.

Didn't blitz at all, didn't really put any pressure on the quarterback.

He, so we really don't know what Jay Bateman's defense is gonna be all about.

We'll see it this time.

And he, he, the, I think the caller's right.

Deer, the five-star E.J. Crowell, who looks really good at running back for Alabama.

Jay Bateman comes over from A&M on the Kentucky defense.

They're just really unproven on their defensive line.

I'm not sure they're experienced enough at the point of attack, Ramon, to really push a new-look Bama offensive line.

Now, that said, when we had Dave Bartu on here, the numbers back this up.

Jay Bateman, their D coordinator, is getting his first shot at actually coordinating a defense since North Carolina.

Now, he wasn't the one that gave up 70 points to James Madison.

The non-Signetti James Madison, by the way.

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Hellrooster says, I think Arnett is the most overrated DC in college football after Jay Bateman.

He did a really good job at Mississippi State when Leach was there.

Normally, I'd be pretty concerned about that heading into Alabama, especially considering Alabama's got a ton of talent at wideout, and they've got a quarterback that can extend plays, but Kentucky did that without their two starting corners.

And now Jay Bateman gets to use his intended group against Keelan Russell.

So it allows you, again, we talked about this, be more aggressive, more man coverage, more creative pressure.

My guess is that Kentucky was holding a lot of things back schematically in week one against Youngstown State.

Um, But yeah, there's not, from a talent standpoint, a bunch of guys you're super scared about with Kentucky's defense.

But there's a few transfers in there, and it's just the newness of the scheme with Jay Bateman from Texas A&M.

It's going to be a bigger front, too.

I think that's one thing that stood out to me, just kind of looking at what they offer as far as their personnel.

Last year there were just missed assignments game after game for Bama, free rushers coming after Ty Simpson constantly.

So if you're Kentucky, like Jay Bateman's defensive coordinator for Kentucky.

He was with Mike Elko at Texas A&M last year.

Elko called the defense, but Bateman has been with Elko.