Willie Rodriguez

You called it going into it.

We, we focus on Willie Rodriguez, but Kentucky has two extremely effective tight ends that they are playing a lot together.

That was my big prediction last week.

I wish I could have bet it.

I think just with how Will Stein, like, and Joe Sloan are able to, like, scheme guys open.

Like, we saw it last week with Willie Rodriguez, Mikkel Skinner, like, kind of on those RPO screen-looking, you know, formations.

I think we are going to see a lot of creative offensive play calling.

Like, I think we're just, you know, we're going to be feeding the studs, and we're going to be doing it any possible way that we can.

The one I made was plus 800, four legs.

Kentucky plus ten and a half.

Willie Rodriguez scored touchdown.

The game, the total for the game to be over 49 and a half and the game to not go to overtime.

That's something to look at, and one thing I will say is, you know, Kentucky is going to present some 12 personnel.

They run a lot out of 12 personnel, and you will see some 13 from them as well, but Willie Rodriguez is a fantastic receiving tight end.

Mikel Skinner is a fantastic receiving tight end.

He's more, you know, 6'4", about 234 pounds, does play quite a bit in line.

Mikel Skinner is 6'4".

He's 234 pounds.

Willie Rodriguez is a balanced tight end.

He's 6'4".

It felt, third and six, all right, let's go ahead and just get ready to kick a field goal or punt the ball away.

And they just had Willie Rodriguez go over the middle and he hit him with a quick pass.

Oh, that's 10 yards.

Oh, it's that easy? Exactly.

That's not irregular.

But is that going to get fixed in a six-day time span before you now go on the road in conference to what should be the best atmosphere that Kroger Field maybe has ever seen? And for Kentucky, a lot of their offense, which is totally revamped, I think Will Stein's a brilliant mind on offense, is gonna go through Willie Rodriguez, their big tight end.

Alabama's linebackers, they're great stopping the run.

I don't know if they can cover Rodriguez for all four quarters.

Cornerback, they didn't play their corners.

Like how well are they going to look this week in their first start of the season? But they also brought back Willie Rodriguez, who is – the player that people in the SEC don't know enough about.

I mean, Trey Des Green's going to get all the shine.

He's the best tight end in the league, but Willie Rodriguez is right behind him, and he's going to play himself into being a first or second round pick.

So from a just global program standpoint, how different is the program Will Stein is running from what Mark Stoops was running this time last year?

So I think from a...

They're both very good.

Rodriguez, Willie Rodriguez, and also Mikael Skinner.

So those guys are going to be two guys that Alabama's going to have to key on.

They had eight receptions for over 100 yards and a couple touchdowns.

Uh, they're both very good.

Uh, w- w- uh, Rodriguez, Willie Rodriguez, and also Mikhail Skinner.

So those guys are gonna be two guys that Alabama's gonna have to key on.

They had over, they had eight receptions for over 100 yards and a couple touchdowns.