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Very happy to welcome back, John Hale.

He covers the Kentucky Wildcats for the Lexington Herald Leader.

And John, these are two teams that I think would both say their seasons that have not gone the way they wanted them to I would need a full hour to get you through Mississippi State and where it's gone wrong could you possibly pinpoint

pinpoint though where you think it's gone wrong for Kentucky this year.

Yeah I mean it's interesting even when they started five and oh there were plenty

of reasons for concern you know a lot of inconsistency

especially on offense and basically the just last three games they played three

better teams and they weren't able to win those games making some of the mistakes they did against lesser

competition. So I think that's the biggest part of it. The defense in particular has taken a step back

against those three teams, but it's probably the three best offenses they're going to face all year so that's

you know somewhat to be expected. The good news is for the first time really all season the passing

game looked close to what they expected going into the year against Tennessee last weekend.

We'll see if they can carry that forward. But that has been an area for real concern for

most of the year in terms of they've had a quarter, they've had a half, where it looked really good, but Devon

Larry was not nearly as accurate as he was billed to be coming into it, and then the receivers

had been pretty poor overall, it dropped passes and not running good routes.

That finally clicked on Saturday where both of those things looked really good.

So if they if they found something to build around there, there's some hope that they can still salvage something out of this, but certainly this is not the spot they hope to be when you start five and oh.

You mentioned Larry 28 of 39 on Saturday against Tennessee

372 yards two touchdowns far and away his best game of the season. Now he's going to play a

Mississippi State defense that has just been awful this year against the past giving up 72% completion

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