South Carolina vs Kentucky: QB Preview, Keys For Each QB To Have Success

and that's South Carolina and Kentucky I think these two quarterbacks are very intriguing to me it's their second start each right Brock Vander for Kentucky and North stellers for South Carolina and and while it was their first start last week they both had two different type of performances but also not nearly enough footage not nearly nearly enough Runway to have a true opinion I don't think right I think we need more game footage I think we need more runway for them to play to really have an opinion but still we got one game to go off of so that's up that's what we will go off of so let's talk about Lenor sellers first this South Carolina quarterback my big theme my big question is will he perform better than he did against ODU now that his feet are wet now that he's seen live bullets for a consistent full game will he perform better against Kentucky than he did against against ODU right like where does he need to improve the most well pretty much everywhere as it relates to the passing game but at the same time let's say on the positive side because we did see some good things from Len nor sellers right we saw his athletic ability truly one of the best athletes on the field and we did see his strong arm if you're a South Carolina fan you don't remember but I think it was first or second quarter he threw a deep ball that ended up being dropped and it would have got called back regardless because of a flag but you saw his arm right so I want to spread the field even if you don't hit early at least take a shot or two so ky's defense has that in the back of their mind so against ODU he was 1023 for 86 yards two Tes zero interceptions I think is POS is positive excuse me positive I can't talk he didn't turn the ball over at least throwing any picks he had 68 yards on the ground and a touchdown on the ground right so how does he improve how do you if you're South Cara how do you get him comfortable you got to find some plays that he's comfortable with and and we're not the coaching staff we're not there in practice we don't know but if I had to guess man let's just get the ball out quickly but it's got to be more than screens in my opinion I think KY is going to be expecting that you have to find some type of throw so if I'm thinking if I'm a good athlete what's comfortable what's probably getting outside the pocket is probably having the option to throw or run right again could be wrong we're not in practice but if I'm the coaching staff if I'm just some random YouTuber talking about him which I am that's what my thoughts go to right but regardless what it is get him comfortable find plays that he's comfortable with find ways that you can have success throwing the ball throwing some intermediate type throws last week or against ODU he only had what two only had three completions Beyond nine yards um seven of his 10 completions were nine yards or less with three of those being behind the line scrimmage right so yes he can improve but to win I think they're 10 dog 10o underdogs right now to win Lenor cellers is going to have to improve in the passing game have more of a threat doesn't have to be deep balls now would like to see some deep balls thrown to spread the field but get comfortable find some comfortable plays and hit those short to more intermediate type throws to really believe they're in the defense right and kuy's defense they they you know put up uh they gave up zero points to Southern Miss last week they only played three quarters I think because weather made him made him call the game but in three quarters they had two interceptions off of Tate rodmaker the old FL State quarterback so they force interceptions again only three-ish quarters but you can bet UK is going to try to Kentucky is going to try to force interceptions from Lenor sell right it just comes back to sell Improvement like he didn't look comfortable with his receivers they weren't the same page but at the same time it was week one so I think you have to have some Grace and allow for some development to happen right so that's the biggest theme I want to see from sellers is development let's just see development in week two if you see some development you should be in the game when the fourth quarter comes along right development taking care of the football all right Brock Vandergriff again a quarterback in a similar situation as Lenoris Sellers and again if you have any any thoughts or or comments let us know your thoughts in the comments here in the chat and we'll try to get to it but Brock V Kentucky quarterback I thought he showed enough to have some Kentucky fans or have Kentucky fans excited I thought he showed enough to to have Kentucky fans thinking that the passing game is gonna be improved from last year when they had Devin ly right so the positive takeaways was he showed his legs he showed his athleticism not just running the ball but maneuvering the pocket moving the pocket setting up throws to take some shots down field he settled in nicely after missing some throws having an interception early I believe he settled in nicely and showed excuse me showed some good things right so even with that said and then they played s Miss who who's a better ball club they're probably a similar ball Club to ODU right let's be honest but still he had success but now it's your first full game against against the SEC defense right I think for Kentucky to have that continued success you need him to be comfortable and almost be in quote unquote mid-season form for South Carolina coming in because even though kuy's a 10-point favorite right now it's just so early in the season still right but I think for Kentucky to have the handle to have the advantage you want to see Brock in mid-season form per se so let's talk about what we want to see him do right because he was 1218 for a buck 69 three Tes and one interception again the game was called short but something he did well on was pushing the ball downfield off play action he was much more comfortable off play action which is which is common for a quarterback especially breaking him in trying to get him to feel comfortable but he was five of eight for a buck5 three Tes I'm sorry one touchdown off play but his yards per attempt were 13.1 yards per attempt not using play action was 5.1 so almost more than two times kind of pushing three times a yards per T which again it's more common to have your deep throws off play action get the defense out of position but that's still a big variance right so if I'm South Carolina if I see him drop back I'm not that scared of the deep ball right now if I see him go off play action that's when I'm thinking hey that's why he's comfortable pushing the ball down field so that's what I'm going to start doing doing right he now BR Brock still had five passes behind the line of scrimmage that were completed so five of his 12 completions were behind the line of scrimmage right so I'm not saying if if it's it's bad to have those short completions I think it's good I think to get settled in I would still encourage Brock and found the OC for Kentucky still encourag those type of plays right get screens to get comfortable I would use screens and use his legs to slow down the potential pass rush which South Carolina's defense did show against ODU and we'll get to that in a second but I would use those two type of plays to slow down the pass rush right so bar Vandergriff showed enough to be excited for last week but you want to see it against the SEC defense and we want to see him stay comfortable play action but can he continue to develop without the use of play action use the screens to get comfortable use his legs to get comfortable early in the game and slow down South Carolina's pass defense because their pass defense they dominate ODU they forced several big turnovers they had the interception off Grant Wilson and also they forced a big fumble inside their five yard line that led to a touchdown they had 25 pressures on ODU right so I don't even know what Grant Wilson the ODU quarterback stats were about 25 pressures eight sacks six hits 11 hurries they dominated at least South Carolina's defense dominated odu's offense now South Carolina's offense different story we get that we talked about that but their defense showed a lot of things to be excited about if you're a South Carolina fan so my question about the defense is is the defense is the defense really as good as was showed against ODU or was it just grant Wilson and ODU not being great and having these kind of like these kind of like what are you doing type plays right probably a little bit of both but still if you're South Carolina you you you hang your hat on the defense at least coming into to this game right so Brock Vandergriff Lenor sellers while they had different games in week one I still think both of them are in the same boat as far as development let's continue to develop even though sellers did not have a great start by any means if he develops in week two that could really help them not just in week two but the whole season and if you're a Kentucky fan Brock Vandergriff you still want to see development right especially going up against a defense like South Carolina showed in week one so those are the four big games right Texas Michigan Oklahoma State Arkansas Tennessee NC State and South Carolina against Kentucky the first SEC game of the year I few