Okay now we do know that offensive coordinator Eddie Gran does sometimes get confused on the sideline and call the wrong play. Kentucky coach Mark Stoops confirmed that Monday — but with a reasonable explanation in our COVID world in 2020.
“To be totally honest, we had a miscommunication (at Tennessee Saturday) – and we can chuckle about it now but I promise you it wasn’t funny at the time – we had a miscommunication on, I want to say, the second play of the game when Eddie’ glasses … he was so hyped up,” Stoops said Monday.
“He had that mask on and his glasses got all fogged up and he called a formation wrong. He called a play wrong. He felt so bad because he could not see his play chart, so that put us in third-and-long early.”
I wear glasses and I have no doubt that can happen because it seems like my glasses stay foggy when I am wearing my mask. Thank goodness I don’t have a national TV audience watching or a team depending on me being able to read what is in front of me.
Of course, Gran wasn’t the only one that made a mistake. Senior receiver Josh Ali made one in the first half that might have cost UK a touchdown on a screen pass.
“We had the fumble on the screen we had to Josh. I felt like he missed a cut. If he cuts it inside he may have scored, instead it turns into a (fumble),” Stoops said.
However, Kentucky’s offense got dominant in the second half when it put together two long scoring drives to squeeze the heart out of Tennessee.
