The last three weeks have summed up the challenge facing Neal Brown.To start the stretch, Kentucky’s offense was ineffective in a blowout loss at LSU, but the Wildcats bounced back with one of their better efforts in a hard-fought game against No. 1 Mississippi State the next week. What followed was a lackluster performance at Missouri.Looking to find the form that escaped his team in Columbia, Mo., Brown and his offense have gone back to work.”We’re going to be hard on them all week and probably need to continue being hard on them,” Brown said. “Some of that is youth. Some of it is guys just not stepping up and making plays in the moment. We’re going to get through it, and we will play better this week and hopefully this will be the last time that we have to talk about consistency.”Naturally, much of the talk after the loss to the Tigers was also about Patrick Towles, who struggled a week after out-producing Heisman frontrunner Dak Prescott. Neither Brown nor Towles is ignoring that the sophomore quarterback needs to improve entering a tough matchup with No. 17 Georgia, but so do the players surrounding him.”I think he was in a little bit of a fog,” Brown said. “I think he recognizes it. I wish there was a magic pill, and for whatever reason, things didn’t go real well early, and I don’t think he ever really snapped out of it. He was disappointed, I was disappointed. If he would have played better, would we have had a chance? Yes. But a lot of things were out of his control.”Brown and Towles on Tuesday and Mark Stoops on Monday each mentioned a six-step out route that a receiver ran incorrectly on a second-half fourth down as an example of just that.”We were just really undisciplined at Missouri,” Brown said. “It wasn’t necessarily 11 guys at once. It was one guy here on a key play, and (then) another guy. On offense — I think I said this after the game — you’ve got to have 11 guys on the same page doing their job. On defense sometimes one tremendous player can go make a play. It just doesn’t work that way on offense.”Youth and inexperience may be reasons for UK’s fits and starts on offense, but the Cats are refusing to use them as excuses.”We’ve just gotta be more consistent as a whole,” Towles said. “We’ve had some really good games; we’ve had some not-so-good games. We just gotta holistically execute better.”UK took a step in that direction on Tuesday with a solid day of work. The Cats are taking to heart Stoops’ message that they need to step up and choose to play disciplined football, regardless of the circumstances.”This is a tough league,” said Towles, who returned to the Nutter Training Facility for interviews on Tuesday after a test. “We’re playing great teams every week. So we gotta execute no matter who it’s against. We gotta be able to run the ball against big guys and we gotta be able to throw the ball against athletic secondaries.”The Cats don’t have to wait long before their next such opponent and Towles and the Cats are hard at work preparing for it.”That last period we had before I left for my exam, I probably had the best period I’ve had,” Towles said. “And it was a blitz period, so we’re improving and I’m looking forward to another opportunity on Saturday, for sure.”