As much as he may have wanted to, Neal Brown couldn’t just throw away the tape from a blowout at LSU on Saturday.Even though it’s a painful reminder, there’s too much to be gained from looking back at the loss for a young Kentucky team.”If we had a veteran team, hey, we may have came in and not even watched the video,” Brown said. “Really. And just said, hey, we’re better than that, let’s go. But I think where we’re at, especially on offense, we’ve got to learn from those mistakes, or you repeat them.”UK began the business of correcting those mistakes on Monday and Tuesday, with a practice on both days. Some tough coaching has resulted, but it’s all geared toward preparing the Cats to play their best game on Saturday against Mississippi State.”When we met yesterday, we were hard on those guys because we’ve got to be better,” Brown said. “In those type of games and those type of atmospheres, we’ve got to be better. Why did things go wrong? Here’s why, now let’s go out and fix them.”The issues on offense, according to quarterback Patrick Towles, were across the board. UK, however, is on their way to fixing them.”We just didn’t really make plays,” Towles said. “The coaches can call a perfect play, but you need to execute. We didn’t execute at any level at any position, which you’re going to get beat by everybody if you don’t do that. We executed really good today. We’ll build on that tomorrow so come Saturday we’re ready to rock.”The Cats don’t have much choice about whether to be ready if they want to win with the top-ranked Bulldogs coming to town. Both Brown and Towles said Mississippi State’s defensive line and linebackers represent a challenge the likes of which UK has not yet seen, even against LSU and Florida.”I think they’ve got the best front seven that we’ve played against, maybe the best in the league,” Brown said. “I haven’t seen them all yet, but their front seven is very talented, d-tackles, they go four deep there and they’re big.”

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