Why Tennessee's players need to be careful around Alabama DB Kool Aid McKinstry
If any Tennessee Vols players hear Alabama Crimson Tide defensive back Kool Aid McKinstry talking on the field during Saturday's game about what coverages the Tide are playing, they'd be best served to completely ignore him. McKinstry might be telling the truth, or he might be trying to trick Tennessee's players. Either way, his goal […]
If any Tennessee Vols players hear Alabama Crimson Tide defensive back Kool Aid McKinstry talking on the field during Saturday's game about what coverages the Tide are playing, they'd be best served to completely ignore him.
McKinstry might be telling the truth, or he might be trying to trick Tennessee's players. Either way, his goal is the same whether he's throwing out facts or lies — McKinstry wants to play mind games with offensive players.
The former five-star recruit told reporters this week that he feels like his mind games work "all the time" on the field.
"I feel like it works all the time," said McKinstry. "I like to get in guy's heads. Kinda just me being me. And being confident in our scheme. Just telling guys stuff to confuse the players on the other side of the ball because I know they're listening. And I know they're trying to figure out what we're doing because we do so many different things….so I might just say little things so they think we're doing something but the whole time we're [doing something else]. Or we might be really doing that, so you never know what's really going on."
Tennessee's players would be best served to completely ignore anything they hear from McKinstry on Saturday. If they try to decode whatever he's throwing out there, then Tennessee's offense will only be hurting itself.
The best approach is for the Vols to just play their game and trust their technique and how they've been coached to read defenses. If they let McKinstry play mind games, it'll automatically be an advantage for Alabama.
Nick Saban is doing exactly what Tennessee did before playing South Carolina, but no one is falling for it
Good try, Nick. But no one is buying it.
