Bama Game Thread: OFFICIAL POSTGAME THREAD - Bama @ Vols...

[jdua]

Have you not watched us play this year?

No difference tonight. The problems we have are simply the same every week. We are not elite, nor do we play under control. A Coach Saban team with constant penalties every week?? Please…..

 

[TitleWave]

Gets worse, 52 are the most points given up by an Alabama team in 115 years

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1581430497213022208

Speaking of lit (or unlit) cigars, cannae imagine a worse antithesis to "smoke 'em if you got 'em"in the lockerroom than having to learn the humiliating factoid about nonessee's scoreboard "accomplishment" from the sweet tweeter above...

 

[tidefan39817]

I think that Saban needs to call the 2012 version of Saban. That Saban does not lose these games.

Agree with you 100%

 

[jdua]

Don't do that. I don't know you, but I know you're better than that.

OK….. thanks. Hope I’m wrong (trust me!)

 

[mrbama97]

These past two years the team has broken several streaks that shouldn’t have been broken And done things that should have never happened.

 

[92tide]

To keep.from crying, I'm going to take a moment to laugh at bush league actions of the UcheaT fans. Flooding the field? Really?.They don't know how to handle winning

well, they did skip an entire generation. and with the lack of variance in their generations, that can cause problems

 

[TrueCrimson7]

I think most of the penalty calls on alabama were technically penalties in today’s game. However, I truly believe as hard and fast as these guys have to play, penalties occur on every play if you look for them. That’s why when you have a 17:6 penalty ratio, that in itself tells me the refs are specifically looking at Alabama for these calls. And several of those calls were on HUGE plays. Not the 1st and 10 kind, but the 3rd and 4th downs when we get the TD, INT, or 1st down called back. It’s hard not to read something into that.

 

[RammerJammer15]

Whats shocking is the defense was so bad.
Receivers running wide open, no pressure on the QB and RBs ripping off 10 yard gains with regularity. We stopped them a few times, but they really rolled over the Bama D for most of the day.

Yeah, this is the frustrating part, before the season I thought we’d lose a game, but to lose a game in that fashion, where the defense got ripped to shreds is very unfortunate. This was supposed to be an all-time great Bama defense, well according to the preseason hype.

 

[Cruloc]

Whats happened to the team discipline and their football IQ? Our teams never played this sloppily until the last two years. I can understand a few mistakes or bad decisions here and there, but it permeates this team.

Is it NIL? Is it something at practice?

 

[Bpilktree]

I have said for two years now, Helmas and Branch are not good cover safeties downfield. They pressure nice and help with run a lot but in open space they both struggle. We usually get good pressure and that hides them some but games like this were pressure not getting there fast they get exposed and give up big plays. I also can’t figure out how Arnold is still holding the second corner spot when they brought Ricks in from LSU I thought he was going to start on other side of kool aid.

 

[bamafaninbham]

I guess it was our Defense that was reading all the headlines about how dominant they were and not the Vols team.

 

[Power Eye]

The play of the game was the review of the targeting call. Not only did we lose out on the call, but it gave UT a chance to compose themselves on D and we kicked a FG.

 

[denver]

if giving up 52pts, the most in 115yrs does not get you replaced I dont know what does at this point. Will have to be after the season but something has to change.

 

[81usaf92]

Ok. Lets go there. You call a decent game with some brainfarts here and there. But as an offensive coordinator you see the defense couldnt cover anybody all night. I mean they could have stood there all might and let the wr run right by them and the results would have been the same. You have the ball in fg range and its first down. U der 30 seconds left. What do you do? Oh did i mention the other team only has 2 rimeouts.

Do you A, run the ball on first down and force them to take a timeout or do you basically tell you qb to take one step and throw it out of bounds?

On second down do you run the ball or tey to pass it again, to show how smart you are? I mean even a 2 yd run runs 5 to 10 seconds of the clock.

On third down do you run the ball for 3 to 5 yds or say " gee. Im bill freaking obrian. I coached tom Brady so therefore i know more than anybody" lets pass the ball. And hope like he dbl hocky sticks a fg kicker bails me out.

I dont even think nussmeir was that stupid.

Well let’s also consider that Bill O’Brien is in the booth and expecting Bryce to call his own protections and route trees like Brady. He simply is not there yet. He would be far better suited in a Kiffin or Sark system in which he is having to make fewer decisions and his athletic abilities are used to the fullest.

O’Brien expects Bryce to call the offense from a play set that he calls. Kiffin calls a play and let’s his athletes execute them.

 

[colbysullivan]

I think most of the penalty calls on alabama were technically penalties in today’s game. However, I truly believe as hard and fast as these guys have to play, penalties occur on every play if you look for them. That’s why when you have a 17:6 penalty ratio, that in itself tells me the refs are specifically looking at Alabama for these calls. And several of those calls were on HUGE plays. Not the 1st and 10 kind, but the 3rd and 4th downs when we get the TD, INT, or 1st down called back. It’s hard not to read something into that.

The biggest penalties in this game were ones that WEREN’T called. 2 targeting penalties on Bryce, obvious DPI, etc. They called everything on us, but nothing on them.

 

[bamamc1]

Wow.

Sorry, but I expect to hear a lot more about poor execution, blah, blah, blah. I simply do not think that the Saban of old walks the sidelines anymore. Love him - the best to ever do it - but he needs great coaches and coordinators now, and he has neither. Worse - he doesn't see it.

Yeah, it’s been a long time since Saban has done anything at Bama. Heck, it’s been since January of 2021 since we won a playoff title. We’ll be back.

 

[colbysullivan]

The play of the game was the review of the targeting call. Not only did we lose out on the call, but it gave UT a chance to compose themselves on D and we kicked a FG.

They didn’t even review the 2nd targeting call on Bryce’s scramble near the goal line. Pathetic.

 

[bvandegraff]

Yeah, this is the frustrating part, before the season I thought we’d lose a game, but to lose a game in that fashion, where the defense got ripped to shreds is very unfortunate. This was supposed to be an all-time great Bama defense, well according to the preseason hype.

College football now is a game that is tilted towards offense. Rules have been written to hamper defenses, and the vanishingly small number of rules designed to keep offenses honest are all but ignored (unless of course you're Alabama). Those killer defenses of the early Saban era aren't coming back in this era of wide-open spread offenses and DPI calls on every long pass attempt. That said, Heupel ate Golding's lunch in this game.

 

[colbysullivan]

Wow.

Yeah, it’s been a long time since Saban has done anything at Bama. Heck, it’s been since January of 2021 since we won a playoff title. We’ll be back.

No, @B1GTide is right. Saban has changed.

 

[bamafaninbham]

if giving up 52pts, the most in 115yrs does not get you replaced I dont know what does at this point. Will have to be after the season but something has to change.

I'm not sure it will. The Defense under Golding has been below Bama standards every year. And that is with the best athletes anywhere in college football.