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He didn't have four ahead of him at UW, either. He had two (Rome Odunze, Ja'lynn Polk). Bernard's arrival cut into the playing time of Jalen McMillan, whose numbers dropped from 2022 to 2023 by roughly the same amount as what Bernard added.
That's why I kept the comparison to per-event production. Bernard had 47 touches (rush and receiving) at UW compared to 54 at Bama, but nearly doubled his output here. Also, I would have to go back and pull every game sheet (which is tedious to the point that I'm not going to do it) but to gilbert's point about Bernard being more involved in the deep passing game at Bama to the exclusion of the intermediate game, I don't believe that's what the stats are going to show. Just remembering what I saw about his targets and target depths.
Thanks for some actual facts.
A while back I proposed JM was batting around .500 on games that matter (and I think that was before the Vandy and OU debacles).
At any rate, it was worse than I thought. If you are an elite QB at Bama, you can't lose 1 out of 2 games that really matter.
It is for Alabama. Time to get in portal if you’re going to do it. Why wait?
so you made me curious, not enough to look at every game sheet with target depths etc, but I think some of the WR effectiveness from 23 to 24 gets masked by how much UW asked him to rush and how it wasn't all that effective. He rushed 13 times for 43 yards, just a 3.3 average so that's going to reduce his per touch yardage significantly. At Bama he only rushed 4 times, but average 9.5 - still below his yards per touch in the passing game, but that's not going to pull down his average per touch nearly as much as the UW numbers are.
Just looking at pure passing:
Bama - 46 for 714. Avg 15.5 with 2 TDs and a long of 47 (conf). he also had one that was 45 (non-conf).
UW 34 for 419. Avg 12.3 with 2 TDs and a long of 36.
In addition to the two longer ones above looking down the game log for the long catches per game he had 22, 26, 34, 26, 32 and 26 in addition to the 47 and 45 with 3 games above a 20 ypc average. His 23 game long only list that one catch over 30, then drops down to 27, 24 and 28 and only one game above 20 ypc average.
His rushing stats at UW are interesting also; looks like it was either a long gain or bust. Game log looks like 2 rush, 8 yards with a long of 8 (so averaged 4, but it was 8 and 0), or 5 rushes for 12 yards with a long of 11 (4 rushes for 1 yard), etc.
One of the national guys on X put up a stat about our deep passing somewhere around the Oklahoma game and it showed Milroe was like 2 for his last 20 on deep routes, some ridiculously low number. I looked for it last night but couldn't find it.
There's always a bit of gray area between what constitutes an "intermediate" and a "deep" route anyway, because a guy can show a catch for 50 but it might have been a 10-yard route followed by a 40-yard RAC. I believe a lot of Bernard's production in the second half of the year came off routes that would typically be classified as intermediate, that he then extended with his legs after the catch. And that would line up with the report on X about Milroe's struggles with the deep ball late in '24.
What I saw from Bernard as the season went along was that he got pretty adept at finding the cushion in a zone and waiting on Milroe to find him, because you have to wait on Milroe every now and then to process that the route is indeed there.
There's always a bit of gray area between what constitutes an "intermediate" and a "deep" route anyway, because a guy can show a catch for 50 but it might have been a 10-yard route followed by a 40-yard RAC. I believe a lot of Bernard's production in the second half of the year came off routes that would typically be classified as intermediate, that he then extended with his legs after the catch. And that would line up with the report on X about Milroe's struggles with the deep ball late in '24.
What I saw from Bernard as the season went along was that he got pretty adept at finding the cushion in a zone and waiting on Milroe to find him, because you have to wait on Milroe every now and then to process that the route is indeed there.
There are lots of linemen on both sides entering the portal............should be some good pickups soon
To be somewhat fair, many of those defenses brought a non stop blitzing game plan.
Jess, you're a master of understatement!
of course they did, because they knew JM couldn't do anything about it to force them to back off the pressure.
Haynes has entered the portal. Expected as jam is likely to return and that was likley to cause at least one rb to look elsewhere
I figured that was coming. He wasn't the best fit for what we wanna do RB-wise. He's a good RB, though. I just hope he doesn't follow in his father's footsteps and go to Georgia.
There's no doubt in my mind that that is where he winds up...
The only thing I'm surprised about with Haynes leaving is that he didn't declare as soon as the portal opened Dec. 9.
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