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[Krymsonman]

We go to sleep on offense in the second half.....that's why games are close
Alabama scoring in the 2nd half this season...we don't put teams away
FSU 10 points
ULM 31 points
Wisconsin 17 points
Georgia 0 points
Vandy 16 points
Missouri 10 points
Tennessee 14 points
South Carolina 15 points
LSU 3 points
Oklahoma 7 points

averaging 8 points in the 2nd half of conference games too btw

Yeah, it seems like, in the second half, we put the offense in neutral. We should be trying to score every time we get the ball.

 

[BamaMoon]

We need a speedy, game breaker running back who can block. If Dear can’t block, he doesn’t help !

Derek Henry comes to mind. It's why he basically only played in blowout games as a freshman.

He may have been used like Derek and never taught to understand pass pro. But, with time, when he learns then he'll play and we'll see the talent!

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Did the defense deliver good field position for the offense even a single time last night? I saw that OU's average starting field position was at their 43, ours was at our 21. Every time there was a chance for the defense to help the offense they would give up a 3rd and long or help OU with an interference call. Very much like the great offensive stats, the defensive stats don't nearly tell the whole story.

We lost an old fashioned field position game.

I'm going to have to disagree. You take away ONE of those turnovers and we win, literally. Was the defense perfect or dominating? No. But they more than played well enough to say they did their job. Turovers are the joker cards of football. They can make void good performances by other areas of the team and that's exactly what happened Saturday. Those three turnovers (and missed fg before the half) directly cost us the game. Again, you take ONE of them away and we win.

 

[day-day]

I think you can leap over the line, what you cannot do is use your own player or the other team's player as leverage to do so.

The defender had a running start from off the line of scrimmage which makes it illegal to leap over the stationary blockers. At least that is how I understand the rule (11.b below) and how I saw it.

From NCAA football rules:

Leverage and Leaping
ARTICLE 11. a. No defensive player, in an attempt to gain an advantage, may
step, jump or stand on an opponent.
b. It is a foul if a defensive player moves forward and tries to block a kick or
apparent kick on a field goal or try by leaving their feet and leaping into the
plane directly above the frame of the body of an opponent.
It is not a foul if the player was aligned in a stationary position within one
yard of the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped.
c. It is a foul if a defensive player who is inside the tackle box tries

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

The black hoodie of death and my Metallica shirt luck has run out

Did you wash it?

If not, then please do so...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I'm going to have to disagree. You take away ONE of those turnovers and we win, literally. Was the defense perfect or dominating? No. But they more than played well enough to say they did their job. Turovers are the joker cards of football. They can make void good performances by other areas of the team and that's exactly what happened Saturday. Those three turnovers (and missed fg before the half) directly cost us the game. Again, you take ONE of them away and we win.

If we make that stinking chip shot fg, we win...

 

[BamaInCummingGA]

That loss is squarely on Ty Simpsons shoulders… he has won games for us this season but three TO are two many.

Not hardly. Our offensive line has been offensive for weeks now.
Did he make some mistakes? Yeah,
Does he have confidence in his oline that they can block and keep him clean? Not hardly.
You can see it the last three or four games. He's rushing ad pressing because the oline can't stop a decent rush.
Coaches got to get this oline and running game thing figured out or we could have Tom Brady back there and not do any better.

 

[22Musso22]

Not hardly. Our offensive line has been offensive for weeks now.
Did he make some mistakes? Yeah,
Does he have confidence in his oline that they can block and keep him clean? Not hardly.
You can see it the last three or four games. He's rushing ad pressing because the oline can't stop a decent rush.
Coaches got to get this oline and running game thing figured out or we could have Tom Brady back there and not do any better.

Ty has had numerous fumbles causing turnovers this year. His turnovers finally LOST the game for us. Like it or not!

 

[Bamabuzzard]

There have been several people from the outside (Joel Klatt and Autsin Brooks "The Film Guy") who have watched tape on us all year and think that we're running an offense that currently doesn't have the right offensive linemen in place. Austin Brooks (The Film Guy) has said it several times that DeBoer is about 18 months away from having the type of guys on the line he wants.

I was at the game yesterday and our seats were close to the field and I was able to see up close how our OL'men move. Not only are they not fundamentally sound but they're not very athletic either. We've got to get more athletic on the OL. As it stands now, we're too bulky, blocky and slow.

 

[editder]

I'd love to see another angle on the pick six. It looks like we were running a slant, but I've heard our receiver got knocked off the route by the OU defender. In my mind, shouldn't that have been PI. As said, I've heard that but I haven't seen a replay that would verify it. Anybody have a better view?

I wasn’t able to see a slam-dunk foul. Maybe one could have been called.

It would have been nice if someone had bothered to tackle the guy who intercepted it. It’s not like he was on our 20; he ran it back about 80 yards. I know they’re offensive players, but how do you reach this level of football without a passing knowledge of tackling. Think John Metchie. What a bunch of tulips.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

If we make that stinking chip shot fg, we win...

He wouldn't have a scholarship after this season if it were up to me.

 

[editder]

There have been several people from the outside (Joel Klatt and Autsin Brooks "The Film Guy") who have watched tape on us all year and think that we're running an offense that currently doesn't have the right offensive linemen in place. Austin Brooks (The Film Guy) has said it several times that DeBoer is about 18 months away from having the type of guys on the line he wants.

I was at the game yesterday and our seats were close to the field and I was able to see up close how our OL'men move. Not only are they not fundamentally sound but they're not very athletic either. We've got to get more athletic on the OL. As it stands now, we're too bulky, blocky and slow.

But didn’t the recruits he brought in this year fit the same mold as the guys we already had?

 

[92tide]

If we make that stinking chip shot fg, we win...

i am assuming we have a player's leadership/accountability group. i'm hoping they have a nice sit down with him after the way he was barking at the long snapper after his shank.

 

[92tide]

He wouldn't have a scholarship after this season if it were up to me.

he would never step foot on the field again after the way he treated the long snapper

 

[BamaInCummingGA]

The offense moves the chains but doesn’t get any big plays so it makes it hard to put points on the board. When is the last long play we have had?

Wwweeeellllllll, You gotta have an oline that can block for more than 2 seconds and receivers that can get separation to be able to execute long plays. You gotta have an effective run game to try any kind of play action.
We have an oline that is either not strong enough to push people off the line to run or they just don't have the will to do so. Defenses figured that out. They don't have to defend the run so much so the cover the pass and limit our big plays.
DeBoer and Grubb need to figure out the Oline and running game if they want to be more successful.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

But didn’t the recruits he brought in this year fit the same mold as the guys we already had?

Michael Carroll is one of the OL'man he brought in and he's already getting playing time as a freshman. For a freshman he's done very well. He's going to be a good one.

 

[BamaInCummingGA]

Ty has had numerous fumbles causing turnovers this year. His turnovers finally LOST the game for us. Like it or not!

Well, did he just drop the ball to be dropping it? NO.
He fumbled because he got hit because the oline keeps getting beat off the edge.

 

[AlexanderFan]

Kiffin also just happens to be a really good QB coach

I don’t have any issues with what they’ve done with Simpson this year.

 

[RollsTide]

I agree. Our offensive players gave them 17 points. Take that away and it's a different story. But lately the thing that scares me going forward is our kicker. I'm having horrible flash backs. It doesn't make me feel any better when our kicker misses an easy field goal after a high, but handled snap and acts like a little soccer diva after his miss.
Unfortunately for me, I recorded the game because I'm on the west coast and was taking my mom out for her birthday with family. As I was walking out the door, a guy who use to be a friend, sent me a text saying, "Sorry your team lost". I'm pretty sure that's a sin for not first asking a person if they had watched the game first before blurting that out.

I'm going to have to disagree. You take away ONE of those turnovers and we win, literally. Was the defense perfect or dominating? No. But they more than played well enough to say they did their job. Turovers are the joker cards of football. They can make void good performances by other areas of the team and that's exactly what happened Saturday. Those three turnovers (and missed fg before the half) directly cost us the game. Again, you take ONE of them away and we win

 

[countrytider]

I’d like to direct some vitriol at Greg Sankey and the SEC propellerheads that dumped this 2010-type schedule on us. They’d give every Bama opponent a bye week before our games if they could. Of course any advantage Bama would’ve gotten from our bye weeks were nullified because both opponents also had bye weeks. Heckuva way to treat your biggest ratings draw, Greg.

I agree with this. As if the SEC isn’t ridiculously difficult enough, they have been doing this to us for years.

That and “Oh Bama gets all the calls”, when it’s actually the opposite of that. People believe what they want to believe.