Bama Game Thread: Bama PostGame Thread - Bama vs. OU...

[Tidewater]

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football" John Heisman​

 

[bamaga]

How do you lose to a team that you only allow 212 yards of offense? ULM had more than that.
The pick 6 play was film study. The slant to Horton was automatic in that alignment, but the corner dropped in zone and the safety moved in and cut off the inside move to the ball. It was DPI as contact was made while the ball was in the air. Cuevas was open in the middle of the field for a big gainer, Ty looked at Horton the whole time.

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

We should spend all our NIL money on OL transfers. And a couple RBs.

Also the good news about this loss is I think the odds Ty comes back for another year just jumped

 

[bamaga]

I think there should be a stipulation that there are no November bye weeks unless it’s both teams. I just think it puts teams vying for the playoffs in a very disadvantageous situation because the SEC stacks November with huge games

Very good idea. Maybe we should forward it to the league office. Do away with the late season cupcake too.

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

I gave Kane a hard time early in the year but he has the defense playing well again even if it's not as elite as I thought it could be coming into the year.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Probably already posted but we should have gotten another shot at that field goal 15 yards closer on an untimed down.

Player clearly left his feet to jump over the line and get a piece of it.

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.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

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.

When does next year's schedule get dropped. I would be willing to bet there will be at least 4 teams with a bye before us.

 

[Bama9001]

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.

 

[gtgilbert]

Yep, the pick 6 was down to Formby blocking the wrong guy (again) and a free rusher forcing Ty into a blind throw.

rewatching it I am not sure that was on Formby. We ended up with Brailsford, Proctor and whoever was in at LG all blocking ONE dude who barely even rushed. Carroll and Formby were both covered were blocking 1-1. Hill going in motion changed their D to where at least one of the guys on the left was going to be dropping (two actually did) so we didn't need to overcommit to the left like we did. I think we had the wrong call on the OL and should have been sliding protection to the right, versus the left especially since their best rusher was over carroll, so we cant just let him free either.

 

[Con]

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.

This is a good point. Even though they played well, giving up a 3rd and 13 moves the chains and when we finally stop them, gives them a good chance to pin us deep or a long field goal attempt.

 

[colbysullivan]

Very good idea. Maybe we should forward it to the league office. Do away with the late season cupcake too.

The late-season cupcakes are already gone with the 9 game SEC schedule. Personally, the only problem I have with playing the cupcakes is the potential to get important players hurt. Moving forward, the entire SEC is going to be even more beat up than they have been, which is already ridiculous. Sankey caved.

 

[CB4]

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.

Couldn’t that be skewed somewhat given that OU’s first drive started at the Alabama 30 after the punt return (ended in FG) and Ty’s fumble where they started on the Bama 31 (ended in TD)? So ten points from drives of 31 yards or less. Then the pick 6 were the offense never set foot on the field.

But the point still stands. We were trying drive 80+ yards all game. On two drives OU was basically in scoring position from the start.

 

[64met]

Very disappointing game. We lost and I can isolate 4 plays that IMO cost us the game. Move on, will need to beat the barn to have shot at playoffs. I don't think we get in with 3 losses. RTR!

 

[dvldog]

This post may be kinda late but when Ryan Williams fumbled the punt, I thought why did we have him back there. I love him, but he's been Butter hands all year. Adams hasn't dropped one yet.

Personally I don’t understand why Adams isn’t getting on the field as a receiver. He has great hands and enough speed.

 

[Tidewater]

The late-season cupcakes are already gone with the 9 game SEC schedule. Personally, the only problem I have with playing the cupcakes is the potential to get important players hurt. Moving forward, the entire SEC is going to be even more beat up than they have been, which is already ridiculous. Sankey caved.

For the life of me I cannot understand why the SEC agreed to kneecap the conference (I'm sure it is money). If I had been commissioner, given how the committee ignores strength of schedule, I would have gone the opposite direction, dropped down to 7 conference games and told SEC schools to schedule MAC teams, Sunbelt, etc. or even 1AA schools. I would have told the powers that be, "Well, you keep saying you take strength of schedule into account, fine. When I see multi-year consistent evidence that this is true, I'll consider going to back to 8 SEC games. In the meantime don't do something down my back and tell me it's raining."

 

[CrimSonami]

Geez! Some of y’all need to back away from the ledge!
It’s nowhere near time to ax CKD. It’s no time to trash Ty. IMO the pick 6 wasn’t entirely on him. Horton was arm hooked, and not called, on that play which disrupted the route. Hell, at least he attempted to right the wrong by making honest effort to tackle on the play, as opposed to an obvious business decision whiff by the QB last year. We have serious O-line issues and due to the lack of push near nil in the run game production.
ROLL TIDE!!!

 

[JDCrimson]

Kiffin is 4-0 going against Venerables and has made him look totally outclassed in each game. The simple reason is Kiffin is bound and determined to find the one weakness that Venerables has in his game plan and will sacrifice a whole half to do. But when he finds it he won’t stop exposing it.

I think Grubb and by extension DeBoer are way too committed to a certain goal oriented gameplan that they refuse to take advantage of what a defense is giving up. I think some of that could be us not being comfortable with our roster (especially OL and RB) and stood that may be too concerned with winning TOP.

I really don’t understand what we are doing at times offensively or why some players start over others. I’m willing to be patient and allow DeBoer time to get his type of Olinemen in but I can’t lie it’s frustrating to see the potential wasted with the talent at receiver and quarterback

The TE was open all night. We did not exploit enough last night.

 

[cthorne22]

I really detest offensive coordinators. They all want to be identified as an offensive genius.
An old coach tells me every minute spent in practice on gadget plays steals time on fundamentals.
I think I would rather see us work on identifying line stunts, blitz pickups (especially up the middle), and just blocking assignments.
On the upside our gadget plays look pretty good, and we have a lot of them.

P.S. Stop calling RB screens. Our screens are about the worst I've ever seen

 

[cthorne22]

RW was on punt return because we lack explosive plays in punt return. Guess what we else we have lacked in punt returns, turnovers. Fixing a problem that didn't exist.

 

[92tide]

Geez! Some of y’all need to back away from the ledge!
It’s nowhere near time to ax CKD. It’s no time to trash Ty. IMO the pick 6 wasn’t entirely on him. Horton was arm hooked, and not called, on that play which disrupted the route. Hell, at least he attempted to right the wrong by making honest effort to tackle on the play, as opposed to an obvious business decision whiff by the QB last year. We have serious O-line issues and due to the lack of push near nil in the run game production.
ROLL TIDE!!!

was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor? hell no!