Bama vs Oklahoma round 2 (Friday December 19th)

[crimsonaudio]

Things definitely have changed since I was in school. Our finals were alway the week after Thanksgiving or sometimes a little further like around now. I don't think I ever still had classes on the 19th.

Still that way in TN. Finals are finished first week of December.

OU must've bought a truck load of extra crayons in order to get this done.

 

[AlexanderFan]

I feel like we got a BIG gift by getting in this year after the SEC Championship game. Let's hope for getting healthy, and better play calling to help the OL and Ty. I hope we can run some screens and slants. Anything to keep the chains moving. Our runs seem so slow in developing, and our OL can't maintain the blocks. Got the gift that I hope keeps on giving! RTR!

Alabama roasted this defense the first go round. Pick six pass interference and the no call on Ryan Williams would’ve tilted the yards even further.

Pick six, muffed punt, missed 36 yard field goal, and lost by two.

This team needs to show up mad to the fist time in their lives, and play accordingly.

 

[Padreruf]

I'm not sure our offense has the intensity and confidence to show up angry and determined. They seem to me to be confused, cautious about making mistakes, and totally lacking in the confidence that is needed to amount this kind of a turn-around. CKD and CRG are going to have to work some attitudinal magic to achieve the performance that is needed.

The CKD to UM rumor mill does not help this situation. CKD needs to come out with a strong statement that will lift this team up...they need to believe in him and the coaching staff now more than ever.

 

[editder]

I'm not sure our offense has the intensity and confidence to show up angry and determined. They seem to me to be confused, cautious about making mistakes, and totally lacking in the confidence that is needed to amount this kind of a turn-around. CKD and CRG are going to have to work some attitudinal magic to achieve the performance that is needed.

The CKD to UM rumor mill does not help this situation. CKD needs to come out with a strong statement that will lift this team up...they need to believe in him and the coaching staff now more than ever.

I still say OU should be 7-5 or at best 8-4 and sitting at home for the playoffs right now. Yet they found a way to beat both the viles and us on the road in games they were outplayed in and should have lost.

We were a better team then than we are now. It remains to be seen if we can suddenly reverse course on offense and win on the road. A more likely scenario is that Mateer returns to his previous form and they discover an offense to complement their defense.

 

[arthurdawg]

I'm hoping they are spending lots of time working on our plan this week and mix things up and clean up the playbook we will use and make things simpler for Ty. We need to get in, run the play, and not give up any signals that we are calling or signal what we are doing. And that the players get some rest and rehab.

 

[BamaMike05]

sorry, but no.

The LG can absolutely pull when covered. The OC would have an easy down block onto the DT in that situation.

The RG had no one to downblock since there was no one on the LOS. The RG was also covered. He gave a quick look at the DT covering him that allowed the RT (Carroll) to reach and get a good block, before adjusting to the LB who was blitzing and he successfully picked up (see here).
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RG had eyes on the play side backer the entire time, and the RT was staring directly at the playside DT. They were on the same page and picked up the guys coming on their side of the OL

The edge was already accounted for by the TE in motion. You can see here he takes a direct line to him, and in the prior pic, you can see he engages directly.

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The problem on this play is Brailsford wasn't on the same page. He paid ZERO attention at the snap and never even appears to glance at the backside backer who is the one who applied the pressure. Everyone else seemed aware that the playside OLB was a coverage player and not rushing - he's pretty much watching the TE come in motion. We had Horton in the slot with the TE wide (pre-snap) on that side then coming in tight, with a CB, a S playing kinda deep and the OLB. I can't see a world where it makes sense to cover Horton 1-1 with no S, so it's a a simple read that if the playside ILB is coming, the OLB is in coverage. There wasn't going to be anyone for Brailsford to block out there. If Grubb and the O staff thought there would be, that's a bigger problem.

Even if he should have pulled, it's on him not getting enough depth. Formby is just barely deeper than Carroll, and Brailsford is not deeper than either of them.

This does illustrate a couple of things though. UGA only brought 4 and got pressure. LG, RG, and RT (at least on this play) all got decent blocks. LT and C blocked NO ONE. We simply have too many times where we have OL not blocking anyone. The hit against Um where Ty got hurt is was Carroll who blocked NO ONE and Miller had to try to clean it up himself, unsuccessfully.

The other thing is that on this play, we started with Bernard lined up 2-3 yards away from the OT, and Horton 5-6 yards outside, AND motioned the TE to about 2 yards off the OT pre-snap. We only had ONE player (williams)far enough away to pull a player outside the box That makes it incredibly easy for a D to disguise who they might send and who they might not. UGA literally covered Bernard with the DE/OLB right off the LOS because he was so close. Pull him a bit further outside and the backside ILB has to shift his alignment outside somewhat and either can't blitz because he does have coverage, or at least has to start from further away, OR if the do choose to pull the OLB out there, Proctor would have known to slide in to help VDM, who then maybe could have picked up the other inside blitzer. It was pretty much the same thing on the other side. With the TE motioning inside, it was a very easy thing for the OLB to pick him up so that the ILB was free to blitz. Everything bunched in like this just makes it WAY to easy. It makes ZERO sense.

All that said, I still think Brailsford simply wasn't on the same page as the other 10 guys on this one. This was a one route, hot read play. Ty saw 1-1 coverage out there and called it, and everyone else executed that. Had #5 or #1 been out there as the WR on the route, it's probably a TD or worst case a PI call. I love #2 and think he does a lot of things really well, but he's not a contested catch guy like #5 and #1

If you every watch Alabama run Pin & Pull they use "covered/uncovered" rules. That isn't debatable. You can pull if your covered but Alabama typically doesn't. Also watch Formby, he is blocking down to show run and ran into Brailsford. I said that Brailsford likely didn't get enough depth on his pull.

You said "he's running around not knowing what he is doing". That isn't what he is doing. You mean not agree with the protection but that is what the play-action protection they are running entails.