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Alabama: Fall Practice Reports

JayBama_in_PCOLA said:
If what Taylor says is true, then we indeed have something good, maybe great on our hands. Just gotta get healthy.
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Over the last five seasons or so, in general ( and others may certainly disagree ) the problem at Alabama has not been skill positions but along the line of scrimmage. Just a good ( not even great ) O line and D line can take most any team a LONG way.
 
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Tideflyer said:
Over the last five seasons or so, in general ( and others may certainly disagree ) the problem at Alabama has not been skill positions but along the line of scrimmage. Just a good ( not even great ) O line and D line can take most any team a LONG way.
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Agreed. Grubb's comments on Mal Waldrep at LG makes me very excited and a good battle at RT between veteran James and massive young Brooks makes for great competition and effort. I was sold on the DL coming into camp and when you hear positive things from Aaron Taylor I am starting to get excited about the OL.
 
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4Q Basket Case said:
Side Note: I would love for someone more knowledgeable than me to explain how the 2025 OL performed so well in Athens, and just yakked up hairball after hairball afterward.
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Don't have any inside insight... but one possibility has to do with scheme. Early in the season, based on our current personnel, you may present some wrinkles earlier in the year that provide issues for teams. However, the longer you go, the secrets become known and it becomes more about execution ability. A second possibility has to do with health - in the SEC it's assumed the deeper in the schedule you go, the more dings that start piling up on your starters. A third has to do with complacency... as a player you're being paid, you come off a good performance, and you start to believe it's always going to be that way and stop working to improve. A fourth... coaching inability to make adjustments as the season goes along.
 
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TiderJack said:
Agreed. Grubb's comments on Mal Waldrep at LG makes me very excited and a good battle at RT between veteran James and massive young Brooks makes for great competition and effort. I was sold on the DL coming into camp and when you hear positive things from Aaron Taylor I am starting to get excited about the OL.
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Sounds like we will have a starting 5 and the all important swing players for tackle and guard ready to go by game time!

Not sure about back up center... Sounded somewhat less good there, hopefully Delgatty stays healthy.
 
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CB4 said:
Solid point. Once Jeff Stoutland left Tuscaloosa to take the Oline job with the Eagles, Jeff remained in that role through three different head coaches. And Philadelphia across all three head coaching regimes had some of the better oline play in the NFL.

I think the continuity and consistency of Jeff Stoutland and his coaching has a lot to do with that.
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In my opinion, Stoutland has been the best OL coach we've had in the past 20 years. We won two straight natties in the two seasons he was with us. 2011 featured Jones, Warmack, Vlachos, Steen, and Fluker across the line while the 2012 unit consisted of Kouandijo, Warmack, Jones, Steen, and Fluker. I about had a come apart in the 2012 SECCG. We were gashing (and I mean gashing) Georgia with Lacey and Yeldon EVERY time we ran the ball... yet Nussmeier kept throwing the ball. I was yelling at the TV the whole game "run the ball!!!" We made that game close because we insisted on throwing the ball rather than force-feeding it down UGA's throat.
 
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BAMARICH said:
In my opinion, Stoutland has been the best OL coach we've had in the past 20 years. We won two straight natties in the two seasons he was with us. 2011 featured Jones, Warmack, Vlachos, Steen, and Fluker across the line while the 2012 unit consisted of Kouandijo, Warmack, Jones, Steen, and Fluker. I about had a come apart in the 2012 SECCG. We were gashing (and I mean gashing) Georgia with Lacey and Yeldon EVERY time we ran the ball... yet Nussmeier kept throwing the ball. I was yelling at the TV the whole game "run the ball!!!" We made that game close because we insisted on throwing the ball rather than force-feeding it down UGA's throat.
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We ran the ball FIFTY ONE times for 350 yards. Lacy had 181 and Yeldon had 153yds. AJ was 16/21 for 162..
We ran the ball 13 out of 15 offensive plays in the 4th Qtr. One of those passes was 45yd TD to Coop to clinch the game.
 
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Cruiser said:
We ran the ball FIFTY ONE times for 350 yards. Lacy had 181 and Yeldon had 153yds. AJ was 16/21 for 162..
We ran the ball 13 out of 15 offensive plays in the 4th Qtr.
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Yeah we eventually just stuck with the running game in the 2nd half.

It also helped set up this Play Action Dagger:


But I agree with Stoutland being our Best OL Coach.
 
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Cruiser said:
We ran the ball FIFTY ONE times for 350 yards. Lacy had 181 and Yeldon had 153yds. AJ was 16/21 for 162..
We ran the ball 13 out of 15 offensive plays in the 4th Qtr. One of those passes was 45yd TD to Coop to clinch the game.
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This is where stats can be misleading. We tried to be fairly balanced in the first half and until midway through the 3rd - even though we were clearly dominating them running the ball at that point. Up until UGA went up 21-10 (6:31 in the 3rd quarter), we had 22 called rushing plays and 20 called passing plays (167 yards rushing yards to 97 passing yards plus 25 net yards on McCarron carries). After UGA went up 21-10, we committed to running the ball until they stopped us (and they couldn't)... 26 runs (220 yards) and 6 passes (65 yards). My contention... had we totally committed to the run earlier in the game, they possibly would have never taken the lead and we would have won comfortably instead of it going down to the last play of the game.
 
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