The Good The Bad and The Ugly WVU

Bama Lee · Aug 31, 2014

The Good- Blake Sims, TJ Yeldon, Derrick Henry, Amari Cooper and in the 2nd half our Offensive Line all played fantastic games.

The Bad- Our defense really struggled today. The LB's were slow to read and react and our DB's forgot how to look back for the ball. The defensive line had little to know penetration and subsequent disruption.

The Ugly- do we have a special teams coach? More specifically, who teaches responsibilities on Kickoffs. We seem to struggle with this year in and year out.

PS- Overall I am pleased with the team. I am sure Coach Saban will address the issues. I guess we are spoiled when we critique issues on a ten point win!

TrampLineman · Aug 31, 2014

The Good: Blake Sims, Amari Cooper, Henry/Yeldon and Griffith/Scott (or should I say the 15th Field Artillery?)

The Bad: Linebackers looked lost today. Leon Brown having to get pulled due to flags was concerning too.

The Ugly: Our corners. Also Sims long ball.

califbamafan · Aug 31, 2014

The Good : kicking game ( punting and field goals) running backs qb play

the bad: very little pas rush lbs looking lost

The ugly: corner play kickoff coverage and no abiity by QB to stretch the field with the long ball

Matt0424 · Aug 31, 2014

The Good - Skill positions, Specialists (P/K), and the offensive gameplan

The Bad - LB play, penalties on Leon Brown, and the one botched return coverage

The Ugly - DB play, the deep ball (or lack thereof), and pass rush

Clubfitter · Aug 31, 2014

The Good - Griffith, Scott, Whatever running back we send in the game, Cooper,

The Bad - Corner play, man coverage on #11 (reminded me too much of Manziel to Evans). Gotta figure out how to slow teams from exploiting that. Middle LB'ers. In general confusion on defense.

Ugly - Kick off returns for TD's, C Jones dropping the gift TD

b2v4ua · Aug 31, 2014

The Good: hands down the running game, kickers and Cooper. The Bad: the confessed defense. I think when Trey gets back some of this will clear up. The Ugly: was Sylve out matched in height at corner.

twofbyc · Aug 31, 2014

Good - kicking game, offense, Bama wins
Bad - defense (whole), mainly first half
Ugly - pass coverage, was waay too soft for the most part and when it was tight it was sometimes unsuccessful.

And on the KO return for a TD: who missed the initial tackle? IIRC, runner should have been brought down, looked like a missed tackle to me. If it was, then.....add ST tackling to the bad (not ugly because LC made a great tackle).

GrayTide · Aug 31, 2014

The Good: This wasn't an SEC caliber team
The Bad: This wasn't an SEC caliber team
The Ugly: Unless the overall defensive play doesn't improve dramatically it could be a long season.

teamplayer · Aug 31, 2014

Good- offensive skill, amari cooper receiving, field goal kicking, a win is a win
Bad- kick returned for td, Amari cooper blocking, defensive issues
Ugly- wvu with way too many plays over ten yards, having to see Kiffen every three seconds

BamaDMD · Aug 31, 2014

Good: offense and play calling. I wasn't a Kiffin fan when first announced, however I like what I see so far.

Bad: The defense has a lot of work ahead of it. Fortuantly, we have the couches that can mould this squad into something great.

ugly: W. virg. Coaches hair.

81usaf92 · Aug 31, 2014

The good: lane kiffen looked on point with play calling and teaching on the sideline

The bad: Trickett becomes the latest qb to gash us with his arm and his legs

The ugly; White getting injured

alabama mike1 · Aug 31, 2014

Good- overall our OL had a good game. The backs had scent holes and Sims had time to throw the ball.

Bad- DL pressure. This continues to be a problem with our front 4 getting pressure on the QB.

Ugly- the secondary, no doubt.

TideMom2Boys · Aug 31, 2014

Good- Yeldon and Henry! We have another great 1-2 punch. Cooper looks to be at perfect form and will hopefully have a big year. Blake had a good start at QB. Thanks to him we were able to get that field goal there before the half. Because of his feet he was able to escape getting sacked the whole game. We have a kicker and his name is Adam! Wow I am so proud of him.

Bad-defense..we need to fix it in these next two weeks. They had open guys the whole game. #3 needs to be reevaluated and need to see if a younger guy can step up.

Ugly- KO coverage ....again. Not sure why we allow so many of those run backs.

bamacpa · Aug 31, 2014

Anyone else concerned we have our # 2, 3 and 4 RBs on kickoff coverage ? Drake flew down the field and affected a couple of returns, but I worry about potential injuries and concentrated risk on that unit.

VirginiaTide57 · Aug 31, 2014

Good - team poise, play calling on offense, Simms' elusiveness (no sacks), Griffin's play, sacks by defense, Cooper's play, running backs, third down conversions, hurry up!
Bad - 23 points, missed assignments, occasional poor tackling, fickle fans, expecting too much in first game.
Ugly - is it the defense or the execution? Are the schemes outdated for the offenses now used in college football?

davefrat · Aug 31, 2014

i will cut straight to the chase:

if that team shows up all year we will lose half our conference games.

92tide · Aug 31, 2014

bamacpa said:
Anyone else concerned we have our # 2, 3 and 4 RBs on kickoff coverage ? Drake flew down the field and affected a couple of returns, but I worry about potential injuries and concentrated risk on that unit.

saban has always done that. he puts the best athletes on the ko teams

92tide · Aug 31, 2014

VirginiaTide57 said:
Good - team poise, play calling on offense, Simms' elusiveness (no sacks), Griffin's play, sacks by defense, Cooper's play, running backs, third down conversions, hurry up!
Bad - 23 points, missed assignments, occasional poor tackling, fickle fans, expecting too much in first game.
Ugly - is it the defense or the execution? Are the schemes outdated for the offenses now used in college football?

imho, its the execution. we had a lot of missed tackles and we were out of position on a lot of the coverage. also, we could not get off those screen blocks at all.

bamacon · Aug 31, 2014

GrayTide said:
The Good: This wasn't an SEC caliber team
The Bad: This wasn't an SEC caliber team
The Ugly: Unless the overall defensive play doesn't improve dramatically it could be a long season.

I beginning to think folks just don't realize just how much offenses have changed even since 2009. The years of a defense avg. less than 10 pts. per game are over. While I admit there are certainly areas to improve if you can't see the areas where there was improvement.....well....nevermind.

skrayper77 · Aug 31, 2014

Getting DePriest back, and getting the young corners in will probably help. It was really Sylvie, who was a mismatch to the WR he was tapped with, that caused the issue.

I expected Tony Brown to get reps in the game.

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