I'm pretty sure it was Shaun Dion Hamilton that got blocked on that play, not Reuben, but I could be wrong.
I'm not watching the championship game...
I'm not watching the championship game...
****Official Post-Game Thread - Bama vs. Ohio State****
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My, goodness......love this year's team and it was a great coaching job. The "reasons" for this that or the other almost always involve facts and details to which we aren't privy. These coaches, while fallible, are at the very top of their profession, worth every dime we pay them and bring untold benefits to the University. You simply cannot win all games.....other teams want to win, as well. Roll Tide........
I think that is part of our problem. The defense is so complicated that by the time they really learn it, they leave for the NFL and we have to start all over again. When was the last time that someone really good in the secondary stayed for all 4 years?
Maybe you should look at the numbers. There are several teams that have a better secondary than ours, and they have more talented players than we do. We have recruited a lot of those players went to other teams, and didn't get them. Tony Brown and Marlon Humphrey and the first true blue chip CB's (according to recruiting rankings) we've signed at CB since Dee Milliner. In the time since then, we have relied on 2 JUCO guys (Menzie and Belue) and another that never played here (Travall Dixon) and several guys that are converted WR's or ATH's (Cy Jones, Jabriel Washington, Eddie Jackson, and Bradley Sylve - none were rated CB's by the recruiting services). Geno Smith and Maurice Smith were the highest rated CB's (4 stars) we've signed since 2011 and neither are starting at CB. Jonathan Cook was a 3 star.
We have a deficiency at CB, and have had for a while. Hopefully Brown, Humphrey, and incoming Minkah Fitzpatrick will develop into their 5 star rankings.
You're correct, it was. He is a true freshman coming cold off the bench - it happens.
I won't, I have no stake in it. I don't care which team wins, so I will love having a break from football for a while.
Could be. I just assumed it was him since he had been in and all i saw was the "1"
I'm not going back to watch again ...
Right, it was #11 that got blocked so that that 85 yard run could take place. It was NOT #10.
I've thought for weeks this team had an underdog quality to it, because we would hit spells where we'd struggle with fairly basic things. Gotta give credit to OSU for outplaying and outcoaching us. I just struggle to understand the abandonment of running left, and the playcall after the short punt. Go down with your best weapon is my thought. Of course, if it had worked like the pass to Greene in OT at LSU, I'd be touting that call. The defense, for all its struggles, gave us chances in the 2nd half, but the offense just couldn't get it going.
Great point, and you're right. People look at the overall signing class rankings and automatically assume that we have more talent than anyone at all positions. That is not the case.
That's what it does. It is complex, but the system relies on having stud CBs that you can leave on an island. We didn't have that last year or this year. When we don't have that, we have to compensate with safety help over the top, but this year we didn't have teh centerfield type guy back there. And we don't have that Rashad, HaHa, or Barron that can play center field. Landon is a great player, but he's more of an in the box guy like Darren Woodson,/ Polamalu not the ballhawk like Teague or Ed Reed.
We can second-guess the secondary play and the talent all we want, but at the end of the day if we avoid the costly turnovers and dropped passes we win this game, we beat Ole Miss, and our outlook going forward is 100% different. Maybe better ball control and game management on offense doesn't always beat the Johnny Manziel's and Oregon's of today, but it would've won for us tonight.
I don't think any of us could understand abandoning the left, when they hadn't stopped it. If we had kept it up, they would have had to overload that side to stop it and that would have opened up the other side. Just a lot that's hard to understand about tonight...
yep. It made no sense. I thought we would see a 2012 UGA type play all in the second quarter. They weren't stopping it, so why bother throwing? Just baffles me we let this one slip away.
Well, I agree with what someone said about the chickens came home to roost tonight. We've played the same way in several games this year, but were able to overcome. In each loss this season, we had the ball at the end with at least a shot at it. I appreciate that. Fix the defense and run the ball until they stop it and we'll be ok.
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