I'm a huge fan of Cyrus Jones and any Tide player. Cyrus turned the State game around with his punt return, and I was jumping around in excitement for him, and his defensive performance was one of the best I've ever seen from him.
I'm just not a fan of the technique we use in coverage, and that's really all it is.
That doesn't mean I'm right. It's just my opinion and nothing more.
I was always taught, as a DB, in man coverage on a deep route, to try and run shoulder to shoulder with the receiver. When he looks back, you turn your head inside and also look back, find the ball, and react.
Times have changed and I'm sure philosophy has changed. Receivers are much harder to cover, much bigger, much faster. I get that.
Fundamentally though, to me, nothing good can happen if you don't know where the ball is.
I don't want to be perceived as negative. I love this team and think they have improved more over the course of the season perhaps more than any team in Saban's tenure at Bama.
I just don't like the technique. That's all.
But hey, I'll just have to learn to live with it cause I don't think Coach S. will change his coverage schemes because of Lil ole me