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****Official Postgame Thread - Bama vs. Mizzou****

Games like that on natural grass stay with you a couple extra days. Running in the mud just makes you hurt!

Any idea how running on this synthetic stuff in a downpour like that affects you? If at all!


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If A.J. is okay, then this game is similar to what we've seen all season: An opening knock-out punch, a let-down, and then 4th quarter intensity.
It's just unusually weird since the rain delay was like an ill-timed halftime.

Early Halloween, I reckon.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
Believe it or not, you cannot pick up a player and slam him to the turf without a penalty, which is what we got. And Fanning is due for an earful from Saban...
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Doesn't classic tackling technique teach just that? In other words, launching up through the player, which would lift the player's feet off the ground and slow his momentum. Also, don't wide receivers frequently get hit while in the air, having the same basic effect upon hitting the ground like the tackle being discussed herein?
 
Tide1986 said:
Doesn't classic tackling technique teach just that? In other words, launching up through the player, which would lift the player's feet off the ground and slow his momentum. Also, don't wide receivers frequently get hit while in the air, having the same basic effect upon hitting the ground like the tackle being discussed herein?
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big difference between wrapping up and driving through a player and doing a suplex.
 
Tide1986 said:
Doesn't classic tackling technique teach just that? In other words, launching up through the player, which would lift the player's feet off the ground and slow his momentum. Also, don't wide receivers frequently get hit while in the air, having the same basic effect upon hitting the ground like the tackle being discussed herein?
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Actually, the defenseless player, unsportsmanlike, penalty is more often called when a WR is picked up in the air and then slammed to the ground. But, no, you can't do it, as the penalty (and likely suspension to come) proved today. I'll do the research later. I'm too busy watching ball games at the moment, but the NCAA has been determined to stop what happened with Fanning today. It's a penalty if you pick the ball carrier up into the air and then slam him into the ground with your weight coming down on him. Fanning's move was more egregious, in that he picked #42 up into the air flipped him back over his body and into the ground, a very risky move. As I said, I don't want to discuss it further tonight. We'll be getting an earful the first part of the week from the national press - and probably from Coach Saban as well...
 
Bamafan P.T. said:
Really love the possibilities Simms brings and the limited package we've seen so far. Could really catch some teams off guard with him.
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Spread teams run this a lot and the team we played Friday night did a lot. Instead of reading the end like a zone read, you block yhe end and read the middle LB whether to give or keep.
 
Not that Fanning's actions can be justified or defended but was there something that happened to get him so fired up? Why would he Suplex that kid when he had him wrapped up?

btw - watch the next few plays after the suplex. The one after, he attacked the line like a madman but I think Mizzou got a belly full. On the following play, some big lineman pancaked him and whooped on him for a few seconds after the whistle ... seems to me he had it coming. Then Fanning came off the field grinning.
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TO BE CLEAR - I agree that it is not OK - Whatever the reason, it was unnecessary.
 
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runtheoption22 said:
Spread teams run this a lot and the team we played Friday night did a lot. Instead of reading the end like a zone read, you block yhe end and read the middle LB whether to give or keep.
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Understand. Just hadn't heard it called that. I'm excited about what that offense and Sims could bring to our game...
 
Folks, there is a difference between a good hit or throwing a player backward and performing a suplex on him which might break his neck. It's called unnecessary roughness for a reason - because it'scompletely unnecessary and likely to lead to severe injury. I don't mean to be out of line, but could we move past whether it was OK or not? It was NOT OK. It was boneheaded and stupid and I believe Saban will rectify the situation. The kids out there playing are not gladiators or wrestlers. They have a lot of protective equipment, but none of it is designed to protect from that kind of a dangerous move.
 
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