Depression Board - what hurts most about this loss

[CajunCrimson]

I hope Sarkasian and his booger munching habits are no longer part of this university after the game. That was nothing but pure embarrassment on the offensive side.

There are a whole lot of things that this guy has done wrong in his life, but this isn't fair. If you blame Sark, then you have to blame Coach Saban for letting two wolves into his hen house. Either trust Coach or don't, but that wasn't Sark's fault last night. That was strictly a situation where we had no good options at QB to run the pro style offense we love. This was supposed to be the rebuilding year....we did pretty darn well.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Having to wait months before college football season starts again. Having to listen through phone calls, my family be happy about Bama losing. Trying to avoid social media and ppl at work who were rooting against bama.

We didn't lose. We just ran out of time

 

[rolltide_21]

Football is a game and not worth being depressed about. Those who would be a jerk about Bama losing says more about them than anything. I can take some "ribbing" about the game cause goodness knows I've dished it out, haha.


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[#1sabanite]

I hope Sarkasian and his booger munching habits are no longer part of this university after the game. That was nothing but pure embarrassment on the offensive side.

Sorry but I have to disagree, not that im sold on Sark being the right guy but judging someone by having a week to interact with the players and come up with a game plan and on top of that knowing that we have struggled at times on 3rd down all season, especially 3rd and long

Personally I think we were very fortunate to have made as far as we did for a 3rd straight year with a first year QB, who at 18 yo played way over his head and with more composure that most of us have and we are not on the field getting chased and harassed

 

[lowend]

That was strictly a situation where we had no good options at QB to run the pro style offense we love. This was supposed to be the rebuilding year....we did pretty darn well.

Makes me wonder about the future. Our pro style QB's have all transferred and we're left with two great dual threat guys. What's our offensive identity?

 

[92tide]

I hope Sarkasian and his booger munching habits are no longer part of this university after the game. That was nothing but pure embarrassment on the offensive side.

i for one am willing to give him an actual season before making any judgements on his abilities as an o coordinator.

i think a big part of our problem was that we didn't really make any 2nd half adjustments on o.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

1. Why is it all our dual threat QB's turn out to be runners who can't pass consistently? We have a couple and for some reason they forget how to pass when they put on the Crimson.

2. False start. I have decided we practice that, how else could be so good at it?

Our team played hard and I am proud of them but I can't say the same for every coach involved with the Offense. Who coaches our O Line? Maybe he needs replaced.

 

[AlexanderFan]

The disappearance of offensive pass interference and the uncatchable ball penalties. That's what hurts the most about this loss.


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[JBama_in_PCOLA]

This is the sickest I've been since that 1 second crap. Possibly sicker because of the stakes. Those two pick plays are killing me.


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[colbysullivan]

What hurts the most? The 2013 class should have won at least 3 NCs but only ended up with one.

This end result simply isn't fair. We were the best team all year and our offense sputtered down the stretch but we still deserved to win. The inconsistency in the officials allowed Clemson to score twice and it's simply not fair...

 

[Clubfitter]

1. Why is it all our dual threat QB's turn out to be runners who can't pass consistently? We have a couple and for some reason they forget how to pass when they put on the Crimson.

2. False start. I have decided we practice that, how else could be so good at it?

Our team played hard and I am proud of them but I can't say the same for every coach involved with the Offense. Who coaches our O Line? Maybe he needs replaced.

Good post. As to #1, we had a spring practice, a Fall practice, and an entire season to work with Jalen. Hard to believe that in all those snaps, our coaching staff with all their resources (with all the talent surrounding him) could not develop Jalen into at least a serviceable passer downfield. (I know, 18 yrs old, playing high school ball last yr at this time, a lot to learn, etc). I have no inside info here but it seems like somewhere our staff could have done a better job developing Jalen (some serious evaluating needs to be done here, or does Jalen have what it takes to be a good passer). Our passing game will have to improve a lot if we want to get back to the mountaintop. (By the way Watson is a dual threat QB and he's a pretty good passer).

2. I have been awakened many nights from a deep sleep fretting over false starts. Seems like everytime we get the ball 1st and 10 on the 5 yd line, almost like it was scripted, we get a false start.

I too am proud of our team. Roll Tide Roll

 

[capnfrog]

1. Why is it all our dual threat QB's turn out to be runners who can't pass consistently? We have a couple and for some reason they forget how to pass when they put on the Crimson.

2. False start. I have decided we practice that, how else could be so good at it?

Our team played hard and I am proud of them but I can't say the same for every coach involved with the Offense. Who coaches our O Line? Maybe he needs replaced.

One thing about it, any team in the nation would have loved to have the chance and be in Bama's shoes. Hey! We made it to the final dance, we came up a little short in the end but any team other than Clemson would have traded places with us in a heart beat.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

You could tell Saban turned pale white in the third quarter, as he knew what the situation was. He wasn't scared, just didn't feel comfortable with where things were. I'm not sure I've ever seen him turn that pale along with in a game for quite some time, if ever.

You might want to try adjusting the tint on your tv.

I wonder if Kiffin was pulling for us while watching the game. I'd like to think he was, and would not get any satisfaction from seeing us lose the first game we play without him.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Another thing, it's like in the 4th they knew what we were running.


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[capnfrog]

What hurts the most? The 2013 class should have won at least 3 NCs but only ended up with one.

This end result simply isn't fair. We were the best team all year and our offense sputtered down the stretch but we still deserved to win. The inconsistency in the officials allowed Clemson to score twice and it's simply not fair...

We didn't deserve anything. Clemson out played us and deserved everything they got. We shouldn't have put ourselves in the position to lose if we were that much better than Clemson. We won with class, now lets show class in losing. We got beat regardless of the two picks for touchdowns. Quit whining.

 

[Moro Creek]

100 plays on our defense and that's game over. We were beat by a better team. No shame in that.

 

[AlexanderFan]

We didn't deserve anything. Clemson out played us and deserved everything they got. We shouldn't have put ourselves in the position to lose if we were that much better than Clemson. We won with class, now lets show class in losing. We got beat regardless of the two picks for touchdowns. Quit whining.

It's not whining, it's frustration. It's 95 sacks and very few holding calls. It's breathe on the receiver on an underthrown ball and get defensive pass interference while the receivers drive block defenders into the end zone on two plays that possibly cost us another national title. These aren't fluke injury plays, these are blatant noncalls by pass happy conference officials. Cost us this year, nearly cost us last year. It's the end of defense in college football and it makes me sad.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

100 plays on our defense and that's game over. We were beat by a better team. No shame in that.

Y'all are tripping hard on this "better team" stuff.


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[pbearbryant]

We had our chances. Didn't like some of the pass interference calls especially the last one, but we had several opportunities to put the game away and didn't Roll Tide Roll

Maybe this will give us an edge leading into the off season so we can open with a huge win verse FSU. I am getting hounded by Noles fans this morning you would have thought they won

 

[64met]

We lost, and no it's not the refs fault.
Good grief. What hurts most? Guys on our defense deserve a much better send off than last night. I don't care how good they are,
99 plays to our 66 is what cost us the game.
Until Jalen is allowed to to make mistakes he will never improve.

RTR.