After speaking with someone this past weekend with a direct line into the athletic dept, one big issue with the previous staff evidently was lack of strong personal relationships between the staff and the players, and thus the goal of Coach is to bring in guys that can recruit AND that want to continue to build relationships and stay involved with the guys after they are on campus. Evidently the atmosphere with last seasons group was not very conducive to that. Tifwiw
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Yeah I think there was a method to Lane’s madness. I think when lane saw Jalen’s limitations he started to check out and called weird outlandish stuff that we saw in the Florida and Washington games to either get folks to think or to see what stuck. I don’t think Sark really understood Jalen’s limitations and tried to get plays in as fast as he could to try to make it easier for him, but Lane’s way up until the LSU game was probably the better option.
Sark and Lane’s offenses require a big arm or someone capable of consistently hitting 15-20 yard plays. I don’t think Jalen learned that until he lost his job. Tua will probably be better under Sark than he has the last 2 years, but I think the real issue with hiring sark is that he has those “greedy†moments like Lane.
Ummm.... Locksley had lot of greedy moments during the season.
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Completely different reason for the strange play calls in the Washington game, but there's no reason to discuss that now.
The only thing about that is that he only had one week to be the OC leading up to that game.
That seems obvious now, looking back over the season.
Yeah and that was a big part of the problem. Lane's game was more of what a Spurrier and McDaniels kinda gameplan in which he tried to find matchups and would continuously force you to stop him. Unlike those two Lane would get cute when he didn't have to Ohio State is a prime example. Locksley seemed to rely on the big play almost exclusively because he had a qb an receivers that could hit it. I think there is a difference between Lane/Sark and Locksley and it was Lane/Sark like the big play as a part of their gameplan, but for Locks it IS THE GAMEPLAN.
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I'm with you on Golding to the extent that I hope Kelly is co-DC. Kelly has been there done that, he's faced off against Clemson more times than just about anyone on the staff, and he'd held his own. Having said that, whether or not Golding is up for what ever his role is, having Kelly around gives Alabama a better backup plan than when Tosh was there. The problem was when Tosh didn't prove up for the task, there wasn't a veteran like Kelly around to pick up the slack.
As far as Sark, he's got a great track record and resume, way, way better than that of the past two OCs (and Enos if he had been promoted) and if he can stay sober it should work fine. Flood? I don't know a whole lot about him but what I do know speaks to his being good at his job.
What I continue to be amazed about, is how many people don't seem to attribute this to the most obvious culprit.
The fact that he was on the job for only one week. It was absolutely, 100% an issue, and absolutely, 100% an issue that anyone would have had with such little time to practice and prepare. You don't break a playcaller in, in one week, and develop the right timing and relationship with the quarterback. It just doesn't happen. If Sark had it to do over again, he'd have done it differently I'm sure. So week two he'd be better than week one, and I'd wager the same for week three. But that's the sort of thing you would sort out in the spring, not in the week leading up to a championship game.
Yeah, I wondered why he tried for the walk off home run when there were other time and yard eating plays he could have run
Every single one of us are concerned since we all know that an alcoholic can fall off the wagon at anytime. So lets just say that concern should be an unspoken concern due to we all have that concern and hope he stays sober.
I agree with you on the bashing of his abilities.
Am I understand this tweet correctly: Kool cut the moment Baker got into town? Very odd.
If that is the case you gotta wonder if the only reason he was around was because he hasn't found a new employer in the time since being informed that Saban was going another direction at DL Coach. And with Saban, it seems that a coach usually knows about that transition process before bowl game so they can earnestly consider offers being communicated to their agent.
Could it be that this had as much to do with Tua hunting for the big play on nearly every snap? Plenty of options in each call depending on what the QB sees or wants to do.
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This. Within each passing play there are different options for the QB to select from. From what I could gather, a lot of our passing plays had three "types" of routes built into them. A safety valve in the flat (possibly a RB or TE), an intermediate option in the 15-25 yard range, then the home run route in which we were going for the jugular. Tua, IMO, gravitated too much toward the "jugular"/"home run" option when there was a better, higher percentage one available.
It's a part of of Tua's game that he has to get better at or he will regress in 2019. You could already see teams adjusting to his tendencies before the Clemson game. Now there is a full fledged blue print on him.
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Yeah but couldn’t Trevor Lawrence?
My issue was when teams like UGA, MSU, Clemson, and LSU prevented the big play Tua looked very average. There were constantly check downs wide open that could have extended drives. It more reflects on coaching, and play calling. Yes to a significant degree it reflects on Tua, but how hard is it to tell him after the MSU that there are teams with great dlines and great DCs that won’t let you hit a home run when you want to. How many times was Irv Smith and a RB wide open for a 10-20 yard gain all year?
At some point you have to call his shots at times instead of just letting him continuously struggle in games with defenses with the tools to matchup with us.
Clemson dinked and dunked all night, and most of their big plays came from those. We continuously tried to be overally aggressive and played our ways to an early death to a team just as talented as us
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