How in the round world could we not fix this issue???
I mean there are JR. High centers all over America that can do a pistol snap better than our starter!
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I mean there are JR. High centers all over America that can do a pistol snap better than our starter!
I THINK it was supposed to be a run off tackle by Milroe, basically. But, bad snap, Latham got knocked on his ass into Milroe, and busted play.
A microcosm of the entire season.
I just cannot even begin to imagine how bad the 2-3 deep are at center…
All things considered, a great season overall. Revenge on Tennessee and LSU. Broke Auburn's heart with an unforgettable play. Ruined Georgia's chance at a 3 peat and won the SEC championship. Two games we lost, we just got straight up beat. Dissapointing, but we were playing with house money at the end
if it's Milroe, it will require massive improvement from him for us to have any shot. The O is likely going to have to carry us next year, and we're just not anywhere close to that with his current skillset at QB.
Why will the O have to carry us?
We're losing 4 / 5 starters in the secondary with only one of the backups having a significant role (unless Moore takes a COVID year)
We're losing both Edge rushers, and don't really have a replacement with any experience for either.
We're losing our most versatile DL, who could play heavy edge or slide inside. Unless the transfer Overton is that guy, we don't have an experienced guy for that role either.
So really we have a Safety, 2 DL, and an LB and a half (Campbell played a lot) coming back, with a CB who at least played in Dime. Then we have a couple of transfers we can be hopeful about.
So to be successful, we're going to need to have a methodical, never really getting stalled out, take what the D gives you, by reading pre and post snap to get playmakers into good positions style offense. Right now Milroe just isn't any of those things and really hasn't shown much progress toward becoming any of those things in 3 years on campus. He'd have to develop 10 times more in the next 8 months than he has in his entire football career to get where he needs to be.
Think about it, in Hurts (true Freshman), Tuas (fresh/soph), Jones (5th), and Youngs (soph) first season as starters, ALL of them were allowed to read defenses, make calls at the line, have option pass routes to execute and basically run a pro-style read the D type approach. Hurst was scaled back some, but he at least had 1-2 reads per play as a true freshman. Further back, Coker, AJ, Sims and GMac, all were able to make full D reads to some degree in their first year as starter. Contrast that with Milroe (in his third year, but yest first as a starter), who isn't even trusted to make the read on a zone-read option, or simple RPOs now, nor to throw the most basic timing routes.
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That still blows my mind. I still complain about that every so often. Why in the world we did not hand that rock off to that Beast, Derrick Henry, every single play in that 2014 game I'll never understand. He was dominant when he carried the ball. Oh well, we'll NEVER know
P.S....Sim's 3 interceptions didn't help either
I think Saban is covering here imo. Better to say this was the play that just didn't execute it well...
What do we want him to say? "Our QB freaked out after the low snap and ran head down into the butt of our OL after 2 consecutive timeouts this is the best play we call. But it worked earlier when we ran it for 17yds straight up the gut, but no bad snap on that play. What were supposed to do the SoBs on the other side had all our plays after hacking into our network."
What do we want him to say? "Our QB freaked out after the low snap and ran head down into the butt of our OL after 2 consecutive timeouts this is the best play we call. But it worked earlier when we ran it for 17yds straight up the gut, but no bad snap on that play. What were supposed to do the SoBs on the other side had all our plays after hacking into our network."
From what Saban said after the game the last play was a designed Milroe run all the way. He said it's one of our 2 point plays since we were on the 3 yard line anyway. It's a bad call though since it made no sense to run right into the strength of the Michigan defense.
For me it's almost a relief. Don't get me wrong: I hoped we could win it tonight and next week for another NC, but when a team is as fundamentally flawed as we are it is like getting a vasectomy before the numbing medicine sets in each week as we wonder what team will show up.
*Don't even ask me how I know this.
With a left tackle run, Latham getting blown up there would have mattered. Milroe wasnt supposed to be where he was.
The good thing about the playoff next year is that there won't be a month layoff between games, which is kinda ridiculous.
I mean if all the early season rumors were true, this team chose Milroe. So what have they got to complain about. This season we lived by the sword, and ultimately we died by sword. Is what it is.
Ironic it came down to this. Bad snap. Bad Oline play. Bad QB decision.
It's really who we were most of the year.
I think the bad snap caused him to panic. Latham was whipped so bad he fell into Milroe.
I have a pretty good chance of finishing last in the pickem. I am stoked about that.
A lot of the talk I heard in the run up to the game was it was going to be Alabama vs Texas for the title. Washington was really given no chance.
I would like to see the Huskies win it all at this point.
I would like to see the Huskies win it all at this point.
What a way for the Pac-12 to go out if UW was able to pull off the title game win.
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