Bama Game Thread: Official PostGame Thread - Bama @ OU

[Tidewater]

my opinion, Ty has lost all confidence in Williams ability to catch the ball. On 4th down, when Brooks scored on the twisting/ diving play. Brooks and Williams ran similiar routes on opposite sides of the field. Both were open, Williams probably more so than Brooks. Williams was in the natural line of sight of a right handed QB. Ty never looked his way, spinning and throwing to Brooks.

You may be right and if so, Williams has become an absolute liability. He is preventing a productive player from getting onto the field. He should not be on the field, or maybe only against the Eastern Illinois types until he demonstrate convincingly that he can catch and block. Until then, time to take a seat and learn from players who do want to catch and block for their team.

 

[Bama Lee]

The biggest difference in that first quarter we played mostly four man front with zone behind it. Very little blitzing or stunts and no pressure on Mateer. We started mixing coverages, mixing front looks and confusing their OL and gave Mateer the “happy feet”.

Wommack seems to have a tendency to play pretty vanilla early until he gets a feel for what the other team is doing.

It was more like 3 man front and utilizing a LB as a spy. Dropping 7 into a loose zone.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

The thing it seems so many don’t consider with DeBoer is this is his second year and it’s a rebuild. That fact is glossed over completely. Things had eroded and he was left a broken locker room.

He is definitely improved from a year ago and yet he has a ton of room left to grow. I agree there is so much to clean up. I think some staff changes are likely in order this offseason. But you cannot deny the overall improvement.

I too am more of a fan of the Nick Saban way (who isn’t?) but as he was not going to be here forever what more could we ask for at this point? Again… this job was a rebuild. Not like what Arkansas is currently facing. But the point is he wasn’t taking over 2016 Alabama.

One of the biggest things I credit to CKD that has turned a few games in our favor already is that when it’s absolutely do or die time he doesn’t hesitate to take a massive gamble on 4th down.

A lot of CFB HCs would have kicked a FG down 17-0 in the 2nd with a half to play.

He didn’t flinch and the Brooks diving TD ignited the entire team.

It completely changed the game and created a massive swing in momentum.

Those CFB HCs who would have kicked the FG probably lose that game in a blowout.

 

[CB72]

I was pretty ill last night and turned in after Oklahoma went up 17-0.

Woke up at 3 a.m. to use restroom and saw score.

Gotta give the players and CKD props.
Good job team.
RTR.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Two of those OU wins didn’t count. That wasn’t Alabama , that was East Popcorn St

Eh… I disagree. We should have beaten them in 2002. That was one of the greatest comebacks I’ve ever seen. It just melted in the end due to two shovel passes and a dreadful Tyler Watts fumble when we were driving again on what would have been a go ahead score.

They were absolutely better in 2003 yet we gave a respectable showing, led late, but ultimately wilted in the end.

Yes we were probation riddled, but we weren’t a cupcake either.

 

[Krymsonman]

Still no real offensive identity, no real dominant defense. I couldn’t tell you what this team does well. But they still have the best athletes in the game and sometimes that’s enough.

I'm not sure what we did on defense last night, but once we figured it out we just kept stuffing OU. Seems like most of what OU picked up was on ad lib plays. After that first quarter, the defense stepped up in a very big way.

 

[Krymsonman]

and we wiped the smirk off of that creep venables' face

And, a couple of times they panned on him, I swear he was saying some words not allowed on Tidefans.

 

[VirginiaTide57]

Offensive line takes a lot of grief…but how about the discipline to not have a single illegal procedure call on the road? There are positives. . .

 

[bamaga]

Eh… I disagree. We should have beaten them in 2002. That was one of the greatest comebacks I’ve ever seen. It just melted in the end due to two shovel passes and a dreadful Tyler Watts fumble when we were driving again on what would have been a go ahead score.

They were absolutely better in 2003 yet we gave a respectable showing, led late, but ultimately wilted in the end.

Yes we were probation riddled, but we weren’t a cupcake either.

Were you a fan then? Anyone that remembers that game in Norman remembers Stoops answering hard questions about why his highly rated Sooners struggled so mightily . His answer was That wasn’t East Popcorn St we were playing. It was a popular phrase for awhile here on Tidefans
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[bamaga]

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My wife commented they look like twins.

 

[bamaga]

I was optimistic

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17-0 losing
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Under 20 yards offense
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Poor tackling

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[Krymsonman]

my opinion, Ty has lost all confidence in Williams ability to catch the ball. On 4th down, when Brooks scored on the twisting/ diving play. Brooks and Williams ran similiar routes on opposite sides of the field. Both were open, Williams probably more so than Brooks. Williams was in the natural line of sight of a right handed QB. Ty never looked his way, spinning and throwing to Brooks.

All I know is my wife watched the game and when she saw that Brooks TD, all she said was "WOW" with all the twisting and fighting he did to get in the end zone. He was not going to be denied.

 

[Tidewater]

Were you a fan then? Anyone that remembers that game in Norman remembers Stoops answering hard questions about why his highly rated Sooners struggled so mightily . His answer was That wasn’t East Popcorn St we were playing. It was a popular phrase for awhile here on Tidefans
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I've always loved the Poppers of East Popcorn State. One of my favorite teams besides the Crimson Tide.

 

[bamaga]

I like the toss sweep/speed toss or whatever you want to call it that #4 went off tackle. We have ran something similiar trying to get wide, but that play was different. It looked blocked and designed to go off tackle, but that may have been overpursuit by OU and I don’t know what I am talking about

 

[bamaga]

Offensive line takes a lot of grief…but how about the discipline to not have a single illegal procedure call on the road? There are positives. . .

I went back and watched the SECCG yesterday. The Oline didn’t play as poorly as I thought. Sure there were lapses, but some was on Ty, and a lot of what happened were due to injuries at back and TE. Replacements didn’t have the experience to chip , pick up Blitzes properly.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Were you a fan then? Anyone that remembers that game in Norman remembers Stoops answering hard questions about why his highly rated Sooners struggled so mightily . His answer was That wasn’t East Popcorn St we were playing. It was a popular phrase for awhile here on Tidefans
.

Oh yes! I’m sorry I had forgotten that and just totally missed the reference.

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

The first one absolutely mattered. It completely changed their strategy. They were already beaten by the 2nd one.

It mattered in a sense. But I don't think the end result changes either way

 

[BamaMoon]

I like the toss sweep/speed toss or whatever you want to call it that #4 went off tackle. We have ran something similiar trying to get wide, but that play was different. It looked blocked and designed to go off tackle, but that may have been overpursuit by OU and I don’t know what I am talking about

The only positive yards we are getting on rushing attempts is when we do an unbalanced line to one side.

I think D. Hill's big run was one of those formations. The other thing is it was a toss...not a ROP mesh handoff, which takes a little longer for him to get his forward motion going.

I'd really like to see us try to run it more with those formations and if we do have any success with it, we could play action out of the formation and slip a WR behind the secondary.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I don't think we had a single wacky trick play. Hopefully Grubb has learned.

 

[Ledsteplin]

I'll be honest. I couldn't bear to keep watching when it got to 17-0. I changed to Paramount+ and put Star Trek: DS9 on. But I had the game on my iPhone on Xfinity Stream. So I kept peeking to see what was going on. But didn't want to jinx it. So as I watched Star Trek on my big TV screen, I would peek at my phone to see the game. This strategy worked and they went on a 34-7 run. I put the game back on TV with about 4 minutes left.
Kane made a huge difference when he switched defensive strategy. Ty did really well without so much blitzing