Yea, we heard you the first 10 times. Fact is, it's not over til it's over and we ain't givin up yet. BTW, this is the Tony Brown to Bama thread.
Why wouldn't he just say he is going to Kentucky then? Seems like he may be putting it off so he doesn't have to take the heat from the home state any longer than he had to.
two days ago, you were 100% right..... something has given him the courage to not commit right now which was all but certain 48 hours ago....
You may be right, but at the end of the day, you, your buddy, or the Coach don't really know what he is going to do. People here who have a great track record have stated that he has told the staff "Yes" but it was going to be hard to get him out of state. You've stated the same thing over and over - we got it - you don't think he's coming to Bama. Let's just see what happens.
He is admittedly a UK fan, and fans say "we" as much as (if not more than) players. This doesn't necessarily mean what it might appear to mean.
And that may be it, he may want to commit locally, but I don't think it hurts us if comes uncommitted to T-Town later this month for his OV. Everybody knows its going to be tough to get him out of KY, but if anybody can do it, it's CNS and staff.
Out of curiosity, how did the heading change from Matt Elam to Tony Brown between 2:46 and 3:13 yesterday?
Yes - the way to beat this offense is to push the pocket back into the face of the QB from the center. It also frees up another DL or LB because it takes 2 O-linemen to block a player like this. This kind of player effects everyone around him.
Agreed. There hasn't been an offense designed yet that flourishes with defensive penetration.
The problem is we haven't been able to get this ever elusive penetration against HUNH offenses. It's one thing to get this type penetration against an offense that has a quarterback lock down in the pocket. The DL has time to get that push. But the penetration needed to disrupt the HUNH has to come quicker or the play is gone and is ten yards up the wrong part of the field.
This is correct. Miami used to do this with the likes of Jerome Brown, Cortez Kennedy and Warren Sapp. They used to own OU and Nebraska (which were basically running a read option at the time) to disrupt the play/read sequence by blowing it up in the backfield. (tOSU did this to Oregon in the Rose Bowl and did quite a nice jog of shutting them down as well). After Tom Osborne was routinely beaten by Miami and FSU he stuck to the power running game but changed his defense to incorporate faster defensive ends and linebackers to deal with the offensive speed of his opponents by denying them the perimeter of the field.
It would help against traditional run teams and pro-style attacks (LSU, Arkansas, Georgia, etc.), as well as teams like Auburn, but Elam isn't going to be someone who plays a lot against your true hurry-up spread teams. If he's playing against someone who is moving quickly, spreading the field and throwing the football, he'd be a liability even on the first snap, and it would only get worse as the drive continues.
I think Elam will be valuable covering two gaps like Cody did against most the west teams (Barn, OM, MSU, LSU and Ark) who like the power run game. Like you say, he won't be as effective against A&M. However, the 1st goal is to win the west. We need to figure out substitutions/scheme against the passing style spread as you mention also.
I agree with you because when I said that I wasnt referring to Elam because against a team like A&M he would be a liability. What a lot of people dont realize is that against Auburn...the scheme Saban used was working when Bama went up 21-7....it just bold down to our players not staying disciplined and getting exposed for those mistakes. The real issues that need to be adressed is how our D played against Texas A&M and Oklahoma who run true hurry up spread offenses. When I made the statement of a huge pentrating NG I meant a guy like Jarran Reed or A'Shawn Robinson....a big guy who can push the pocket and disrupt in the backfield.
