Absolutely true. Same for sustaining a drive or two on offense or avoiding penalties and so on.And each of those illegal picks by Clemson could have been stopped by stopping one slant or one screen way back up field.
Absolutely true. Same for sustaining a drive or two on offense or avoiding penalties and so on.And each of those illegal picks by Clemson could have been stopped by stopping one slant or one screen way back up field.
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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the bridge just called, they want their tenant back.
true allIt hurts that we lost but I am very proud of this team.
We had a true freshman quarterback who did a totally fantastic job and made an incredibly good athletic play to give us the lead with two minutes to play.
He also led us to a 14-1 record and a final number two ranking.
Not what everybody wanted but still a great year.
I thought yesterday that in order to win, we needed to shorten the game by running the ball on sustained drives and keeping our defense off the field.
Of course that didn't happen, but give Clemson some credit for that.
It hurts that we probably had more false start penalties this year than the last three or four combined.
Penalties caused by a lack of focus and concentration will absolutely kill you.
It hurt that our kick offs were ridiculously short and Clemson continually made a short return turn into great starting field position, especially after our last touchdown.
Ultimately though, in my opinion, we lost because Clemson made the plays when they had to and because they have the best offensive football player in America in DeShaun Watson, who never got rattled no matter how hard we popped him.
It was simply a great game between two great teams and Clemson happened to make literally one more play than we did.
Hat's off to them and congratulations to Bama on a great season.
I'll close with this, the absolute biggest play of the college football season was N.C. States field goal kicker missing a chip shot field goal that would have eliminated Clemson from the playoff.
There's not another team in America who could come close to beating us.
Therein lies the problem, we add these plays to our package and SEC refs would call us for OPI while Big 12 refs let it go. Whereas, SEC refs can't see a illegal man down field to save their life but I actually saw a couple Big 12 games where the refs called it.Sark should have run those pick plays too......free yards!
Go back and breakdown the game. From the very first possession by Clemson they were testing the line judge on our sideline to see what he would call. Literally every route that Cain ran involved some sort of push off by him. No call. Meanwhile on the other side of the field on the Clemson sideline this line judge calls 2 DPIs well actually one called on the long pass by a official 30+ yds away standing right by Dabo only seeing the back of our DB. The official on the play didn't call it because he saw what I saw that our DB never even made contact with the receiver.This is right on the money. We just had the D on the field for too many plays. You just can't expect a team to play 99 plays and expect to win. NO one in college football has enough depth to play 99 plays on defense. The offense was not good and it wasn't play calling. It was execution. Dropped passes, running poor routes, and most disturbingly not blocking at the point of attack. Bama is not supposed to lose the line of scrimmage, but we lost it last night.
All this being said, Clemson outplayed us last night for the most part so they deserve to be champions.
What burns me is the pick plays that were ignored. It is either a rule or not. The refs were from the Big12 who probably see that play 100 times in that throw it around everywhere league of theirs and never call it so I am not surprised it wasn't called last night. There is a reason that it is a rule that you can't block the DB away from the play, but no one seems to care anymore. If it is not going to be called abolish it and let college football become the CFL. I for one am tired of seeing the game being perverted into something it is not meant to be. College football has been a great game for over a 100 years, but this HUNH crap and lineman downfield and the rub/pick play not being called almost ever, has gotten to the point where it is ruining the game. Like it or not, ESPN is now running college football and the PTB cowtow to them for the sake of a check.
My problem with the whole thing is the fact that we are loaded with all this 4 and 5 star talent but seem to play a limited group. There is no excuse in not having people ready to play spot minutes to give starters a blow on the sideline. Most of the folks standing over there start at 95% of the other D1 schools.Because we abandoned what has worked for 4 titles and totally abandoned it with no explanation. It cost these guys a title that would've been more than earned. If we had run the ball and kept the clock running the defense gets rest, Watson gets no time, and IMHO Bama wins.
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You're assuming that we could have just imposed our will and run it down their throats. With no threat of even a short range passing game, that wasn't happening.Because we abandoned what has worked for 4 titles and totally abandoned it with no explanation. It cost these guys a title that would've been more than earned. If we had run the ball and kept the clock running the defense gets rest, Watson gets no time, and IMHO Bama wins.
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This is one of the only critiques to be made of our in-game coaching. We rotated well in the first half and should have continued in the second. We didn't and we now see the result. I do wonder if this amazing group of seniors refused to come off the field and perhaps their pride got in the way. Either way, the talent was there to spell them for a bit and it just wasn't utilized as much after halftime.My problem with the whole thing is the fact that we are loaded with all this 4 and 5 star talent but seem to play a limited group. There is no excuse in not having people ready to play spot minutes to give starters a blow on the sideline. Most of the folks standing over there start at 95% of the other D1 schools.
If those pick plays had all been in the first half, I might agree that you can't blame the refs. Yet at that moment - right there and plain as day - the Clemson WR drove his helmet into Hump's chest with the ball in the air. In practically any other conference that's a penalty, yet these Big 12 officials let it go and here we are. The refs set the tone for the game and it was clear that they were going to let Clemson get away with OPI all night. Outside of risking personal fouls, there's hardly any counter to that.What makes me the most sad about the loss is how it affects the players. My heart breaks for all the guys who put in so much blood, sweat and tears this season and the past few seasons. The disappointment on their faces after the game nearly did me in. You can't blame missed calls by the refs for this loss. We had several dropped passes that could have made a difference. I believe we only ran 66 plays, but those were 66 opportunities to score. We had two fumble recoveries that lead to a measly 3 points. This just wasn't meant to be and that is the sad part. We will come back better than ever next year and everyone in our way better WATCH OUT!!