The game plan developed by the coaches wasn't very good.... I thought we had opportunities to get Jalen in the game and get few things going. It is what it is... Game over... we'll just deal with it.
Thoughts on Jalen Coming into the Game
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I know the win % at that point is probably less than 1%, but there was still time if we scored quick, got an onside kick, or a turnover, etc.
JMO but it just didn't feel appropriate to not let Tua have that possession with that much time left. It just felt like we were giving up.
It was probably never going to happen, but we took out the QB who will probably go down as the best to ever play the postion at Bama with a ton of time in a NC game.
My thought comes back to what Spurrier would have done if his QB had thrown a pick six on his second play. He would have had an opportunity to watch some of the game and gain perspective on what the defense is doing. Particularly with a more experienced QB as his back up.
Greg McElroy discussed his thoughts on the game on Three Man Front this morning.
http://www.joxfm.com/3manfront/
I felt that it was Coach saying goodbye to a kid that has meant a lot to him and the whole program. One last chance to see the field in a crimson jersey. A lot of people have commented that Coach wasn't as animated as he usually is during the game, wasn't 'coaching' the players, etc. My opinion is that Nick Saban has seen a lot of football being played at the highest levels, and that he KNEW we weren't prepared for Clemson halfway through the first half. He said the right things at the half and after the game, but as I said elsewhere, we had a plan we believed in and Clemson decided not to play fair. They didn't even try to run the ball with their backs (until it was pretty much over), and realized that their wideouts were a match up nightmare for the guys we had covering them. Once they slapped us around a bit and Lawrence got over the jitters, we didn't even begin to stop them.
Jalen could not have brought us back from 28 down if he had all day to do it in.
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Jalen could not have brought us back from 28 down if he had all day to do it in.
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I thought it was interesting that over the past 2-3 games we increasingly showed a package with both Tua and Jalen on the field together; yet didn’t go to it all on Monday night.
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The flip side is that Clemson was clearly well prepared for Tua. Yes Alabama moved the ball, but they couldn't punch it in. Hurts was just the last thing to try, and I don't think he wanted to "leave his pitcher out there" so to speak either. What he was facing otherwise was telling Tua to start tossing the ball into the teeth of a well prepared defense, forcing him to rack up a couple more INTs and making the scoreboard look even worse. At least with Hurts the hope might have been hey, Clemson is well prepared for Tua, may be they aren't for Hurts.
I just don't see the choice then as a problem. I think there's a lot more to be looked at earlier on, but some stuff you just can't plan for. The pick 6, the injury that leads to a TD, that stuff put Alabama in a bad spot and I'm not sure how you're supposed to respond to that past a certain point. Sometimes you just have to take your beating.
At that point I was writing a post on here because I needed a distraction...
Disagree in the following sense: all the wildcat plays should’ve been Jalen instead...
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IMO, Hurts should have come in early in the 3rd. Sometimes you just need to try something different.
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