I tend to agree with you. From a coaching perspective, Hurts subbing for Tua had a bigger impact than it should. We had faced Jalen 11 months prior, so it should have been clear on what he brought to the table. The fake punt is also well chronicled.
my thought was that y'all were somewhat caught off guard by jalen's improvement in passing from the prior game. i know i sure was, he was making throws that i didn't know he was capable of.
But at some point you have to answer the question of "why did Kirby take the ball out Fromm's hands?". Fromm abused our defensive backs the whole game, and our pass rush was virtually non existent. Kirby basically called a Mac and Nuss game, and tried to milk a still disputed ball game. While Jalen did improve, he probably shouldnt have been able to lead a comeback with that Alabama defense vs that Georgia offense. But like the saying goes " Great teams find ways to win, and good teams find ways to lose.".
But the sad thing is that was a game that shouldve been an epic blowout administered by Alabama, but we had the worst coordinator in the Saban era (and yes he was worse than applewhite because of the team he had compared to the 2007 team)
... and running it on us was a good strategy. That was a major weakness in the 2018 team. We won't be a playoff contender if Georgia doesn't improve on run defense, TFL and QB sacks.
Nussmeir is by far the worst offensive coordinator since Rader to be hired by Alabama. Many might try to say Applewhite, but I doubt Applewhite wouldve lost to aTm, Auburn 2013. I also doubt Applewhite wouldve needlessly been in dogfights vs LSU and UGA just to try to say AJ should win the heisman. Applewhite was bad, but atleast he has an out in that he was having to coach a Shula offense with a bunch of premaddonas, and that he scored 5 touchdowns on a Saban defense with a Shula offense.
Applewhite was not a bad coordinator. He was just a bad fit on that staff, and really maybe any Nick Saban staff. I don't know details, but that much was obvious. But I think he got the most that could have been gotten out of that 2007 offense.
The last SEVERAL games against UGA have been quite enjoyable.....They must HATE us......It's GREAT!!!!!
I don't dispute that Nussmeier was a huge problem, but I'm not convinced that UGA was so bad that we should have blown them out, either.
When it happened, I thought it was horrible.....and then the blocked FG was like getting kicked in the stomach.
Most of our problems in that game was trying to throw the ball. Its one of the few games that Im totally with "the Run Da BAWL" crowd, but they are usually entirely against me because it really doesnt look good on AJ. It was a close game because we played into their strength as a defense constantly in the 1st half. Had we ran from the word go then we probably wouldve had two runningbacks over 200 yards and a 14 point win even with the Saban timeout blunder at the end of the 1st half. That game and the LSU game was needlessly close because we had a coordinator wanting a heisman winner on his resume instead of a national championship, which is odd because he did the exact opposite the year later against Auburn.
It was so hard to believe that such a huge Alabama fan as Ritter would do such a thing.
Def: "Those who were Madonna before Madonna."
And just a reminder that even though "the league offices are in Birmingham," they were in B'ham when we were 3-9, too.
The reversal that really upset me was the Millner interception on UGA's final drive. I agree that it was really close, but I never saw conclusive evidence to overturn the call. The game should have ended there. With that said, we would have never heard the end of it had the call stood.
I hate to break it to you but Kirby had a problem with getting the QB nearly his entire time here.
