Bama vs Oklahoma round 2 (Friday December 19th)

[TiderJack]

I’m concerned about Overton. After this long it starts to sound less like “illness” and more like a “condition.” I am hoping the best for him, football aside.

Agreed and I heard Pat Smith on Jox in Bham say he heard from some people it is more than being sick but TIFWIW.

 

[Con]

Agreed and I heard Pat Smith on Jox in Bham say he heard from some people it is more than being sick but TIFWIW.

This doesn't sound good for the young man.

 

[bamajas]

I’m concerned about Overton. After this long it starts to sound less like “illness” and more like a “condition.” I am hoping the best for him, football aside.

Would be consistent with Jess's breadcrumbs in the postgame write-up about him being out for the duration

 

[CoolBreeze]

Well, we better be ready to play. Seems the sooners are already warming up:

Oklahoma cancels classes, moves exams for College Football Playoff game against Alabama

Oklahoma is taking measures to make things easier for its student body on Dec. 19, when it will host Alabama in a first-round Playoff game.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

 

[CoolBreeze]

I don't believe any of this jive for a second. Rat Poison!

The rising tide of early predictions favoring the Alabama Crimson Tide over Oklahoma

Anxious Alabama football fans take notice. There has been an early onslaught of Human and computer predictions favoring the Alabama Crimson Tide over Oklahoma.

bamahammer.com

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Well, we better be ready to play. Seems the sooners are already warming up:

Oklahoma cancels classes, moves exams for College Football Playoff game against Alabama

Oklahoma is taking measures to make things easier for its student body on Dec. 19, when it will host Alabama in a first-round Playoff game.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com

Things definitely have changed since I was in school. Our finals were alway the week after Thanksgiving or sometimes a little further like around now. I don't think I ever still had classes on the 19th.

 

[The Ols]

Things definitely have changed since I was in school. Our finals were alway the week after Thanksgiving or sometimes a little further like around now. I don't think I ever still had classes on the 19th.

Right? My daughter (@ Bama) comes home tomorrow…could have come home today.
When I was there (mid 80s) I believe we had dead week and then finals week directly after Thanksgiving break too…

 

[arthurdawg]

My UNA daughter and Jax State son are both done as of yesterday.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

sorry, but no.

The LG can absolutely pull when covered. The OC would have an easy down block onto the DT in that situation.

The RG had no one to downblock since there was no one on the LOS. The RG was also covered. He gave a quick look at the DT covering him that allowed the RT (Carroll) to reach and get a good block, before adjusting to the LB who was blitzing and he successfully picked up (see here).
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RG had eyes on the play side backer the entire time, and the RT was staring directly at the playside DT. They were on the same page and picked up the guys coming on their side of the OL

The edge was already accounted for by the TE in motion. You can see here he takes a direct line to him, and in the prior pic, you can see he engages directly.

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The problem on this play is Brailsford wasn't on the same page. He paid ZERO attention at the snap and never even appears to glance at the backside backer who is the one who applied the pressure. Everyone else seemed aware that the playside OLB was a coverage player and not rushing - he's pretty much watching the TE come in motion. We had Horton in the slot with the TE wide (pre-snap) on that side then coming in tight, with a CB, a S playing kinda deep and the OLB. I can't see a world where it makes sense to cover Horton 1-1 with no S, so it's a a simple read that if the playside ILB is coming, the OLB is in coverage. There wasn't going to be anyone for Brailsford to block out there. If Grubb and the O staff thought there would be, that's a bigger problem.

Even if he should have pulled, it's on him not getting enough depth. Formby is just barely deeper than Carroll, and Brailsford is not deeper than either of them.

This does illustrate a couple of things though. UGA only brought 4 and got pressure. LG, RG, and RT (at least on this play) all got decent blocks. LT and C blocked NO ONE. We simply have too many times where we have OL not blocking anyone. The hit against Um where Ty got hurt is was Carroll who blocked NO ONE and Miller had to try to clean it up himself, unsuccessfully.

The other thing is that on this play, we started with Bernard lined up 2-3 yards away from the OT, and Horton 5-6 yards outside, AND motioned the TE to about 2 yards off the OT pre-snap. We only had ONE player (williams)far enough away to pull a player outside the box That makes it incredibly easy for a D to disguise who they might send and who they might not. UGA literally covered Bernard with the DE/OLB right off the LOS because he was so close. Pull him a bit further outside and the backside ILB has to shift his alignment outside somewhat and either can't blitz because he does have coverage, or at least has to start from further away, OR if the do choose to pull the OLB out there, Proctor would have known to slide in to help VDM, who then maybe could have picked up the other inside blitzer. It was pretty much the same thing on the other side. With the TE motioning inside, it was a very easy thing for the OLB to pick him up so that the ILB was free to blitz. Everything bunched in like this just makes it WAY to easy. It makes ZERO sense.

All that said, I still think Brailsford simply wasn't on the same page as the other 10 guys on this one. This was a one route, hot read play. Ty saw 1-1 coverage out there and called it, and everyone else executed that. Had #5 or #1 been out there as the WR on the route, it's probably a TD or worst case a PI call. I love #2 and think he does a lot of things really well, but he's not a contested catch guy like #5 and #1 are.

I hope that the coaches are self-scouting and seeing the same things that you are!

 

[Tide-one-on]

I feel like we got a BIG gift by getting in this year after the SEC Championship game. Let's hope for getting healthy, and better play calling to help the OL and Ty. I hope we can run some screens and slants. Anything to keep the chains moving. Our runs seem so slow in developing, and our OL can't maintain the blocks. Got the gift that I hope keeps on giving! RTR!

 

[bamacon]

I’ve got 2 ND fans in my friend group and they are absolutely livid. And frankly, I’m kinda in agreement with them lol. It makes no sense to flip Miami and ND when neither team played this weekend. Was purely political to save the ACC.

I didn’t hear them bitching when they got in to get DESTROYED by us in 2012! UGA was clearly the 2nd best team. Shut up ND. No one cares.

 

[bamaga]

I heard Sam Ocho on College football live, and he made the comment the reason Bama has struggled the last few games was that OU figured out Bama’s offensive line signals and Bama hasn’t changed them, all the other teams have caought on from the OU game. Thats why we are seeing so much backside pressure, the defense already knows the direction we are sliding protection, and they are overloading the backside of it .

 

[bamacon]

Why are so many confident Alabama can beat Oklahoma? What about the match up favors Alabama? Not being an Eeyore, I'm genuinely interested in the Xs and Os that make Oklahoma a preferred path for Alabama.

I’m right there with you. I just don’t see it. I thought it was a bad match up for the first game. This will be worse.

 

[RammerJammer14]

I didn’t hear them bitching when they got in to get DESTROYED by us in 2012! UGA was clearly the 2nd best team. Shut up ND. No one cares.

I told them that we used Tyler Buchner as a sleeper quadruple agent to sabotage their game against aTm (he muffed an XP hold) if it looked like they might win. Response- “I wouldn’t be surprised!!!!”

 

[editder]

Yup & I agree brother..

Texas Tech is one of the top 2 teams, along with Indiana, I reallyyyy wouldn't want to play either one in all honesty in the playoffs..

I think people’s brains just won’t accept that the likes of Texas Tech and Indiana aren’t doormats in disguise. It just doesn’t compute. The universe has to return to order at some point.

 

[CrimsonTitles]

I told them that we used Tyler Buchner as a sleeper quadruple agent to sabotage their game against aTm (he muffed an XP hold) if it looked like they might win. Response- “I wouldn’t be surprised!!!!”

I've always thought all along he's been a sleeper agent sent from Michigan to sabotage both Bama and Notre Dame.

 

[editder]

He definitely sounds optimistic about having most of those guys back for next Friday night. I honestly think the one that hurt us the most was Cuevas being out.

I’m with you on this. If I’m not mistaken, I believe #81 had a key drop that would have been a first down to keep the drive alive prior to the ill-fated 4th and 2 attempt. Someone correct me if I’m wrong about it being on that drive.

 

[editder]

Agreed. The AQ's have to be removed. And if the playoff 1st round goes as expected with the AQ's being obliterated there SHOULD be a meeting of the P-5 conference AD's to strong-arm the NCAA & committee into the modification. Better still go back to the BCS formula and don't spend all that time and money on wasted and meaningless shows and committee payout.

Agreed. If those crap teams want to break into the big time, they should schedule some of the big boys.

I hate FSU, but I have to give them and Bobby Bowden credit for doing just that when they first started trying to break out in the late seventies and early eighties. They were among the jokes of CFB before that.

 

[JDCrimson]

After hearing all game week that we were changing our signals and calls. Either we didnt change or we changed to something that was easily decipherable.

I heard Sam Ocho on College football live, and he made the comment the reason Bama has struggled the last few games was that OU figured out Bama’s offensive line signals and Bama hasn’t changed them, all the other teams have caought on from the OU game. Thats why we are seeing so much backside pressure, the defense already knows the direction we are sliding protection, and they are overloading the backside of it .

 

[92tide]

I’m with you on this. If I’m not mistaken, I believe #81 had a key drop that would have been a first down to keep the drive alive prior to the ill-fated 4th and 2 attempt. Someone correct me if I’m wrong about it being on that drive.

iirc, it was the play before, or two before the 4 and 2