Question: Is HENRY hurt?

[Lalinebacker]

Henry look like he was slow,not what we are used to.

 

[TiderJack]

As far as I know he is not injured. You have to have holes of some sort and our OL just did not not produce them. Ark had something to do with it as they sold out on the run. Can you reference where you saw him look slow and possibly injured?

 

[TideFan in AU]

95 yards against 8 and 9 man fronts all night long...

 

[nickel42]

Henry looked just fine to me. He was running hard late in the game. Can't blame the RB when the OL gives him nothing to look at.

 

[NationalTitles18]

I'm afraid he neither calls the plays nor can he block for himself.

 

[Lalinebacker]

Henry seemed to go down on first contact,even arm tackes!

 

[hollisx4]

If we can't complete the occasional 10-25 yard down the middle pass, which so far we haven't proven we can do, we become at times one dimensional and that's a bad thing usually.

 

[BamaMoon]

He got hit all night long before he could take 2-3 steps...which is basically his acceleration time. Once he gets about 3-4 steps into the play, unabated, he's 4.4 fast.

Todd Blacklege also referred to how he doesn't look as fast because he's so big.

FWIW, Shawn Alexander never looked that fast to me, but he moved pretty good!

 

[CoastGhost]

I don't think we are giving the piggies' defense enough credit for being hard nosed, good players and tacklers.

 

[81usaf92]

O line is our main problem on offense. Jake and Henry are doing what they can back there

 

[BubbaOne]

Henry has long legs. Teams have learned take out those legs and he comes down. His upright running makes for an easier target unless he gets that head of steam then well see ya.

The offensive problems are solely here THIS OL CANNOT BLOCK OR PROTECT COKER. I put this on Cristobal and he coaching methods. Our OL kids are just as big and strong as anyone
yet they look inept on almost every play. Every 4 man D line pours through us like no one is there. Keep that up and Bateman will be on field too soon.

 

[TiderJack]

Henry seemed to go down on first contact,even arm tackes!

So DH is slow, injured, goes down on first contact and can't even break arm tackles. We need to bench him and get a new RB !

 

[rgw]

Henry doesn't seem hurt at all, he's always struggled in games when the OL wasn't getting him past the first level cleanly. Henry and Fournette are very similar players but Fournette has him beat on the ability to make a man miss in tight quarters thus allowing him to make more explosive plays when that big frame gets rolling down hill in the second and third levels.

I was about to pop a vein over Kiffin's playcalling during the game but I kinda get why they were calling those long developing plays which resulted in a ton sacks and pressures on Coker. Arkansas was most vulnerable defensively in the secondary and they were trying to work that kind of play to Ridley open all night to loosen them up a bit. Arkansas is pretty competent with what they're doing with their fronts under Bielema's regime but their secondary struggles a bit with their typical coverages on the backend. We didn't beat them as bad as we should've considering how completely shutdown the defense was playing simply because we couldn't execute the patterns necessary to burn them in the passing game...at least for the vast majority of the game.

Henry is just not going to flourish if we can't create some consistency in the passing attack: protection, decision making, execution from the QB and receivers. With the passing attack being very hot or cold and prone to creating needless turnovers, we're probably not going to see a ton of dominance from Henry against this conference stretch unless it can improve.

 

[CrimsonForce]

I wish we would call a few more plays to get Henry in space, similar to the first play of the game which was 4 WRs and Henry split out wide. It was just a little flare pass designed to get the ball in the hands of Henry. If we can't open holes for him to run through just get him the ball somehow. I would like to see some plays for Henry similar to the Oklahoma game which were quick screens and quick pop passes to Henry out in space..

 

[theballguy]

Henry seemed to go down on first contact,even arm tackes!

Arkansas' DL is almost as good as ours. What did you expect?

 

[rgw]

We more rarely call the tailback screen now compared to the Nussmeier and McElwain days, but some of Henry's most explosive plays here have been off screen plays. I'd love to see some of those screens next week because Chavis has been busted by them before and pass-rush first DEs usually play themselves out of the action on well disguised screens.

 

[KrAzY3]

Henry needs space, he's not a power back.

 

[B1GTide]

Henry needs space, he's not a power back.

He lowered his shoulder and ran over a few guys in the GA game, but I agree with you in general.

 

[TIDEnGA]

I keep thinking what Henry would do with the line in 2012 and AJ at QB. Wow, no telling.

 

[edwd58]

From my seat in the 4th row of the upper deck, I wouldn't have wanted to try to tackle him last night. The dude was running hard, it's just there were some plays when he didn't have a chance to get going. Heck, even then I wouldn't want to tackle him...