JessN: Oklahoma Wrap-up: Team-wide breakdown ends Bama's title chances

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Oklahoma wrap-up: Team-wide breakdown ends Bama’s title chances
by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief

The list of things Alabama has needed in 2024 to win games – winning the turnover battle, getting the “good” Jalen Milroe, establishing a run threat, avoiding injuries – has been a long one.

Against Oklahoma, Alabama got none of the above.

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dabamafan

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Great write-up Jess, and as usual spot on. My big question is why has BAMA been showing up so woefully unprepared in games we should win. That's right on Kalen Deboer. And why is he so resistant to swapping out a QB that can't read a defense to save his life for someone who might be more consistent.
THIS ^^^^ !
Thanks Jess ! CNS gave us a lifetimes worth of great teams , plays, moments and titles. It should be noted , Alabama was not his first SEC stop, and his 1st title was with a "flawed" LSU team ,in a fluky season.
Our fan based is ,rightfully so, spoiled rotten. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water before CKD has a chance to grow up in the greatest most brutal conference in college football. RTR
 

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Pretty spot on. Thanks. In a game with part-time amateur officials why not review things that are easily reviewable? A bad call re: alignment at the snap shouldn't impact a game. Everyone in America could see he wasn't covered up. What an amazing catch though.
 

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Yet again in the post game press conference DeBoer talked about "how hard the guys worked this week during practice."

Coach, here's a clue from the clue bin as stated by my HOFer father-in-law: Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

I know less than nothing about coaching but I do know practicing the wrong things "hard" will give us more results like last night. Make changes that matter and practice those.
 

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Pretty spot on. Thanks. In a game with part-time amateur officials why not review things that are easily reviewable? A bad call re: alignment at the snap shouldn't impact a game. Everyone in America could see he wasn't covered up. What an amazing catch though.
or allow challenges on ANY call. If you're right, you get to keep your flag and challenge another one. If wrong, you don't. It's a pretty simple solution. SO much better than reviewing all the things that really don't matter and ruin the pace of the game.

To say "It's not reviewable" is no longer acceptable.
 

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or allow challenges on ANY call. If you're right, you get to keep your flag and challenge another one. If wrong, you don't. It's a pretty simple solution. SO much better than reviewing all the things that really don't matter and ruin the pace of the game.

To say "It's not reviewable" is no longer acceptable.
When Matt Austin says it was a bad call, you know it was even worse.
 

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Yet again in the post game press conference DeBoer talked about "how hard the guys worked this week during practice."

Coach, here's a clue from the clue bin as stated by my HOFer father-in-law: Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

I know less than nothing about coaching but I do know practicing the wrong things "hard" will give us more results like last night. Make changes that matter and practice those.
As CNS once said " your don't practice till you get it perfect. You practice till you cant do it wrong." This team needs a lot more practice.
 
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This is one of the most significant paragraphs in the article. Don’t get me wrong, Bama prepared and played poorly in last night’s effort but officiating should not affect the game outcome and kill progress as often as it does.

“For the SEC to hire eight full crews of officials making $80,000 per year for each official would cost $5,120,000 per season. That’s couch-cushion change for this league. It’s past time to demand the same attention to detail from officials that we demand of players and coaches.”
 

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My friend in Denver is a MWC ref. Says that refs in all conferences all think the SEC refs are inexplicably bad. I don’t think it’s the pay, it’s more to do with the hiring, training and/or reviewing. The SEC is a business, like any other. I don’t know anything about the management personnel but I think I know one department where they just aren’t effective.
 
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The coaches should know that Milroe's legs don't do us any good against a good defense. And I have not yet seen that he is able to pick a good defense apart passing. Those things made him a liability in this game.
You could tell in the 1st series that he was not going to have a good night. Surely the coaches could see that too.
When we were near the goal line on the 1st trip down the field, why run wide and get tackled for a loss, then kick a field goal on 4th down. We should have pounded the middle and given our backs a chance to put the ball in the end zone. Bring in extra tight ends and man up. With that and the bad call on Williams catch, we would have had 14 points.
 

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Yep, and in this case, an easily reviewable call might have changed the entire course of the game. If we get that TD, we get new life and maybe the outcome is different. That call would have taken 2 seconds to review.
As Dana White famously said "never leave it in the hands of the judges." The only complaint we "should" have this morning is that the call cost us the cover. Anybody other than milroe and Sheridan we skull drag them.
 

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I think this LANK culture is toxic & will be glad to see it fade away. Hopefully our pitiful performance won’t cost us recruits or portal losses.
It's already costing us in recruiting.

We can't get a Bigtime WR to come onboard with one of the Best QB recruits in the Nation committed and actively recruiting for us.

These WRs see how bad our QB play is.

Ryan Williams should be a Biletnikoff finalist and we can't get him the ball.

We can't get it to Law or Germie or anybody.

All three of them have 1,000 yard+ potential and only RW is close because of his early season success.

I mean....lol we've played 11 games and our starting QB doesn't even have 2,500 yards passing.
 
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It's already costing us in recruiting.

We can't get a Bigtime WR to come onboard with one of the Best QB recruits in the Nation committed and actively recruiting for us.

These WRs see how bad our QB play is.

Ryan Williams should be a Biletnikoff finalist and we can't get him the ball.

We can't get it to Law or Germie or anybody.

All three of them have 1,000 yard+ potential and only RW is close because of his early season success.

I mean....lol we've played 11 games and our starting QB doesn't even have 2,500 yards passing.
Sometimes numbers/data don’t lie.
 

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