The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-Seminole style:

[BAMARICH]

This is my last comment on this. The good, bad and ugly are wrapped up all into one: I do know this for a fact: Wommack got outcoached by Gus. He had to know what was coming and yet he stuck with his game plan. You can't simply play soft zone defense against Gus' offense. I've said we should've blitzed more and forced FSU qbs to make quick decisions. Defense simply gave him too much time.

This is the ugly:
DL- no pressure up front. Just stood there and play hand games of "Tag you it." No aggressive. No nothing.
RB: Inconsistent run game.
WRs: Not trying hard to get open, and when they do, dropped passes.

Bad: Simpson didn't do bad, but he definitely didn't help with his tentative decisions. Just throw the ball sometime. He played too game manager style last night.
Team's attitude toward FSU and the game: They definitely got complacent after the opening drive. No urgency. Coaches didn't even lit their butt up on sideline.
OL- Same situation last year.


Good: We saw flash of what the team could be... this team can be real good if they just do what they're supposed to do: execute on the field.

Final thoughts: I'm not worried just yet. We're definitely approaching the level of concern where it's going to be a situation. I rate this situation 8.0 out of 10 for now. Staff and players has a chance to bring it down to 5 or below in the next two weeks.

I think that’s a pretty good analysis. There’s a definite lack of consistency across the board right now - whether it’s Simpson, Williams, Proctor, Overton, Jefferson, etc. At times we show how good we could be, but we’re just not consistently good and that’s maddening to watch.

Good: At times, everything (including the calls from the sideline). We imposed our will on the first drive, played better in the second half, got some solid stops at times, decent adjustments at the half.

Bad: Receiver drops, OL missed assignments, substitution patterns, front 7 getting manhandled.

Ugly: total inconsistency in both calls and execution, bad penalties, “big players” not playing “big” (Williams, Overton, Russaw), wondering how this many things can get fixed in a short time.

 

[64met]

good- NOTHING
bad- everything
ugly- CKD and this staff, team. Its a clown show

 

[Windsortide]

The Good= Only game 1
The Bad= Defense not prepared
The Ugly= Playing in the rain in Florida

 

[TraskiTideFan]

The Good: The very first Drive that made you feel like Joyless Murder Ball had returned in the first quarter.
The Bad: Listening to the remainder of the game after the Psyche Out first quarter.

The Ugly: Guess you can't count on a successful transition from one successful Coaching Era to the Next. At least when it comes to the Capstone. We have seen this story before over at least my 55 years on this planet. Took us 2 hires after Coach Bryant before we had a return to Glory and normalcy with Coach Stallings during his tenure.Then we spun our wheels in the desert for 9 years making hires that in hindsight were all Head Coach in Training hires, or Carpetbagger Hires wrapped in a lot of "Hope it gets better this year". So now all our eggs are really in the "Hope AD Byrne has a Mal Moore miracle wild card in his hand that he is waiting to play" and that its all just part of the Plan.
The deer in the headlight interviews and Coach Speak are wearing thin.

At least those of us from the GenX group have seen this show before and kind of were prepared to cope with it. The current Generation hasn't exactly grown up knowing what a losing season feels like. They think its bad when you go 9 and 3. And sadly enough, if yesterday's game had just been competitive, even with a loss, you could deal with the "We are gonna work harder and make the changes we need to make so this doesn't happen again." That ship has sailed. Give us a coach who puts the fear of God in his team or least his "Current Cell Phone Provider Sponsor's Headset" for pity's sake. If you hear a head coach is described as a Player's Coach, prepare yourself for some long weekends in the Fall because it's gonna be a disappointing season in general.

 

[BamaHoopsBoi]

The Ugly:

This is all I will say with my limited knowledge about football. EFFORT. I will never understand why effort could ever be lacking. All the hype we heard, the focus, the consistency all offseason and THAT’s the team effort we got for the first game of the season. I’m baffled.

 

[BamaInCummingGA]

Somebody just sent something to me from X ( I can't post it because I'm not on X) where our players are in the locker room the day after getting embarrassed making videos. No awareness. Tells me what I need to know about this team.
The UGLY: The rest of the season

 

[Bamabuzzard]

This is my last comment on this. The good, bad and ugly are wrapped up all into one: I do know this for a fact: Wommack got outcoached by Gus. He had to know what was coming and yet he stuck with his game plan. You can't simply play soft zone defense against Gus' offense. I've said we should've blitzed more and forced FSU qbs to make quick decisions. Defense simply gave him too much time.

This is the ugly:
DL- no pressure up front. Just stood there and play hand games of "Tag you it." No aggressive. No nothing.
RB: Inconsistent run game.
WRs: Not trying hard to get open, and when they do, dropped passes.

Bad: Simpson didn't do bad, but he definitely didn't help with his tentative decisions. Just throw the ball sometime. He played too game manager style last night.
Team's attitude toward FSU and the game: They definitely got complacent after the opening drive. No urgency. Coaches didn't even lit their butt up on sideline.
OL- Same situation last year.


Good: We saw flash of what the team could be... this team can be real good if they just do what they're supposed to do: execute on the field.

Final thoughts: I'm not worried just yet. We're definitely approaching the level of concern where it's going to be a situation. I rate this situation 8.0 out of 10 for now. Staff and players has a chance to bring it down to 5 or below in the next two weeks.

When the staff had an entire offseason of their second year to fix the inconsistencies from the previous year and they still exist in game one of the second season, theyre not getting fixed. This is who they are. The program is in deep trouble. We looked worse than at any point last year.

 

[merino]

A great number of Bama forecasters were so jubilant that “many of the 2024 players were returning, already well-seasoned”. How so, these same players partly responsible for the disastrous Vandy, Okla, and Michigan loses? Better to have them replaced and not have to stomach the anemic and dispassionate play so evident in Tallahassee and the latter part of 2024.