When shall we let Pete Golding go?

TideMan09

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When you have as many key members that leaves early for the NFL, you will have growing pains until they truly learns our D, I think the job our coaching staff has done has been amazing..

Especially when you consider they were thrown into the fire known as SEC Football early on cause COVID-19..
 

TideMan09

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I for one would welcome Jeremy back with open arms.
Jeremy might have had a chance at Tennessee,
but that ended when 'Fat Phil' returned.
I hate Tennessee, but I hate FAT PHIL even more.
If we were to make a coaching change I agree & I wouldn't mind seeing Coach Sal getting his old job back either..
 

BamaMoon

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I didn’t think it would happen, but the way Sark is calling the offense, he will not be here next year for sure, plus he has given Saban the 2 years asked if him! So, the defense will have to be better next year!
The way things are going I expect MJ to be drafted, save an injury or something totally unforeseen. If so, BY is next up and I'd truly love to see what Sark does with his abilities.

He's a different kind of player than MJ. More like Tua but still different IMO. It would sure be fun to watch how our offense might be adjusted to him and his abilities under Sark.
 

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The way things are going I expect MJ to be drafted, save an injury or something totally unforeseen. If so, BY is next up and I'd truly love to see what Sark does with his abilities.

He's a different kind of player than MJ. More like Tua but still different IMO. It would sure be fun to watch how our offense might be adjusted to him and his abilities under Sark.
Yep, if Mac keeps dropping dimes the rest of the season like he has, he'll get drafted in the first or second round. The only caveat I see to him coming back if the above is true is if he gets a pre draft grade and he believes him staying will push him into 1st round, like N Harris.
 
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Tiderollin32

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Yep, if Mac keeps dropping dimes the rest of the season like he has, he'll get drafted in the first or second round. The only caveat I see to him coming back if the above is true is if he gets a pre draft grade and he believes him staying will push him into 1st round, like N Harris.
Agreed! One thing that helps all QB’s but especially Mac’s style of play is great O-line pass pro. Next year we will lose three guys, so having a more mobile guy that keeps his eyes downfield will probably bode well for us.
 

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I agree. If you would have told me LSU's defense would have done so well against Clemson in the championship game, I would have thought you were crazy. They really improved toward the end of the year. Clemson not having to work super hard on offense during the season may have contributed as well.
That's because Clempson intended to spend the entire 52 weeks preparing to face us again (you know, because they have the luxury of doing so with that rigor mortis competition they face in the ACC). By the time they knew we weren't going to be in it, they only had about 7 or 8 weeks left to change course.
 
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JDCrimson

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Earle, you may have it on something here. I know when he was here Kiffin lived in a condo and I want to say it was one near the facility. Based on the way OM played I wondered if there was some clandestine game week scouting that went on. Maybe this was the vantage point from an old neighbor? All I know is that Kiffin executed his gameplan like he was counting cards at the casino...

UA pays enough IT personnel that I'm sure the level of encryption will be pretty high. From some of the higher condos around the field, it's basically "honor system" anyway...

AL.com
 

JDCrimson

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Also, one thing we need to consider I dont think either Smart or Muschamp was a DC at the same age as CPG so there is a reason Saban elected to put him in this role this early and without prior experience as an assistant on the staff. We are basically saying Coach made a coaching hire mistake. Do we really appreciate how rare that is? I am not in the camp that considers this a mistake. I dont know the behind the scenes reasoning. So I will continue to support CPG in the role.

The only real bust as a position coach that I can recall is Greg Brown as DB coach.
 

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Earle, you may have it on something here. I know when he was here Kiffin lived in a condo and I want to say it was one near the facility. Based on the way OM played I wondered if there was some clandestine game week scouting that went on. Maybe this was the vantage point from an old neighbor? All I know is that Kiffin executed his gameplan like he was counting cards at the casino...
I think it's happened, yes. When you have Lane's familiarity with our personnel and his long association with Sarkisian, a little boost from some clandestine observation would have been very worthwhile for him. UGA didn't have the same "look" at all...
 

Saban4Ever

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Earle, you may have it on something here. I know when he was here Kiffin lived in a condo and I want to say it was one near the facility. Based on the way OM played I wondered if there was some clandestine game week scouting that went on. Maybe this was the vantage point from an old neighbor? All I know is that Kiffin executed his gameplan like he was counting cards at the casino...
He probably has a camera set up outside his old condo and can watch anything he wants. Then he probably gives it to Kirby, Pruitt, and the others. I doubt it, really, but then again, who knows... I am sure Bama has people who keep up with that sort of thing to make sure it is not happening.
 

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"It used to be that good defense beats good offense. Good defense doesn't beat good offense anymore," Saban told ESPN on Friday. "It's just like last week. Georgia has as good a defense as we do an offense, and we scored 41 points on them [in a 41-24 Alabama win]. That's not the way it used to be. It used to be if you had a good defense, other people weren't going to score. You were always going to be in the game.

"I'm telling you. It ain't that way anymore."

I think we need to start accept the reality of the offense is the new "hot" these days...
 
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JDCrimson

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If OM continues their post-Bama slide I am even more inclined to believe shenanigans were at play in the week leading up to our game.

He probably has a camera set up outside his old condo and can watch anything he wants. Then he probably gives it to Kirby, Pruitt, and the others. I doubt it, really, but then again, who knows... I am sure Bama has people who keep up with that sort of thing to make sure it is not happening.
 

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PG's not going anywhere soon. I think a lot of the slide in defensive performance is due to changing times, rules, offensive innovation, bad injury luck,etc. Still, d was underperforming unacceptably thru the Ole Miss game. But they've looked better starting in the second half of the Georgia game. Most of the problems that I'm seeing are due to inexperience. If they haven't been fixed by practice and coaching before the end of the year, then PG's seat will be extremely hot. But its too soon to say that is the case. In today's world all you can reasonably ask of any d is to keep every opponent below 30. We're not there yet, but we could be soon.
 

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