Todd4State
11-16-2014, 12:14 AM
QB- Dak is awesome. But he sometimes tries to do too much- and that gets him in trouble sometimes. Honestly, I think all of the hype has gotten to him a little bit. It seems like he is trying too hard ever since the Auburn game. He just needs to relax and play. I do think he will be back next year- he needs to work on reading defenses and to refine some small things.
RB- We should have given the ball to Josh more in the first half. There is zero reason to not use our most consistent weapon for a half. Dan has to forgive things like the safety because for every bad play like that, Josh is going to make ten good ones.
WR- Great to see Bear and Jameon back! Probably the best news of the day to me was seeing Bear have more yards than Cooper. It was great to see Jameon back period. Now I want to see Gabe Myles and Jameon together in the same formation. The WR's had too many drops today- including a HUGE one by Jameon that would have been an explosive play. Jameon being back is going to help Dak because he can get open and make plays when the pocket breaks down.
O-line- Beckwith had a rough day. We had a false start on the one yard line, we had a personal foul that helped kill a drive. It was tough sledding out there. They did play a lot better in the second half though.
D-line- We suck at trying to sack mobile QB's. We constantly over rush the passer.
LB's- Did OK to my untrained eye. Zach Jackson is bad in coverage. Really should be a special teams guy. Dan continues to play the 1B's even though they constantly allow points. But hey! They've got experience getting burned now. IN THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THE YEAR. It really is like Dan lacks basic common sense on personnel issues sometimes. And special teams.
DB's- We needed to shut Cooper down, and while he didn't have a career day or anything, we didn't exactly shut him down either. Our defense is not very opportunistic right now- in other words they don't create a ton of turnovers. Some of that may be due to dumb luck- like our defense in 2007. But it hurts because we never have a short field to work with.
Special teams- Great job by Sobiesk. He made all of his kicks. The punters were bad today. That was a big reason why we lost the game- field position. Their punter constantly pinned us inside the 20 all game long. We were shanking punts, giving them a short field. Just disappointing. The return game continues to be lackluster. We need a special teams coach, and we need to stop being cute with our special teams unit.
The effort is there, but the next step for us as a program is to bust through and win a game where we are number one and learn what it is to be the "better team" as opposed to the underdog. I'm pleased with how we fought and how we represented ourselves despite the outcome. We just need to clean up our mistakes and it would be nice if Dan would learn to use some common sense with personnel and special teams.
And I will say this- Alabama better hope that we don't make the playoffs and have to play them on a neutral field.
RB- We should have given the ball to Josh more in the first half. There is zero reason to not use our most consistent weapon for a half. Dan has to forgive things like the safety because for every bad play like that, Josh is going to make ten good ones.
WR- Great to see Bear and Jameon back! Probably the best news of the day to me was seeing Bear have more yards than Cooper. It was great to see Jameon back period. Now I want to see Gabe Myles and Jameon together in the same formation. The WR's had too many drops today- including a HUGE one by Jameon that would have been an explosive play. Jameon being back is going to help Dak because he can get open and make plays when the pocket breaks down.
O-line- Beckwith had a rough day. We had a false start on the one yard line, we had a personal foul that helped kill a drive. It was tough sledding out there. They did play a lot better in the second half though.
D-line- We suck at trying to sack mobile QB's. We constantly over rush the passer.
LB's- Did OK to my untrained eye. Zach Jackson is bad in coverage. Really should be a special teams guy. Dan continues to play the 1B's even though they constantly allow points. But hey! They've got experience getting burned now. IN THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THE YEAR. It really is like Dan lacks basic common sense on personnel issues sometimes. And special teams.
DB's- We needed to shut Cooper down, and while he didn't have a career day or anything, we didn't exactly shut him down either. Our defense is not very opportunistic right now- in other words they don't create a ton of turnovers. Some of that may be due to dumb luck- like our defense in 2007. But it hurts because we never have a short field to work with.
Special teams- Great job by Sobiesk. He made all of his kicks. The punters were bad today. That was a big reason why we lost the game- field position. Their punter constantly pinned us inside the 20 all game long. We were shanking punts, giving them a short field. Just disappointing. The return game continues to be lackluster. We need a special teams coach, and we need to stop being cute with our special teams unit.
The effort is there, but the next step for us as a program is to bust through and win a game where we are number one and learn what it is to be the "better team" as opposed to the underdog. I'm pleased with how we fought and how we represented ourselves despite the outcome. We just need to clean up our mistakes and it would be nice if Dan would learn to use some common sense with personnel and special teams.
And I will say this- Alabama better hope that we don't make the playoffs and have to play them on a neutral field.