Coach34
11-17-2013, 11:19 AM
1. Crowd showed up and did their part last night. Even worked hard to combat the jumbotron attempting to suck the life out of the stadium.
2. Once again, we had a good plan- Bama is just so ****ing good on Defense. We had some scoring ops we just couldnt finish off. Our coaching staff really does some things well. However, we did have some glaring mistakes.
3. Tyler didnt play a bad football game. He made a few good throws and he obviously has a rapport with MoJo. But he is soft. No other way to say it without being mean. He is soft. And when we needed him in the 4th, he couldnt go yet again. He held the ball too long a few times costing us some plays- and then the pick he threw into triple coverage was ridiculous. He bounced the 1st pass of the game to a wide open Perkins. He is what he is and I wish him well in whatever major he has studied- because he wont be on any NFL roster.
4. Lather-rinse-repeat. Perkins plays wayyy more than he should, JRob and the others dont. 2nd and 1 from the Bama 2 yd line- and we hand it to Perkins? Why????? We have 3 RB's that run it harder than he does and we are playing the nation's best defense. Why is Perkins even in the game?
3rd and 1 and we throw- getting a penalty. RTGDF!!!! and with a bigger RB. I would rather run the ball 3 straight times and not make it than do the shit we do all the time there. 5-wide on 3rd and 1 from the 2 is just a shitty playcall with our personnel.
5. WR's dropping critical passes still. We put our true Freshmen in there- and he throws a bullet to Jameon who drops it. Then he throws a strike to Wilson who drops what would have been a TD. That shit can't happen in big games.
6. Jameon absolutely killed us in the punt return game. We have got to have someone better than him. We have to.
7. Hats off to Collins and Crew for a great defensive plan and effort. I told you guys we had one of the better DL's in the SEC coming into the season- and they are certainly showing it. And we get almost all of them back for next year. Eulls is finally making some plays. Jones is a beast DT- but he did get reached a couple of times that led to big runs. But Jones forces the pocket back which is huge, and even when he wasnt able to get pressure- he got those big mitts up to deflect a pass or make it hard for AJ to deliver.
8. How good are we going to be at LB next year with the Killer B's? Benardrick, Bennie, and R, Brown. McKinney and Bennie Brown played some outstanding football last night. They should play well again next week against UPig's grind it out offense. They are still a work in progress in coverage and that's why they are up and down vs Spread teams. But this group has really gotten better- along with Wells.
9. Secondary played well. Whitley not playing as much helped also. Love dropping that potential Pick-6 was huge- but State is gonna State in big games like that and not take advantage. Redmond got beat on the TD but he had good coverage- not much more he could do. AJ made some really good throws against us in zone- getting them some big 1st downs. This group has been relatively healthy lately and it's starting to show with better results.
10. Aaaaaaaaand the CB blitz gives up another TD pass. Worst defensive call in football. I'll never understand what makes a coach think that it's a good idea under any circumstances.
Bottom line- this football team is getting better. We have gone toe-to-toe with 3 top 10 teams the last 3 weeks and are showing we can indeed compete. We just commit a bad turnover, drop a pass, miss a FG, or couldnt stop Manziel from getting the ball to one of his 5-star WR's. It sux to be 4-6, but with our worst loss being to a 7-3 LSU team, thats our reality. 5 of our losses are to the top 11-12 in the country. Nobody else can remotely come close to that.
Hopefully we have a QB healthy enough to get us a win next week. Obviously we need Dakota to play badly, but I'm not sure our offense wouldnt be about as good with Williams as it would with Russell. At least there would be more toughness. Hopefully we can come out pumped up and build off last night's effort.
2. Once again, we had a good plan- Bama is just so ****ing good on Defense. We had some scoring ops we just couldnt finish off. Our coaching staff really does some things well. However, we did have some glaring mistakes.
3. Tyler didnt play a bad football game. He made a few good throws and he obviously has a rapport with MoJo. But he is soft. No other way to say it without being mean. He is soft. And when we needed him in the 4th, he couldnt go yet again. He held the ball too long a few times costing us some plays- and then the pick he threw into triple coverage was ridiculous. He bounced the 1st pass of the game to a wide open Perkins. He is what he is and I wish him well in whatever major he has studied- because he wont be on any NFL roster.
4. Lather-rinse-repeat. Perkins plays wayyy more than he should, JRob and the others dont. 2nd and 1 from the Bama 2 yd line- and we hand it to Perkins? Why????? We have 3 RB's that run it harder than he does and we are playing the nation's best defense. Why is Perkins even in the game?
3rd and 1 and we throw- getting a penalty. RTGDF!!!! and with a bigger RB. I would rather run the ball 3 straight times and not make it than do the shit we do all the time there. 5-wide on 3rd and 1 from the 2 is just a shitty playcall with our personnel.
5. WR's dropping critical passes still. We put our true Freshmen in there- and he throws a bullet to Jameon who drops it. Then he throws a strike to Wilson who drops what would have been a TD. That shit can't happen in big games.
6. Jameon absolutely killed us in the punt return game. We have got to have someone better than him. We have to.
7. Hats off to Collins and Crew for a great defensive plan and effort. I told you guys we had one of the better DL's in the SEC coming into the season- and they are certainly showing it. And we get almost all of them back for next year. Eulls is finally making some plays. Jones is a beast DT- but he did get reached a couple of times that led to big runs. But Jones forces the pocket back which is huge, and even when he wasnt able to get pressure- he got those big mitts up to deflect a pass or make it hard for AJ to deliver.
8. How good are we going to be at LB next year with the Killer B's? Benardrick, Bennie, and R, Brown. McKinney and Bennie Brown played some outstanding football last night. They should play well again next week against UPig's grind it out offense. They are still a work in progress in coverage and that's why they are up and down vs Spread teams. But this group has really gotten better- along with Wells.
9. Secondary played well. Whitley not playing as much helped also. Love dropping that potential Pick-6 was huge- but State is gonna State in big games like that and not take advantage. Redmond got beat on the TD but he had good coverage- not much more he could do. AJ made some really good throws against us in zone- getting them some big 1st downs. This group has been relatively healthy lately and it's starting to show with better results.
10. Aaaaaaaaand the CB blitz gives up another TD pass. Worst defensive call in football. I'll never understand what makes a coach think that it's a good idea under any circumstances.
Bottom line- this football team is getting better. We have gone toe-to-toe with 3 top 10 teams the last 3 weeks and are showing we can indeed compete. We just commit a bad turnover, drop a pass, miss a FG, or couldnt stop Manziel from getting the ball to one of his 5-star WR's. It sux to be 4-6, but with our worst loss being to a 7-3 LSU team, thats our reality. 5 of our losses are to the top 11-12 in the country. Nobody else can remotely come close to that.
Hopefully we have a QB healthy enough to get us a win next week. Obviously we need Dakota to play badly, but I'm not sure our offense wouldnt be about as good with Williams as it would with Russell. At least there would be more toughness. Hopefully we can come out pumped up and build off last night's effort.