The point that some people seem to be missing is that no one argues that we should roll players thru, it's the means by which we are doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WPDawg
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The point that some people seem to be missing is that no one argues that we should roll players thru, it's the means by which we are doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WPDawg
Well at least we took LSU to the "woodshed"..Quote:
Originally Posted by MemphisDawg21
They may make us forfeit a game if we keep giving up these passing plays.***
Ifyouonlyknew has it correct. Against Kentucky, we had B. Brown and McKinney in there with the 1b DL. We mix and match the substitutions as the game goes on. I honestly think Cox needs to play until he passes out. We should never have Coman and Evans in at the same time. Too much inexperience back there when they are in the game together.
Well when you have Coman and Evans covering WR that shit kinda happens. My stomach turns when I see them in the gameQuote:
Originally Posted by bluelightstar
Speaking of Will Redmond, he played one hell of a game against KY.
I like the play where he turned to look for the ball while boxing the WR out which his body and driving the WR closer to the sidelines. That's next level shit that our Super Bowl champion DB coach, Deshea Townsend, must be teaching him.
Come on son. Sheriff Buford T. Justice and Junior are smarter than that. Read the chart again.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluelightstar
In the 2nd half up 7 without the ball, 1a had two dominating 3 and outs when we needed it. Preston, Euells, Ryan Brown and Chris Jones smothered Towles on those series and subbing early had to have contributed to that.
I'm thinking all this subbing will benefit us on whole as we make the stretch run as well. Our guys have basically played four games so far in terms of number of plays played if you'll accept a macro argument here.
How did players play a whole game for the last 100 years? Sometimes both ways.***
Still have some high school kids going both ways. It's outrageous that this can still happen and put these players at risk of injury. The new idea in Football is that the players don't need to get hurt.Quote:
Originally Posted by IMissJack
Whoops, I borrowed the stat and didn't verify. My professors in Math & Stats would definitely be disappointedQuote:
Originally Posted by Bo Darville
It isn't a weakness. It's a substitution issue, as you said, which is easily taken care of...by substituting differently, as we have in our 3 big games.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Good grief, people. These are the exact same arguments we had after our first 3 games. Then what did we do? Changed it up and dominated 3 straight tough games. We will change things; Kentucky isn't Alabama, and our coaches aren't stupid.
Are we seriously discussing this again? Do you really think for one minute that Coaches Mullen, Hevesy,Collins, et al will leave one single player on the field that is not giving his absolute most intense effort and and concentration for more than one play at Bryant-Denny you are absolutely nuts. The coaching staff will know who they can and can't trust before they step foot on that field and they will only allow those that they trust to participate. Besides the coaching staff, I don't think that Dak, Kaleb, Tony, Redmond, Preston, JRob, DDay, Beckwith, McKinney ( all extremely intense leaders ) will allow the "1B's" to be anything less than "1A" on that night or in the Egg Bowl as well for that matter. So quit worrying about the "1B's" or the def.secondary for that matter, they all know what is at stake and the leadership and effort will be intense.
So for now, let us just concentrate on UPig and get past that one, then the second season will begin in earnest.
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Originally Posted by MabenMaroon
Coaches can be stubborn. See Perkins over J-Rob as Exhibit A. Or Eulls at DE for 2 years.
Very tired and on the losing end of the scoreboard. Depth issues are the reason for our lopsided series records against our SEC opponents over the decades, not the starting 22.Quote:
Originally Posted by IMissJack
You mean the two SEC POW's, JRob flipped a switch during the off-season ( in terms of work ethic and development ) by both his own and the coach's admissions. Kaleb at that point in time was where we needed him didn't really have a whole lot of options. It seems to have worked itself out.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
You have to play 15 games to win the national championship so we are not even halfway through our season so I say starters getting rest while we win the game is a good thing, no matter what the final score is. I would like to see us dominate UTM and Vandy and get Dak and some of the OL some rest during the stretch run.
Has anyone mentioned that recruiting wise we can also sell early playing time to guys? Even if they are not the starter they can still see valuable minutes their first year if they are good enough. On most teams you are the starter or bust. Ten WRs have TDs. Backup OL get snaps. This has to help in recruiting.
Look I know this has been argued over & over. But if you want PROOF. Look no further than UM's defense. They are so banged up on defense because they have NO depth. With our 1a's only playing 60% of the snaps not only are they still fresh right now. But they stand a 40% LESS of a chance of getting injured because they aren't on the field. Plus these IN game moments Coman, Evans, Cleavland etc etc are getting will better prepare them for success next year when they MUST play! Plus as someone said earlier we can sell recruits that they can play meaningful snaps as a true freshman.
been waiting for someone to point that out...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bo Darville
I completely agree that it helps with keeping fresh legs and helps against injuries, but some personnel are killing us this year. Evans covers like a LB (he probably covers worse because M. Wells covers like a DB). We just always seem to get exposed down the middle of the field when Evans and Coman are in the game. I just wish there wasn't such a drop between Cox and Evans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach 57
If it's fresh legs we're worried about, I wonder if we'd consider burning Brandon Bryant's redshirt for Bama. He obviously doesn't bring anything experience-wise over Evans or Coman, but he's more athletic and maybe more instinctive in pass coverage. Our only two safeties I feel completely comfortable with in pass coverage right now are Cox and Hughes. Market is a much better alternative than Evans or Coman, but he's blown coverages resulting in touchdowns multiple times this year.
I will argue that JROB was better than Perkins last year. You also can argue that DAK should have been the starting QB last year from day 1 over TR.Quote:
Originally Posted by MabenMaroon
But they're not. It may seem at times as though they're killing us, but these lapses are only happening in the games our coaches aren't worried about. You haven't seen these things in games against good teams. It's pretty obvious we're coaching differently depending on who the opponent is, so I don't know why we would be worried about something killing us until it actually starts to do that in a big game.Quote:
Originally Posted by defiantdog
Dak might have started all of last year except for the fact that he was injured and missed all of spring training and was limited in fall camp. You have to have the reps to be a starter. That is why he did not play as well in the beginning of the year as he did later.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishwater99
If we overlook Arkansas, we're going to be in deep do-do. They are a good football team and could have, possibly should have, beaten Alabama. They almost beat us last year. Whitley's strip of the ball towards the end of the game saved us.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
I had forgotten about Whitley's play there. He saved our ass in both games leading to our bowl eligibility. I actually give him credit over Dak for those wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by NCDawg