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AJ McCarron Questions the Playcalling on Saturday
Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:10 am
Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:10 am
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McCarron was also asked about the distribution of Blake Sims' passes and if he thought Amari Cooper was targeted too often. McCarron said he thought the Tide should be spreading the ball more.
"I don't know if that's Lane doing that or if coach Saban is kind of putting the handcuffs on Lane like I've known Coach to do in the past on his offensive coordinator and we're going to be very bland and run this play and do this and we'll throw it on third down if we have to," McCarron told the Tide 99.1 audience. "It's going to be interesting to see how they bounce back against Arkansas this week and what kind of offense comes out this week."
He has some other things to say. Read more here
Interesting hearing a former Bama qb talk about Saban handcuffing the offense.
If you look at all of the teams that have beat us, they all took risks and played loose. Why do we think that playing a tight, predictable game is the way to beat a good defense?
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Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:17 am to chattabama
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"I don't know if that's Lane doing that or if coach Saban is kind of putting the handcuffs on Lane like I've known Coach to do in the past on his offensive coordinator"
If that is true, then Nick Saban has nobody else to blame except for himself. What a stubborn way to coach football.
Having said that, AJ needs to shut up.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:23 am to FairhopeTider
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Having said that, AJ needs to shut up.
I knew this thread would probably turn into this.
Just thought it was interesting that AJ, a person who would know better than anyone, mentioned Saban handcuffing the OC. Not surprising. Either all of our OCs go full retard in competitive games, or the orders are coming from the head man.
But I am sure that Saban was begging Lane Kiffin to open up the offense
Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:24 am to FairhopeTider
AJ is entitled to express his opinion. Many former players are doing in so why is there a problem with AJ doing it?
Posted on 10/8/14 at 8:40 am to mrbroker
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AJ is entitled to express his opinion. Many former players are doing in so why is there a problem with AJ doing it?
He's got his right to an opinion, but I think its a little out of place for a such a recent QB to try to be so opinionated about the inner-workings of the team. You didn't see McElroy being critical after the 9-6 loss to LSU. If this was AJ's only comment in the last few months, it'd be one thing.
But I agree with the post above, this shouldn't be the topic of the thread. The fact that Saban could be handcuffing the offense for big games should be a cause for concern. Its a strategy that I'll never understand and it obviously isn't working for us right now if that is indeed the case.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 8:40 am to mrbroker
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AJ is entitled to express his opinion. Many former players are doing in so why is there a problem with AJ doing it?
It's definitely a free world and he is saying what he feels. I will just add these quotes from the article as to why I personally think he should stahp...
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I think that was one of the best things we did while I was there. We spread the ball around to everybody. I mean, I think in numerous games ... where we had almost everybody on offense catch the ball that was eligible to catch the ball. Teams could never really pinpoint and play their defenses to cover Coop and I think that's one of the things they're struggling with right now.
I thought OJ for one was targeted more times in the Ole Miss game than he was all of last season, LOL. How did that turn out though??? More from AJ...
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"I'll tell you one person who I thought I'd see a little bit more out there making plays and get a little more of the offense going toward him is Christion Jones. He was a huge playmaker when I was there. I looked for him all the time. If I saw anyone one-on-one with Christion, I'm going to him. He's an excellent route runner. He's got good hands. I think right now, just this last game, I didn't see a whole lot of balance and spreading the ball around the field. I think they were keying on Coop a little too much and that hurt them."
Just stahp... please stahp AJ, LOL!!!
Posted on 10/8/14 at 8:40 am to FairhopeTider
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Nick Saban has nobody else to blame except for himself. What a stubborn way to coach football.
I say we fire the mother fricker! Who's with me!?!?!
Posted on 10/8/14 at 8:47 am to mrbroker
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AJ is entitled to express his opinion. Many former players are doing in so why is there a problem with AJ doing it?
There shouldn't be one. If we can take the compliments we should be able to take constructive criticism.
Besides, AJ isn't saying anything that we haven't thought or posted during and after the game last Saturday.
We all saw we were extremely conservative in our playing calling from right after our first play (run option Blake gained like 7 yards off of which we never ran again. Why??). Once we gained the lead 14-3 and came out for the second half the difference in the game was Ole Miss felt they had nothing to lose and starting allowing Bo to make plays.
Instead of us allowing Blake to, we ran a vanilla offense trying not to lose instead of attempting to win.
When we finally were forced to release our sphincters and actually go for it. Sims hit Cooper on a deep dig/in route and we marched down the field with ease. If not for OJ's holding call I'm pretty sure we'd have scored with a first down on the 20 yard line and 40 seconds to go.
Not the first game where we've lost because we were too conservative early, in the middle then tried to let loose too late. With that said, no coach, player or person is perfect. Every person or system has its flaws.
This post was edited on 10/8/14 at 8:48 am
Posted on 10/8/14 at 8:48 am to chattabama
JUST SHUT UP AJ!!
Comfort and aid to our enemies.
Comfort and aid to our enemies.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:06 am to chattabama
In my opinion this bland shite would have won the game. Don't give up on the run, make simple throws, and hold on to the ball.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:08 am to chattabama
That handcuffed offense made AJ appear better then he actually was. Maybe he should add sine cuffs to the chest tat.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:15 am to ehole
How did that sugar bowl go, AJ?
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:18 am to vuvuzela
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I say we fire the mother fricker! Who's with me!?!?!
Oh yeah, I forgot Nick Saban is perfect and should never be criticized.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:22 am to FairhopeTider
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Oh yeah, I forgot Nick Saban is perfect and should never be criticized.
Lots of things lost that game Saturday, but a conservative offense was not one of them.
Furthermore the overreaction to that loss is what my comment was jesting about. You are talking about being "concerned" about saban handcuffing an offense which has been, for the most part, well above average since Saban has arrived. Get a grip bro!
This post was edited on 10/8/14 at 9:23 am
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:28 am to chattabama
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like I've known Coach to do in the past
This bothers me, I don't think he needed to say it.
I do think it's true but I don't think he should have just thrown it out there like that.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 9:41 am to vuvuzela
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You are talking about being "concerned" about saban handcuffing an offense which has been, for the most part, well above average since Saban has arrived.
Saban let Kiffin go loose on the UF game because he thought that even if we turn the ball over, UF doesn't have an offense to make us pay for it. That turned out to be accurate.
Conservative has worked for us in the past, but we don't have a great defense to rely on anymore.
OM opened it up in the second half while we continued to do the same damn thing that wasn't working. Maybe if Cyrus didn't pick up the scoop six we wouldn't have went in to "preserve the lead" mode.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:03 am to chattabama
No problem with the coach criticism from a former player. Does bother me a bit saying there are no leaders on offense, not being there. Then again, he knows most of them there and may be that he knows this will motivate the ones he knows has that capability. In the end, I think most don't want it being in the papers, because it will provide a lot of message board fodder for opposing fans.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:03 am to ReauxlTide222
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In my opinion this bland shite would have won the game. Don't give up on the run, make simple throws, and hold on to the ball.
This is an excellent point. A lot of the criticism that I've read about last saturday is that we abandoned the run when it was working so well. When we win it's a dominant running game that no one can stop, but when we lose it's chicken shite play calling. If we keep running the ball and score on our first possession of the second half, we control the game from that point and all these threads are instead talking about how we look like our past championship teams again.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:34 am to chattabama
AJ calling it like he sees it....and pretty much knows from experience what coaches (Saban) want during games as it relates to play calling.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:57 am to partsman103
My issue with AJ isnt the play calling comment but the leadership barb. I think that's a bit uncalled for. Plus, AJ wasnt known as a good leader so, pot meet kettle. At least Blake wasnt on the sidelines crying.
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