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Our punt return unit...
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:20 pm
My god.
It was a disaster. I've never seen a returner so confused and out of position. Every single time.
We lost at least 100 yards of field position on our inability to even just field the ball.
The loss of Eddie Jackson really hurting us, turned a great strength into a great weakness.
It was a disaster. I've never seen a returner so confused and out of position. Every single time.
We lost at least 100 yards of field position on our inability to even just field the ball.
The loss of Eddie Jackson really hurting us, turned a great strength into a great weakness.
This post was edited on 12/31/16 at 7:28 pm
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Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:22 pm to IAmReality
The Australian kicker fricked him up big time.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:22 pm to IAmReality
You do realize the ball is kicked differently each time. Sometimes short or long, bouncing or not. We had 0 turnovers on that unit is all I care about.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:33 pm to CrimsonBoz
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You do realize the ball is kicked differently each time. Sometimes short or long, bouncing or not. We had 0 turnovers on that unit is all I care about.
This.
I am puzzled, though, why early in the game he thought he needed to chase it down while it was bouncing and Washington players around it.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:34 pm to BamaGradinTn
Someone said in the game thread they thought it may have hit one of our guys.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:36 pm to IAmReality
frick Bobby Williams. 
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:51 pm to CrimsonBoz
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You do realize the ball is kicked differently each time. Sometimes short or long, bouncing or not. We had 0 turnovers on that unit is all I care about.
Spot on. With the way that crazy Aussie kick works and Eddie out, I would't have even put a guy back there to catch it. I was terrified every single punt.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:53 pm to IAmReality
Their kicker did a good job changing up his punts. Some were liners that bounced others he boomed
Posted on 12/31/16 at 7:54 pm to JustGetItRight
The rugby kick isn't new. It's hard to deal with but not impossible. We looked like we had never seen or practiced it before.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 9:30 pm to IAmReality
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The rugby kick isn't new. It's hard to deal with but not impossible. We looked like we had never seen or practiced it before.
The guy returning tonight hasn't seen it at the college level and u less we have one on the practice squad he hasn't seen it there either.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 5:26 am to JustGetItRight
Their punter was so inconsistent he had trouble guessing where the ball was going. Their punter was terrible
That being said, it looked sloppy. It just added to the overall frustrating sloppiness of this game, but no turnovers thank god
That being said, it looked sloppy. It just added to the overall frustrating sloppiness of this game, but no turnovers thank god
Posted on 1/1/17 at 6:52 am to IAmReality
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We looked like we had never seen or practiced it before.
And maybe we don't practice it. Do we actually have a scout team punter who kicks it like that? I doubt it.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 8:55 am to BamaGradinTn
i give props to washingtons punter. dude done one of the best jobs of keeping the ball out of the returners hands without straight up kicking out of bounds, ive probably ever seen. 
Posted on 1/1/17 at 9:13 am to IAmReality
Our coaches didn't even know what the hell to do. I saw twice where the ST coach told the returner to start on one side of the field only for Saban to immediately tell the player the opposite.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 10:08 am to pvilleguru
It got to the point where I wished we didn't put anyone back at all.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 10:12 am to IAmReality
Diggs is dangerous when he doesn't catch the ball. He's too damn close to it when it's on the ground bouncing around.
If you're not going to catch it, GTF away from it.
If you're not going to catch it, GTF away from it.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 10:22 am to bamarep
Saban tells him to get it to keep it from bouncing further down field. When he let the first one bounce a long ways saban comely told him to get on it next time. Don't you think saban would of chewed his arse for being to close to it if he did not want him there?
Posted on 1/1/17 at 10:27 am to A-TOWNUAFAN
That may be true but one of those bouncers is going to hit him and the other team fall on it.
Write it down.
Write it down.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 12:00 pm to bamarep
I get it about not fielding those crazy things. What I don't get is why we didn't really go for the block a couple of times. If you go back and watch, he was taking several steps each time and taking his sweet time kicking it. I remember seeing him almost even with his deep protectors a couple of times. We rush hard a couple of times and we block the hell out out of one of those things.
Posted on 1/1/17 at 12:09 pm to CrimsonBoz
There were two that definitely should've been fielded but were not, costing the team 20+ yards both times. It's not just about not fumbling. Failing to properly field the ball costs points by swinging field position. Then the one time Diggs did field one, he muffed it. Korren Kirven was the only Bama player who had a worse game last night than Diggs.
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