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re: Tommy Rees is our new offensive coordinator
Posted on 1/25/23 at 9:38 am to Carlton
Posted on 1/25/23 at 9:38 am to Carlton
Daboll--NC and we still hate on him.
And really Bob was handicapped by two O lines that just were not that good. And he scored 40 points vs the GA team in the SEC championship game. That Ga defense was loaded with talent. We just had too many players hurt the second time (offense and defense) to win the championship. This year if our QB had not gotten hurt we still would have likely made the playoffs, but doubtful we would beat Ga. Our interior D line and O line were just not physical enough. Somewhere Saban has some responsibility in how we practice.
And really Bob was handicapped by two O lines that just were not that good. And he scored 40 points vs the GA team in the SEC championship game. That Ga defense was loaded with talent. We just had too many players hurt the second time (offense and defense) to win the championship. This year if our QB had not gotten hurt we still would have likely made the playoffs, but doubtful we would beat Ga. Our interior D line and O line were just not physical enough. Somewhere Saban has some responsibility in how we practice.
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Posted on 1/25/23 at 9:46 am to IB4bama
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Bob was handicapped
Agreed. But, not by lack of talent.
It's funny how much better the talent just happens to coincidentally be when we have better coaches.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 9:55 am to IB4bama
2021’s OL wasn’t good, but 2022 was and I can’t understand how some people can sit there and really think it wasn’t. We were 4th in Yards Per Carry and 45th in Sacks Allowed Per Game, with a decent percentage of the sacks that did happen being because Bryce developed a bad habit of bailing from the pocket when he wasn’t pressured.
And before someone says 45th isn’t good, the coveted 2012 OL was 47th in that same category. The only 2 seasons where we ranked top 10 in that category since 2009? 2018 and 2019.
And before someone says 45th isn’t good, the coveted 2012 OL was 47th in that same category. The only 2 seasons where we ranked top 10 in that category since 2009? 2018 and 2019.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 10:25 am to IB4bama
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And really Bob was handicapped by two O lines that just were not that good.
No, he wasn't.
I'll give you his first year. The Oline was terrible, specifically at RT.
This year, BoB’s problems were:
Playcalling
Playcalling was too predictable
Consistently abandoned the running game leading to no balance.
Had multiple receivers in the same area allowing one defender to cover multiple people.
Bryce’s injury (Throwing the ball 51 times against LSU is incomprehensible.)
Bryce feeling the need to always make big plays because our offense was such a cluster.
Receivers starting that should have never seen the field. This got better as the year went on.
Terrible clock management. This is also on Saban. (Not running the ball at the end of the UTk game is as bad as Golding running a 1-5-5.)
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:15 pm to IB4bama
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And he scored 40 points vs the GA team in the SEC championship game.
I admit I'm not some offensive x and o expert, but more often than not the last couple of years I ended each game thinking "thank God Bryce Young is a freaking magician out there because he continuously saved our arse from play calling and/or execution that was not working."
To this layperson it just looked like BoB's offense did absolutely nothing to create schematic mismatches or confuse the defense. A lot of times that was fine because Alabama's athletes just flat out beat their man or (as mentioned) Bryce Young just made something happen anyway. But everything just looked so hard and like the offensive game plan and play calling was neutral to net-negative compared to what I say other offensive coordinators doing. Lack of motion, lack of tempo, lack of creativity in formations, lack of rythym in the play calling, etc.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 2:12 pm to IB4bama
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he scored 40 points vs the GA team in the SEC championship game.
Because Kirby ran a completely different defense in that game than he had all year. He returned to his normal defense in the NC game and we definitely didn’t handle it well after Williams went out. Once the over the top was eliminated, our offense was pedestrian.
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