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True/False: High Level Strategy Edition
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:16 am
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:16 am
Bama's obsession with beating LSU (and the resulting schematic and personnel decisions) has left them extremely vulnerable to others.
I say:
True
I say:
True
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:17 am to white beans
You guys are starting to creep me out.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:17 am to white beans
"We circle this game on our calendar every year"
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:20 am to white beans
quote:
Bama's obsession with beating LSU (and the resulting schematic and personnel decisions) has left them extremely vulnerable to others.
I say:
True
False.
It was the traditional SEC offenses as a whole, not LSU. The migration to the spread will cause for Saban to adjust some by recruiting more personnel in the DB slots.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:24 am to white beans
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white beans
True/False: High Level Strategy Edition
Bama's obsession with beating LSU (and the resulting schematic and personnel decisions) has left them extremely vulnerable to others.
I say:
True
Maybe. You could also say Lord Saban was out-coached the last 2 straight games.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:25 am to white beans
LSU is obsessed with beating A&M. There's no question about that.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:33 am to white beans
False.
Bama lost last night because of an incoherent game plan. They never played to their strength and OU's weakness. Saban abandoned the power run to set up play action scheme that has been working for 5 years. Obviously he wanted to give his pet AJ a chance for a signature closing performance and it backfired on him.
Don't read more into than that. It was a bad coaching job. Nothing more.
Bama lost last night because of an incoherent game plan. They never played to their strength and OU's weakness. Saban abandoned the power run to set up play action scheme that has been working for 5 years. Obviously he wanted to give his pet AJ a chance for a signature closing performance and it backfired on him.
Don't read more into than that. It was a bad coaching job. Nothing more.
Posted on 1/3/14 at 10:38 am to white beans
quote:Not sure if this is meant to be a flame, or serious, but:
Bama's obsession with beating LSU (and the resulting schematic and personnel decisions) has left them extremely vulnerable to others.
I think so. Bama's built to be big and physical, and win low-scoring, defensive matchups. Stop the power run, run the ball with power themselves, and throw on play-action after the run is working.
Teams that suck you into shootouts (Oklahoma last night, A&M twice, Auburn in the Iron Bowl) expose them. Hard-hitting run support defenders like Mosley and the rest, they become irrelevant against spread teams. Defensively you have to play basically a nickel base (which is what LSU does, and why it has been more successful against that style), so the featured players on defense either ride the bench, or are chasing faster guys in space. Either way, the Bama edge is negated.
Offensively, there's so much emphasis on power in the lineup, the passing game suffers. Sure, you get play-action; but when forced to go straight shotgun, your linemen (who excel at run blocking) are exposed against smaller, more agile ends. There's not enough variety in the passing (or tempo) game, so you run out of plays to run. You end up showing the same plays, and defenses pick up on things and cover it better.
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