Worst playcall of the night

We seemed to have some success running Henry around the left end, and I would have liked to have seen more of that. I'm not going to dwell too much on it though...sometimes what we think are bad play calls we would have been calling great calls if the players executed.

without a doubt it was that stupid call!!!

Kiffin was in full beast mode on the drive that ended with the fake toss roll out Amari touchdown. After that, it was all a bit questionable.

I think that's fair. Lane is a great OC but I think he can get way too cute at times. Our 2nd and 3rd Down playcalling in short yardage situation was awful. Should have focused on moving the chains instead of trying to hit big plays. Kiffin started off the game pretty well and I was feeling good about things with the way Henry was running. Then we just went completely away from that.

We did the same thing tonight that we did under Nuss...which is get away from taking what the defense gives you.

They kicked our arse. Im pissed about it

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sometimes what we think are bad play calls we would have been calling great calls if the players executed.

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There's a lot of truth in this, but with the way the field was stacked on those two piss-away drives I was mentally screaming that they needed to finally run left in the fourth and go 2012 SECCG on their asses. Even posted it at the time. There are a lot of times it's easy to excuse the coordinator, but Kiffin seems to run away from the smart play out of his fear of "predictability" waaaaaay too often. It's like he played too much Madden with his dad growing up or something. Or maybe he's a secret Dave Rader fan.

Howard was open in the endzone and beat his defender. All Sims had to do was actually throw the ball up over the defender and we get a TD. Short throw and he threw the ball right into the defender.

To me the worst play or I should say series was the last with poor clock management. Even the announcer said it we should of had a second play already called for that reason of time running down. So either Kiffin and Saban did not realize the need or Sims having to look to the sidelines each play for a call cost us the opportunity to possibly tie the game.

Also the next to last play of the game we throw the ball to White which almost got picked off by 2 defenders who had a better shot at it than White but it appeared that Cooper was in single coverage in the middle of the field.

i dont fault the playcall on that play. i fault sims or not seeing a defender right in front of his intended target, for the second time in the game. and then throwing the ball directly to said defender, for the second time in the game.

Lack of crisp execution makes EVERY play call look questionable.
The most ridiculous play call of the night goes to Urban Meyer trying to run the score up with the bomb at the end.
Back to Bama: Sims just wasn't quite as good as he needed to be, made some bad decision passes, but had good passes dropped. Plus, our Oline didn't seal the pocket as well it needed.

And yes, our third down defense play calling is the worst in major college football. If I were an opposing OC, I'd take two knees on first and second down, and on third and long make an easy first down by either running the QB up the middle or passing to the wide open receivers for 25 yards.