re: What happened to Trevor Knight between 350 yards against Bama

Would liked to have seen more designed runs with Knight. Maybe they called them and I just missed them. Like him when he gets to use his legs.

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He was under pressure quite a bit. Why not draw up more quick passes? Or maybe even run the option with him, he's mobile enough.

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Well. Overall our passing game helped Bama and they didn't need it. Our bubble screen bullshite was consistently good for -2 to -3 yards. Bama was all over that shite and blew it up from immediately. We also dropped a few passes as well.

On at least 3 blitzes our receivers seemed to be unaware of the hot read. Trevor got rid of the ball immediately and 2 of the passes were on the money and we never looked back for the ball... had tons of running room. One throw to Kirk on hot read was just too quick and Kirk didn't have time to turn around.. great Bama rush.

All of these problems led to 3rd and long to 3rd and VERY Long. Bama just has too good of a pass rush to overcome 3rd and 12, 14, etc... Trevor just didn't have time.

Ags just physically overmatched between the tackles on both offense and defense. Ags need to get bigger on D and we have to get bigger faster LBs. The middle of the D line and the LBs is where Bama had the advantage over us. It was a big advantage and it was clear to me. The speed of the Bama LBs would have negated the option. Trevor is fast but not quick. Just wouldn't have worked.

Bama was "Low Energy" that night.

I thought Trevor played well on Saturday. Aaron Rogers would have had problems with that kind of pressure.

Screens and anything east and west is infuriating. Always feast for famine, and usually famine.

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I get trying it once just to see

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I definitely get trying it. Sometimes you eat a team alive with that (bubble screens), so it's worth trying. But after it has been annihilated a couple of times, hang it up. Whatever you saw in film clearly isn't there today, so don't be stubborn. Try something else.

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after it has been annihilated a couple of times,

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This is the best description of what happened Saturday. Good choice of words.

Knight had the best game of his entire career that night for OU, that's what happened.

That performance was not indicative of his overall abilities.

Alabama had nothing to play for when they played Knight with OU, so they put together one of the shittiest efforts I've seen in the CNS era. Also, Alabama seems to have better leadership on defense this year than they had that year.

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Alabama had nothing to play for when they played Knight with OU, so they put together one of the shittiest efforts I've seen in the CNS era. Also, Alabama seems to have better leadership on defense this year than they had that year.

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Thanks to the players that waited to turn pro. They came back and are wrecking shite on that defense.

It was an anomaly against Bama. He had been benched for most of 2013 for playing so bad. He was seriously one of the worst QBs in CFB and then he came off the bench and beat Okie State and had a career game against Bama. Just like Stephen Garcia never played well again after the Bama game. Garrett Gilbert became a legend overnight with a great performance for Texas against Bama and never played well again. Chad Kelly and Johnny Manziel are the only two QBs to survive the Bama QB curse but they both lost to Bama the second time.