re: Richt's biggest problem

I give Bama a slight talent edge. Nothing that a solid game plan could not have neutralized at home on a very wet day.

The offensive game plan lost that game early because once it reached 24-3, we were beyond being able to make up 3 TDs.

CBS had a pretty awful plan that Richt obviously bought into. Our short to intermediate passing game was basically non-existent. Lambert had all day to throw in the first 2 quarters but our WRs were usually so far down the field that there were no red jerseys even on my TV screen. Their DB coverage was either stellar tight or Lambert could not figure out when to pull the trigger and held the ball until the play collapsed around him. Probably a bit of both.

The first pass that went to Blazevich was a 15 yard out where he lined up in the slot. That was pretty far into the 2nd quarter. To get their LBs on their heels instead of their toes we needed to back them off early by targeting the soft spot behind them and in front of their safeties by using play action with our TE in a traditional set. The only time we did was when Mitchell got drilled and that was because it was apparent by that time to me, you and every Bama player and coach that Lambert was looking to throw to him almost every play.

Lambert does not have the ability to extend plays like QBs who have given Bama trouble over the last few years where a covered WR was able to adjust a route and break open. He just sat in the pocket and got flushed into a run for the yard marker or had his throwing hand skid out from under the ball in an attempt to avoid a sack. Just an overall crappy plan to attack their defense. As a result, it fed right into Bamas strength which is the front 4-5.

Georgia isn't Vandy or Kentucky where they put marginally talented teams on the field and pray to not get blown out. Georgia puts extremely talented teams on the field every Saturday. This isn't 2011/2012 Alabama. They aren't as good this year as they have been, and this bullshite STILL happened. That's the issue here.

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Maybe they are as good as usual

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They have 4 straight #1 recruiting classes and I believe they're the first program to ever do that. I don't think our talent is overrated though, I just think we played a crappy game.

I am.

Our OL is not great. Bama's is betterand they have a 1st round pick at LT.
Our DB's lack talent. Bama's are better.
Our DL is decent at best. Bama's might be the best in the nation.
Our WR's outside of a 5th year SR are nothing special. They lost a #1 WR from 2014 class and replaced him with a #1 from 2015 and of course he torched our DB's.
We are a mess at QB.

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Because their dL vs our ol was a complete mismatch. They were going to soften us up.

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The keep hitting the edges dragging there asses sideline to sideline, and keep Lambert on those quick screens we use throw 50 times a game back when Murray used to throw behind receivers early on, getting them murdered like Lambert does

Agree with some of this. I think they are more talented at DL and QB but about equal everywhere else.

Good to see you on this board. Thought is was you. I am Jaymac50 as you know me from years on DP.

Good to see a recognized face around here. Hope you are doing well.

We start 2 three stars and a walk on at DB, and we have never signed the quality of OL that Bama does, so I can't agree with you on those 2 positions.

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I think our gameplan was terrible and terribly executed on top of that.

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This. We went into it putting the game on Lambert's shoulders and continued to do so even when it was clear how that would turn out. And even during the attempts to throw it around, Michel wasnt involved in the passing game and that's a crime.

During the pivotal stretch when they blew the game open in the 2nd quarter, we had three 3 and outs with 7 of those 9 plays being passes.

We abandoned the run really early at the first sight of difficulty. Whereas Bama kept running (even though we were doing fairly well against it) and it paid off. And when things got really bad, instead of reverting to our one strength (running), we panicked and put in the clearly inferior QB.

We aren't a team built on throwing it all over the field. We are a run first offense.

Yea they definitely took those away. And realized that if they just made sure Mitchell was covered, we wouldn't have any other real options since TEs and RBs weren't part of the passing game. This game really exposed our lack of depth at WR.

Godwin is gonna be really good though and he was open a decent bit but apparently wasn't part of the progression that consisted of 'look for mitchell-mitchell not open-panic.'