re: Alabama 44 - Miami 13 : Your Good, Bad and Ugly

I’ll be honest George I agree 100% and I’m almost shocked at how well played on game 1. I think we can clean it up some but damn do we look good.

quote:

---

Jaylen Moody coming onto the field after having what I can only imagine was a super disheartening last 4 months and immediately showing he'd stayed ready - TFL and INT. Felt great for him.

---

What happened to Jaylen Moody? I feel like I missed something in the off-season.

I think it's refereeing to Henry T coming in at the same position and competing for the job.

quote:

---

I want to break things when we shut it down and just run RB power straight into run blitzes the last 10 minutes of a blowout.

---

I thought I was the only one lol

Trey Sanders looks good. Not 100% and he's cutting like that with his vision, whew

New QB, new OL combo, new skill positions - for Game 1 we looked pretty good (Rat Poison Alert)

OL didn’t look great, but better than I expected out of the gate. People forget how rough that 2012 group looked the first couple weeks before they transformed into one of the best lines to play college football. If this is the floor of how good this group is and they go on to improve from here; look out.

HTT is that presence -mentally and physically- we’ve been missing for a while. Hope whatever his injury is just a minor nick.

I’m still not used to a kicker that doesn’t give me agida. Sorry, Will. PTSD from your predecessors.

Oh man, our LB reaction times over the middle were soooo good. I felt like last year our guys were constantly behind the play. Yesterday they flew to the ball and tackled well.

I loved it... One thing that kind of soured my enjoyment over the last couple of years, even with the greatest offensive show of all time, was our defense just looking clueless out there. Yesterday was pure fun again.

ETA: Trey Sanders is the best RB on the team. Love BRob, but it's the truth.

NS in his pressure that they were trying to run clock late in the game and you do that by running the ball. He said UM knew that and were hitting the gaps. I assume that meant they were playing like eight men in the box and plugging up every whole at the snap knowing what Bama was fixing to do. U still would have thought a quick Slant etc would have stopped that

Also on the one fumble he said that wasnt an OL issue and pretty much blamed it on the QB without mentioning him by name. He said that play was an RPO and i took it that mean the ball was to come out quickly if the QB was going to pass it.

Why ask the ? SoG if you're going to cover it all.

Chris Allen's injury is awful. Makes me sick. Such a talent and team first player.

Good: team played a quality opponent in spite of MAJOR coaching and talent turnover without missing a beat. The D will carry this year's team long enough for Bryce to adapt to his role and the tools he has available. Could be a special year. Also, Latu is a beast that seems to be team focused at his position, so good on him. And, FG kicking surviving every jinx the announcers could throw at them was also a delight.

Bad: Refs (in spite of LSU popular opinion) hate us. That PI call on a clear push off that the WR knocked himself down and led to a free FG was BS

Ugly: injuries

quote:

---

Why ask the ? SoG if you're going to cover it all.

---

quote:

---

That PI call on a clear push off that the WR knocked himself down and led to a free FG was BS

---

My gosh, it was awful. I probably don't pay enough attention to other teams/games to know if it's just an overall CFB ref issue or not, but we get absolutely hosed on 1-on-1 PI calls where the WR initiates contact at least 2-3 times a game. It's infuriating.