Blitz Bama Blitz…have you ever noticed

They sure do love to focus on trying to knock the shite out of their blocker rather than the guy with the ball.

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that when we do blitz, 90% of the time the blitzing player looks to make contact with a defender instead of looking for a clear unabated path to the qb! Drives me nuts! Seems they square up with the blocker instead of trying to beat them around the edges. Maybe I’m just looking at it wrong but to me it sure seems that way!

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That’s usually a sign that the other team identified the play and was prepared to put a hat on a hat. Wommack has a problem with being fairly predictable at times.

Kentucky: 3 Sacks
MSU: 6 Sacks

They were getting plenty of pressure with their Front-4.

Georgia did a good job, but also left 7 in protection several times.
Stockton also stepped up and took it under the chin in order to get off very impressive throws.

It’s human nature to try and find things to take out your frustrations on and lose the ability to be objective.


At the end of the day #5 on the 3rd and 17 and 3rd and 22 combined with the QB Reese INT being taken away is what lost that game from a defensive standpoint.

Bc they haven’t lacked success when bringing pressure……

It’s called “recency bias”.

I will post their blitz% and pressure created (#3 and #4 in the SEC respectively).

After UK, everyone was convinced this was a 2016 level defense.

Then they did a solid job vs MSU, but lost J Hill and Zulu in that UK win.

Then they allow 20 to Georgia with #5 and the DL being worn out, then when you take #1 and/or #0 out for a single play Georgia pops a long run.

It’s the same defense. Just need to put #5 on the bench and hopefully get J Hill and T Green back imo

Once again, you provide word salad without giving any concrete answer to the OP topic.
Topic ain’t about 5, 0, 1 or anyone in your dissertation, pt 2.

Bama blitzes always seem to get picked up. Almost never see a free blitzer getting to the QB, and that’s not just this season. Always seems to be a “delayed” blitz and it’s rarely successful.
OTOH, we seem to encounter it every week from our opponents. Thank goodness 12 has got more moves than ExLax!!

Wommack needs to study how Brother Oliver dealt with Miami.

You’re exactly right. I love reading posts from guys like him. He knows most of the people he’s talking to have never coached a down of football, so he gets on here throwing around all these fancy X’s and O’s terms trying to sound like the smartest guy in the room.

I coached with a guy just like this for several years in high school. We called him a whiteboard genius. He could stand up there and draw up every coverage, front, stunt, and blitz you could think of and make himself sound like Bill Belichick. Problem was, when we got out on the practice field, he couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag. Couldn’t teach it, couldn’t get his kids to execute it, and sure couldn’t make adjustments when things weren’t working on Friday nights.

That’s what cracks me up about guys like this. They take basic football concepts that coaches have been teaching for years, dress them up with a bunch of terminology, and act like they’re breaking down something nobody’s ever seen before. And because most of the people reading it don’t know the terminology, they eat it up. There’s a big difference between being able to draw it up on a board and actually coaching it on grass. Anybody who’s spent time in a coaches’ office knows exactly the type I’m talking about. Some guys are a whole lot better at sounding like a football coach than actually being one.

I had those same thoughts last night but decided to log off. I’m not going to engage in a pissing contest with any fellow bama fan.
I also knew a few genius coaches, some very good, others couldn’t relate concepts to players.