For those who have coaching backgrounds; what needs to be done to fix our Defense?

Idk anything about coaching football but that sounds right to me ^

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You don’t ask safeties to play straight up man on slots without at least bumping them.

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this!

Oh lawd.. where do I start?

The Alabama offense is beyond simple.

First..

Zero motion, none! Our idea of motion is to move Latu from one side or the other … or motion Gibbs out wide. Our alignment or the change up on the perimeter is to move a WR to the slot.. and since the Arky game we haven’t done that. We never force the D to move pre-snap.

Next… our idea of misdirection is Gibbs cutting back against the grain. We zone block up front and ask Gibbs to find the hole.. because we aren’t running a specific play.. we are running a scheme. BTW, that’s incredibly difficult for offensive lineman.

3rd… we barely run any RPO.. almost zero rub routes and our deep routes are a simple as Jr High offense. No out and ups, no post to flag routes, no drag routes to middle.

We run nothing out the backside .. none of the inside flips to a WR in motion that we became used to with Cooper, Riddle, Juedy, Ruggs, Waddle or Smith.

We don’t throw to the backside seam to Gibbs like we did Najee.

Opposing Defenses absolutely fly to flow against us, because in our run game it always leads to the ball.

We score a lot of points.. but it’s not because of O’Brien. It’s because we have Patrick Mahomes in a smaller body playing QB.

What Bryce does is off the charts. Because if we you break us down on film… almost all of our explosive plays come from him being so dynamic and doing something that’s jaw dropping.

If you took Bill O’Brien playbook and sat it next to Shula’s, he wouldn’t know which one to pick up.. although in my opinion Shula’s was a little better.

We score points on individual talent…

If Bill had coached the 2020 team.. Smith never wins the Heisman and Mac Jones is a 5th round pick.

BOB is the only OC Brady ever had that he didn’t win a Super Bowl with…Brady tried to whip his arse on the sidelines…

he’s the same guy that Deshawn Watson said he couldn’t play for… because he was incompetent.

The Texas DC said it out loud before we played them , but nobody paid attention. He said Alabama is simple and easy to gameplan.

If Bryce wasn’t our QB, we’d be near the bottom of the league in points scored.

Cmayes... Excellent write ups. Thank you for the education. We need more of this on this board.

Saban sees it. He has to... Everyone else sees it. I hate to say it, but Saban is too soft to make hard decisions and fire coaches now.

Was OC for 16 years and DC for 4 years so I know a little about both sides. As others have said, we don’t use much motion to create mismatches , don’t have hot routes for easy completions when everybody in the stadium can see which players are blitzing . Bryce has to hold the ball way too long for our routes to develop . Would have loved to called a couple runs at the end before our FGA. Would have gotten us closer and burned more time off the clock . UT should have never gotten the ball back in regulation . Been saying it all year but we do not get our playmakers the ball in space enough. BOBs offense has an NFL approach and that is not what is needed with this group . However , 49 points should be more than enough to win.

Defensive game plan was pure trash last night . No adjustments were made either. As others have said , you don’t have safeties and in one instance a LB (Lawson) out covering WRs in the slot. We used a 3man mush rush a lot last night ( don’t agree with that philosophy ) but that fine if you drop 8 but we were not in our correct zones most of the night . When you do bring pressure , you have to bring your DBs up to tackle the hot routes . Again, did not happen . I am a little hungover and pissed off still but I love a good X and O discussion . I cannot believe Khyree and Ricks can’t play/ cover better than #2,#14,#13 attempts at covering last night . We lack physicality on D as well. UT gashed us repeatedly on the ground too. You are going to run into teams who are hot occasionally and your initial plan may not work, but what is alarming to me, is we made no attempts to adjust scheme or personnel that I saw

Bear88, you were one I hoped would comment when I started this thread. I also could not for the life of me understand not adjusting defensively or changing #’s 2 and 13 out. 14 had a very bad game, too, who has played pretty well this year. It is really discouraging to see us waste the defensive talent we do have out there. Where are our team leaders? In the old days, not only would Saban chew a player, our leaders would pull the player aside and coach them up or chew them, or both.

Can we get Pruitt next year or is he still on “ restriction”?

No doubt in my mind Saban sees it.. none!

I’m just wondering why he hasn’t done anything about it.