If Milroe follows his block as the play is designed

Nah. Milroe supporters and their LANK shirts will say that it was all Rees’ fault.

It would have been close but he'd had a better shot regardless if his on player didn't leg whip him.

It was the snap. It threw everything off like it has all year. Milroe panicked and just ran straight and then JCs guy just obliterated him into Milroe. Good Snap and Milroe walks in.

How can a guy be on a College Football scholarship and not be able to snap a football for a whole fricking season? Like how is that not fixed after the first game?

The UM guy on the edge was intentionally unblocked. That means Milroe was supposed to be reading him. If he goes wide with the RB, follow the pulling guard and run off tackle to the left. If he crashes down (like he did) there is nowhere to run the ball. Pass it to the RB flare.

The low snap took his eyes off of the read. When he got the ball he could not adjust quickly enough to get a pass off. So, he ran inside of the pinching, unblocked egde rush.

I have no issue at all with Milroe on that play. Calling a play with a pulling guard on 4th down near the goal line. That pulling guard is pure stupidity since all of the DL are penetrating to clog up any interior run lane.

The line penetration and the pulling guard mean that the center had to reach block and snap the ball. All season long when the center had to reach block against a penetrating DL, his snaps were not good.

Yes, the bad snap caused the play to fail. The play call required that the center break the norm by not making a bad snap. The failure for the play falls entirely on the iddiot that called the play.

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I don't know if ive ever seen one center get the yips so bad that every 2nd or 3rd snap was bad

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That's because usually a coach would put his arse on the pine if it kept happening.

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will say that it was all McLaughlin’s fault.

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FIFY

And that’s something I don’t understand. We have other C’s on the roster, and other O Lineman capable of playing Center. I am not looking for the obligatory “Coach knows best” statement. This makes absolutely no sense to me.

Kid is an incredible athlete but doesn’t have it between the ears

This was a RPO.

Roydell was also wide open in the flats with two lead blockers.

He could have followed the guard and scored potentially.

Good call by Rees. Bad execution. Snap did not help, Milroe panicked.

Saw it explained as the play was a run pass option and you’re reading Lb to either throw a swing pass to RB if Lb holds his ground. If he runs to cover RB you keep the ball and run. The snap was low and he had to take his eyes off of his read. He saw the Lb breaking late and should have hit swing pass to RB but due to poor snap he panicked and ran up middle. Look Milroe has to improve a lot in the offseason and he improved throughout the year but I don’t want lay all of the blame at his feet. The offensive game plan was not good but improved second half with adjustments. We have to have a center who can reliably snap the ball. I felt like Bama should have ran the ball more because they were getting 4 yards a carry it seemed BUT the stupid penalties and snaps that plagued the team all season simply didn’t get corrected by players.