re: Mike Johnson on Bama offense

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You doomers are as bad as the sunshine pumpers

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I make no apologies saying I'll be happy when Deboer is gone; but I have said nothing negative in this thread other than summarize what Mike Johnson said. Don't try to add to what I said. Mike Johnson was just giving his honest assessment which many people agree with.

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f you listened to what he said he also said both Indiana and Miami needed a lot of those "IF's" to go there way. So we aren't so far away to be pessimistic

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Yep, he said that, to acknowledge the fact that any NC team has to have some "if's" fall their way, regardless of how good they are. That's always been the case.

But that doesn't contradict his points about some of the things he's seen on tape that if we don't get fixed, are going to keep us from winning a NC. It's not like we were a few unlucky bounces from playing for a NC. We've had an OL issue for two years now that got worse from year 1 to year 2. Some believe it's coaching, some believe its player type, some believe it's DeBoer's philosophy and some believe it is a combination of all of it.

At this stage no one knows for a fact what's caused the offense to not have any physicality to it, not be able to run block and basically get handled by defenses who are more physical than they are. But regardless of the why's, it's hard to argue that these things have existed in our program for two years under DeBoer. I don't think anyone WANTS the guy to be fired. I would hope everyone would want him to succeed. But getting out physicalled in football is a major bad red flag and that's exactly what has happened to us on offense for two years. Regardless of the why's, let's all hope that element gets fixed.

I’m not saying fire DeBoer at this point but you hear the noise surrounding the program. 9 wins won’t cut it with the fans. 10-11 wins and playoffs will buy time but don’t be fooled catching arse whippings like Indiana and Georgia and losing to unranked teams depending on situation will not endear him to the fan base. My post history is pretty consistent and I have never advocated firing him at all but when former players are questioning his ability to put the brand of Alabama football that the fans and tradition dictate on the field he had better start listening if he wishes to continue coaching at Alabama. That’s not me being an arse but he needs to read the room. No one hopes he figures this out more than me nor am I calling for him to repeat Sabans success that even Saban could not duplicate in this era of college football, but I do want to see a product on the field that exemplifies the Alabama standard and that’s teams that don’t quit and play physical football on both sides of the LOS. Even Mike Shula teams played their arse off, they just needed better coaching and a few key pieces of talent to go with what he had. Saban won with the same OL that Shula had available to him.

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At this stage no one knows for a fact what's caused the offense to not have any physicality to it, not be able to run block and basically get handled by defenses who are more physical than they are.

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We haven't had top teir physicality or extended intensity since Saban was here and people wrongly blamed it on his age or him "checking out".

We do have an issue but it's an easily fixable one. Get a new S&C coach and program or hang Ballou by his feet so he gets the message that he needs to do more this off-season.

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I would hope everyone would want him to succeed. But getting out physicalled in football is a major bad red flag

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I agree but this has been a problem that has grown since Saban brought Ballou and his buddy in. Even as his Doctor buddy left, it's still been an issue which has rotted our core.

This isn't a coaching or motivation thing it's performance issues from not being adequately challenged in the off-season. Trust me, I literally hated the off-season workouts but those are what prepared us to sustain intensity and make our opponents quit.

Alabama doesn't have that at the moment no matter who the coach is because our S&C program isn't creating that mindset

Welp that started Kap is gone I heard speculation that Huff would be brought in as TE coach but that’s only speculation he and the OC would help Kap along with coaching OL. Apparently that’s not happening.

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but I’ll take Mikes word over internet warrior fans.

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Not sure Mike said anything that anyone on this board hasn't said. It doesn't take a rocket scientist.

I fail to understand your reply. Are you defending Grubb and the offense???

“We don’t want to be physical”- said no coach ever
KDB spoke several times this year on the need to be physical .

As a 25 year HS coach, some guys are just naturally more physical than others

I agree. I think that’s a fair assessment.

Obviously, CKD knows what he is doing and is certainly quite capable of identifying the offense’s weaknesses.

I really like the direction the defense staff is going in (bringing in bigger bodies that fit a 3-4 Under Front much better).

The offense (imo) has the talent necessary to be really good. All we can do as fans is speculate and wait unfortunately.

I do think that’s hiring an OLine Coach that has a reputation for specializing in a certain aspect of the run game…the Mizzou OLine Coach and Outside Zone, for example. That would signal not just an upgrade at the position but (hopefully) a schematic change in the run game.

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