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.