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re: Our offense is outdated
Posted on 1/3/24 at 1:48 pm to BigFolks6347
Posted on 1/3/24 at 1:48 pm to BigFolks6347
There’s lots of players and coaches to blame
Milroe plays scared at times, doesn’t use his legs as well as you would expect, never takes check downs, and takes bad sacks
Rees play calling is rather unimaginative and although at times he has catered the offense to the strengths of the players he doesn’t always
The OL and receiving play over the last few years hasn’t been nearly as good as you’d expect from how insanely good the recruiting is. There’s definitely misses in talent IDing and development. This extends to parts of the defense too
To what extent the faults of all those mentioned above have to do with each is debatable but there’s issues in all of them
The coaching overall can be blamed. Going from the misevaluations in recruiting to improper development (how can there be no one better than Seth at C???) to lackluster game day preparation. Saban hired these guys so he deserves at least some blame there
For years even Bama’s biggest haters had to admit Bama played disciplined sound football ESPECIALLY with time to prepare. That’s not been case 2018 onwards with exception of 2020. Yes there’s been success with titles but the same level of domination isn’t there. One score wins against even unranked teams has become more commonplace
Of course I’m not saying Bama has had no success. But the same level of dominance and preparedness isn’t there anymore
Milroe plays scared at times, doesn’t use his legs as well as you would expect, never takes check downs, and takes bad sacks
Rees play calling is rather unimaginative and although at times he has catered the offense to the strengths of the players he doesn’t always
The OL and receiving play over the last few years hasn’t been nearly as good as you’d expect from how insanely good the recruiting is. There’s definitely misses in talent IDing and development. This extends to parts of the defense too
To what extent the faults of all those mentioned above have to do with each is debatable but there’s issues in all of them
The coaching overall can be blamed. Going from the misevaluations in recruiting to improper development (how can there be no one better than Seth at C???) to lackluster game day preparation. Saban hired these guys so he deserves at least some blame there
For years even Bama’s biggest haters had to admit Bama played disciplined sound football ESPECIALLY with time to prepare. That’s not been case 2018 onwards with exception of 2020. Yes there’s been success with titles but the same level of domination isn’t there. One score wins against even unranked teams has become more commonplace
Of course I’m not saying Bama has had no success. But the same level of dominance and preparedness isn’t there anymore
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Posted on 1/3/24 at 4:51 pm to BrianFantana
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. I think the Saban mindset of every drive that ends with a kick is a good drive kills the development of QB's that lack the killer instinct of just slinging the ball around and taking chances.
Have felt same unless you throw a lot you cannot fine tune and get accurate .. but its combination of everything and lack of separation in WR playing good teams
Posted on 1/4/24 at 3:25 am to BigFolks6347
Major. Applewhite. He's Major Applewhite. With play calling you either have it or you don't. Applewhite is the OC at South Alabama 16 years later. Rees will be the same.
Go back and watch 2007 Bama to 2008 Bama. It wasn't just the OL improving.
He's basically using the offense he learned when he was QB at Notre Dame, which Bama obliterated in the national championship game ironically.
He's the new Golding. I really don't know what Saban was thinking.
Go back and watch 2007 Bama to 2008 Bama. It wasn't just the OL improving.
He's basically using the offense he learned when he was QB at Notre Dame, which Bama obliterated in the national championship game ironically.
He's the new Golding. I really don't know what Saban was thinking.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:11 am to PhoSho86
Part of the reason we’re stuck with Rees and not the best and the brightest is because CNS is a 24K hard arse to work for and he generally doesn’t allow coordinators to free reign to implement their systems.
Yes, it looks good on the resume to have worked for him but IMO, some good assistants think the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
Because of this, we’re not getting the best a lot of the time. I know I’ll get downvoted to oblivion for saying that but it’s true.
Yes, it looks good on the resume to have worked for him but IMO, some good assistants think the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
Because of this, we’re not getting the best a lot of the time. I know I’ll get downvoted to oblivion for saying that but it’s true.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:19 am to Amarillo Tide
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and he generally doesn’t allow coordinators to free reign to implement their systems.
IMO, this is a good thing. It'd be a disaster if the players had to learn an entirely new system every 2 (or so) years when an OC inevitably jumps to another job.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:33 am to tide06
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Offense is fine. Its limited as far as what we can run due to
Who is calling the plays...
Guys just saw BOB hamstring our offense and are still believing it's the players when actually it is the creativity, gameplaning and ability to adapt of the playcaller.
We bring Sark to call this same offense and that game is a blowout because he would have called plays to punish a team sitting in zone and pressuring up the middle leaving their sides open.
Rees is limited just like our QB and OL. People just hate players and are cool with defending coaches.... until it's too late and the damage is set.
Go back and look at how Pete Golding was defended on here
Posted on 1/4/24 at 7:58 am to YStar
We did not make UM defend much horizontally except for a few quick screens that were ill conceived and the timing was so far off . Jet sweeps were WIDE open and swing passes with proper timing
Posted on 1/4/24 at 8:35 am to BigFolks6347
quote:You don’t know how many times it was called that Milroe got a snap at his shoe tops and couldn’t do it.
No quick passes. Slants should’ve Milroes best friend and the few times they were called he threw them beautifully.
Posted on 1/4/24 at 10:30 am to PhoSho86
You are correct. I’m convinced a lot of guys just watch football but don’t understand what they’re watching. Our offense did nothing to confuse a defense. Never created a personnel mismatch. This isn’t 2001 where you can just line up and blow a team off the ball and win. Sometimes you have to scheme players open and use eye candy to distract defenders.
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