re: Where is Cover1Key?

When it was 9-0? Man I was pumped


I do agree about playing soft early, though. If we’re going to start slow and behind on the scoreboard, how about let’s do it being aggressive early for a change? Give the guys a chance. If they start getting beat deep, adjust.

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It’s pretty damn good, man.

Fully healthy it’s most likely very good.

Why would someone have to be a Womack apologist to believe it’s pretty good?

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Our secondary is not good. Our secondary would have to improve to just be bad statistically.

Our secondary is statistically the worst cover group we've had in modern Bama history.

We are currently 102nd nationally in opponent adjusted defensive YPA which is third worst among all B1G/SEC teams. We've never been anywhere close to that at this point in the season going back to when advanced analytics were being kept.

I refuse to make excuses for a secondary with two veterans at safety, a borderline day 1 CB and a ton of pieces to play with coming up as depth and at nickel sitting at 102 in coverage.

And we're 19th in opponent adjusted scoring so lets not pretend like thats a world beating statistic either.

On the flip side prior to losing Green we were top 5 nationally in opponent adjusted defensive YPC so we're elite against the run.

The LB group is plenty good enough, but if we're going to win stuff that matters the secondary has to be rebuilt or Lane is going to exploit the matchups were giving people with #5, #3 and frankly #18 who for whatever reason cannot cover in space this year.

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shouldn’t have started a thread calling you out. That was a dick move on my part. I did while pissed during the game. I apologize for that.

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I understand. Trust me, I feel like walking out the stadium and feel the same frustration that you do, and I’m sure all of us do bc we want Bama to win. Period

I just try to be reasonable with the defense and I think it stems from my complete disdain for Grubb’s offense.
He has ZERO desire to play complimentary football. He’s only out for himself and to put up stats.

The defense hasn’t had the star power that CNS had, and they also do not have a consistent offense that can put together some 5 minute+ drives and flip the field.

I think Wommack gets a LOT out of the guys he has. Bama should never be playing guys like K Henry/E Hill/ Faga etc…those guys would’ve never gotten a sniff at an offer from CNS.

The Secondary was the 3rd best in the nation a year ago

It also sucks with the timing of Z Brown going down bc Chuck McDonald is a flat out stud.

Bama had the #3 pas defense in the nation and #1 in the SEC last year, allowing just 160.1ypg.

They were 7th the year before that, so clearly Wommack/Linquist have coached solid Secondaries

Playing UT without T Green, J Hill, Zulu and Z Brown was devastating.

Only Z Brown and Y Pierre have 1st round talent on the defense right now.

Yet, the defense continues to get put on the field a ridiculous number of times and they manage to give Bama a chance to win every week.

That is very under-appreciated and over-looked by many fans imo

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It's as though folks want our defense to keep this Walmart parking lot shite diaper of an offense from losing games, and when it can't, everyone blames the strongest part of the team.

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My theory is 2-fold:
1. Nostalgia for Saban’s defenses from 2011-2017
2. Frustration with Grubb and the sandlot style offense with KR running around for his life, and by proxy, CKD.

So admiring the defense’s resilience and grit doesn’t fit the “CKD is soft and needs to go” or “this team is so soft and Pac12 weak”

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- Like you said, Bama loses 20-17 to the #1 team in the country and people are griping about the defense (who also setup 1 of those scores, and the QB Reese INT could’ve been the defining play OG a huge win).
That’s absolutely nuts imo

“Bend but don’t break” doesn’t force the 2nd most turnovers in all of CFB

Yes, Bye week was desperately needed.

I hope at some point we get to see Zulu, J Hill, T Green, and Z Brown all back healthy for the first time since the UK game.

Everyone was talking about good the defense was after the UK game, but they got hit hard since then.

They need T Green, Z Brown and Zulu back the most out of any of the injured players, along with RCW on offense.

Probably the difference in the outcome vs LSU

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We are currently 102nd nationally in opponent adjusted defensive YPA which is third worst among all B1G/SEC teams. We've never been anywhere close to that at this point in the season going back to when advanced analytics were being kept.

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This doesn't matter at all. If BAMA scores 27 vs tenner and uga and they're undefeated. That isn’t a lot to ask from an offense.

If the defense had been better vs tenner what would it have mattered?? The offense wasn't gonna do anything.

Good games (Kentucky was a great 2nd half) still giving up close to 20 points. I don't expect elite games every game. Nobody does that anymore. But you can definitely have 1 or 2 of them in this era

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don’t hate Kane’s scheme at all. I’d argue he’s a great DC.

There might be a bit too much “bend” in the “bend but don’t break,” but I tend to blame that a bit more on some of the players than the actual scheme itself.

I’ve witnessed Sabb, for example, giving too much Lawson-like effort. That’s just not acceptable

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Sometimes when your scheme isnt aggressive that becomes your mindset. You challenge your players, thats the only way they get better.