What we did right on offense in Q4 that changed the momentum

Of course, the Defense put a lot of this game on their back and defense wins championships again. Can’t say enough about them and their play.

On offense, what was frustrating me was we would make a nice run and then try to pass when it seemed like we didn’t have to. Bamas pass rush was excellent most of the game and the line was missing blocks. Also, some of those pass plays, there wasn’t anyone open.

In Q4, we finally attacked the A gap and we won the LOS after flirting with it in Q3. What this did was change Bamas coverage. They ran man on us on the outside and their safeties were creeping up. That opened up that deep ball and I am glad we took that shot. On Bowers TD, we ran a stretch play fake and Bamas line, LBs, and safeties all went with the run fake. One DE or OLB for Bama was unblocked on that play. He was coming fast. Not sure how Stetson was able to run the fake and get the ball over that dudes head. Net result was Bowers was out there with really one guy to beat as all the defense flowed with that zone stretch run fake. I wonder how much more we could have scored and wore them down if we did pounded it all game. It was still an awesome game to see and I’m glad the coaches picked up on it when we really needed it.

Side note, both those late offensive TDs had flags on them. We had no idea at the game what they were when it happened, but based on the refs track record, we assumed it was something chicken shite on us. Really took from the joy of the moment.

Side note 2: I swear to frick. Even when we were up by 15, we were waiting for something kooky to happen. We were just conditioned that way I guess. Not anymore.