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Michigan wouldn’t have blitzed as much if they were scared of our QB taking advantage. The OL looked worse than it was due to us not having a QB that can read blitzes and hit the open guy. He trusts his legs too much and tried to escape way too many times rather than using his arm to beat the blitz. 1st half would have looked a lot different with Tua or even Mac at QB.

While I agree with every word of this, the OC didn't help at all. BAMA was roasting the edges.
Did we run the pop-pass to Bond or Law at all? Did we try a wheel route all game? Where did the quick slant go?
Where, for the love of Christ, is Niblack? I know they aren't popular anymore, but why not try a screen pass to a rb? Something to loosen that fricking relentless pass rush in the 1st half. Rees did nothing to help Milroe. The only success BAMA had in the 2nd half was because Michigan adjusted their defense foolishly.

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Posted by BamaBravesPackers

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Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:47 pm to Gideon Swashbuckler

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While I agree with every word of this, the OC didn't help at all.

Completely agree. It’s like we called the first half thinking Milroe was good at reading defenses.

With a defense as good as Michigan’s, you only have to guess right once in a drive to put a team behind the sticks and shut a drive down. It was way too easy to guess what we were going to do in the first half and Milroe couldn’t “take what the defense was giving him.” They could just run blitz and adjust to getting to the QB if he didn’t hand it off.

No slants, quick outs, hot routes to the TE, etc. We finally tried a WR screen but our OL is too slow to block guys downfield.

All that said, we still would have won the game without the bad snaps or Milroe fumble (or defense picks off one of the tipped passes on the last drive). Heartbreaking

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