Film study of Bama defense

Yep. They kept us in it until the very end and gave us a chance to win.

Sounds like the defense was just too predictable last season. I wonder if it was Womack trying to simplify a little too much ?

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Was why Vandy and Oklahoma ran all over us. A QB that can run read option well will tear his defense apart.

This is why we need our Dline to be more destructive on their own.

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Vandy ran for 166 yards, but they had 54 carries, so only 3.1 yards per carry. There were no sacks. They didn't run all over Bama. They were just really efficient.

Oklahoma was more successful on the ground for sure. Part of that was just committing to the run and part of that was the defense being gassed from a really inefficient offense.

Wommack gotta do better.

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And you say Wommack has to do BETTER?

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I don’t know if you watched the video. If you didn’t, he’s just saying Wommack needs to do better changing up the looks. In the bowl game we had the same look pre snap the entire game.

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He had a top 3 defense on talent alone. If you're getting your arse outcoached as badly as he did in multiple games, largely because you change schemes or adjust at the pace of a snail, then you need to do a better job. If it was Saban, he would've been demoted like Tosh after Oklahoma

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Like he demoted Pete Golden???

Kane wasn’t perfect and the defense had a couple bad games but the defense played better than most would have expected.. and will be really good this year.. but you already know that

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Wommack gotta do better.

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Wommack did fine last season

I think his base scheme can be effective against most offenses.

My primary critique, which was shared by many guys like Cole Cubelic was that he was deadly stubborn about making schematic adjustments against schemes that demanded it (Vandy, OU) and was incredibly predictable in terms of some of his in game repetitive calls.

Against power run / pseudo veer or option teams like Vandy and OU who don’t have a vertical passing game you just cannot ask your linebackers to play the entire game with three DL the entire game against jumbo sets.

It forces your LBs, no matter how talented, to deal with pulling guards and tackles often 2-3 yards downfield giving them exactly what they want in a matchup where they were clearly outmatched talent wise.

Mark my words, if he doesn’t put extra down lineman on the field against Malzahn / FSU with a mobile QB they are going to grind clock on us and shorten the game just like we saw last year. Just be a little multiple when the other team forces it is all im asking. It’s a base scheme not a suicide pact.

As to the repetitive calls just watch the film guy linked above. Michigan had a putrid offense, yet at times was able to move the ball. The reason was we were running the same double inside blitz most of the game.

Part of that is schematic because he had a LB when most teams would’ve had an extra DL against their offense, but by just running him at the 1 gap and pairing it with a another guy doing the same at the other gap you’re begging the OC to flood the area behind it for easy looks or suck those guys inside while running option looks outside with a numeric advantage.

Bottom line, the scheme can work, but it has to be less predictable and absolutely can’t be what we run in all situations or by definition we will be in numeric disadvantages when we have no reason to be.

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Michigan really didn’t move the ball man…. They had 190 yards of offense for 2.9 yards per play.

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UM was a horrible offense with a backup QB at that point.

My critique wasn’t that they were effective, it was that due to predictability they were more effective than they should’ve been. If you want to compete for championships your coaches have to be creating schematic advantages rather than disadvantages and anyone watching that film knows where our team was on that day.

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Vandy was an absolute embarrassment but defense 100% got better after.

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We were better until we played another team who watched that film (OU) and again drastically outperformed what they should’ve had against us while chewing first downs because of bad schematic decisions from the coaches.

I’m sorry, but it was borderline coaching malpractice and showed that we hadn’t learned anything from Vandy about how to defend that look, we had just been playing teams who weren’t interested in using it against us.

We lost that game because of Milroe, but their offense again vastly overachieved relative to their talent because we were putting our defense in schematic and numeric disadvantages all day allowing them to convert first downs and eat clock.

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People love to bring that game up but don’t bring up how Alabama SHUT DOWN Lsu.

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I would’ve paid good money to watch Nussmeier run the Diego Pavia / NM St offense, but our base scheme was very good against the Brian Kelly passing offense. Zero complaints there from me.

Our issues defensively were basically limited to one bad half against UGA, a lot of blown coverages from the secondary early due to risk taking and what amounted to a failure to be adaptable against Vandy and OU relative to a particular offensive look.

I believe with a little more experience from the players in the system and some adaptability in scheme calls we are a top 3 FEI defense nationally this year.