Gold From The Irish..

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Here is my take. A lot of people will say how well bama played. I unfortunately don't see it that way.

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Any jitters we had that could have been tamed down wasn't because of several opportunities given to Alabama. Changing the defense hurt and you could see that in the first possession. The jitters kept up. The early ref calls kept those jitters going. The juggling call where they called eiffert out of bounds and clearly he was in and not juggling the ball hurt a lot. Then the call with the punt coverage where our player was being pushed into their returner and still did not touch him did us in. Any hope that our kids had left in them was gone at that point. Players missing tackles, being way out of position, soft coverage in the secondary all hurt us badly. The seams were too big. Saban saw that and started throwing the ball.

The entire game from play one was a loss because we changed our game play. Its very simple. The tide did not win that game last night. We lost it.

I hate laying blame on anyone, but the coaches will hold my blame for this one. How Kelly either let someone talk him into changing the game defensively and offensively or making the changes himself set us up for the loss from the get go. If someone were to tell me we would change the entire defensive scheme and throw the ball more than run before the game I would have not let it happen. Play what's worked all year.

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