re: Alabama's offense vs Florida's defense.

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Florida's defense is loaded with talent and I wanted to see how they would handle Bama's running game. I was interested because I thought that game would tell us something about how our offense might fare against Florida. Now, I'm not so sure it did, because Alabama sent a very effective message early on, "we're not one dimensional". Once Florida's defense got that message, Bama's running game had plenty of room to operate. Great strategy by Lane Kiffen, but I'm not sure that we can do what Bama did on offense.

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Yep, few teams, even Alabama with ultra-talented OL's, aren't going to be able to run against an equally talented DL that loads the box. Kiffin basically went around the DL by rolling out Sims with pass options that substituted for the running game. Florida did the same thing against Ohio St. in that NCG. Once the defense/LB's are forced to cover the outside it looses up the running game up the middle. But Alabama still finished with twice as much passing yardage vs rushing yardage. Sims is looking like a damn good mobile QB; something Bama hasn't had in a long time.