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We all got to see an execution.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 10:17 am
Posted on 10/15/17 at 10:17 am
Which, lets be honest, was what last night was. It was like watching a kitten try to defend itself against a pitbull. It was an Uncommon beat down.
Pros:
We had some!
CK has decent wheels and delivers an accurate ball most of the time, even with three Bama players on top of him like the living room rug. He has a ton of potential.
We can get pressure on the other team's QB when we bother to blitz! While Bama did make some plays when we brought the heat (they're the number one team in the country for a reason) we were able to hold the Bama offense in check for stretches of the game by bringing the house and pressuring Hurts.
We got a pick. The first INT thrown this year by Hurts and another sign that next year we could have a fairly good DB corps.
The cons:
Everything else.
Ever see that gif of the Olympic weightlifter going for a lift and he dislocates his elbow? That was like watching our O-line try to handle anything Bama threw at them. We got a few positive plays when we went hurry up but they whipped us badly at the line of scrimmage.
We had a lot of dropped passes that hit our WRs in the hands. You'll get some dropped passes against the Tide, Saban is a master of coaching his DBs, but we had drops that were all on us. We were never going to win this game but drive after drive stalled and died because we just can't catch the football.
Personnel decisions were, once again, questionable.
We seemed, once again, weak and slow across the board. Soft and sluggish is not going to win a lot of games in the SEC.
The play calling was uninspired at best. Running CK up the middle against the most physical defense in the country didn't work all game but we kept going back to it. We'd keep Bama contained with blitzes and then back off... and Bama would promptly hit a big play.
Finally the last play of the first half was... lacking. Yes, scoring a TD there have been big for us, but after a half of taking a beating on both sides of the ball what we really needed was to end the half on a high note and put something, anything, on the board. Our FG kicking is... lackluster at best, but inside the 5 yard line you might as well let the kid take a swing at it.
This was a game we weren't going to win. The talent disparity was just too high for that to ever happen. That having been said we were poorly coached and could have, with decent coaches, at least made Bama earn this one.
The Arkansas football death march continues.
Pros:
We had some!
CK has decent wheels and delivers an accurate ball most of the time, even with three Bama players on top of him like the living room rug. He has a ton of potential.
We can get pressure on the other team's QB when we bother to blitz! While Bama did make some plays when we brought the heat (they're the number one team in the country for a reason) we were able to hold the Bama offense in check for stretches of the game by bringing the house and pressuring Hurts.
We got a pick. The first INT thrown this year by Hurts and another sign that next year we could have a fairly good DB corps.
The cons:
Everything else.
Ever see that gif of the Olympic weightlifter going for a lift and he dislocates his elbow? That was like watching our O-line try to handle anything Bama threw at them. We got a few positive plays when we went hurry up but they whipped us badly at the line of scrimmage.
We had a lot of dropped passes that hit our WRs in the hands. You'll get some dropped passes against the Tide, Saban is a master of coaching his DBs, but we had drops that were all on us. We were never going to win this game but drive after drive stalled and died because we just can't catch the football.
Personnel decisions were, once again, questionable.
We seemed, once again, weak and slow across the board. Soft and sluggish is not going to win a lot of games in the SEC.
The play calling was uninspired at best. Running CK up the middle against the most physical defense in the country didn't work all game but we kept going back to it. We'd keep Bama contained with blitzes and then back off... and Bama would promptly hit a big play.
Finally the last play of the first half was... lacking. Yes, scoring a TD there have been big for us, but after a half of taking a beating on both sides of the ball what we really needed was to end the half on a high note and put something, anything, on the board. Our FG kicking is... lackluster at best, but inside the 5 yard line you might as well let the kid take a swing at it.
This was a game we weren't going to win. The talent disparity was just too high for that to ever happen. That having been said we were poorly coached and could have, with decent coaches, at least made Bama earn this one.
The Arkansas football death march continues.
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Posted on 10/15/17 at 11:45 am to Arksulli
We all got to see the ultimate fail of the inept coaching staff that Bert has assembled in year 5
There's not one damn thing that I saw in that game that makes me think we can win an SEC game.
Mizzou and Ole Piss showed thay have a pulse, We don't.
There's not one damn thing that I saw in that game that makes me think we can win an SEC game.
Mizzou and Ole Piss showed thay have a pulse, We don't.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 11:59 am to ArHog
Ole Miss lost to Bama 66-3.
Posted on 10/15/17 at 1:23 pm to Arksulli
I actually saw some improvement in places, especially on some of the defensive series in the mid parts of the game. I think we wouldve given Bama a little more of a challenge if it werent for the oline being a sieve all night and not allowing the offense to move the ball at all, which in turn seems to really wear on our defense mentally.
There were flashes of a good team here and there and I didn't expect that at all against Bama, I thought we wouldn't challenge them whatsoever. Last night was also our team of the future and I can see them really becoming something special. We have lots of good pieces all over the field on both sides, lots of young talent that held their own. That young talent still lacks the confidence to match up with the biggest and baddest and depth of equal quality backing them up.
The offensive and overall coaching just isn't there to get them over the hump and playing like a cohesive unit, they also need that killer instinct that's been missing for a couple years now. It's hard to tell just how much of that is due the "patchwork" o-line making every single play rushed.
We should be able to pick up a 3rd and 2, 4th and 1, etc more often than not by just lining it up and grinding with our big guys and stud RBs, and we've lost that threat completely. I remember teams having an "Arkansas hangover" from playing us when CBB first started simply because we were so physical. Bama was one of the first teams with players that openly admitted that we were their most physical game all year, and Saban said as much. I don't know where that went by the wayside, maybe Enos?
It's hard to gauge just how much better the O played for Kelley since it was against arguably the best D in the nation, but I could see a little spark that he created just being in there. The kid is tough as nails and has a great attitude, especially in contrast to AA. That deep ball he threw to Martin was probably the best throw we've seen all year. Speaking of Martin, we've needed this dude well before now because he's gonna be a monster.
The next coach will have a decent stockpile to work with and should walk in to relative success, assuming he's worth his salt. We've seen what some of these guys can do when things go well, and if our team played like we know they're capable of on a consistent basis and we still lost here and there this would be a different story. It's the completely flat, WTF are we doing?!?! performances that really have CBB on the hotseat and I STILL can't pinpoint exactly what this staff has done so horribly wrong to get us in this shape, because it seems like the talent is there to compete.
What's so different now? It's 100% coaching, but where/how? I just can't put my finger on the problem and that appears to be true for CBB as well. The only difference is that he makes about $4,000,000 more a year than me to do so and deals with it every day as his profession.
There were flashes of a good team here and there and I didn't expect that at all against Bama, I thought we wouldn't challenge them whatsoever. Last night was also our team of the future and I can see them really becoming something special. We have lots of good pieces all over the field on both sides, lots of young talent that held their own. That young talent still lacks the confidence to match up with the biggest and baddest and depth of equal quality backing them up.
The offensive and overall coaching just isn't there to get them over the hump and playing like a cohesive unit, they also need that killer instinct that's been missing for a couple years now. It's hard to tell just how much of that is due the "patchwork" o-line making every single play rushed.
We should be able to pick up a 3rd and 2, 4th and 1, etc more often than not by just lining it up and grinding with our big guys and stud RBs, and we've lost that threat completely. I remember teams having an "Arkansas hangover" from playing us when CBB first started simply because we were so physical. Bama was one of the first teams with players that openly admitted that we were their most physical game all year, and Saban said as much. I don't know where that went by the wayside, maybe Enos?
It's hard to gauge just how much better the O played for Kelley since it was against arguably the best D in the nation, but I could see a little spark that he created just being in there. The kid is tough as nails and has a great attitude, especially in contrast to AA. That deep ball he threw to Martin was probably the best throw we've seen all year. Speaking of Martin, we've needed this dude well before now because he's gonna be a monster.
The next coach will have a decent stockpile to work with and should walk in to relative success, assuming he's worth his salt. We've seen what some of these guys can do when things go well, and if our team played like we know they're capable of on a consistent basis and we still lost here and there this would be a different story. It's the completely flat, WTF are we doing?!?! performances that really have CBB on the hotseat and I STILL can't pinpoint exactly what this staff has done so horribly wrong to get us in this shape, because it seems like the talent is there to compete.
What's so different now? It's 100% coaching, but where/how? I just can't put my finger on the problem and that appears to be true for CBB as well. The only difference is that he makes about $4,000,000 more a year than me to do so and deals with it every day as his profession.
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