re: Bama Football Tidings

Sark was fantastic last night. My only complaint was with our last possession before the half when we wasted a wonderful opportunity to break the game open early and completely demoralize Auburn. I did not understand the ultra-conservative play calling. We handed off to BRob multiple times and he was getting good yards and running the clock. But when on our last set of downs, he got only 1 or 2 yards on 1st down. I felt like that was the time to take the gloves off and start attacking. Instead, we ran again on 2nd down, getting next to nothing and setting up the 3rd and 7 where Mac hit a fairly well covered Metchie down the sidelines and it fell incomplete. Metchie probably should have caught it, and it was a well designed play, but the entire series rested on the outcome of that play and it was pretty well defended. Nothing else we ran had been designed to gain chunk yardage. If we had tried to actually strike on 2nd and long and then again on 3rd and it was unsuccessful, ok, we tried. But we basically had one shot at it and only one. To be sure, it's a small, nitpicky thing to point out. I just felt like we had our foot on their throat at that point and could have ended it right there and let the opportunity slip away.