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Inside intel on Tua Tagovailoa from opponents speaking candidly about Alabama QB
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:29 am
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:29 am
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“It was a great experience,” former Mississippi State safety Mark McLaurin said. “He’s a very good quarterback. A lot of accuracy, a very high IQ quarterback. His knowledge of the game is great.”
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“Really, we knew that he wasn’t reading the defenses that well in the backfield,” former Clemson defensive lineman Bert Huggins said. “So, we were disguising the defense pretty well and then we would move into a different defense. He just couldn’t read the defense.”
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Clemson linebacker Kendall Joseph credited defensive coordinator Brent Venables for exhausting game planning.
“We understand what he wanted to do and we wanted to exploit it,” Joseph said. “It started with trying to knock him off rhythm and get some pressure and get some hits on him and try to rattle the quarterback and I think we did a good job of that.”
The 14 game tapes provided the blueprint.
“What they did all year,” Joseph said. “They were a big RPO team -- a deadly RPO team so we had some plans in place to knock out the RPO and break off his rhythm. That’s how their first downs and just moving the ball. The RPO was the biggest thing we saw.”
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Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:49 am to AHM21
If Clemson figured that out then hopefully somebody in the SEC can this year
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:57 am to AHM21
Well it's one thing to know what he's going to do. It's another thing to stop it.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:59 am to AHM21
The problem is Clemson had the front 7 to affect him. Not many teams on Bama's schedule can say the same. LSU will be the closest this year but it won't be on that level.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:14 am to AHM21
Water is wet.
Everyone knows the key to beating Bama is disrupting their RPOs but the problem is stuffing their running game first and foremost.
Plus they have probably the most dynamic playmaker at WR this year so, unless you have a front seven like Clemson had last year, doing all of this is easier said than done.
Everyone knows the key to beating Bama is disrupting their RPOs but the problem is stuffing their running game first and foremost.
Plus they have probably the most dynamic playmaker at WR this year so, unless you have a front seven like Clemson had last year, doing all of this is easier said than done.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:32 am to AHM21
Having an nfl dline allowed this.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 2:19 pm to AHM21
These quotes are stupid...Clemson's NFL 1st rounders straight whipped bama's OL. It wasn't disguising, etc...
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:19 pm to AHM21
As others have said, we dropped 440 yards on Clemson. They only had 40 more yards than we did.
Sometimes weird games happen. That’s why most other sports play a best of 5 or 7 to decide the champion. A lot of times the winner of the series gets blown out in one of the games. In one game, anything can happen. It’s not often you see two teams separated by 40 total yards, and 28 points.
Sometimes weird games happen. That’s why most other sports play a best of 5 or 7 to decide the champion. A lot of times the winner of the series gets blown out in one of the games. In one game, anything can happen. It’s not often you see two teams separated by 40 total yards, and 28 points.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 6:17 pm to AHM21
On any given Saturday, anybody can be beat. Doesn’t happen very often to Bama, but nobody’s invincible. Get your mouth bloodied and get back up.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 10:55 am to AHM21
Clemson had success against him because they were one of the few teams in college football that had the front seven that could put pressure on him without bringing more people into the box. It's a credit to talent on the Clemson defense more so than them just knowing how to game plan against the Alabama offense. There's never been any secret on how to keep the Alabama offense in check. It's just been a matter of having the players to do it, which only a few teams have. Honestly, Miss State did as well as anyone last year against them. They just didn't have the offense to go along with it. For reference, Alabama had 443 yards of offense against Clemson and only 305 against State.
Posted on 8/22/19 at 10:57 am to AHM21
Tua was the QB for the worst loss Bama's had under Saban. HE had the chance to lead arguably the best season in Bama history. Both are true, even if they are seeming contradictions.
I think he played a soft OU defense and it made him overconfident. He threw more TDs than incompletions against OU. It was an arse beating.
I think he played a soft OU defense and it made him overconfident. He threw more TDs than incompletions against OU. It was an arse beating.
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