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re: Tua was “this close” to staying
Posted on 2/1/20 at 10:24 am to bamameister
Posted on 2/1/20 at 10:24 am to bamameister
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Then explain the big second-half comeback vs LSU? We finally catch up after being down big time and our defense proceeds to resort back to first-half form getting walked down the field in the 4th. Chunk play after chunk play with the same simple throws and QB runs? With just a half-azz defense that long bomb to Devonte Smith could have finished off the Tigers.
Alabama didn't start scoring until almost the 4th quarter.
Scored 1 TD the entire first half on offense. Didn't score the 2nd TD until there was 3 minutes left in the 3rd quarter.
But even then, that drive was all Najee Harris. Tua went 3-7 on the drive, with 2 of the completions being to Najee. The rest of the drive and what got things going were Najee Harris runs.
1. Najee Harris runs for 31 yards
2. Incomplete pass
3. Najee Harris pass for 23 yards
4. Najee Harris runs for 7 yards
5. Incomplete pass
6. Incomplete pass
7. Ruggs pass for 22 yards
8. Incomplete pass
9. Najee Harris runs for 8 yards
10. Najee Harris runs for 4 yards
11. Najee Harris pass for 15 yards for TD.
11 plays, 7 pass attempts and 3 completions(42%). That drive was all Najee Harris.
The following drive was also mostly Najee Harris.
1. Najee Harris runs for 14 yards
2. Incomplete pass
3. Incomplete pass - but defensive holding called.
4. 32 yard pass to Devonta
5. Najee Harris runs for 9 yards
6. Najee Harris runs for -1 yards
7. Najee Harris runs for 1 yard
8. Najee Harris runs for 12 yards
9. Incomplete Pass
10. Najee Harris runs for 1 yard
Tua hits 1-4(25%) of his passes. This drive ends in the 4th quarter.
It wasn't until the following drive that Tua started to show up. But by now we are already into the 4th quarter, and we only get the ball 2 more times.
In the 1st quarter, we managed 1 TD that took 4 plays. AKA basically 1 explosive play. Other than that, we fumbled the ball inside LSU's 10 yard line without being touched and threw an interception with 15 seconds left in the half on our own side of the field, putting LSU with the ball on our own 13.
Previous big game: Only scored 16 points and was shut out the 2nd half.
Prior to that, It was vs Georgia and Hurts was the one who saved the day. Incoming injury excuses.
The only good game he had against a good defense was the 2nd half of the Georgia NC game. Which will make him a legend forever. But beyond that, nothing.
AJ McCarron is still the greatest QB of the Saban era.
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Posted on 2/1/20 at 10:56 am to 3down10
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The only good game he had against a good defense was the 2nd half of the Georgia NC game. Which will make him a legend forever. But beyond that, nothing.
AJ McCarron is still the greatest QB of the Saban era.
You must be into revisionist history. In a matter of a quarter of football, Bama went from 13 points to 41. Tua threw for 418 yards. Which surpassed Burrows. The defense sux oranges in that game. As it did against every so-called elite team. When those QB stats aren't enough to beat your opponent on your field your defense sux along with your DC.
The only thing Tua is guilty of is making it look easy, whether you have a good team or not. Check the record books and see if you can find another QB that went to the 9th game of the season and never played in the entire 4th quarter? Hint: It ain't there. That's how much Tua chocked in 2018. And frankly, he accomplished that with an OC that wasn't much more than a one-trick poney with his schemes.
Ironically, AJ's greatest comeback actually came against LSU in the "blitz and the screen" game in 2012. He was so bad in that game that when McCarron started on the field for the last drive, Vern commented, I don't see how he's going to do it because he hasn't thrown for anything in the second half. He did it because our defense refused to lose that game. AJ put one decent drive together and he's a legend and Tua is a chock artist?
The "game of the century" saw AJ screw it up by the numbers at home with the entire world watching and we LOST. In the rematch, it was the defense that held LSU to 92 total yards. Otherwise, it was going to be another field goal fest. Does all this make AJ a legend vs LSU and Tua a chock artist?
Does Tua get demoted for his 2018 win vs the Tigers in BR cause he won by 29 points? In your world that would only qualify as a great win if Tua actually won the game 29 to 28 with a TD throw with 2 seconds in the game.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 3:33 pm to 3down10
They are booing you but you are right.
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