re: Great win for program momentum

Honestly, I think we've reached a point where Saban's defense is just too complex to be effective against today's offenses. It seems players are out there thinking too much instead of reacting, especially at LB and S. I'd be interested to know if they greatly simplified things in the second half and let just play. Seems to my eye they did, but I'm not an X and O's expert by any means.

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The 2 biggest recruiting disappointments we've had recently imo are Anoma and Alfano.

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For me, the biggest recruiting disappointment has been the lack of a stud Mike. A dude like Nakobe Dean would help our defense immensely.

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Kirby said it correctly in his post-game presser. "Alabama out physical us."

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I think Kirby was talking about Bama's offense running the ball down their throat in the 4th quarter.

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if they were coached well.

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I get it, you hate Golding, you make that clear in the majority of your posts.

But Moses (playing out of position), Harris, and Kaho are all Wills, no? Isn't Dean a Mike?

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That's not a talent issue, it's a scheme issue, it's a failure to get these guys coached up and playing good fundamental football. Kirby said it correctly in his post-game presser. "Alabama out physical us."

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He damned sure wasn't referring to our defense. If their OC hadn't channelled his inner Pussmeier or Kiffin and abandoned the run, we were done for. We were getting blown up at the point of attack every run play.

Name one player in our front 7 that an opposing playcaller has to scheme around. Name one defensive player the other QB comes to the line of scrimmage and says, "Where's that guy?"

I know in this environment of blaming Golding for everything from the national debt to the Chinese Flu it's not popular to look at the players. I'd can Golding, too. But it's time to face facts. Our defense is a collection of JAGs and not much more.

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I think Kirby was talking about Bama's offense running the ball down their throat in the 4th quarter.

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I think so too. But our defensive line was a lot more effective batting balls and putting pressure on the little fellow in the second half.

Here's an argument I would readily make about our defense going forward.

Watching a pack of DBs and safeties shutting down Lane Kiffin Saturday was remarkable. Their 2 best defensive players, including Bumper Pool in the middle, didn't even play. They mixed coverages beautifully all day. They played soft coverage zones mostly to keep everything in front of them with 3 safeties. They were jumping routes all day. They were not chasing Ole Miss receivers in all that macho man to man style we love so well. Corral threw 6 interceptions and 2 were pick-sixes. He wasn't just having a bad day, he couldn't see his receivers open. Ole Miss got down on the goal line a number of times and got stuffed at the LOS and got nothing out of it. You don't want to know how many stars are under those razorback helmets and frankly how many guys they've "MISSED ON" the last 20 years.

Barry Odoms outcoached Lane Kiffin. They out-hit them and they kept all that Kiffin magic in front of them in a soft coverage zone. Barry Odoms out-schemed Kiffin and outcoached him for 4 quarters.

Someone explain to me how Arkansas has more defensive talent than Alabama?

Yeah I mean, our defense still showed its flaws on Saturday, but it also looked a wholllle lot better than the previous week. I guess there was only one way to go after the OM performance, but it was nice to see some guys on our D step up and make plays. At least they showed some fire and grit.

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I get it, you hate Golding, you make that clear in the majority of your posts.

But Moses (playing out of position), Harris, and Kaho are all Wills, no? Isn't Dean a Mike?

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I don't hate Golding (or anyone). I just see lots of evidence that he's been pretty incompetent as Bama's DC/ILB coach. Good coaching could prepare Moses, Harris and Kaho to play both the Mike/Mack and Will positions. Nakobe Dean is UGA's starting Will, but he would've started at Mike vs Bama if 3-star Monty Rice's foot injury kept him from playing. It appears to me that UGA has much better DC/ILB coaching than UA has.

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It appears to me that UGA has much better DC/ILB coaching than UA has

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You’re dead spot on. UGA’s defense is coached VERY well - they were just outmatched by an exceptional Bama offense. Their guys were rarely out of place, didn’t really overrun many plays, correctly passed off receivers in coverage; but our guys were just too much for their guys to handle.

To all the posters saying we don’t have talent, I completely disagree. We cause a decent amount of QB pressure, but we are so lost in coverage that the QB can typically find open guys and make something out of (what should be) nothing.

I was more encouraged by the defense showing a little bit of fire during the game, but there are still glaring issues that good Quarterbacks and offenses will make us pay for. Not taking anything away from our win - it was a great team win - but I’m just pointing out that moving forward we need to continue to improve.. a lot.

Can't compare. The the level of preparation and intensity from the other team when facing Alabama is not comparable when facing Arkansas.

Alabama is always going to get everyone's best while it's hard to manufacture the same level of focus, intensity, preparation for Arkansas.


Who on this Bama defense would start for 2015, 2016,2017? Maybe 2 guys. Surtain is the only definite.

The talent just ain't what it was. You don't lose Kirby and Pruitt to conference mates and don't think they will pluck a few that normally would be at Bama.