re: Question for LSU fans about 11.5

I think that too, but I didn't wanna piss off the LSU people who were saying RR dropped a pass in the end zone.

LSU played a perfect game at home and barely beat Bama because Bama played their worst. Now the championship is in Birmingham, Bama has gotten so much better since then, LSU has remained stale, Bama has won tons of big games all year, LSU has not won anything of note, etc. Bama wins this one going away.

I recall 3 decent to good runs and a couple of broken coverage plays that helped you move the ball on the first 2 drives.

Richardson had a big run on the first play. Don't really take that to mean much.

Lacy had 1 run of 20 yards on the second drive.

On the first 3 drives outside of those plays, Bama averaged 1.25 yards per carry. If you look at the entire half, Bama only averaged 2.4 ypc outside of those two big runs. They sure were killing LSU.

I'm not sure I understand. 1 and 2 yard plays happen. Did you see the defenses on the field? Since Alabama's avg wasn't good should they have sat down on every play? Instead of gashing LSU every 3rd play?

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I'm not sure I understand. 1 and 2 yard plays happen. Did you see the defenses on the field? Since Alabama's avg wasn't good should they have sat down on every play? Instead of gashing LSU every 3rd play?

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You assumed that going inside was guaranteeing you some advantage. It didn't. Bama had 4 runs of 10 yards or more in the first half. They had 12 rushes for 4 yards or less. So by your count that means 1/4 times they'd get a big play. Furthermore Bama had 7/16 rushes (nearly half) for 2 yards or less, and 9/16 for 3 or less.

So more than half the time, it netted basically nothing at all.

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You assumed that going inside was guaranteeing you some advantage.

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No. I assumed it wouldn't lose 6 yards and knock Alabama out of field goal range.

To add to that, in the second half, Bama had:

1/12 runs go for over 10 yards.
2/12 runs go for over 3 yards.

9/12 runs went for 2 yards or less.

Literally, even with Richardson's beastly run that should've been a 2 yard game but he turned into 24, Bama still average 3 yards/carry in the 2nd half.

So Bama had 29 rushing attempts (I didn't count Maze's reverse before) in the game. Of those 29, 6 went for more than for yards. SIX.

Outside of the 3 big runs (15+ yards), Bama had 26 carries for 40 yards.



This doesn't even account for the sack yardage.

No I can't. My parents are most likely. They went to Pasadena in 09 too. I keep getting screwed

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..........I don't wanna talk about the second half

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So you want to ignore everything outside of the first quarter? Typical Bammer.


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The Maze pass was a great play call. That play was the closest Bama ever got to the end zone. They took a shot and it would have worked just as the Bama coaches drew it up, but the knuckleheaded receiver running the drag route ran behind the ref. He showed very poor judgement and brought Reid into the play. Had he not done that it's six points easily. Great call by the coaches; crappy execution by the players.