Lanning and Defense shite the bed

Yes.

But also Bama played out of their minds. Credit Saban.

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We played shite defense in the first half only rushing four players and not getting any pressure. We looked like fricking dumbshits with Metchie and Williams being chased by 2 and 3 guys while only rushing 4.

Horrible plan.

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You're not thinking tactically, dude. If we'd have rushed a bunch of guys, that's exactly what Bama was expecting us to do.

Tactically you'd figure we'd adjust and bring some pressure every now and then at the very least if we're being so tactical.

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We played shite defense in the first half only rushing four players and not getting any pressure

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We blitzed multiple times in the 1st half.

I keep seeing y’all saying “only rushing 4”
Yes that was key to this game. Be able to rush 4 while leaving 7 in coverage. We weren’t able to get pressure on young while doing that so we lost.

UGA lost because their QB was ridiculously better than ours. We dared their QB to beat us ... and he did. They dared Bennett to beat them and he failed including throwing a pick 6 and another red zone pick. The defensive philosophy, and execution stunk, but no one would be talking about it if Young wasnt able to exploit it. Maybe 5* QBs actually do matter.

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You do realize that we blitzed in the first half and bama picked it up

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Yeah, we were getting pressure on him all night, but he made the throws. Those two TD passes to Williams were perfect.

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Maybe 5* QBs actually do matter.

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I've been hearing this since the 2017 NCG, and we haven't done a god damn thing about it.

Lanning had visions of Oklahoma sugar plums dancing in his head instead of finishing the job at hand.