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While I have not looked at RW and how he catches the ball specifically, I do wonder about how hard the ball is thrown by Ty compaired to what he was catching in high school.

My impression (whether accurate or not) is that RW catches the ball best with his hands when his little fingers are closer together and his thumbs out. When his thumbs are closer, then ball tends to squirt thru his hands. He tend to prefer to catch the ball against his body.

When you catch with your body, the balls bounces back due to how hard the ball is thrown or if an inpact (hit) from behind causes the ball to bounce or your hands to shift.

All of that goes to say, his style would be better suited for deep balls with him playing on the outside. He does better when not concerned about being a pinball over the middle.

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Fish Tacos - Baha style (Taco Nazo / Baha California Tacos / Baha Catch & Grill)

Lucille's Smoke House (named after BB King's guitar) - I think maybe 8 or 10 locations

The Old Spaghetti Factory - several locations

Last game KW and his D put a preety good product on the field. Do it again and maybe a little better if you can.

The O, some pretty good, Lots of OK. Way too much gosh awful. Leave the gosh awful in the locker room

Special teams, some OK and a big does of gosh awful. I would be happy with more of the OK and leave the gosh awful in the locker room.

Officiating, lots of gosh awful. Lets hope for maybe a little OK without much of the gosh awful.

Lots of if's and but's that no longer matter. Reduce the gosh awfuls by at least 1/2 and Alabama should win.

The B1G had a conference vote on private equity a couple of weeks ago and the yes voters were putting huge pressure on the few that did not want to support it. Michigan and USC stood their ground and paused the plan.

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The current O-line is bult to zone block. Alabama does not have anyone on staff that knows how to teach it. Teaching it requires the O-line to move in lock step as a unit and that takes a great deal of time.

The O-line does not come close to the skill sets required for what they are trying to do. (with the excption of the center.)

1) Run the ball
2) Stop the run
3) Iron sharpens Iron - Good-On-Good every Tuesday during the season
4) Take away the run game and make the other team one dimesional then work to take away the next thing they do best.

Number 1 & 3 have no part in this Alabama team. If a team does not face physical combat every week, do they really understand how to sustain it when you face a team that does it every week?

Alabama has no run game for multiple reasons but #3 is a big part of that. We start the game one deminsional. Kirby took away the short and intermediate over the middle passing game. After that, walking up on the edges takes away the short out game when combined with a pass rush and getting your hands up.

What did Kirby leave us with? No run game / no intermidiate over the middle, No time to throw deep. The only thing left is behind the LoS passing and we did not try it enough or execute it well when we did try.

Roberts weight is too far forward (road grader) to do well on horizontal/pull and pass pro. With weight that far out on his toes, a side club and swim, he is eating dirt.

Geno has 3 stances before the snap. Weigh on his down hand (white knickles) he is run blocking. Weight more ballanced, he is pass blocking. Weight sitting back in his stance he is pulling. Good DC's and IDL/LB have been taught to read this and follow him to the play

Formby's weight is better ballanced but he has very slow feet. When he does run block his weight shifts too far forward to help get push. He is then off ballance for a IDL with a good hand shiver and rip.

I do not understad the grading metrics. Cade was inserted into the game to do 1 thing for one play and he did it. How does that equate to a 60.0 grade rather than the highest grade of any of the QB's?

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Cade Carruth, QB – 1 snap (60.0)

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Good lord relax
They got a lucky pick 6
2 brutal fumbles
We could have easily won this by 2 or 3 touchdowns

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Lucky pik 6?? - Great call on the blitz by the OU coach. Free blitz by the LB into Ty's face. OG (75) and RT (64) missed the blocking adjustment they should have made. Safety crashing down on Horton wrapped his right arm and hit him when the ball was still 2-1/2 ~ 3 yards away. Ty threw the ball inside (to pull horton in front of the crashing safety. The only other choice Ty could have made is sail the throw out of bounds. He made a good read but the officials missed the call.

Ty strip fumble. Ty looked to be hearing footsteps out there but attempted to ignore them. Speed rush around RT was ugly much of the game. Ty was stepping up under it. #10 LB coming LT/LG gap completely blew past Jam who should have picked him up. Ty did not even have time to throw the ball away. When you are hearing footsteps and attempting to ignore them but the pass pro is so bad the strikers get to you before you can set to throw, there is nothing he could have done.

WIth the pass rush OU was bringing and the pass coverage attmpting to take way the short ~ intermediate passing game, there was no real time to throw deep. Ty's passing was not as crisp as I like to have seen and he did miss several throws that they needed, I thought he actually played reasonably well against what he was facing.

My guess, the I is a wrinkle they started working on in the off week. Riley and Dear are classic I-Backs without the body mass to be good single set backs at this point. What they need is a FB blocker to follow and cut off of. Dear appears to have the best "press the hole" capability.

If Danny Lewis is ready to go, I think he may be the best FB option with Cuevas being the next best option. Peyton Fox looks like he could be a good choice as well. With Cuevas/Lewis we could shift from a standard set to an I set on the fly. Cuevas/Lewis could also help offset the pass-pro issues that come with Riley/Dear.

Cuevas, Lewis, and Dear at the same time could be a really good run set.