Hawaiian Punch

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Chuck McDonald

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I’ve said since week 2-3 this guy should be playing. Lee has terrible footwork and can’t flip his hips for shite.

As for the defense, overall, can’t really do anything but tip your cap to the final game results. I still don’t like the constant Quarters looks on the back end and letting teams eat up clock. A team with a strong run game and high red zone efficiency will give us problems. Offense hasn’t always helped them out, putting them in terrible field position many, many times this season.

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We were the 92nd ranked defense in opp adj YPA before we let Reed have wide open shots against us today. This is easily the worst secondary of my lifetime and it’s inexcusable given the depth and experience we have at safety for that to be the case.

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It Was** inexcusable, and then I found out we’re on pace (that’s right, on ‘pace’) to force more takeaways than the 2016 squad - all is well brother.

No, you’re absolutely spot on. This secondary is terrible, incredibly disappointing since the start of the FSU game.. The front seven has been OK at best over the last 3, albeit beat to shite starting 2H UGA. The pass rush has disappeared recently (but I see you 14 K. Henry !). But the worst thing I’ve seen in Year 3 is dudes laughing and joking around on the sideline while down/tied/slight lead against this dog shite A&M team. We’re watching a bunch of children led by entirely unserious adults on Saturdays. They don’t learn anything at all week to week (you can say Y/Y at this point, we look no different thank Yr 1)

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I’ll trade some passes in the flats with #5 playing way off if it comes with the fewest pints allowed by a Bama D since 2017 (in 2024), fewest yards allowed since 2018 (2025), currently on track to surpass 2016 defense in take-aways.

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currently on track to surpass 2016 defense in take-aways

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This is borderline blasphemy. To even think about Wommack’s defense this year (or any year, ever) and the 2016 defense in the same thought could have one stoned to death in some parts of the world.

And I’ve seen cherry picking stats before, but damn this is impressive pickin

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How is Wommack “so ineffective”?

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I said ineffective blitzes. He’s gotten away from it more so this year, but his called ILB blitzes mugging the A-gap pre snap were frickin atrocious. This was big year 1 and 2 under CKW.

You’re a good poster and positive contributor to this board. And you pull good stats to make your case, but the numbers never tell the entire story.

It was looking grim for the defense through three quarters today against a putrid A&M offense. That said, we are down multiple key, crucial players on defense.

My issue with simply pointing to the box score numbers is that what I see on the field, for at least half of what seems like every game, is a defense that is chasing instead of hunting. Lots of missed tackles. Lots of blown assignments. Cannot consistently set the edge. Gashed in the run game. And the biggest thing in my opinion is that we do not force a one dimensional offense to beat us with what they struggle with the most.

I won’t argue with you about the notion that we should win nearly every game in which the other team is held to the low-20s on the scoreboard. You are entirely correct there. The offense has to produce at a much higher level than they have the last 3 weeks.

But I would not lose a second of sleep if Kane Wommack walked tomorrow.

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This fan base wants a big name because they want a savior (why people still obsess on Kiffin) instead of a coach.

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This is retarded. This fan base wants a coach who puts out a product on the field that exemplifies toughness and at least some semblance of being prepared and not caught wide-eyed with their pants down every single game no matter who we play.

Kiffin has LSU looking like they are about to prison rape us by the way. You don’t know shite.

This will be a game regardless of two picks with one going for a TD. shite we could have two NOTs this game and it will still go down to the wire.

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Defense better take advantage of the A&M QB being crap.

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This is one of many things that this iteration of Alabama Football does not do, that the previous regime did at the highest level.

We run our “base stuff” every game no matter who the opponent is or what their tendencies/ weaknesses are.

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Pruitt is worshipped here, but got 40 points hung on him EIGHT times including 50 twice at UT.

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Tennessee’s roster situation while Pruitt was the HC was pretty frickin bad. He was not good for them, obviously, but he inherited a disaster of a program from Butch fricking Jones (who went on to take a position at UA where Saban had him washing cars lmao) and was undermined by Fat Phil (probably regularly). Pruitt was a brilliant mind and excellent coach when he was in a DC role.

I agree with the overwhelming majority of what you post, but the stats do not tell the whole story about our defense and KW (both the good and bad). A big issue I have with him is that he does not try and make teams one dimensional and then methodically exploit that. He will run some good stuff that works, and then on 3rd and long or 4th down, we inexplicably give up an explosive or TD when we should be going to the sideline after a stop. It’s very Golding-esque. Poor blitz designs, ill-timed play calls. Inconsistent in adjusting game plan in live fire action. Horrible rush concepts/ strategy at multiple points in any given game.

While it’s more nuanced than that, generally, it feels like this job is a little too big for CKW. I think he’s severely handcuffed by the position coaches and player personnel to a degree.

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Like someone else said, Deboer and Grubb have made me stop caring. We get our azz handed to us . Out toughed, out coached, out played....THIS IS NOT BAMA FOOTBALL and anyone accepting it is weak

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What I hate about this bullshite is that they show our coach, our players - anyone affiliated with our program - on the sidelines during a game we’re losing and everyone looks so dejected and defeated and scared. scared being the big one here. No anger. No one working trying to fix it mid game. Just dejection. “Oh please feel bad for me!”

Our OC is terrible. Our QB, with like 5 starts under his belt, is manic as frick and he’s got him running the playbook wide open plus some. 5 wide empty, zero traditional run game, etc etc. Grubb is frickin terrible. Thinks he’s still in the NFL. Too arrogant to do what’s needed for the good of the team because it doesn’t highlight his “wow” play calls