Lightningwar
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Be careful for what you wish. Nebraska, Tenn, and Michigan wished for new coaching regimes. All three have been irrelevant for the better part of a decade.
Be careful for what you wish. Nebraska, Tenn, and Michigan wished for new coaching regimes. All three have been irrelevant for the better part of a decade.
I like how Nessler and Blackledge didn't even bring it up and then all of a sudden it was a huge talking point at the beginning of the 2nd quarter.
For an offense that put up 35 points, there sure were a lot of mystifying in game decisions by Kiffin. The standard cliche about him being too cute is totally valid here: no way their running backs should have only had 23 caries with how they were pounding the ball. Not to mention that their QB was playing really poorly. I get wanting to throw short stuff to try to get him in rhythm, but they got away from what was working.
Speaking of Sims, he's not very good IMO: amazing that his stats were what they were going in. This definitely wasn't a vintage Alabama team at all, but they managed to squeak through a down SEC this year (and the conference was down, despite what the pollsters said). The Alabama secondary isn't the veteran, NFL loaded unit of years past, and it showed all year and finally cost them.
I have to disagree with Ohio State throwing the ball at the end: IMO with two timeouts and the ball near midfield you run three times and punt and play defense. With the way Sims was throwing the ball, put it on your defense and make him drive a long field (at least 80 yards probably) with zero timeouts. I'm all for being aggressive, but that wasn't the right play there.
Bama only ran the ball 23 times?
Jeebus.
that's what i mean mang. too concerned with balance, not concerned enough with repeatedly stomping on the D. 36 passes and 34 runs. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMFor an offense that put up 35 points, there sure were a lot of mystifying in game decisions by Kiffin. The standard cliche about him being too cute is totally valid here: no way their running backs should have only had 23 caries with how they were pounding the ball. Not to mention that their QB was playing really poorly. I get wanting to throw short stuff to try to get him in rhythm, but they got away from what was working.
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that's what i mean mang. too concerned with balance, not concerned enough with repeatedly stomping on the D. 36 passes and 34 runs. HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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