🏈 Herbstreit and Corso pick Sugar Bowl and ...

[Guest]

They agree, Bama over Utah. Corso (whatever) thinks Bama wins close one at the end, Herbstreit says running game dominates with Coffee, Ingram.

Guess we will just have to wait another 24hrs and find out.

In the meantime Happy New Year and ROLL TIDE ROLL!
May 2009 be brighter for the TIDE!

 

[89ute]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

 

[Guest]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

And as Brian Johnson is hoisted upon his team's shoulders, coach comes up to him and says to him "good game Brian, time to wake up...wake up...wake up." Cut to a scene of 89ute waking up in his bedroom.


Looking forward to tommorow.

 

[TidePride50]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

I think you'll find our defense is better than you think. I'm not saying we will shut the Utes down by know means, but they will not score at will on us as you have predicted. RTR!

 

[89ute]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

I think you'll find our defense is better than you think. I'm not saying we will shut the Utes down by know means, but they will not score at will on us as you have predicted. RTR!

We will have to make the most of our possessions, your run game is going to eat a lot of clock. It's not so much that we score at will, we must have productive possessions.

 

[Guest]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

You can't score if you don't possess the ball. Since you want to take an Offensive look at this, I'll counter with "Our Defense is better than yours", thus will be hurt worse.

We've faced the spread, most recently even, and against a better group of athletes. You have not face anything like what we are bringing. You can predict anything you like, but until you do what you have not done, its as valid as predicting snow for the game.

 

[TerryP]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

Come on man.

Once again, like the copied post a put up here a few days ago, you are pulling things out of the air.

Quick strikes? On this very forum we have Ute fans talking about how your team isn't a big play team but one that has long drives.

Your time of possession this season indicates that as well.

It's one thing to have faith in your team, and it's one thing to say this is how we will win.

But, at least do us the favor of using factual basis for expressing your thoughts.

Then again, I suppose you may be thinking you'll spend the entire game in a 2-minute, no huddle offense?

 

[Guest]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

Come on man.

Once again, like the copied post a put up here a few days ago, you are pulling things out of the air.

Quick strikes? On this very forum we have Ute fans talking about how your team isn't a big play team but one that has long drives.

Your time of possession this season indicates that as well.

It's one thing to have faith in your team, and it's one thing to say this is how we will win.

But, at least do us the favor of using factual basis for expressing your thoughts.

Then again, I suppose you may be thinking you'll spend the entire game in a 2-minute, no huddle offense?

Reminds me of the suggestion one of their fans made that they would go no-huddle and tire out Cody because we would not be able to rotate him out.

Two problems:

No huddle tiring out a defense is predicated on first downs being acquired. It does nothing when you go 3 & out in 30 seconds.

Cody does not always rotate out in-possession...when he does it is situational. No huddle limits situation packages for BOTH teams. With our defense, I would put more weight on their ability to adjust and confuse the offense, than vice-versa. Cody will rotate out by series - not on a play-by-play basis.

 

[89ute]

89ute picks Sugar Bowl and ... Passing game dominates as Brian Johnson connects with Brown, Godfrey, Reed, Casteel, Brooks, Joppru and Sampson. Sakota extends Utah's red zone to the 30 yard line and remains perfect for the year under 48 yards. Alabama's punishing run game cannot put up points fast enough to keep pace with Utah's quick strike drives. No help from Arenas as a result of Vroman's touch backs and Sakoda's precision punting.

Here's to a good game Alabama fans!

Come on man.

Once again, like the copied post a put up here a few days ago, you are pulling things out of the air.

Quick strikes? On this very forum we have Ute fans talking about how your team isn't a big play team but one that has long drives.

Your time of possession this season indicates that as well.

It's one thing to have faith in your team, and it's one thing to say this is how we will win.

But, at least do us the favor of using factual basis for expressing your thoughts.

Then again, I suppose you may be thinking you'll spend the entire game in a 2-minute, no huddle offense?

Reminds me of the suggestion one of their fans made that they would go no-huddle and tire out Cody because we would not be able to rotate him out.

Two problems:

No huddle tiring out a defense is predicated on first downs being acquired. It does nothing when you go 3 & out in 30 seconds.

Cody does not always rotate out in-possession...when he does it is situational. No huddle limits situation packages for BOTH teams. With our defense, I would put more weight on their ability to adjust and confuse the offense, than vice-versa. Cody will rotate out by series - not on a play-by-play basis.

You're right, I did pull it out of the air, but if we win, I think that is how it plays out. We will probably have 35 to 40 pass attempts and about 15 to 20 rushing attempts, 3 to 1 ratio. I don't think we can pound the rock at you all night. Our RB's will rush for about 55 - 65 yards if things go well. Equal time of possession is going to be a challenge for us, even though we usually are on the plus side. If Brian Johnson can add another 25 - 30 yards running I think our run game will be enough to keep the passing game going. Quick strike was a poor choice of words, I was trying to sound like a headline playing off of the original post. We do need rhythm and up tempo, not necessarily no huddle or two minute style. Our bread and butter has been short to mid range passes, 2 to 12 yards, 4 to 5 receivers. It looks "quick strike" but it's just moving the chains. Brian Johnson plays better when the offense is in an up tempo mode. If we go no huddle I think it's more of an offensive style preference more so than trying to tire out a defense or limit substitutions. We shuffle a lot of offensive players during a drive, I doubt you will see us go no huddle as a tactic against your defense.

We will not stop your run, we have to slow it down and make you go 80 yards as often as possible. If we win, we will have to shut down the pass, negate Arenas through touch backs, deep end zone kicks and effective punting. If we don't, we lose.

I stopped reading there.

 

[TerryP]

You're right, I did pull it out of the air, but if we win, I think that is how it plays out. We will probably have 35 to 40 pass attempts and about 15 to 20 rushing attempts, 3 to 1 ratio. I don't think we can pound the rock at you all night. Our RB's will rush for about 55 - 65 yards if things go well. Equal time of possession is going to be a challenge for us, even though we usually are on the plus side. If Brian Johnson can add another 25 - 30 yards running I think our run game will be enough to keep the passing game going. Quick strike was a poor choice of words, I was trying to sound like a headline playing off of the original post. We do need rhythm and up tempo, not necessarily no huddle or two minute style. Our bread and butter has been short to mid range passes, 2 to 12 yards, 4 to 5 receivers. It looks "quick strike" but it's just moving the chains. Brian Johnson plays better when the offense is in an up tempo mode. If we go no huddle I think it's more of an offensive style preference more so than trying to tire out a defense or limit substitutions. We shuffle a lot of offensive players during a drive, I doubt you will see us go no huddle as a tactic against your defense.

We will not stop your run, we have to slow it down and make you go 80 yards as often as possible. If we win, we will have to shut down the pass, negate Arenas through touch backs, deep end zone kicks and effective punting. If we don't, we lose.

I stopped reading there.

Now, I'm even more shocked.

You are suggesting a pass to run ratio of roughly 2 : 1.

That interesting because the talk from the Ute fans I've seen is "we need to get Alabama out of their game plan."

But, from what you are saying here, the way you see Utah winning is to completely come away from the game plan that has you where you are today.

You've been successful running the ball this season. Out of the 848 offensive plays Utah has ran, 475 of them have been running plays. (that's not quite 44%, passing the ball)

Now, you are insinuating the way to victory is to pass the ball basically 66% of the time?

This falls into exactly what I said in the past part of my Sugar Bowl preview. If we get your team into a "one dimensional approach/scheme" it really bodes very well for a Bama victory.

 

[89ute]

You're right, I did pull it out of the air, but if we win, I think that is how it plays out. We will probably have 35 to 40 pass attempts and about 15 to 20 rushing attempts, 3 to 1 ratio. I don't think we can pound the rock at you all night. Our RB's will rush for about 55 - 65 yards if things go well. Equal time of possession is going to be a challenge for us, even though we usually are on the plus side. If Brian Johnson can add another 25 - 30 yards running I think our run game will be enough to keep the passing game going. Quick strike was a poor choice of words, I was trying to sound like a headline playing off of the original post. We do need rhythm and up tempo, not necessarily no huddle or two minute style. Our bread and butter has been short to mid range passes, 2 to 12 yards, 4 to 5 receivers. It looks "quick strike" but it's just moving the chains. Brian Johnson plays better when the offense is in an up tempo mode. If we go no huddle I think it's more of an offensive style preference more so than trying to tire out a defense or limit substitutions. We shuffle a lot of offensive players during a drive, I doubt you will see us go no huddle as a tactic against your defense.

We will not stop your run, we have to slow it down and make you go 80 yards as often as possible. If we win, we will have to shut down the pass, negate Arenas through touch backs, deep end zone kicks and effective punting. If we don't, we lose.

I stopped reading there.

Now, I'm even more shocked.

You are suggesting a pass to run ratio of roughly 2 : 1.

That interesting because the talk from the Ute fans I've seen is "we need to get Alabama out of their game plan."

But, from what you are saying here, the way you see Utah winning is to completely come away from the game plan that has you where you are today.

You've been successful running the ball this season. Out of the 848 offensive plays Utah has ran, 475 of them have been running plays. (that's not quite 44%, passing the ball)

Now, you are insinuating the way to victory is to pass the ball basically 66% of the time?

This falls into exactly what I said in the past part of my Sugar Bowl preview. If we get your team into a "one dimensional approach/scheme" it really bodes very well for a Bama victory.

You're right, we are normally balanced, but look at our game against TCU, 41 pass attempts vs 25 rushes. Total rush yardage 45. This is the best defense we've faced until now. I like our passing game against your secondary more than I like our run game against your front 7. If we run better than what I said above the outcome of this game could be very surprising.

 

[bamarooski]

well all the analysis in the world want save your arse now! You guys say bring it I just think we will! Bama rolls! :lol: :lol: