🏈 Mississippi State played lights out

[bamaledge]

After re-watching the game and the hi lights, I believe that they played way over their head and we drank the kool-aid. Ate the rat poison. It should not have been that close but whatcha gonna do?
31-24 we won

 

[RollllTide!]

Oh how we forget. That kind of game used to be our normal game before Jalen. Don't you know that bus ride home was tense. Even the ribs at Dreamland were dripping with sweat. MSU just didn't finish or we would have a different ugly outcome. F__k the spread we won

 

[bamaledge]

I do remember playing down to the competition. Frustrated the dickens out of me!

 

[TUSKtimes]

After re-watching the game and the hi lights, I believe that they played way over their head and we drank the kool-aid. Ate the rat poison. It should not have been that close but whatcha gonna do?
31-24 we won

Every season, every team, in every sport, have ebbed and flows to their season. It's never if, it's always when. The reason Oklahoma and Auburn and Clemson and Ohio State and most everyone else have one and two losses are how they have played and fared during their low ebb to their season.

We have played our worse football, as an entire team the last two weeks. It's not just some missing players on defense doing this, it's offensive line, running backs, the whole team. To Alabama's credit, even at our low tide in the season, we are 10-0 and just escaped the perfect trap game against a legit top 15 team at their place. Something all the other teams I just mentioned couldn't do.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And a few really stupid things....
Running on field without helmet....
Leaping over punt protectors.....UGA did it to and gave AU first down...
Missing FG late in game...
Kickoff outta bounds...late in game...
PI on Hail Mary...he tackled the guy for no reason...
.....etc.....
But no turnovers......
Receivers making the catches ....
Minimum other penalties...
But survived as Tuskstuff said...

 

[EasyTider]

1st time in 36 games with no forced turnovers and 1st time EVER Bama gave up 3 rushing TDs in game under Saban.

 

[AirForceBamaFan]

I wonder if any news out of Auburn might have had some folks looking past State to the Iron Bowl? Just a thought...

 

[94 Grad]

Here is the issue... in years past a team played above themselves, but it was taking advantage of a few mistakes by Bama and by us stalling on offense. However, that game last nigh MSU ran the ball with power and consistsncy with ball controlling drives... something I haven’t seen in many years against Bama.

MSU controlled both lines of scrimmage... don’t fool yourself, we were fortunate to win... but win we did and I hope it’s a great learning tool for the remaining games.

 

[planomateo]

After re-watching the game and the hi lights, I believe that they played way over their head and we drank the kool-aid. Ate the rat poison. It should not have been that close but whatcha gonna do?
31-24 we won

I don't think Bama drank/ate anything. Costly penalties at the wrong time and some poor 3rd down coverage on a running QB.

Aurburn is gonna eat it for the next two weeks...

 

[MunchyOs]

I'm actually hoping that we are the underdog vs auburn. Just like 2013, the game will once again be for,the SEC West. Not to mention, the last two,times that we were underdogs turned out VERY well for us. 2009 vs Florida and 2015 vs Geogia

 

[alabama mike]

Coach Dan Mellon is a fine coach who would be in my top 3 of any coaching search if I happened to be the AD.

 

[BAMAneck]

I kept thinking that this game looks a lot like the ‘10 South Carolina / Steven Garcia game . Their perfect game...

But to his credit Jalen saved BAMA again and put it on the D .... this time we held , unlike championship game .

 

[EasyTider]

Speaking of lights out, DBs better set their jaws when coming up to tackle our QB. (And tape their ankles)

 

[94 Grad]

I rewatched the game and watched the LB play on Defense along with the Oline play on offense.

From what I saw, both Holcomb and Moses just flat out of position on most of the plays that worked for MSU. I would account at least half of the rushing yards to just those two guys being out of position. They both seemed a bit better by the end of the game which gives me hope... but it's pretty clear they were the weak link last night on our Defense. We also were overmatched on two of their WR who were just flat out big dudes. Our DBs had a hard time bringing them down on a few key plays that helped extend plays.

On our oLine side... it seemed that JWilliams on several plays had the wrong blocking call which lead to tackle in the backfield or at LOS. #77 just wiffed a few blocks that stopped drives. DHarris completely missed his block assist on a blitz on the first drive that killed the drive. MSU just blitz a TON and it took a bit for our line to get focused on how to block... again it seemed that Williams had a hard time getting the line call or something. He was out of sync several times which might be from those freaking cow bells ringing so much.

All in All, I don't feel as bad as I did prior to rewaching the game. If Moses and Holcomb can work out their positioning a bit more during the Mercer game, we should have a better time at it. I don't think the Oline will have as hard a time getting the right line calls when it comes to the aU game...

 

['65 Cobra]

Holcombe was a liability almost the whole night. He also committed the PI on the first Hail Mary totally tackling the guy in the end zone. I hope they can work something else out before the Barn.

 

[footballer]

I may be wrong about this, but it looked to me like miss state players were faking some injuries, trying to slow our offense.Watch the clip EasyTider posted above of Hurts QB draw. Faked out #11 and bull dozed #41. #11 didn't look injured to me as he began to follow in pursuit of Hurts. But after the whistle and play was over, he just sat down. I call BS on that.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

MSU has improved throughout the season & this game was a big deal to them. They probably practiced well & Fitzgerald is a legit running QB.

To that end, with Pierschbacher being leaving the game early, the Oline was put in a really tough position, especially in the context of communication & those wretched cowbells. Had 'Bama had any other QB, we would have lost because that 10play 82 yard scoring drive in the 4th quarter saved this game & Hurts carried the team to the end zone.

The Defense is seriously hurting. Most teams wouldn't be able to recover from it. And Mullen exploited it. He has always done that effectively. If we had half of the starters back, many of those 3rd down conversions wouldn't have happened.

Ultimately, we have the best HC in football & he has already stated that it is about fundamentals across the board. Nobody can do a better job at addressing this than anyone else. This may actually be an advantage for us in the sense that other teams just will not view us as fundamentally capable & not prepare like they should. We'll see.