🏈 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly vs. Mizzou?

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Resilience

Dropped pick, missed fumble recovery, Ty's turnover

Injuries

 

[24and7]

He don't want to get hit... The coaches should sit him for good..

 

[rammerjammer]

Bad- Simpson needs to check down more often and take the easy stuff. I know it's hard because he wants to make a big play, and he usually does... but yards and points are getting left on the table by passing up some easy checkdowns at times. Love how confident he is... just needs to take the singles too when they're there.

Maybe we can get Saban on the side line and if Simpson doesn't take what the D gives him underneath........Saban can spank his ass when Ty comes off the field.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Ugly play of the moment:

That was bad bad

 

[Justneedme81]

Another ugly:
-2-yd Run
1:25 - 4th
Daniel Hill run for a loss of 2 yards to the MIZ 36
3rd & 3 at MIZ 34
WHY?
Could've ran on the perimeter to get at least 2.

The sack by Simpson at half.

 

[Justneedme81]

Great:

 

[24and7]

That was bad bad

That is suspension worthy.. He needs to be in street clothes or in the portal.. I don't see how he can face the other players on the team or they can respect him anymore..

 

[Justneedme81]

Very good:

 

[BamaFan334]

Good- That 3rd and 7 pass to Lotzier Brooks on Bama's 1st drive was massive. Mizzou had sniffed out everything up to that point and was about to get the ball back, up 7, with a stadium full of momentum. Instead, it kept the drive alive and led to a touchdown to tie it up. Brooks is a damn player. Our next Bernard, IMO.

Almost equally as huge, the TD throw on the 2nd drive.... 3rd and 12... Simpson rips a dime to Horton for the TD from 16 yards out. UA needed 7 there, not just 3. Ty didn't have his best day... Mizzou made him uncomfortable for much of the game, but he stood in there and made some bigtime throws, NFL type throws. That was one of them. Despite some mistakes and poor decisions at time, he played his ass off today.

The 2 BALLSY 4th down calls on that late drive in the 4th. And the execution by Ty was perfect. Brooks and Hill both made the plays on their end. I'll be honest, I would have been ok punting on the 1st one, but I appreciate the aggressiveness. I would have been ok with the FG on the 2nd one, but I was glad we went for it based on the field position.

Bama led the total offensive plays 30 to 15 at one point and that was with Mizzou getting the ball first. Ended 75 to 56, which would have been a much bigger issue for Mizzou had they not had an extra week of rest.

Michael Carroll gets things done. IMO, it's time to call it and let him be the RT. Let the battle continue at guard if need be, but tackle should be settled.

Cole Adams is Mr. Reliable on special teams. And I for one I appreciate it.

Bama held Mizzou to 1 of 10 on 3rd down.

Dre Washington on that fake punt stop. Heads up play... I think they probably got the 1st down, but since that crew spots the ball at random places, it worked out ok for Bama.

On defense, it appeared to me that Keeley, Overton, Hill-Green all played pretty well.



Bad- Simpson needs to check down more often and take the easy stuff. I know it's hard because he wants to make a big play, and he usually does... but yards and points are getting left on the table by passing up some easy checkdowns at times. Love how confident he is... just needs to take the singles too when they're there.

Tackling was not great overall but that was a tough assignment today for a few reasons. There were some one on one tackles that were made that were huge though.

IMO, Grubb and Simpson both didn't deal very well with Mizzou's aggressiveness on defense at times... but especially early in the 3rd quarter.



Ugly- That terrible 4th down spot that gifted Mizzou a 1st down (and 3 points) late in the first half. That's the kind of fuckery that this Autrey crew does. I don't think they mean to, they just suck (they had some shitty spots all day for both teams).

Didn't love the 3 straight runs up the middle when Mizzou had all 3 timeouts at the end of the 4th quarter. They only needed 3 ponts, and Bama gave them the ball back and well over a minute. DeBoer went from hyper aggressive to hyper passive in 1 commercial break. But, it worked.

Jam Miller gave his all today... had a rough day with some pass protection, but made up for it with his running.... he rarely had anything to work with inside. Hated to see him get hurt (again). Really need him next weekend if at all possible.

Derek Meadows getting KO'd. Would have been a tremendous grab had he not been knocked out. Hopefully, it wasn't as bad as it appeared and he can bounce back quickly.

That disaster of a 1st play to open the 2nd half. Everything that could have went wrong, did. And Bert and Ernie in the booth were too dumb to realize there was a fumble or that Simpson was laying face down hurt.



Notes- The Bama offense needs to start saving some timeouts for their defense. This offense and usually overcome a 5 yard penalty if needed better than the defense can overcome a misalignment or getting caught in a bad sub situation.

Bama had 3 "almost" forced turnovers in the 1st half... an interception that was dropped, and 2 fumbles that were just barely missed UA recoveries. Mizzou luck factor was pretty high today in that department. Well, and other departments too, like Bama having to wipe that TD off the board in the 3rd when Simpson got stepped on and it messed up the handoff to Miller.

I'm so tired of having hear Matt Austin on every ESPN/ABC game. He adds nothing. None of these rules "experts" do.

Can Eli Drinkwitz do any interview without adding "M-I-Z" at the end of it? It just seems so effeminate. Definitely annoying. Our old pal Josh Maxson is failing at his job if he's isn't in his ear telling Eli that he sounds like a bitch every time he says that to close in interview.

Bottom line, I had my concerns about this game, but UA showed up and got the win. Wasn't pretty at times, but that's ok.

Chalk up another raked win for DeBoer... now, beat the hell out of Tennessee...


Roll Tide.

On the two 4th down plays defensively. You're right, terrible spot on that first one. I do not believe he made the line to gain.

On the second one, I feel extremely confident he never got there. You can see the pellets kick up when his right foot hit and he brought the ball backwards to protect it and I think it was a good spot.

 

[scottyhk]

Good - It was a win. Brooks

Bad - Having to burn timeouts because we can't get the right play called before the clock runs out. That it happened on first down just astounds me. Play calling was inconsistent at best. 3rd down less than 2 minutes in the game everyone knew the play was a run up the gut...must have been 10 in the box on that one. Injuries....

Ugly - I don't remember Jackson being this bad last year...

 

[BamaFan334]

Another ugly:
-2-yd Run
1:25 - 4th
Daniel Hill run for a loss of 2 yards to the MIZ 36
3rd & 3 at MIZ 34
WHY?
Could've ran on the perimeter to get at least 2.

The sack by Simpson at half.

Ty should have kept that one and he likely walks in for a long touchdown.

 

[BamaFan334]

That was bad bad

Yep, that's what I was referring to in my post. Unreal from a guy that has NFL aspirations. If anything, cut 45 degrees back towards the ball and just try and break it up if you don't wanna hit the guy.

 

[Scrape&Search1032]

Good:

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[Justneedme81]

Good: Jackson pulled for Lee:

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Good. Gutty play Jam tough runs. Solid play by ty again
Survived a tough away game. Rtr

Bad. Injuries.

Ugly. Formby Block some body buddy
Wide receivers. Bend dont break shit.

 

[EasyTider]

We’ve come a long way in a short time when QB play is being criticized and said QB was 23/31 for 200yds, 3TDs & 0 INT

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

On the two 4th down plays defensively. You're right, terrible spot on that first one. I do not believe he made the line to gain.

On the second one, I feel extremely confident he never got there. You can see the pellets kick up when his right foot hit and he brought the ball backwards to protect it and I think it was a good spot.

Maybe. Missouri wasn’t helped by the shitty camera angles that were offered, which is directly related to their shitty HS stadium setup. But it looked to me like his arm stretch as he was OOB (before he hit) was enough. Certainly closer than they gave him. But if they did get it right, it was probably the only spot of the day they nailed.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Ugly play of the moment:

It appears he thought it was gonna be an overthrow to the UM TE, which he was positioning for. He still should have made the tackle, but the way this is clip literally framed doesn’t seem to tell the whole story ok that play. Certainly does him no favors. Basically, he was ball watching and ended up whiffing in more ways than one.

 

[rammerjammer]

Something else I would like to add for the Good.

@Brandon Van de Graaff mentioned it last year. DeBoer teams typically have been heavy on penalties. @Brandon Van de Graaff had researched this and kind of chalked it up to how he coaches and one of the blights on his coaching/style. I don't want to jinx us, but so far this year, we have been better in the penalty department as opposed to last year, and the last few Saban years. That is probably the biggest mystery to me about Saban's last 3-5 years. We were horrible in the penalty dept. Such a dichotomy as opposed to his early years. I guess you truly do mellow with age.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Something else I would like to add for the Good.

@Brandon Van de Graaff mentioned it last year. DeBoer teams typically have been heavy on penalties. @Brandon Van de Graaff had researched this and kind of chalked it up to how he coaches and one of the blights on his coaching/style. I don't want to jinx us, but so far this year, we have been better in the penalty department as opposed to last year, and the last few Saban years. That is probably the biggest mystery to me about Saban's last 3-5 years. We were horrible in the penalty dept. Such a dichotomy as opposed to his early years. I guess you truly do mellow with age.

3 games in a row now where Bama was the least penalized team. Someone can have fun looking up when the last time that happened was. For either Bama or a DeBoer team.