Any explanations?

Has anybody seen any sort of explanation from the coaching staff as to what, exactly, they think happened Saturday?

 

Alabama's first-string is way, way, way better than our second-string. Who knew?

But more seriously, no I haven't.

 

Even my posi-vol parents were questioning the number of wasted plays on offense, where we kept running to and passing to the flats, as if they'd suddenly stop blowing it up.

 

Doesn't this shed light on the fact that Botch has recruited too many busts to have any kind of quality depth on the OL in year 4? And LB.

 

The 2014 LB class was 100% busts. Five recruits, only one in the two-deep to start their junior year. Going 0/5 in one position group in one season really messes with you long-term, much like going a year without recruiting an offensive lineman

 

I keep hearing the idea pitched about how Bama was ripping thru our 2nd and 3rd string OL. Im still trying to figure out why people thought the first group was even decent.

 

Let butch explain this:

Alabama players take their cigars out of the locker room and onto the field.



lyle allen "butch" jones, jr. can eat a d!ck.

 

It wasn't but it looked like the 95 cowboys compared to what was out there Saturday night

 

Jones broke it down pretty well. Said team played without Neyland focus and lacked eye discipline. If they can fix that, they'll be back in business.

 

They cannot explain anything to me because I have completely stopped listening to the conman.

 

You need to get your ears in gear to improve your auditory focus as well as your cochlear discipline.

 

This made me curious.

2015:
Kirkland - good
Sapp - ?
Austin Smith - who?

2014:
Bryant - not good
Jakob Johnson - not good
Dillon Bates - bust?
Weatherd - he gone
E Berry - looks good in limited time (why is he backing up Jumper?)

2013:
Vereen - switched to DE
JRM - bad ass

That's not a lot of LBs

 

OL hasn't looked good all year

 

But it looked like the 95 cowboys compared to what we had to put out there Saturday

 

I ignored Weatherd, since he was a JUCO. Add McDowell.

And Berry wasn't backing up Jumper, he was 4th string behind JRM, McDowell, and Sapp

 

It's just year four.

 

I swear the coaches had raved about Austin Smith. Maybe moving him to DE, where we are stacked, was really, really stupid.

 

Not particularly

 

Having JRM, Sutton and Kirkland would have made a huge difference on defense. I'm not sure it would have been a 49 point difference, but a significant improvement, nonetheless.

Our offense has little room for any excuse.

The scheme is not only stupid, but static and predictable.

Josh Dobbs has zero business playing QB at this level. Zero. He's not a "below average passer", he is a terribly bad passer. And yesterday, he played like he didn't want to run at all, and there were more than several opportunities for him to keep it.

How we can't find a way to keep both Kamara and Hurd in the backfield at the same time is beyond me, and is criminally stupid.

That our OLine is still so fragile and meal pieced that inserting even 1-2 of our second string guys into the starting rotation makes us look like a mediocre high school team, even now in Jones' fourth session, is inexcusable.

That our OLine plays with such horribly bad technique doesn't help at all, and that also rests on Jones' head.

That we don't have a QB coach is crazy. Not like slangily "crazy", like "criminally insane" crazy.

The entire offense needs a complete overhaul. And if we don't get it, our ceiling is always going to be 10 wins, max.

 

Year 3. We started at zero.