I see a lot of posts stating Jaylon out of position or confused in the first quarter with the option. Who is his responsibility on that play? It appeared to me that he was the only defender out there and was tasked with both the QB and the RB. Didn't appear there was any help. Russell then made some great plays from CB to shut down the option pitch.
An intelligent comment.
The freshmen are warriors of course. But this eligibility conversation you had, featured an Alabama (also) fan setting many of you straight about a simple ethical issue! (You know I love you Tommy from the other T-town!)
HERE IS THE RUB: I have heard all kind of criticism about how players have played and what went wrong against the AFA. Do you all realize that we did not have the right scheme for blocking in on offense or the right support for the OLB in on defense at the start of the game? BK admitted it in the press conference. We needed a gap blocking scheme on offense against AFA with their submerging nose guard (as we have against a number of teams this year), instead we just roll on with our zone blocking scheme, inside to outside. Kelly even said in his press conference, I HEARD HIM, that we were putting NMartin on an island. Thinks one or more of the middle three this year. We have put them on an island. And we are just getting to that realization when? Now.
I would like someone who really knows to go through the game by game schemes and show how many times we ill-advisedly used a zone scheme against teams that crowded the inside against us.
This brings up the second point. There is a lot of hoo-hah about teams loading the box against us. Granted, there is a point of contention, does the box end 6-7 yards back or does it go deeper? But, I am thinking the box isn't getting loaded, even when people are saying it is. Does anybody even count from stills? Or is everybody just repeating it because some broadcaster from CBS Sports says so? They called TRees a quick quarterback that beats you with his feet in the broadcast Saturday!
On defense, BK admitted that Jaylon Smith had contain, and with that had to take the quarterback and the pitch man at the outset of the game because of "some check downs that were automatic with our regular game plan." What the fvck? Why did no one at the press conference projectile vomit? (Like the people at the blueberry pie eating contest in Stand By Me???? I really honestly cannot figure all of this out.
Is Kelly really saying that knowing we have an opponent that is different than 98 percent of the teams on the college landscape, and that difference is the only way that the team can beat you, and that they can kill you with it, we refuse to make the proper adjustments until our own unworkable generic system almost loses the game early for us?
Once we started rotating the corners to the option, so they took the pitch man we stopped the option cold. But why did we wait? And could this stunning apathy at installing the right defense or offensive blocking scheme have resulted in our three noticeable injuries? I want to know.
The way I look at the '13 season is we have played two teams that we weren't good enough to spot 14 or 21 points. Name the team that we haven't had to make major adjustments against.
