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Rishvol said:
This might be an unpopular opinion but I think the injuries are due to not hitting at full speed during practice. How can they players body get used to the grind if the don't hit during practice
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Also the reason for a slow start and not being able to hold on the football
 
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Catbone said:
I'm over it. It's what I and most reasonable people expected, just a bit worse. The injury situation set us up for an embarrassment. Playing bama every year is pretty sh****.

The question is

1) Can we get back enough players to be good enough to win out and win the East? One more SEC loss and we lose.

2) How bad will this hurt recruiting? This was supposed to be a huge day

3) Will this team fold under the stress and disappointment? I hope we are mentally tough

All three are major concerns.
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#1 This is my main concern. Injury may end up really hurting this season. This game is not indicative of the teams ability at full strength. We played these fools much tougher at their place last year, They took advantage of a beat up team, that is all.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
We just weren't ready for this game. If we're healthy in Atlanta it'll be a different game. We may not win still, but will be a lot better than this
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doesn't matter how healthy we are in ATL if our coaches put a game plan together like this, we will get rolled just the same. The play calling was from two years ago and clearly our coaches coached scared. Dobbs didn't run at all... WTF? With so many injuries, good coaches adjust and put their kids in the best situation, we did not do that.... running it up the middle 2 out of 3 plays, every series, doesn't get it done. Not letting Dobbs try and make up for our situation and give them something else to worry about and another threat is not getting it done... I would kill to hear Butch's coach speak on why Dobbs didn't run today... talk about Regression. Kind of scary... I said we wouldn't win because of our injuries, but shouldn't have gotten blown out... that is on the COACHES...

AND- I wouldn't book your tickets yet, we still have SC and Mizz left... we play like this and it will be a nail biter... really sad for the kids tonight.
 
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volinbama256 said:
doesn't matter how healthy we are in ATL if our coaches put a game plan together like this, we will get rolled just the same. The play calling was from two years ago and clearly our coaches coached scared. Dobbs didn't run at all... WTF? With so many injuries, good coaches adjust and put their kids in the best situation, we did not do that.... running it up the middle 2 out of 3 plays, every series, doesn't get it done. Not letting Dobbs try and make up for our situation and give them something else to worry about and another threat is not getting it done... I would kill to hear Butch's coach speak on why Dobbs didn't run today... talk about Regression. Kind of scary... I said we wouldn't win because of our injuries, but shouldn't have gotten blown out... that is on the COACHES...

AND- I wouldn't book your tickets yet, we still have SC and Mizz left... we play like this and it will be a nail biter... really sad for the kids tonight.
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You're nuts. This isn't on the coaches at all.

Tell us what the coaches could have realistically done different. We had our third string line vs the best front 7 in the country. Dobbs gets tossed around like a rag doll when trying to pass. No push when running. Not much you can do when you can't block the other team.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
You're nuts. This isn't on the coaches at all.

Tell us what the coaches could have realistically done different. We had our third string line vs the best front 7 in the country. Dobbs gets tossed around like a rag doll when trying to pass. No push when running. Not much you can do when you can't block the other team.
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It's a LOS league and we brought a knife to a gunfight today.

Outgunned
 
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PKT_VOL said:
You're nuts. This isn't on the coaches at all.

Tell us what the coaches could have realistically done different. We had our third string line vs the best front 7 in the country. Dobbs gets tossed around like a rag doll when trying to pass. No push when running. Not much you can do when you can't block the other team.
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Bingo. This was just terrible timing for playing Alabama and the injuries made a huge difference through out, even into special teams.

I figured we'd get beat badly although I wasn't expecting 49-10. But this feels like when Clemson got waxed by Florida state a few years back. Just got to put it behind us and keep grinding. Good days are still ahead.
 
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Several things to say about this game. We were never going to beat Bama as injured as we are. I thought we had a chance because I didn't know the extent of the injuries. Our DT depth is now depleted. 4 of 5 offensive linemen were out. We were playing 4th string linebackers, can't beat a team like Bama with that many injuries. Offensive play calling was also terrible, but with the OL we were forced to play with its hard to complain too much. But calling Hurd/Kamara up the middle every first down and refusing to run Dobbs is inexcusable. The only thing I can think is that they were trying to protect Dobbs and keep him from getting hurt. But it makes no sense
 
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I still think butch or the ad needs to have a long talk with the SEC about the refs we have. A lot of no calls in two weeks and as a result a lot of our guys get hurt
 
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PKT_VOL said:
You're nuts. This isn't on the coaches at all.

Tell us what the coaches could have realistically done different. We had our third string line vs the best front 7 in the country. Dobbs gets tossed around like a rag doll when trying to pass. No push when running. Not much you can do when you can't block the other team.
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Thanks for the nuts comment--- hey, how many rushing yards and attempts did Dobbs have tonight? That is what I thought... Hey, how many rushing attempts and yards has he gotten the past 4-5 games and TD's? Great... With that third string line you speak of, can you please explain to me why we used our slow big back on first and second down almost every series to literally run into the backs of our O lineman right up the middle and get one or negative yards? Do you know about that Kamara guy and Kelly kid that are fast as lightning and can slice and dice a D for yards like they proved last week? Can you tell me why we threw like two passes the entire night to our TE's and one was for a huge gain, but didn't do it again the rest of the night? Back to Dobbs, have you seen him run before? Cool-- if you have, then you would know that he creates mismatches and gains yards and freezes DBs for a couple of seconds allowing our WRs time to separate... there were plenty of things we could have done... I believe sir you are the one that is NUTS. :hi:
 
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Rishvol said:
I still think butch or the ad needs to have a long talk with the SEC about the refs we have. A lot of no calls in two weeks and as a result a lot of our guys get hurt
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Yeah the officiating was horrible. Was not the reason we lost, but the defensive touchdown should've never happened. Clear block in the back on the punt return wasn't called so it shouldn't have happened. Also the no call on the obvious PI against JJ. We would not have won the game, but if these are called the game could have been more respectable
 
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vol2002 said:
Bingo. This was just terrible timing for playing Alabama and the injuries made a huge difference through out, even into special teams.

I figured we'd get beat badly although I wasn't expecting 49-10. But this feels like when Clemson got waxed by Florida state a few years back. Just got to put it behind us and keep grinding. Good days are still ahead.
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Right, but then again, we didn't know we were going to lose our two tackles early in the game. That really transformed a bad situation into a slaughter.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Several things to say about this game. We were never going to beat Bama as injured as we are. I thought we had a chance because I didn't know the extent of the injuries. Our DT depth is no depleted. 4 of 5 offensive linemen were out. We were playing 4th string linebackers, can't beat a team like Bama with that many injuries. Offensive play calling was also terrible, but with the OL we were forced to play with its hard to complain too much. But calling Hurd/Kamara up the middle every first down and refusing to run Dobbs is inexcusable. The only thing I can think is that they were trying to protect Dobbs and keep him from getting hurt. But it makes no sense
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We still got important games to play. If you think its bad now because of the injuries, let Dobbs go down, and it will turn into a nightmare. You can let it all hang out in a game where you have nothing to lose. We have a massive amount that can be lost if he goes down. We can win out and have a great season despite this loss.
 
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