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milohimself

milohimself

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What a game, what a game...

Cut shoulda run it more. I felt our guys were getting consistent enough yardage that it could be done.

Great game by both defenses. Unfortunately for Bama, it looked like their offense was tripping over its own feet more often than not. Been a few years since that offense has really clicked in a big game, that I can remember.

I don't think I've ever seen a better example of horrible stats and a great game than what Ainge did today. Chucked 3 picks, kept his composure, and still made drives and completions.

Much credit to Alabama's D. If they play every game like they played this one I would go so far to say they might have THE best defense in the country. The deep pass was covered, every receiver, every play. Incredible, and the scheming was outrageous. A brilliant performance.

I think we've found a new return man in Hefney. He did some crazy things for having like, no blocking.

I'd say GIVEHIM-6 is about 15 minutes away from a good booze snooze.

I got some bidness to attend to, so I'm soon out for the night. :peace2:

GO VOLS!
 
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Our run game sucks. Some teams abandon the run after they are down maybe 14, we seem to abandon at down 3. That will catch up and cost us in a game, almost did tonight. But we won so I can't complain.
 
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allvol123 said:
Our run game sucks. Some teams abandon the run after they are down maybe 14, we seem to abandon at down 3. That will catch up and cost us in a game, almost did tonight. But we won so I can't complain.
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That is up to who is calling the plays. Like I said, we didn't call run enough. Ainge managed to pull some drives out of his a** though, so it all worked out.
 
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I have no qualms about going four wide from the shotgun for the rest of the season. Keep the ball in the playmaker's hands.
 
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Lexvol said:
I have no qualms about going four wide from the shotgun for the rest of the season. Keep the ball in the playmaker's hands.
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I agree, that is our best deal. Usually a bad running game will cost you though. It may not, but odds are it will.
 
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milohimself said:
What a game, what a game...

Cut shoulda run it more. I felt our guys were getting consistent enough yardage that it could be done.

Great game by both defenses. Unfortunately for Bama, it looked like their offense was tripping over its own feet more often than not. Been a few years since that offense has really clicked in a big game, that I can remember.

I don't think I've ever seen a better example of horrible stats and a great game than what Ainge did today. Chucked 3 picks, kept his composure, and still made drives and completions.

Much credit to Alabama's D. If they play every game like they played this one I would go so far to say they might have THE best defense in the country. The deep pass was covered, every receiver, every play. Incredible, and the scheming was outrageous. A brilliant performance.

I think we've found a new return man in Hefney. He did some crazy things for having like, no blocking.

I'd say GIVEHIM-6 is about 15 minutes away from a good booze snooze.

I got some bidness to attend to, so I'm soon out for the night. :peace2:

GO VOLS!
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We only averaged 3.2 per carry Milo. They werent gonna let us run on them and vice versa.

Ainge's stats werent horrible. He ended up with 302, and had some drops that he cant control. I hate that the INT before the half will count b/c he just launched that one.

Bama has an incredible D. WOW. Whoever is thier D/C needs a huge rasie, and the OC needs to be fired. I am very impressed with their defense. I think they were wore out on the last drive though.

Special teams was great. So what blocking wasnt perfect?? We shut them down on returns and Hefney was great. Meach had a great play on our last punt too......


Thanks to the Defense for saving our butts again. John Chavis is famous for doing that, and I love it every time.
 
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Ainge was, for this year, uncharacteristically inaccurate, at least at first. Hopefully it was rust.
 
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Question:

:no: Why do we have our 1st and 2nd string running back returning kickoffs?


I think the d coordinator was on Cutcliffs staff at Ole Miss
 
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Rheaber said:
Question:

:no: Why do we have our 1st and 2nd string running back returning kickoffs?


I think the d coordinator was on Cutcliffs staff at Ole Miss
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They have to use Coker somewhere, they sure as hell aren't going to use him in the running game.
 
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Rheaber said:
:no: Why do we have our 1st and 2nd string running back returning kickoffs?
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I go back and forth on this. Yes, there is the chance of injury, but as bad as our kickoff returns have been, I think we're looking for ANYTHING that will work.
 
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checkerboard_charly said:
We only averaged 3.2 per carry Milo. They werent gonna let us run on them and vice versa.

Ainge's stats werent horrible. He ended up with 302, and had some drops that he cant control. I hate that the INT before the half will count b/c he just launched that one.

Bama has an incredible D. WOW. Whoever is thier D/C needs a huge rasie, and the OC needs to be fired. I am very impressed with their defense. I think they were wore out on the last drive though.

Special teams was great. So what blocking wasnt perfect?? We shut them down on returns and Hefney was great. Meach had a great play on our last punt too......


Thanks to the Defense for saving our butts again. John Chavis is famous for doing that, and I love it every time.
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I have to disagree about Ainge. There were moments in the first half when we looked like last year on offense. He threw high practically all evening (and perhaps a little flatfooted?). He looked a lot better in the 2nd half, but he ignored Meach too often, I thought, and he was advertising where the ball was going to go a few times too many. On the other hand, we won, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I have to disagree about Ainge. There were moments in the first half when we looked like last year on offense. He threw high practically all evening (and perhaps a little flatfooted?). He looked a lot better in the 2nd half, but he ignored Meach too often, I thought, and he was advertising where the ball was going to go a few times too many. On the other hand, we won, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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I agree... I saw some shades of 2005 in the first half. Poor blocking, not much run support, dropped passes, bad mechanics by Ainge. Sure turned it around in the second half.

The one thing I have to criticize Bama's d for... Are they just inable to stop a flat route?
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I have to disagree about Ainge. There were moments in the first half when we looked like last year on offense. He threw high practically all evening (and perhaps a little flatfooted?). He looked a lot better in the 2nd half, but he ignored Meach too often, I thought, and he was advertising where the ball was going to go a few times too many. On the other hand, we won, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Ainge played poorly the entire first half. He had to have missed several open receivers given the way Bama was blitzing. But there is no way......no way that Ainge throws three picks last year in the first half, and comes back in the second to lead the winning TD drive. I will say he saved his own bacon tonight.
 
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Lexvol said:
Ainge played poorly the entire first half. He had to have missed several open receivers given the way Bama was blitzing. But there is no way......no way that Ainge throws three picks last year in the first half, and comes back in the second to lead the winning TD drive. I will say he saved his own bacon tonight.
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Far as I saw, Bama's defense had the pass covered even when they were blitzing six. The flats were the only thng they didn't cover.
 
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At the end of the day, Ainge is still a 20-year old kid. He's going to make some dumb plays. In the end, he showed some poise and got the job done with considerable help from the defense. I'm confident Cutcliffe will have him ready for South Carolina.
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I have to disagree about Ainge. There were moments in the first half when we looked like last year on offense. He threw high practically all evening (and perhaps a little flatfooted?). He looked a lot better in the 2nd half, but he ignored Meach too often, I thought, and he was advertising where the ball was going to go a few times too many. On the other hand, we won, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Well i didnt mean to imply he was great. He looked like crap early, lots of bad balls. But he did have some bad drops. The first pick, IMO, was b/c Briscoe cut his route short and gave up on the ball.
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I have to disagree about Ainge. There were moments in the first half when we looked like last year on offense. He threw high practically all evening (and perhaps a little flatfooted?). He looked a lot better in the 2nd half, but he ignored Meach too often, I thought, and he was advertising where the ball was going to go a few times too many. On the other hand, we won, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Ainge's mechanics looked really bad in the first half tonight. Just like last year, he was stepping with his left foot to the left rather than stepping forward toward his target. That causes him to sail passes high. Overall we played like crap today, but I honestly can't recall the last time that we've played worth a damn after a bye week. Our coaching staff does the worst job in the NCAA at getting our team ready to play after a bye.
 
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It doesn't help matters that we typically come off bye weeks and have to play rivalry games.
 
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GAVol said:
It doesn't help matters that we typically come off bye weeks and have to play rivalry games.
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That's a total copout. The fact that we are usually playing rivalry games after our bye weeks is that much more condemning of the terrible job our coaching staff does. We are always flat coming off of our bye week, and there is NO WAY that should be the case when you're playing one of your biggest rivals. In addition, we almost always look unprepared coming off a bye week.
 
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When you can not play your A game... in a rivalry game... against a good opponent... and still win while getting about 100 more yards than the opponent allows and holding them to well under their offensive averages...

... You've got a good football team.

Bama is better than any of the remaining opponents other than LSU. Their D is actually a good prep for LSU.

If UT brings their A game for the rest of the season, they should be 11-1 or at worst 10-2.
 
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