Why Abandon the Run?

[madbamahater]

I feel like a really good offensive game is typically called, with the exception of time management at the end of 2nd and 4th quarters. Something that Heupel is chronically bad at.

Tonight was mainly a very poorly called game from an XOs standpoint. Nobody in the world understands the jumbo package at the end of the first half with 9 seconds and no timeouts and the only way to stop the clock is with a touchdown or an incomplete pass. It was a very bizarre play call, especially after Alabama's time out.

The Alabama coaches simply told the defense what to be looking for, because they knew that Tennessee had to throw it. The defender snuffed out the play and jumped the route. Pretty much everybody knew that was coming. There's really no justifying this and I'm trying to wrap my head around what Tennessee was trying to do.

Worst case scenario you just have an incomplete pass and then kick the field goal.

They also abandoned the run. Tennessee would fire off a great running play and then totally go away from it.

 

[AlsaceFreak]

Bishop should have had more carries in the first half.

 

[madbamahater]

Tennessee just looked discombobulated most of the time on offense. I don't think it was as much as what Alabama was doing as it was just a poorly offensively coached game. Lots of nonsensical sequences of play calling

 

[#1fulmerite]

Got behind and time got tight. Had to move the ball further down the field faster to race against the clock.

 

[madbamahater]

Got behind and time got tight. Had to move the ball further down the field faster to race against the clock.

No no no no no no, I'm talking about well before that

 

[B81]

You need to go back and watch that play before the half. That was a good play call, just a poor pass. If that ball is thrown to the outside nothing bad can happen. It is either 6 or an incomplete pass.

 

[Lekvolrrah]

First drive of the game said it all

 

[AlsaceFreak]

You need to go back and watch that play before the half. That was a good play call, just a poor pass. If that ball is thrown to the outside nothing bad can happen. It is either 6 or an incomplete pass.

exactly what Heupel said in his post game press conference

 

[madbamahater]

You need to go back and watch that play before the half. That was a good play call, just a poor pass. If that ball is thrown to the outside nothing bad can happen. It is either 6 or an incomplete pass.

The defender was all over it and he jumped the route and took it to the house. Alabama just simply outsmarted Tennessee and out executed them on that play and that's all that happened on that one.

Line up in a conventional passing play with three or four wide take your chances and see what happens. Don't force a throw and if it's incomplete then just kick the damn field goal.

Terrible play call, terrible formation, it never had a chance, Alabama just kicked Tennessee's ass on that play from a coaching and player standpoint

 

[Rocky Top T]

You need to go back and watch that play before the half. That was a good play call, just a poor pass. If that ball is thrown to the outside nothing bad can happen. It is either 6 or an incomplete pass.

Terrible play call

 

[madbamahater]

Terrible play call

And after a timeout let that one sink in

 

[bpalmer28]

Tennessee just looked discombobulated most of the time on offense. I don't think it was as much as what Alabama was doing as it was just a poorly offensively coached game. Lots of nonsensical sequences of play calling

and lots of procedural mistakes made worse by dropped passes and poor pass protection.

 

[vavolfan6]

As everyone saw at the end of the game, Heupel is fully willing to risk the clock expiring on the offense in order to attempt to run another run play.

Unfortunately it's not the conventional type of thinking, so Bama nor anyone else thought TN would actually run it in such a situation.

 

[Other_Guy]

Bishop should have had more carries in the first half.

Felt like Tenn ran twice in the first few drives, and even those were obvious. I know Tenn had some success through the air but there's a reason bama run D was like 92bd.

 

[Adam Sandler]

I feel like a really good offensive game is typically called, with the exception of time management at the end of 2nd and 4th quarters. Something that Heupel is chronically bad at.

Tonight was mainly a very poorly called game from an XOs standpoint. Nobody in the world understands the jumbo package at the end of the first half with 9 seconds and no timeouts and the only way to stop the clock is with a touchdown or an incomplete pass. It was a very bizarre play call, especially after Alabama's time out.

The Alabama coaches simply told the defense what to be looking for, because they knew that Tennessee had to throw it. The defender snuffed out the play and jumped the route. Pretty much everybody knew that was coming. There's really no justifying this and I'm trying to wrap my head around what Tennessee was trying to do.

Worst case scenario you just have an incomplete pass and then kick the field goal.

They also abandoned the run. Tennessee would fire off a great running play and then totally go away from it.

I believe we could have won this game if we were more committed to the run, and not the up the gut stuff in middle of the field. The counters and outside runs were working well. Why that wasn’t leaned into more I won’t understand.

44 pass, 33 run. Should have been flip flopped.