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(01-12-2022 12:03 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Eh. I still liked the defensive gameplan. It was 17-6 in the 4th quarter. It was only a "slow death" because the offense didn't take advantage of the opportunities the defense and special teams gave them. I was much happier with Bama having to sustain long drives running than giving them the opportunity to make big plays and run away quickly.

The idea that this game was lost because UC refused to bring safeties into the box is laughable to me. This game was lost because the offense scored 0 touchdowns in 3 redzone trips, had one chunk play of 20+ yards the entire game, failed to do anything off a key interception and failed to do anything off a long kickoff return. Additionally, we missed out on a potentially huge play with the muffed punt.

This Bama offense showed it can boat race teams in a hurry. After the first drive of the game UC did a pretty damn good job getting enough stops to win the game. It doesn't matter when the offense doesn't do a damn thing.

My biggest problem with the gameplan is not taking shots down the field when it became clear we couldn't sustain a short passing game. UC needed chunk plays to win and didn't even attempt them.

I would have liked to have seen a little more aggressiveness on defense but my post was probably a little over critical and I was more reiterating the Joel Klatt analysis that saying it was wrong strategy. I would agree there were more issues with offensive gameplan. Given our blocking issues it would have been hard to go downfield too much but I would have liked to see a couple jet sweeps to Tre. Even if the plays themselves weren't succesful just to give Bama something to think about. Maybe that gives us an extra split second that allows us to go downfield more.

Dennbrock did a great job here and the offense improved every year but I am interested to see what a Gino offense looks like. I'd like to see a little more stretching of the field with things like jet sweeps and pitches.