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(01-12-2022 12:48 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(01-12-2022 12:22 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Watched the highlights of the SMU game the other night. I realize the talent level was different but we should have incorporated a lot of the game plan for that one, such as the jet sweep to Jordan Jones that turned into a pass to Des and some WR, TE and RB screens. There was also a great deep call Des threw over the top a couple times. Des just hurled it on both occasions before the DL had a chance to move. Even with their superior DL I think we could have gotten a couple off just to test their secondary and to keep the Tide honest at the line of scrimmage.

This one right here is a little too far for me to fly...Des had no time for practically the entire game. We were running quick passing and he was still sacked 8 times...

He was "only" sacked 6 times, but when you dig deeper I think there were plays to be made on early passing downs. Bama wasn't blitzing hard on early downs. They were concentrating on lane integrity and getting their hands up. Then they unleashed the dogs on passing downs. I think there were shot plays to be made on early downs and it was painful we never tried.

We were sacked on
2nd and 5 (the one exception to this rule)
3rd and 10
4th and 14
3rd and 16
4th and 3 (on a stupid, slow developing play action play call that wasn't really on the line)
1st and 10 (last drive when Bama knew we were passing).

So 4/6 sacks were in obvious passing situations (3/6 on third and 10 or longer) and a 5th was on a really bad 4th down call where we tried to fool bama and they weren't fooled. Early downs we needed to attack and didn't.