Bama fires Oline coach

That escalated quickly

Brad Davis is looking for a job. I think he would do a fine job at Alabama.

The OL has been horrific under him.

Good riddance.

Completely expected

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After recruiting class is signed and the portal is done. Kinda shady

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This was the worst kept secret ever, anybody who needed to know (and plenty that didn’t) knew he was gone. Don’t act like this isn’t standard operating procedure for college programs the past decade or so at least. I wish KDB had that SEC killer in him but I don’t think so.

What?

Husky Offensive Line Receives Moore Award As Nation's Best

Pretty sure you guys will be firing Deboer at the end of this season. Who's at the top of your coaching want list? Cig? I think Texas is going to make a heavy run at Cig when they show Sark the door.

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Here are the rushing rankings of Ryan Grubb offenses the last 6 years.

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If you’re trying to point out that a pass heavy air raid system that’s 60:40 pass to run isn’t going to lead the nation in base rushing totals you are correct.

It’s also hilariously obvious that they aren’t trying to do that, they want to be extremely efficient when they run the ball and that’s what that 2023 UW offense was.

#4 FEI Offense
RB Avg 5.5YPC
28 TDs on the ground
1700 yards rushing

And what did that do for the offense? Allow the passing game to shred safeties over the top who couldn’t cheat to help man coverage because the backs were going for 5-6YPC. And even while they were throwing more deep vertical passes than anyone in P5 (at that time), they weren’t allowing sacks despite needing more time to allow those plays to develop.

Theres a reason that team won the Joe Moore award for OL play: they were really, really good up front.

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Alabama's OL isn't getting better with Ryan Grubb as OC.

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Again, the only way this argument is true is by using the one specific stat you quoted which has zero to do with measuring OL efficiency.

You can look at pressures allowed, avg first contact, adj rush YPC, sacks or any other number of metrics and quickly realize he’s built really athletic quality lines that work for his system.

It just hasn’t happened at Bama yet because the elite OL coach they had at UW (Huff) went to the Rams, the one they hired was a bust and the guys they inherited at OL were huge slow guys intended to run a downhill power rushing attack for the offense Rees wanted to run not an air raid system with tons of pulling designed for athletic lighter and much faster players.

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And what did that do for the offense? Allow the passing game to shred safeties over the top who couldn’t cheat to help man

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This is the very definition of over analyzing and rationalization because he’s your guy. It’s because they had Michael Penix and a good receiver. That’s it. There’s nothing complicated about it.