A little over 24 hours later, frustration sets in. The rants of a ranter

I love Les Miles. He's a top 5 coach, no doubt. 13-1 and SEC champs is a special fricking year.

But man, the preparation, the game time adjustments, the overall flow of the offense left much to be desired. I understand that the staff knew there was no chance we pound Bama like we have every other team and i definitely understand the need to get to the edge with the option attack. Now, i did miss basically the entire second quarter due to a medical family emergency, but did we ever run the option from under center?
Did we ever attempt any zone reads?

The most frustrating thing for me was the adjustments. After failing to get to the edge with the speed option out of the gun. It didn't work. Bama's OLB and Safety were reading and filling it perfectly. Now, a good option team(Ga Tech, Air Force, Navy, etc) would adjust and have a new pitch man. we didn't. it was as simple as lining up in the trips with back offset to the weak side, and fast motioning D. Peterson over to cut that OLB, or coming out in a 2 back shotgun set and using a lead blocker.

I'm frustrated that we didn't compliment the outside speed option with some QB power plays, using the backside guard to seal the inside, the running back to lead in the whole with Jefferson behind him. If we were gonna spread Bama out, we could have attacked with much more versatile ways. We could have used inside zone reads using jet sweeps to shep and using the running back to be a lead blocker if JJ gave the ball up.

The fact of the matter is, we got outcoached, outplayed, & out hustled. Maybe Les was expecting Saban to play it close to the vest like the first meeting. Maybe the staff just had an off night.

Either way, it sucks that the seniors had to go out like this. No need to relish in the past. This team will work so hard in the offseason. They've experienced what its like to be at the top of the world and have it yanked out from under you, and they won't let it happen again.