re: Game plan for Bama?

Easy game plan and have been saying it for years—make their LBs cover the pass. If the LBs have to cover, they can’t focus on just the run. Also makes at least one safety come down to help with pass and run. Opens up so many things. The problem is that we never through intermediate routes until this year. Their is a quote from Aranda from Spring or Summer about how he suggested to O that we throw more intermediate routes to force LBs to live outside of the box. Amazing how it opens up the run and deep balls. Alabama will have two choices —drop 7 like Auburn did (which makes them vulnerable to the run) or send 5-6 (which makes them vulnerable to big plays via sideline routes or slants). When we are on defense—stop the run, don’t let a back or TE beat you and keep the crossing routes in front by making solid tackles. Irv Smith killed us last year. Other years RBs killed us on screens or passes out of the back field. Stop the run, play those guys tight and don’t miss a tackle in a crossing route.