phil4bama

Y’all are comparing this to the wrong game. To me, it feels a lot like the ‘93 Sugar Bowl For a month, Alabama was told they didn’t belong in New Orleans and Miami was going to put belt to arse and wear us out and it would be ugly. I’ve heard Alabama be in games several during my years where they didn’t have a chance and might as well not show up. And more often than not, Alabama has made people eat those words. Miami sure got a big helping of crow in New Orleans that night. We may get beat; Indiana is a good, gritty football team. But we’re going to make them earn it and I won’t be surprised if we find a way to win. That’s part of the Alabama mystique: don’t count Bama out because we’re coming and hell’s coming with us!

You talking about Domani “I play like Deion” Jackson that would avoid hitting the ground if he fell off a cliff?

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I’ve said this before and got downvoted … I am not confident our old money can match checkbooks with people like that or the Michigan booster over the long term.

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Spot on. Our deep pockets crew would be Mrs. Ellison’s groundskeepers. I hate it, but Alabama has yet to produce a diehard fan that has hit billionaire status. We’re trying to play the new big money game without the tools to play it.

My only reservation about running Mack out there is in the limited amount of time he has played, he doesn’t appear pinpoint accurate with his throws. He usually gets it within arms reach of his receivers but he seldom drilled them between the numbers. That may not seem like a big deal and against Eastern Illinois it isn’t, but against Oklahoma you’re going to have to hit some tight windows or it will be going the other way. Maybe he can do that and we just haven’t seen it yet but if not, I understand sticking with Ty for now.

Make ‘em stop the inside trap!

Minter has a show cause until April so I think the chance that he gets it is pretty slim.

If Ty still can’t run full speed and be a mobile quarterback again, he needs to sit. Being stationary with the defense calling all out blitzes is a bad combination. If he isn’t injured, why isn’t he running more and why is he less effective when he does (besides being spied a good bit)?

Does anyone know or have speculation even about what happened to LT Overton? Very weird situation.

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Ty sort of locked in on Germie in the fourth quarter. He stared him down in every critical pass play. He just isn't seeing the field anymore. Part of it is the pressure he is seeing obviously. But he isn't quick to get rid of it and he never throws guys open Just like last year though. Ty will move on and we will see another QB for us to complain about.

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Of course he does. Ty had 2 security blankets this year: #5 or #80 was going to be open almost every play and they catch anything near them. His other options were #2 that gets open but it’s a coin flip whether he catches a perfect throw or not, Brooks, who always seems to have the ball just off his fingertips or Jam/Hill out the backfield. Jam may or may not catch it, and if he does, he’s going to dance his way to 2 yards. Hill was reliable when he was a situational player that played sparingly on 3rd down. He would usually catch it and rumble for a good gain. But as his usage rose, his productivity fell so now he’s developed the drops and gets stopped for a short gain when he does catch it. So Ty is left to find #5 since #80 is on the sidelines watching. He locks in on Germie as soon as the ball is snapped because he’s the only receiver he has any faith in to get open, catch the ball, and make a play. We are going to miss the hell out of both Germie and Cuevas next year.
All these drops besides Williams who just has bad hands shows a lack of confidence in their QB. They aren’t sure he’s delivering the ball on time and on target so that they don’t get decapitated or picked off by a late throw or a slightly off target throw that puts them at risk for a decleater.

I just don’t get what it would hurt to let Mack or Russell get a series or two when Ty is stinking it up like last night. Maybe, just maybe it sparks the team and we move the ball. Or maybe it doesn’t and we go 3 and out but Ty would have done the same, so after 6 games of watching Ty wilt under pressure, why not give him a chance to clear his head, watch from the sidelines and maybe calm down and collect himself. I don’t want to hear QB controversy; Ty has had plenty of time to cement himself as the starter. If he has regressed to the point of considering changing, that’s on him, not the coaches so everyone should be OK with it.
We’re not doing ourselves any favors by sticking with a sinking ship. He’s had ample time to get right and by get right, I mean adjust to the reality that teams are gunning for him and until he makes them pay a price for it, they will keep coming and your OL and RB aren’t going to do much to help you. He has stopped scrambling effectively which isn’t helping either so it’s time to try something different.

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Let’s be realistic. The result of losing to a lower tier program or Oklahoma again in the playoffs would be much worse for the future.

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Worse than going to a meaningless bullshite bowl like the Pinstripe bowl in cold, snowy New York in December?