Exciting night and excited for fans, players and everyone in the program. Any time you beat LSU is exciting and when it comes down to a last play it’s exciting for everyone involved. Not much different than what’s said last night. Extremely well on offense and really bad on defense. Part of that is a credit to them. That’s an NFL offense with size and length and the way the line plays and the backs ran and the two big receivers will play on Sunday for a long time. That’s a challenge we hadn’t seen this year. We hadn’t seen a passing team like that. A lot of work to do. Good thing we won. Came down to the wire which unfortunately it did. 80 yard drive to score there at the end. We were going run heavy and slower through it. Didn’t want to give it back to them. That was an issue throughout the game. We were trying to get Tre to go down at the 1 instead of scoring but it was right our guys saw the signal. Tre didn’t see the signal. Then we would have tried to center it and run the clock out. We weren’t going to kick a field goal unless it’s right at the end. We weren’t going to kick if it left them any time. That wouldn’t have gone well.
When you give up 637 yards and 34 first downs there are problems. Well coached and good players and we did everything bad. Didn’t rush well, blown coverages, tackled poorly. Safeties nowhere to be found in cover 2. Basic alignments. We weren’t there to make plays. It wasn’t just execution. That’s not what happens with those numbers.
We address penalties every Monday. It was very discouraging - the holding penalties. The majority were holding. Caden’s wasn’t. He blocked the crap out of the guy like you’re supposed to. And on defense it was lack of discipline penalties. It’s a challenge. No excuses. It’s a negative from the portal, too. The good and bad and the bad equals that sometimes. With how you build a team. They are very costly. The horsecollar would have gotten to fourth down. Also on that review, I wasn’t very excited with that. Possession on the leg isn’t a catch. He told me he doesn’t have the power to do anything. He said it’s all in the booth and he doesn’t disagree but it’s not his call. I asked him why he even goes and looks then.
We change the plays at the line for Jaxson. He has a ton to do so we do that for him. We have a system that helps him. We see things he doesn’t see. We get his attention. We went faster last night and it was game plan. Alabama does some things to prevent that with shifts. Here we tried to go fast to keep them from lining up and it worked. We got them with 12 on field. It worked like it used to.
OL was really good with grades. I’ve been very critical of them and they did a very good job. You’re doing something right if you have 300 rushing and 300 passing. You’re doing a lot up front with no sacks. Now Dart helps with that but the line played really good.
Isheem is doing OK but no update as far as status.
Tre is a phenomenal competitor in his preparation. He prepares like a 10 year vet. It’s very refreshing. People are so focused on other things, and he prepares so well. If he was healthy all year he’s a frontrunner for receiver of the year.
We rotated guys at receiver so Franklin didn’t have a lot of opportunities. He’s still getting back from his surgery.
Caden helped a ton in the run game. Especially with perimeter blocking on the backer and DBs. He was excellent and a key to outside runs.
When you give up 637 yards and 34 first downs there are problems. Well coached and good players and we did everything bad. Didn’t rush well, blown coverages, tackled poorly. Safeties nowhere to be found in cover 2. Basic alignments. We weren’t there to make plays. It wasn’t just execution. That’s not what happens with those numbers.
We address penalties every Monday. It was very discouraging - the holding penalties. The majority were holding. Caden’s wasn’t. He blocked the crap out of the guy like you’re supposed to. And on defense it was lack of discipline penalties. It’s a challenge. No excuses. It’s a negative from the portal, too. The good and bad and the bad equals that sometimes. With how you build a team. They are very costly. The horsecollar would have gotten to fourth down. Also on that review, I wasn’t very excited with that. Possession on the leg isn’t a catch. He told me he doesn’t have the power to do anything. He said it’s all in the booth and he doesn’t disagree but it’s not his call. I asked him why he even goes and looks then.
We change the plays at the line for Jaxson. He has a ton to do so we do that for him. We have a system that helps him. We see things he doesn’t see. We get his attention. We went faster last night and it was game plan. Alabama does some things to prevent that with shifts. Here we tried to go fast to keep them from lining up and it worked. We got them with 12 on field. It worked like it used to.
OL was really good with grades. I’ve been very critical of them and they did a very good job. You’re doing something right if you have 300 rushing and 300 passing. You’re doing a lot up front with no sacks. Now Dart helps with that but the line played really good.
Isheem is doing OK but no update as far as status.
Tre is a phenomenal competitor in his preparation. He prepares like a 10 year vet. It’s very refreshing. People are so focused on other things, and he prepares so well. If he was healthy all year he’s a frontrunner for receiver of the year.
We rotated guys at receiver so Franklin didn’t have a lot of opportunities. He’s still getting back from his surgery.
Caden helped a ton in the run game. Especially with perimeter blocking on the backer and DBs. He was excellent and a key to outside runs.
