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  1. My first paragraph was in reference to the season on the whole. Play action is Sarks idea of offense. It’s going to continue. Posters here get their drawers all bunched up about shit. If you’re talking the two missed FG drives and the two OT drives, you’re only talking two scoring drives. The easy TD was play action. The other was a great play but incredibly stupid defensive play call. One was a two minute drive so not standard offense. The other, yes, was a missed FG from 48 yards out, but we didn’t put it in the end zone. And it wasn’t a short field goal either. We can win many ways. Even if the run game is not successful, the opponent respects it. We can certainly be successful throwing it too. Sark may frustrate you, but the first and last TDs were direct results of his philosophies and tendencies.
  2. Just for a little added context here on the play action. Ewers has a higher completion percentage, better TD/Int rate, higher yards per attempt and better sack rate with play action than with no play action. The lack of a run within a game is likely not that impactful within a game. The team prepares on what you’ve done collectively and with how they expect them to attack. It’s gonna be difficult in game to ask your 2nd and 3rd level defenders to not react to what they’ve practiced for two weeks. And it’s likely that if the run defense is successful, it will reinforce them to react to play action in a similar manner because they’re likely playing downhill.
  3. Can you double check that Hrlm game winning TD catch for me please?
  4. Your question about lack of motion is a great one. I’m not sure how that’s dumbing it down. Exactly how complicated could it be? It’s a great way to create matchups. Seems odd we’d run different plays in practice to have different offenses. On your last comment, this has been curious all season to some extent. Take that CB blitz in Ga game 1. Bolden is open but not tons of space. We don’t go there. Even that next game versus Vandy in which he hit Bolden on 3rd and 10 or whatever. He was hesitant out of the break. It worked just fine, but there’s a hint of what you’re referencing.
  5. I think there is potential merit to this. A QB can be too cautious. And a coach can coach a mentality out of you.
  6. In 2021, we had Jones-Okafor/Angilau-Majors-Angilau/Imade-Kerstetter. All but Majors were upperclassmen. Once they got over running into each other versus ArKansas, they were solid. I am assuming that to get all the Banks-Campbell class we needed room and an open lane to early playing time. I don’t remember all the specifics but would think that Imade, Okafor could have been invited back but weren’t for this reason, amongst maybe others. But for sure in 2022, we had now multi-year starters in Jones (4th year?), Majors (3rd year) and Angilau. We for sure could have had Karic (it was mentioned that he couldn’t play G, a position he started at a playoff SEC school ). We could have had Parr, a non-freshman but future starter on a playoff team, or Johnson, who at a minimum started at another Big 12 school. I’d assume Banks was a day 1 starter. So you’ve got Banks-Angilau-Majors-Open-Jones. Angilau gets hurt so now two spots looking for serviceable players. Potential options from 2021 were Imade/Okafor (thinking they could have gotten a Covid year), Parr, Karic, Johnson (maybe he was already gone) and Conner. And what 6 other frosh. It was not ideal but workable. I believe we chose youth over some maturity. That’s fine for the end goal, but it likely hindered the short term.
  7. I liked the parts on the OLine. The instability of staff and system hurt those guys. And my opinion was that several weren’t the Flood prototype. Hard to say Karic, Parr did not go on to be productive. Ty Johnson had some production too. I don’t blame Sark for year 1 getting big hauls on the LOS. But we’ve gotten limited production from those Dline recruits to date and lots from the Oline. 2022 might have looked considerably different had Junior not gotten hurt. Great effort guy. That caused younger guys to get thrust into the lineup too.
  8. So are you on the Sark is a mastermind or not so much? USC was too long ago. The Bama rankings and our rankings are part the reason for the question. Talent-wise we’re comparable. Physically Ewers is better than Mac. I am not one to say the HC can’t be the play caller, but there’s enough to question right here, right now whether Sark needs to fulfill both roles. Could be. In my opinion, each of the 4 years we could have been better. Each year we seem to hit too many lulls in games.
  9. So let’s look at a little DFEI. 2017 - 6th against the #12 offenses. 2018 - 29th against the 8th. 2019 - 42nd against the 14th. 2020 - 37th against the 34th. 2021 - 47th against the 10th. 2022 - 8th against the 9th. 2023 - 6th against the 10th. 2024 - 2nd against the 40th. Let’s keep in mind it’s likely that the 2024 offensive version has improved their standing over the regular season due to the Georgia/Clemson games. Based on these metrics, it’s worth noting that our 2024 SEC-SEC-SEC schedule was not a gauntlet. The obvious and clear jump in the Sark era is on the defensive side of the ball. There is a clear influx of offensive talent over the Herman era although his accumulation of offensive guys was underappreciated (don’t take that to mean Herman is the second coming). More depth pretty much everywhere. There is some consideration to the QB gets too much credit and too much criticism theory. It’s certainly present here. And ironically enough the defense, and it’s players, get considerable criticism in prior years even though they’ve been the better unit for 3 years running. As an example in the Bama 2023 game, since that’s the premier game in the Ewers era. That was tied for their 2nd lowest point total of the season. The defense set our offense up at the Bama 30 and the 5 and represented the only game in which Milroe threw two picks. Yet there’s a little talk about the defense in that game. So, yeah, it’s not clear that Ewers is better, or more important, to his teams success than Sam. And for those that want to post up Ewers for the team’s success but rail on those defenders probably need a bit of an ass whipping.
  10. All it’s a good day. @HenryJames is hanging out.
  11. You kids have been a little quiet lately so it’s nice to get the hostility flowing. one thing that gets me fired up about this discussion is “he’s the best QB we’ve had in 15 years” point. But I’m a team first guy. So I did a little looking. OFEI. Overall rank first then opponent defensive strength second. 2017 - 95 against the 65th ranked defensive schedule. 2018 - 17th against the 46th. 2019 - 9th against the 18th. 2020 - 17th against the 11th. 2021 - 35th against the 45th. 2022 - 17th against the 29th. 2023 - 19th against the 36th. 2024 - 17th against the 28th. One thing that jumps at me is if Sark is such a mastermind, why haven’t his offenses done better relatively speaking? It is not a talent issue. I’d assume that damn near everyone likes this offensive staff better than Herman’s. I appreciate Sarks creativity. His overall program building is tremendous. I still say we’re the favorite to win it all. Keep that in mind when I give you part 2 of my Quinn Ewers is the greatest QB of the last decade discussion.
  12. This doesn’t even tell the full story. We’ve had the top back taken 2 years running. The fastest combo of WRs at the NFL combine ever. Is this the first ever we’ve had TEs taken in back to back years? And not to mention our defense relatively speaking has been better than the offense all 3 years. Is it the best 3 year run defensively in 40 years?
  13. That describes McElroys Alabama? Granted it’s not his fan base, but I don’t recall anything positive from our fan base about McElroys efforts.
  14. The first point is spot on. And it goes hand in hand with putting a player in the best position to succeed. As for Ewers, the public perception means little or should anyway.
  15. Perhaps. The most logical is a former QB is sticking with his veteran QB. The big goal is still ahead of him and the team. Back in the day, there was quite a bit of talk about Applewhite changing plays. Then I also heard there was “some check with me.” We used to run “check with me,” in high school and it really had nothing to do with me calling/changing the play. So I’m always a bit skeptical. In no way do I think this is the case here. I do think it’s an element of Sark saying “here, look what he can do.”
  16. We are as equipped as just about anyone from a depth perspective to run; however, that’s a risky proposition. It does make the QBs reads simpler. And 1 on 1 catches are fairly common. Our S played downhill pretty aggressively. With that comes some risk.
  17. Yes, seriously. As a fan who likes tidbits of information, I am curious how often this occurs. I am reasonably certain as to why this was brought up now. I do not believe it is an uncommon occurrence.
  18. I wanna see it. I was there but too short to see over the sideline.
  19. 71.8 for Wingo in the run game. I’ve never looked closely at that but believe that to be good for WR.
  20. You sure seem to be defending one player to the extreme when talking about a team goal. I do applaud some of the hostile words though since it’s the innernet.
  21. Right there with you. The older I get the more I believe in the theory that you win upfront. We harassed Cade a decent amount. They couldn’t run when needed. We mostly protected well and ran when it mattered. Mostly anyway. As for your QB hits, this is one reason I’m a big Sam fan. It absolutely impacts your passing game. And for years opposing defenses want to hit the QB. Run or pass the hits add up.
  22. I do find some humor in your exaggerations. And also some irony in that drag you other players down in your counters to anti-Quinn stuff.
  23. BO&W seemingly had some childhood drama. Colt was the best player on his offense and one of the few drafted on those last two offenses. In my opinion he’s underrated in college football lore.
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