Closing out Games Emphasis of Fall Practice

Now Stacey, who would ever think he is an idiot?

 

Well, you and your bff, for two examples.

 

I so needed that laugh. Thanks.

Now I have to call him

 

I aim to please.

 

Hey, man...I NEVER said it hasn't sucked! LOL! No, it's sucked so hard the paint is missing.

But the offensive approach, the formations used, the plays called, all of that changed when Crowton left. All of a sudden the formations were more traditional and the plays were simpler. It certainly wasn't more effective at eating up yards, but you can't deny that the offense scored a lot of points that year. The D and STs scored their share and set the offense up quite a bit, but it was the offense that actually scored the majority of points. Our red zone efficiency was off the charts, if you recall, and THAT'S on the offense. And it's the primary reason Stud got another year.

To be clear, I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying that's why we were stuck with him again last year.

In summary...Crowton was fired because he lost the magic of '07 as the SEC figured him out. Kragthorpe never got to coach a down as OC. Stud did JUST well enough to keep his emergency promotion. And now we have a real coordinator.

The change in formations and plays called when our coordinators changed is enough evidence to debunk the "Les is running the offense" rumors.

We will be better this year.

 

IIRC, Bama scored on a screen where we ran a called blitz and one of the freshmen DB's blew an assignment. So youth cost us that one.

 

This and Red Zone scoring are a couple things they have been pushing hard in practice.

 

On that play, yes. However, on the 3 or 4 completions leading up to that play, our DB's were playing 10 yards off of the receivers, and we were not pressuring McCarron.