I'm still waiting for you to address the fact that Bennett talked about how worrying about the draft hurt his play on the field. Most kids aren't that honest or upfront to admit a personal failing like that.
No, it's not. Because we can highlight what would've changed with a different coordinator.
of course, because scapegoats are fun. Never mind the actual person who chose the qb against beck's wishes, or the actual playcaller who has demonstrated these weaknesses frequently over the past four years (other than at the very end of Herman's tenure )
so the line would have stopped blocking like psu if another oc was hired? Decker was not within miles of his 2014 self. Boren and Price were even further away.
The perimeter blocking would not have fallen off of a cliff with Smith, Spencer, brown and smith gone ? Vannett would not have looked like a first time contributor at te?
Would Jones have executed at the absurdly high rate on 3rd and long like he did against Bama? Or would his early down struggles have led to overall consistency issues ? That was argued by many this off season and lo and behold, it came true. Not because we are smart but because he's always been inconsistent.
OSU has plenty of flaws but their focus and discipline this year is way off.
And I can highlight that Bama had their own schematic problems and stopped Henry when they could not, never moreso than the play action interception ruining the drive starting in fg range.
I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me how this alleged leadership issue changed the game, how it ever even manifested itself beyond Ragland passing the buck 12 months later.
Was leadership really what kept Bama from being a complete team last year? It wasn't Sims at QB? It wasn't Jones at CB? It wasn't Kiffin's failure to lean on Henry? It wasn't an over-reliance on Cooper? It wasn't a failure for their defense to adapt to spread principles? It wasn't their DLines inability to stop Eze?
Because in the umpteen times I've watched that game, I've thought "man we could've been in trouble if...." to a lot of those issues. I've never once sat down and though "Man, if Landon Collins just possessed more leadership he somehow wouldn't have been trucked by Cardale" or "if somehow DePriest had more leadership he wouldn't be such a slow replacement -- there would've been no dropoff between him and Mosley"
Bull[Mark May].
I didn't bring up Jones, he did.
He flat out stated that leadership was a problem -- and yet none of you can highlight how that changed the game, or how it mainfested itself at any point. It was never a criticism leading up to the Sugar Bowl... and 12 months later is the first I've seen of it.
Then he flat out stated that it was a good thing they didn't address one of the actual glaring issues
If you're going to pretend that Alabama wasn't wildly arrogant and overconfident about facing the lowly buckeyes, or that they vastly underrated and disrespected cardale, or simply bought into the conference rhetoric, then there's not much that can be done to convince you.
Never mind that this board has talked about that arrogance and lack of preparation quite a bit, or that the Bama coaches talked about it, or that they went to the oc directly to learn from their mistakes.
I think Bama 14 was a much better team than OSU 15 but both did not have their head in the right place when it mattered most.
