CFP Title Game, Alabama vs tOSU, Jan 11, 8:15 ET on ESPN, Miami

[bukIpower]

It is fun but my family and I were also at the Sugar bowl in 2015. We had a fantastic trip right up until we got our hat handed to us in the game. You can't win them all but we all want to.

Truly enjoy these wins man... what you all are doing is history making. The best run ever in college football.

I would've thought we won a few more after 2015 and yet here we are... you never know when your luck runs out.

Great season and what a great team.

Very classy person like most Alabama fans are oddly.

 

[bukIpower]

Man I am watching the B1G Show and they are showing the highlights for Bama and the defensive scheme is just ass. Watching them motion and then run to a wide open flat while our defense just stands still and watches with no pre-snap movement and giving the guy a running start trying to cover him with a fucking LB? Seriously? Then we all saw Tuf trying to cover Smith on a fucking seam route? This is totally fucking unacceptable when you re-watch it. That is just piss poor coaching and Sark fucking exposed the shit out of our defensive scheme. We were never competitive and that is unfair. Our talent isn't that bad on the D side of the ball to not even be competitive at all.

That's the biggest disappointment for me... we did not adjust at all the entire game. We let 6 go off and even when #6 was out we couldn't stop the run.

Maybe we just didnt have the roster though to over come this? We dont have a difference maker at DE and we were missing probably 2 of our top 3 DL.

Still though... allowing Borland on Smith 1 on 1.. lol that's bad.

 

[Wells4Heisman]

One and out for Sermon, maybe the biggest what if in Buckeye Championship history.

 

[Hstead]

Urban after the game said the Safeties have to grow up and play better. I would argue it is a hell of a lot easier when there are three of them on the field though instead of a LB getting fucking torched. So glad we stopped the run, we only let them go off for 440 fucking yards through the air the first half.

 

[dragurd]

Man I am watching the B1G Show and they are showing the highlights for Bama and the defensive scheme is just ass. Watching them motion and then run to a wide open flat while our defense just stands still and watches with no pre-snap movement and giving the guy a running start trying to cover him with a fucking LB? Seriously? Then we all saw Tuf trying to cover Smith on a fucking seam route? This is totally fucking unacceptable when you re-watch it. That is just piss poor coaching and Sark fucking exposed the shit out of our defensive scheme. We were never competitive and that is unfair. Our talent isn't that bad on the D side of the ball to not even be competitive at all.

On that play I have no Idea what Williamson was doing. He ran backwards turned his back and then ran the wrong way. Still wasn't good for TUf to be on ut she should have been tackled before the endzone if Williamson played sound D

 

[bukIpower]

Urban after the game said the Safeties have to grow up and play better. I would argue it is a hell of a lot easier when there are three of them on the field though instead of a LB getting fucking torched. So glad we stopped the run, we only let them go off for 440 fucking yards through the air the first half.

We didn't stop the run tho lol... I mean UFM ain't wrong but what does a single high safety have to do with swing passes? That's on our OLBs anyways.

 

[Buckeneye]

1 - the pre-snap motion, the jets/sweeps etc etc. All of it changing the run fits and zone replacements for coverage. With how un-complex collegiate defenses are vis a vis NFL defenses, Sarkisian showed how simple motions setup misdirection and force a defense to communicate and understand assignment changes on the fly. Football is a game of copycat, I would trust Ryan Day will be picking some of this film apart for his own use.


2 - 4-4 worried about Najee and the coaches didn't take into consideration the Bama offensive staffs willingness to attack tOSU horizontally. Best I can figure? Which is odd because Bama has been doing it all season.

3 - No rebuttal

4 - Critique isn't bitching

5 - Maybe

Follow up to my own post here.

The fear of attacking Bama's corners vertically was obvious. Even when the shots were dialed up (Ruckert on the perimeter a handful of times by my count) and it was 1 on 1, JF didn't let it fly and let his playmaker have a shot.
And Surtain, while I think he's a fine corner, isn't so great that I wouldn't have tested him. The unwillingness to utilize the entirety of the field is something that will need some un-packing.

 

[Hstead]

We didn't stop the run tho lol... I mean UFM ain't wrong but what does a single high safety have to do with swing passes? That's on our OLBs anyways.

My point is that it is a lot easier to cover the swing passes with a nickle than our LBs. Which Sark dialed up and abused our LBs in coverage all night.

Edit - they finished with 157 yards rushing at that included the end of the game where they ran it down to milk the clock. We did okay against the run, but fuck they didn't run it because we were giving them easy pitch and catches with our personnel and coverages.

 

[bukIpower]

My point is that it is a lot easier to cover the swing passes with a nickle than our LBs. Which Sark dialed up and abused our LBs in coverage all night.

Edit - they finished with 157 yards rushing at that included the end of the game where they ran it down to milk the clock. We did okay against the run, but fuck they didn't run it because we were giving them easy pitch and catches with our personnel and coverages.

Because we refused to play zone. Don't chase motion like that. You have your OLB sit and blow up the flats.

Shouldnt have been tough and the strength of a 4-4 typically is against the run and defending everything underneath. Yet someone we still couldn't get it right.

We did not have the skill to go 1 on 1 and we continued to do it all night.

 

[Systems_id]

Also another reason I’m not super upset is I’m remembering the amount of guys either injured or out due to COVID. Alabama getting dominated in 2018 had A LOT to do with a significant number of guys being out on defense due to injury. Probably wouldn’t have mattered tonight but sometimes when it rains, it pours. Still an amazing coaching job by Day all things considered.

 

[808 Buck]

Hate losing the big one but beating Clemson trumps everything from a national perspective. Still believe the stench from not beating Dabo would be far greater than what happened tonight. Ohio State lost to a better team. Nobody in the country was beating that team this year. Just need to keep recruiting, keep developing, and keep an edge.

Upon further review, the “big one” wasn’t played this year. My apologies for that mistake.

It is my sincere hope that this is rectified in late November of this year.

 

[1926Buckeyes]

Not sure there's much of a point to break down the defensive film from this. OSU didn't have the players to slow Bama defensively, and Coombs didn't know what to do. At least that's all I can take from it.

He wanted mitigate the DB issues with a 4-4, and play bend-not-break. Not possible against this years Indiana, let alone Alabama. They still broke about half the time due to mismatches and the other times it just kept OSU's offense off the field while Bama scored in 12 plays. He should've played nickel, but I really don't think it matters without significantly more pressure.

All that matters is how they adapt. Can Coombs add to a vanilla defensive scheme so it isn't so easy to manipulate? Is he willing to play a lot more nickel due to having even average confidence in his DB room and depth? Probably, but it depends on how well it's implemented.

 

[EidoloN]

Sark was brilliant calling the game. Smith easily would have put 350yds+ on us. Sark put his play makers in positions to succeed. No one was beating Bama tonite, to the complainers, just stop.

 

[shetuck]

Good game Bucks, your team is loaded and we were fortunate to play one of our better games tonight. A couple of nights ago, I posted that with a healthy Waddle and Dickerson, it may very well be the best offense in the history of college football. I still think you'll are good enough to beat us on a given day but knew you were going to have to outscore us to do it Next year is a rebuilding year for us we lose 90% of our offensive production, and I don't see it with as much youth that we'll have on that side of the ball along with a new OC. We'll play again, likely in two years in the playoffs. Until then, enjoy the ride.

@Jim Hunter Thanks for coming on the site and jumping into the discussions. We seem get a poster from a rival NC team (after every blow-out loss?) who comes back and kinda joins the community. Would be great to have somebody who can chime in with the Crimson Tide slant. Hope you can make it back.

 

[shetuck]

1. Another Good Year for the Buckeyes
2. Another good year on BP
3. Everyone who said there wasn’t going to be a season and condescended to everyone who held out hope and then took a victory lap when the season was canceled can suck it.

Short Shots from the barcalounger, finally.