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I know there are a lot of Xs/Os folks out there. So if there was something you saw, happy to discuss it here. I am, however, not going to make a gif-on-request of Jordan Whittington getting called for holding. Also, if there's something you're particularly interested in, let me know here or via DM and I can include it in a future one of these (and let's hope it doesn't take another 5 years for me to do the next one).
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Are you talking about this? That's a post route bro. If he had started from the other side of the football and run toward the same corner of the end zone, that would be a corner route. Rule of thumb: Post routes break TOWARD/across the ball: Corner routes break away from the ball:
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I think that's right, although I think he would've stayed with the out routeif he's playing it right. It's the LB (Gbenda) who needs to pass off the out route and go find other work. But it's so bang-bang. I had to watch it about 50 times to come to that conclusion. Without knowing the call, it's tough.
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Hook ‘em. Hope y’all enjoyed this. Let’s not fuck it up against Wyoming this week.
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Part 4: Now to my personal favorite play of the game. But let’s see Sark’s set up first. Here’s the situation. 27-24, Texas is leading. But Bama has Texas backed up at 2nd and 15 in the shadow of their own goalposts. Bama rushes three and drops 8—a look that Quinn struggled mightily against last year. But Quinn stays cool, and the call is (or at least appears to be) 4 verts—a perfect beater for this coverage that just asks folks to run down the field and get open. Whittington “gets open,” Quinn finds him, and Whittington fights his ass off for extra yards. So three plays later, who is the safety worried about? Probably the guy that just made him look like an ass on national TV—Whittington. So what you should you do? I guess you should throw a fucking bomb to Ad Mitchell. It’s a trips formation with Sanders/Whittington/Mitchell. Worthy is the sole receiver isolated at the field side of the formation. Here’s the route combo from Trips: Does it look similar to NCAA? It should (although it’s not identical). This is the O.G. “NCAA” route combo that Steve Spurrier made famous (made perfect) at Florida—the concept is called “Mills”. Like the NCAA/DDP concept above, the key is to put the safety in conflict. Does he take the DIG (a really easy thing to do—especially when the DIG is run RIGHT AT HIM as it was here by Whittington). Or does he stay over the top? It’s like getting a cat to chase movement. The safety can’t help himself from attacking the deep-breaking in-route right in front of him—especially since Whittington had just caught a pass in the exact same spot. But that leaves the post wide open behind him for six. The ball is perfect, and Mitchell does his best Worthy doing his best Willie Mays impression. Ad Mitchell hauling in a 39 yard bomb to prove definitively that our deep attack this year is more than just throwing up prayers to 8 lbs 6 oz. sweet baby Jesus Xavier Worthy. Touchdown Texas. Play the fight song. Make ‘em eat shit.
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Part 3: Ethan Burke was a big part of the story of the game for a lot of reasons. But one thing that I noticed early on was that Bama had obviously schemed to attack him with the Zone Read. They ran various plays to put Burke in conflict. But I’m going to try and focus only on ZR. Here’s the first time they ran it against Burke: Burke gives a hard keep read. He’s almost all the way to the center when Milroe pulls the ball: Catalon tries to fill the alley but misses and Burke is fortunately able to get Milroe by the shoe to prevent him from ripping off another 5 or 10 yards. Gain of eleven. The second time they ran zone read was literally the next play: Burke attacks deep and Milroe hands the ball to McClellan. Frankly, I’m not sure he was in a position to make a play on either Milroe or McClellan that play. He chases the RB but his angle is too poor to run him down. Texas pulls Burke after that play for several plays. The next time Bama runs ZR, Sorrell is in at EDGE: Sorrell stays flat, doesn’t chase, and forces a GIVE read. Byron Murphy and Alfred Collins both shitwhip the Bama OL, Jaylon Ford fills the other gap, and the play is snuffed for a loss of 1. That play takes Bama off schedule, Watts breaks up 2nd down in the end zone, Milroe runs for his life on 3rd down, and Texas is able to force a field goal. Bama doesn’t go back to ZR the next drive or for the rest of the first half. The next time they run ZR, it’s 13:16 in the third quarter, and Burke is back at DE: This time, Burke slow-plays it, forcing the GIVE read. Catalon fills from the safety position and slows McClellan, who is then gang-tackled by errbody. Bama runs ZR again against Sorrell in the late 3rd. It doesn’t go great. Here’s the last time they run ZR and the play that stood out to me the most. 2:15 left in the 3rd. 2nd and 9. Bama finally gets the Burke matchup that it has been exploiting all night: Burke plays it perfectly (again). He doesn’t run upfield. He doesn’t crash on the snap. He stays wide, forces the GIVE read, and then attacks straight down the line of scrimmage. Sweat blows up his blocker to force McClellan back to the outside, and Burke is waiting there to make the tackle himself. Turns out, someone is coaching our defensive players on the sideline while the game is ongoing. Weird. For the past 14 years, I was under the impression that wasn’t allowed.
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Part 2: Let’s check out Barron’s interception. This early moment in the game was instrumental in giving Texas confidence after a sputtering first drive and Alabama marching down the field to the tune of a workmanlike 38 yards on six plays. In watching this clip, I really struggled with it. Is it an example of a coverage bust? Or is it an unbelievably egregious poor read by Milroe? Here’s why I say that. Bama is in trips to the Field. Texas has four defenders. It looks like Texas is in a cover 4 (MOFO) look. Watch the safety (number 4 in the pic) and corner (number 3 in the pic) bail at the snap. Milroe has his man pegged all the way. He waits for the out route and throws the ball. He very obviously never sees Barron. But watch the All 22. Is that because Barron mis-played the coverage? There are two Bama WRs running up the side (you can see about halfway through the clip), with only the CB over the top of them. The CB is having to try to play both men, and as a result the second WR is wide open. Barron, though, stays in the flat and jumps the out route, securing an easy interception. Based on my review, I think Barron played it right but it’s bang-b-ang. At the very end of the clip, you can see Catalon hauling ass to try and get wide to help with the two WRs running down the sideline. That suggests the look is a cover 4 look with Barron having responsibility for the flat. Maybe something like this? If Barron did play it right, this is really horrific read by MIlroe. If he’d checked, he could’ve hit the next receiver for a decent gain down the sideline. Instead, he simply assumes man coverage and never even checks to make sure Barron has left the area. He telegraphs his pass the whole way, and it’s a free football for Texas.
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1.) Worthy vs. Burton - a tale of two slot fades? Let’s start with the Burton route. The broadcast did a decent job of breaking this down. By using motion, Bama capitalized on the back-end coverage, although I’m not sure it was simple man coverage like Herbstreit said. Instead, I think the CB (9 - Gavin Holmes) had the first out-breaking route, and the safety (28 - Jerrin Thomspon) had the second man. I.e., a very simple two-man pattern match zone: Is there anything super schematically interesting to take away from this route? Not really. It was play designed for a deep shot all the way. Unfortunately, Thompson got his ass dusted in a footrace, our pass rush left Milroe with an almost spotless pocket, and we had three defenders playing QB contain and not pressuring (compare against Ant Hill’s QB “contain” efforts): And Milroe threw his best ball of the night. Sometimes that happens. As a side-note, I’m not breaking down any of those Anthony Hill plays because they can best be described as “fast, strong guy runs down weaker, slower guy.” All right. That will be the last (only) Bama highlight you see in this report. Let’s check in with our favorite lightning bolt, Xavier Worthy Whew. Watch that again. Then watch it one more time. What a throw. What a catch. That’s full blown Willie Mays shit right there. Is this as simple as Bama’s call? Not by a long shot. Here’s the end-zone view: Here are the routes. Johntay Cook (#2) runs a deep in (i.e., a dig route). Whittington (#13) runs a drag route, Sanders (#0) runs a flat route, and Worthy (#1) runs a post. Even though it looked like a fade/fly route, it wasn’t. It ended up being a skinny post because that’s how he needed to run it to run under the ball. But it was a post all the way. Is there anything interesting about this? Yeah. This is a classic route combination. Sometimes called “Levels,” sometimes called “DDP (dig-drag-post)” and most often just called “NCAA.” The issue with this call is it forces defenders on the opposite side of the field to DEFEND EVERY SINGLE ROUTE. I.e., every route is a crossing route requiring defenders to pass off and pick up players. If you don’t pass off a player and you run with them, what happens? Well, just watch the clip above one more time. There are also several ways to run the NCAA route combos, and offenses usually adjust/address for whether they’re getting a MOFO (middle of the field open) look or a MOFC (middle of the field closed) look from the safeties. In the clips above, Bama is very obviously in a MOFO look (cover 4 it appears?). That creates a high/low conflict for the backside safety. Watch Quinn’s head on the All-22. He’s staring at Johntay on the snap. And watch the reaction of the safety as a result. He turns his body away from Worthy to get ready to engage with Johntay. Once Quinn sees those hips turn, he immediately flips his attention to Worthy, waits for the break, and throws the bomb. You love to see it. I’ll be back with part two later.
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Is football fun again? Yes. Yes, it is. As a throwback that I hope folks will enjoy (and because I have some unexpected downtime), I wanted to put together a quick recap of some of the plays that I found noteworthy during the game. This is mostly going to include an analysis of big plays, because they’re the ones you remember, they obviously matter, and it’s more fun than analyzing why we got three yards on inside zone instead of five. I unfortunately don’t expect that this is going to turn into an opportunity for me to be an all-the-time shitposter as in years’ past. But hopefully if y’all enjoy this, I can do a few of these a year if there’s interest. Anyway, enough about me. Let’s watch some football gifs. I’m going to break down four things in this post: (1) a comparison of the Xavier Worthy 44 yard TD pass with Bama’s 49 yard throw to Jermaine Burton. Is it a tale of two slot-fade routes? (2) A look at Jahdae Barron’s interception, which may be a true Boom/Bust play on further review. (3) A look at Ethan Burke’s evolution against the zone read as the game went on. Really interesting stuff for those who were watching scheme live. (4) The 39 yard bomb to AD Mitchell. I'll roll these out over the course of the day as I have time to get it out the door.
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I would also have accepted: "He's the down's syndrome version of Hangman from Top Gun: Maverick." anyway, love you guys. hope you're well. -
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That kid looks exactly like what Boomhauer would look like in real life as a high school kid. -
....that's not toothpaste.
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The foresight of kids these days--picking schools based on the future deaths of their parents. Damn.
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this is fucking stupid and you should feel bad. -
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This is maybe the most Early 1990s thing I've ever seen.
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We probably shouldn't get too in-Fatu-ated with him. -
Thanks. It is also good to still be alive. Also, after getting really into Spiderman a few years ago, my kid read all of the Dragonball, Dragonball Z, and Dragonball Super manga. volumes. We've moved on to Naruto, now. So maybe you have that to look forward to. Don't fuck with me on anime or Disney princess trivia. Also, I'm wildly successful, happily married, and good looking and shit. You better hope your cheerio-spawn fall far enough from the tree that they grow up to be me.
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I like that in your view, I'm unable to tell Vegeta (a person) apart from Namek (a planet).
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