The defense is 100% the reason we won. They held Lane’s offense to the fewest rushing yards in his 3 years he’s been at OM.
I'm referring to mostly run blocking, but most of those sacks were on Will. He holds the ball too long, has zero pocket awareness and can't move well back there. Plus the defense is in no way concerned with his running, so they don't have to maintain lane discipline.
Our RBs averaged 6 yards per carry. Defense was outstanding. But without a strong running game, we lose the Egg Bowl.
I think that is the strategy of the Leach haters. Downgrade every team on our schedule so if we lose to them or even win a close game, it’s an indictment on Leach for not winning or not winning by a larger margin. That way, they can criticize him regardless. I mean, there are people here saying Alabama isn’t very good. A team that would be ranked #1 in the country except for losing two games on the last play by a combined four points.
I'm not inferring that we have more talent, but on Thanksgiving night we were head and shoulders above. If that game is played 10 times, it would probably be split 5 games each.
Yep, really stupid thread trying to find something to be negative about
You can do the same thing with the “could have lost” games and you’d get pretty much the same story. Fact is, you are what your record says you are.
With an Egg Bowl win. I’ll take that just about any year. 2018 being a rare exception.
Those running backs are banged up. I can’t say whether Leach would have allowed more running plays if Woody and DJ were 100% but had he called more in their current health, they would have both been out by halftime.
I went way down the rabbit hole with this and unless I missed something obvious, we would have gone to the SEC Championship game. It made it all the way to the cumulative SEC record of non divisional SEC opponents and Georgia/UK combined for more SEC wins than Tennessee/Vandy and Tennessee/Florida.
Don't you kinda odd how Kentucky keeps popping up on that list in the past few years?
wr0ng. &TATE was slightly better on that particular night NOT HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE 0ld piss. im 17ing glad we beat those bassturds but this wasnt close to being a slam dunk win. lets be thankful we got the damb egg back where it belongs
Why not get Price some touches? There are some around the program who think he has a lot of upside. With Woody and DJ coming back (?), will he come back?
I haven’t noticed Price producing as much. Could be limited touches or something else. Can’t really answer your questions. Just pointing out that health has been an issue with RB’s since first half of the Kentucky game.
Will definitely ran himself into two of those sacks doing his typical exit stage right. He stopped doing that later in the game and things were much better. He hasn’t peaked yet if he works on his pocket presence during the off season. It looks like he hasn’t spent much time thinking about it, hence the panic.
I agree, I hope in the offseason he works on stopping overthinking it and letting it fly downfield. Yes, it will result in more INTs, but hopefully, big plays and losing up the D will more than offset those. I'd love to see some wildcat formations too.
Ole Miss is the team who should be disappointed and doing the coulda woulda's in 2013 and 2016. They had a better team than us every year between 2012-2016 (maybe even 17 - they were just a mess due to Freeze).
Some of the sacks were on will.
Well if it makes anyone feel better, since LSU lost to Texas A&M, Alabama would have gone to Atlanta in the land of What Ifs.
