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First impressions: Alabama football embarrassingly blows it to Vanderbilt
In the most prescient move I've ever seen, Josh couldn't watch this match today, and I agreed to handle the match recap.
Woe is me.
Alabama, which hasn't lost to a bottom-feeder team since LA Monroe in 2007, was served a huge slice of humble pie by the nerds of the SEC. Perhaps it's only fitting that it's from the same QB, Diego Pavia, who broke Auburn at the end of the season last year.
The game started with Alabama's defense giving up a long scoring drive, and not much changed after that. The Commodores got a quick pick-6 on a lucky deflection and suddenly had a 13-point lead that Alabama never recovered from.
For what it was worth, Jalen Milroe and the Tides WR group played spectacularly for most of the game, picking up huge chunks of yards and gobbling up scores – but in the end it didn't matter because every time Alabama scored, Vanderbilt responded with another long drive. for their own TD and Alabama's defense was essentially rendered useless.
The Tide did have a chance to take the lead in the 4th, but RT Elijah Pritchett chose a bad time to whiff on a block all the way and Jalen Milroe got shot in the pocket and fumbled with the ball, giving Vanderbilt the advantage again on the score/clock back and forth, and the defense never got another stop.
It's a big lesson for new head coach Kalen DeBoer. You do NOT take a week off in the SEC. While the first 13 of the season felt like a fever dream for Alabama fans, losing to Vanderbilt is something that absolutely cannot happen. That simply can't happen, and it's the kind of wake-up call for a new coaching staff that will force them to ruthlessly prevent this from happening again or face a huge burden of angry expectations from Alabama fans.
We chose a good year for a play-off with twelve teams. Alabama has proven that they can beat any team in the country, but they also haven't proven that they won't lose to anyone. They have time to figure that out and ruin the playoffs… But will they? If the cracks are already visible, can they repair them? It remains to be seen… And the entire country will be watching, waiting and circling around Alabama's demise. They have waited seventeen years, and now there is blood. Good luck, Coach DeBoer.
In any case, here are some observations about the team as a whole:
The Passing game is legit
19/25 for 312 yards is absurd. The growth we've seen from Jalen Milroe since his season under Tommy Rees last year has been astonishing. From a start-and-fits offense based on scrambling and first-read deep bombs to Milroe showing he can be a true pocket passer and hit almost any route on the field (even TE seams!!!), it was cool to see.
Besides, what else can we say about Ryan Williams? He keeps this up, and he might be the best WR in college football since…? Don't know. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it. And on top of that, Williams' attitude is just so great. He gets shot and jumps right back up, and when he doesn't get the ball you can see him doing everything he can with his girth blocking despite all of him being 170 pounds.
Beyond Ryan, however, is Germie Bernard. The transfer to Washington was also a revelation. He's made some huge, hard catches (the one down the sideline was insanely difficult) and he also seems to make at least one person miss every time he catches the ball.
Defense….
I honestly don't even know where to start here. The entire defense failed in almost every way imaginable on almost every play. The option offense was a throwback to 2012, when the pistol and the read option were all the rage in college and the NFL. The thing is… That went out of style around 2017. It was largely already figured out – there's no excuse for a defense to give the impression that they had no idea how to defend it.
The defensive line was effectively neutralized. They did virtually nothing the entire match. The linebackers were then given the impossible task of deciding who to cover, and were always outnumbered. And the DBs… Man, they seemed to miss every tackle, get drugged past the line for first downs, AND still got beat deep.
Look, I've been singing the praises of Kane Wommack's scheme and coaching style all offseason. It's a system I've seen work exceptionally well and one that I think should be at the forefront as the pendulum swings back away from Fangio's two-high defense.
When a defense pulls an extra safety into the box for most of the game, I can forgive the occasional blunder on a deep post. It's the tradeoff of the plan… But you can't run that formation AND still give up a billion first downs in the run game and on QB rollouts.
I don't know what the problem was there. Regulation, mentality, or whatever. But it was a total meltdown, and it's up to Wommack to correct it, whatever that looks like. The lack of adjustments after the early attack is a terrible indictment.
Offensive line
This is a strange one. The OL seemed to keep Milroe pretty clean for most of the game, save for Pritchett's game-changing whiff at the end. At the same time, while the yards per carry for the two running backs look fine, it is largely boosted by a 32-yard scamper from Jam Miller. Outside of that play, the backs were mostly locked up, as was Milroe on his rushes.
It's still good for pass protection, but the line doesn't really seem able to keep things clean enough to allow someone to block downfield. That's part of the tradeoff between running a power blocking scheme versus zone blocking… But right now they're leaving things in the backfield more often than they're getting blocks from the second level.
For now, this is a rude awakening for both Coach DeBoer and the Alabama fanbase. The question will be: how does he respond, and will the Alabama fans cut him slack Unpleasant respond without turning this into a toxic Auburn-like situation?
It's not like we have a reputation for having unreasonable expectations or anything like that.
Roll tide.
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