The tape don't lie...

[57stratdawg]

Check out these OL GIFs from yesterday's first half...

Setting the edge:

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Desper wiffing

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Clayborn

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Rankin not running out on a slip screen

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Rankin in Pass Pro

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[RingN2012]

Good God. Bama and Ole Miss are going to kill us. I foresee another Egg Bowl like the 2008 one where Tyson Lee literally almost got murdered
Hevesy you are stealing from us you sorry 17

 

[maroonwhitedawg3ddd]

HEVESY really is a Pathetic *** excuse for an OL coach!!! As someone else stated earlier him an KNOX must go!!

 

[mount lefroy]

Why must knox go?

 

[maroonwhitedawg3ddd]

I don't know just not overly impressed with his style of coaching! Have you watched are running backs lately miss assignments after assignments even after being in the system 3 and 4 years...

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Talent doesn't matter when you have technique like this.

Edit: player talent that is

 

[RightOfCenter]

Did Jenkins play yesterday?

 

[RingN2012]

Your RB coach at the very least should be a dynamic recruiter.
Knox is not.
As far as his coaching, We have never had a RB situation as poor as the last two years and that includes the Croom Error.
And Hevesy is a liability on the recruiting trail and obviously can't coach for ****

 

[57stratdawg]

Our usage of the RBs is a bigger issue than the talent at the position.

 

[BossDawg78]

HEVESY really is a Pathetic *** excuse for an OL coach!!! As someone else stated earlier him an KNOX must go!!

Has anyone ever asked Mullen about Hevesy and why he isn't more accountable? Or perhaps why Mullen refuses to fire his ***?

 

[deanbar]

it was the weather!!

65 degrees -- slippery field-- very poor conditions to play SEC West foo'ball -- stars were lined up for um *** -- they are conditioned for it -- our guys are not -pure an simple!!
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[Uncle Ruckus]

How you are still posting is beyond me. Give me a specific example of missed assignments. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying you don't watch the games, because you are a Rebel, and you repeat what others have said

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I can't remember. All I remember seeing is a reminder why Rankin was redshirted.

 

[Shamoan]

When Bielema was asked what he is most proud of as a head coach, his response was "not hiring friends". Dan violated that and now we are left arguing over holding coaches accountable knowing nothing will change.

 

[T-45fixer]

OL blocking is and will be an issue with Mullen. He's gonna get a QB hurt real bad with this group.

 

[josebrown]

No wonder I thought Dak was gonna get murdered last year in the Bama game.

Even Kevin Fant wouldn't play behind this line.

I mean Henig wouldn't come back from his first collarbone with this line.

No wonder Holloway runs the inside zone's, no one else will behind this line.

 

[KurtRambis4]

What exactly is his style?

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[Drebin]

No wonder I thought Dak was gonna get murdered last year in the Bama game.

Even Kevin Fant wouldn't play behind this line.

I mean Henig wouldn't come back from his first collarbone with this line.

No wonder Holloway runs the inside zone's, no one else will behind this line.

The key to being a great messageboard comedian is never using all of your best material in one post. **

 

[mount lefroy]

No at the very least he should be a good running backs coach. He is that. Now ever since mullen decided to go all oompa loompa for a running back strategy, we have not been great in that game but that has little to nothing to do with knox.

Knox is a very good recruiter too but when we lost hughes and the DL coach we lost our best closers. That made everyone look worse.

 

[dawgstudent]

My voice shrieked when Rankin stopped running on that slip screen. I was yelling st my tv

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

I saw a couple of these during the game but not all. I have no words. This looks like a 2A high school tape. Absolutely unbelievable. It's embarrassing how much this team has regressed in basic fundamentals in two short years. I have no clue how a head coach watches this and doesn't lose his ****.

 

[missouridawg]

Someone brought up an interesting point regarding Hevesy this week...

I know he is in House Mullen... But does his reeling in of Dak give him a longer leash?

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Hate to say it but seeing those clips that crap looks plain intentional. For whatever reason idk...but those clips look purposeful

 

[Spotdawg]

Hate to say it but seeing those clips that crap looks plain intentional. For whatever reason idk...but those clips look purposeful

It sure looks like they are playing half-hearted for Fitz. The team sure looked to spark up at LSU for the 2nd stringer QB.

 

[MarkDallas]

Coaches do not recruit their position. They recruit by geographical region.

 

[StatesboroBlues]

Coaches do not recruit their position. They recruit by geographical region.

Correct...but most sign because of their position coach. It has been talked about over and over...one recruiting service even did a poll with a large # of players and a high percentage said they sign because of their position coach over their area coach. Which makes sense if you want to reasonably think about it...

"Eat a Peach"

 

[thf24]

Devil's advocate here, two points...

1. Key words: FIRST HALF. Our whole team came out asleep. The OL along with everyone else woke up and played much better in the second half. The more concerning issue here is Mullen and staff appear incapable of motivating teams to get up and dominate inferior opponents for 60 minutes like other SEC teams do. He can't even get our guys up for big games sometimes. Why?

2. Poor sample size. One play each out of 80? You'd be hard pressed to find a game at any level in which any given o-lineman doesn't get embarrassed at least once. It's the nature of the position. Not to say these were the only mistakes, but presenting one example each doesn't make a valid case.

 

[PubDawg]

I had this game on the laptop and the UF / UT game on the bigger TV. There was no comparison of the effort on every play in the gator / TN game.... Our guys looked like they were playing flag football and don't wanna get hurt before the big house party this weekend. Those other teams were playing with relentless efforts and strain. We are only slightly better than the Jackie sherrill era where we could get more penalties for false starts than we got yardage.

 

[kired]

I'd give Clayborn a pass now that I've seen that replay. Saw it live and thought he just lost his balance, but that looks like 61 stepped directly on the back of his foot when he was trying to step back. Not much he could do.

 

[Philly Dawg]

You've identified 5 bad plays. We likely ran approximately 30 plays in the first half. You have to look at all of them. I doubt that they were very good in first half alone, but we moved the ball.

 

[Dawgtini]

You've identified 5 bad plays. We likely ran approximately 30 plays in the first half. You have to look at all of them. I doubt that they were very good in first half alone, but we moved the ball.

Exactly. Folks on here act like we lost or that we didn't put up any yards or points. Heck, we had one of the top 3ish offensive outputs in our history, and arguably looked pretty mediocre while doing it, but we won. That's right, We won the damn game. We didn't blow them out, our defense played poorly and their's wasn't too terrible and we still put up a butt load of yards and points. We scored more points on LSU than AU did in our loss.

Some folks are damned and determined to write a self-fulling narrative about our coach and this team. SMDH

 

[57stratdawg]

These were also just clips I noticed while watching the game live. I'm sure if I went play by play there would quite a few others.

Having said that, they played much better in the second half.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

You've identified 5 bad plays. We likely ran approximately 30 plays in the first half. You have to look at all of them. I doubt that they were very good in first half alone, but we moved the ball.

Yes but what would Saban done after Rankin would have just half assed one of the plays above? Fisher? Dabo? Harbaugh?

What did Mullen do after 2?

 

[yjnkdawg]

What purpose does posting this accomplish and what if this was you or your son as the star of the video? How woukd you feel then? Bash the coaches all you want but leave the player bashing out of it, please.

 

[57stratdawg]

I'm not bashing anyone. I've defended our OL on several occasions on different websites, but they didn't play well in the first half of Saturday's game.

 

[Philly Dawg]

I guarantee you it would make a difference who the backup was.

 

[aTotal360]

You're on the wrong board.

 

[RepeatDawg13]

It's pretty apparent now why Rankin was redshirted