Watching the Bama Game...

[121Josey]

and it is killing me. Pretty good first drive with Dak carrying the ball. He throws two bad passes to JRob and the drive stalls. But there was not a single running play to JRob called. (Gary says, "Tough play for a running back, especially Josh Robinson." WTF?)

Bama gets the balls and drives to around the 30. It is 4th-5. Bama goes for it but there is a false start. Then they punt it inside the 5.

State gets the ball. Incomplete pass. With a perfect blitz by Bama, a WTF are you doing Dak, and nowhere to go by JRob results in a safety.

I hate to think what might have been if Mullen had broken in JRob on that first drive or if State would have held them on that 4th down. But it shouldn't surprise me since the LSU kicker kicked it out of bounds the week before when they had the game in hand. Dead Indians.

(Lot of C.Jones at DE in this game.)

Next drive. Run and catch by Holloway. Bad timing b/t Dak and Rojo. Shanked punt of 24 yards.

Next drive. Finally get the ball to Bear. Run it to the Bama 40. Bad timing Dak-Rojo. Dak stood up at LOS. Dak INT.

 

[57stratdawg]

I think Dak predetermined a lot of throws in that game and some of them ended up in Bama DB hands.

We HAVE to start getting bigger chunks of yards against Bama. I hate seeing us fight and struggle for every yard, and then Auburn slice them up 30 yards at a time.

 

[121Josey]

Yeah. From the last drive of the first half on, State started winning battles. Play-calling in the first half was über-conservative. Then State started playing its game. Drives where Bear touched the ball usually turned out well. Against Bama, you can't keep calling the same play - 3rd n Dak - and expect it to work.

But when you're down 19-0, not much pressure.

 

[patdog]

I think in a way, that blind pass he threw up in the LSU game that went to Jameon Lewis for a long TD hurt him later in the year. He threw that ball blindly and it worked. So he went back to that when he got pressure in the Bama game and it bit him in the ***. We got plenty of yards against Bama once we got going. But the turnovers killed us.

 

[DancingRabbit]

Huh? He didn't throw that pass blind. He was looking downfield right at Jameon.

Maybe you're thinking about a different play. I've seen that replay a good many times and thought you were mis-remembering, but went back to see it again to make sure.

Go to 1:56

I think in a way, that blind pass he threw up in the LSU game that went to Jameon Lewis for a long TD hurt him later in the year. He threw that ball blindly and it worked. So he went back to that when he got pressure in the Bama game and it bit him in the ***. We got plenty of yards against Bama once we got going. But the turnovers killed us.

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

I think in a way, that blind pass he threw up in the LSU game that went to Jameon Lewis for a long TD hurt him later in the year. He threw that ball blindly and it worked. So he went back to that when he got pressure in the Bama game and it bit him in the ***. We got plenty of yards against Bama once we got going. But the turnovers killed us.

You must be thinking of a play in a different game, because this is no where close to an accurate description of the TD pass to Lewis against LSU.

 

[121Josey]

Hopefully they have worked on using Bear as a bailout a la Mike Evans at A&M. Dak showed improvement on his touch passes in the spring game, but I want to see if he can throw it up for grabs or hit the pylon in the corner of the end zone. In the Bama game, Bear had his guy by almost a foot. No way you don't let Bear go vertical for one. Dak had a chance to let it fly on the failed jump-pass right before the half.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

The Safety was on Robinson

he didn't have much room to go anywhere, but he certainly had enough to get back to the line of scrimmage or possibly gain a yard. He was trying to do too much by bouncing it outside and ultimately taking a safety.

I thought that just set the tone for the rest of the game. I was there and the crowd was certainly much more into it after that happened. The whole thing was just sad. We were better than Bama in that game, but turnovers doomed us. Also, whenever Bama needed something to go their way ( the TD/Fumble Replay, Simms picking up 2 HUGE first downs on the ground in their final drive, etc, they always got it)

Sucks being that close to the West Title and not delivering.

 

[codeDawg]

Agree. He was just trying to do too much in a situation where the minimum required is crossing back over the LOS. There was no reason to try to kick that outside in the end zone. I think everyone will remember that lesson for a long time.

 

[aTotal360]

Just error on the side of overthrowing it. Dak's picks tend to be severly underthrown. But I agree. We need to try more 50/50 balls to Bear.

 

[birdawg]

Just error on the side of overthrowing it. Dak's picks tend to be severly underthrown. But I agree. We need to try more 50/50 balls to Bear.

Totally agree. Every Dak INT I can recall of top of head was underthrown. Luckily this isn't difficult to overcome and I'm sure he's aware

 

[Junction John]

I chalk this up to too much positive hype about "back shoulder throws" earlier

Just error on the side of overthrowing it. Dak's picks tend to be severly underthrown. But I agree. We need to try more 50/50 balls to Bear.

in the season... It looked to me like he went to the well about 10 too many times toward the end of the year, notably in the Bama game.

 

[aTotal360]

I like Dak's back shoulder throws in the back corner of the endzone. **