Alabama overview How OK can beat Alabama? 1.Finish drives with TD’s or FG’s. 2.Score at least 21 points 3 Hit big explosive plays in the running game and passing game. 4. John Mateer has no turnovers – INT’s or fumbles. 5.Use Mateer as a true dual threat. 6.Win the turnover battle. 7.Win time of possession. 8.Win the field position game by keeping Alabama pinned deep in their own territory with great special teams and defense. 9.Play ugly. 10.Wait for Bama to turn over the ball. 11.blitz Ty. Use what GA, LSU, and Auburn did on defense to harass Ty. 12. Force Ty to throw at least one pick. 13.Force Ty to fumble. How Alabama can beat Georgia? 1. Finish drives with TD’s. 2. Score at least 24 points which means avoiding lots of 3 and outs. 3. Dominate time of possession with long drives ending in TD’s 4. Maintain a good run/pass balance 5. Use the hurry-up offense. 6. Look at how Ole Miss beat OK. 7. Stay out of 3rd and 15 or longer. That means avoiding taking sacks on 1st down particularly. 8. Ty has no turnovers – INT’s or fumbles. 9. Ty must handle the blitzes. 10. Have blitz beating plays ready and execute them. 11. Make Venables pay for blitzing. 12. Ty must be willing to throw the ball away under extreme pressure. 13. Make FG’s and no special team errors 14. Win the turnover battle. 15. Pressure Mateer and blitz Mateer. 16. Stop OK on 3rd down and 4th down. 17. Do not allow OK to hit explosive plays for TD’s or long plays that put OK inside the Bama 15 yd line. 18. Set the edge every play and have gap integrity 19. Bend, but don’t break defense. 20. Limit penalties. Upon Further review of Alabama loss to Arizona Bama lost badly by 21 pts to Arizona 96 to 75 on Saturday. Bama led at half 41-39, and came out and lost the game in the first 8 minutes of the 2nd half. Bama led 43-39 with 19.23 secs left in the game. At the 16-minute TO with 15.58 left in the game, Arizona had taken a 4 pt lead at 49-45. And then over the next 6 mins, Arizona went on a 18-6 to take a 16-point lead. When the 12-minute TV timeout occurred with 10.41 left in the game, Bama was down 67-51 as Arizona went on a 28-8 from 19.23 mins left to 10.41 left. And the game was over at that point as Bama was in a too big of a hole and Bama was reeling and confused. And Arizona was in full control of the game and playing the game at their pace and the way they wanted to play. Bama had only two players in double figures Philon had 24 pts, 10 rebs, and 5 assists, but had 5 TO’s Latrell Wrightsell had 21 pts, 3 rebs, 2 assists, and 1 steal. Aiden Sherrell had 5 rebs and 8 blocks. Worst coaching job I’ve seen from Nate Oates in a long time. Why didn’t he call a time-out when Arizona went from down 4 to up 10 or up 12 to stop the bleeding and stop the momentum. Why didn’t he get his team to settle down and work their offense. Why didn’t Jalil Bethea get more minutes? One game does not make a season, but against three final four teams in Purdue, Gonzaga, and Arizona, Bama has been exposed as not a top ten team. There are still over 20 games left in the regular season plus post-season games, but Bama has to get better if Bama wants to make another final four. One game does not make a season, but three losses to top 10 teams shows weaknesses and issues that must be fixed if Bama wants to make a final four and win a natty. No team will go undefeated, but these three loses show that Bama has a ceiling that will be hard to break through. Alabama is now 7-3 on the season. Next up for Bama is a game against So Florida on Wednesday, Dec 17 at 7 pm. Three games left before the start of SEC play. Bama needs to go 3-0.