Bama Recap

Another Saturday another moral victory. I don't even know why I recap these things anymore. Not only is every week the same (Play close early loose late, Seth looks good, defense can't tackle) but nobody reads it anyway. Well except the lady wookie but only because she feels obligated.

So without further ado your weekly recap!

And send all your complaints to our favorite historian who is slowly going crazy surviving the dark Canadian winter.

THE GOOD

The Rebels had two big highlights against Bama. The first was Micheal Hicks' touchdown. An absolutely amazing catch. It looks like he could be the Rebel's big receiver end zone threat they desperately need. Other wise they have to resort to bringing Greg Hardy in for one play when everyone in the stadium knows what's coming. Either way the receiver core is stepping up big time lately after being what I thought would be the weak point of the team.

The other big highlight was Greg Hardy's performance. A lot of it came from scheme as the coaches new the right side was a little weaker missing a starter. Additionally they would over load the right side so that the line would have trouble figuring out who to block so that often a running back was left trying to block Hardy which wasn't going to work. So credit has to go to the coaching staff for recognizing that weak point and maximizing it in the blitz package. Also credit has to go to Hardy who had just an amazingly dominate afternoon and was in the Alabama backfield all day. And easily takes the game ball.

THE BAD

The special teams and overall defensive tackling is still atrocious. I don't want to harp so I'll leave it at that.

THE UGLY

The call. for two reasons. One watching it live I thought they had it right because Hodge clearly stepped out of bounds and it looked like on his own accord because the defensive player had good position. Secondly it looked like to me that the ball hit Hodge first, fell into the defensive players hands who caught it briefly before Hodge ripped it away. But that is not how it was called on the field. And after watching the replays I don't know how "irrefutable" it could be because with multiple replays you couldn't definitively tell who touched the ball. So its hard for the refs to reverse that one.

On the other hand all the complaining about officiating is what losers do. Of course the Rebels have lost a lot since Eddie's been the head coach. But blaming the officials is crap. Make the plays to win the game and don't blame it on the officials later. The Rebels had their chances to win the game but didn't take them. Alabama also missed their chances to put the game away. Make the plays and it won't matter. And complaining will get you no where but beat the next week when you don't focus on the upcoming game but instead waste the week looking back.