BOL Round Table

Understood. But we never were able to run the ball effectively LAST YEAR against decent teams (Arkansas, South Carolina, LSU and Auburn)

I was interested in seeing how Jeff Stoutland coached up our O-line. I was not impressed with Miami's O-line last year, but
gave him the benefit-of-the-doubt that he lacked talent at that moribund and pathetically-corrupt program. However, we KNOW
what the talent is on our team and I was underwhelmed with our O-line play. I think Jeff Stoutland needs to get to work NOW
and correct some things and fast. We all know that CNS is not patient in demanding excellence and if he does not get it, he
quickly moves to correct deficiencies. Hey Jeff, if you don't believe me, call Austin and ask to speak to Major Applewhite, how
about it.......We need to get better fast, Penn State will do the same things Kent State did with better athletes and if we don't adapt, we could have some tough struggles with Arkie and Gators.......RTR!

First, no offensive line is a well-oiled machine in the first game. Second, Kent State had a pretty good defense. They were a top 10 in the nation defense last year. Third, Bama didn't even run it's most effective running play from last year, the Wildcat, because they wanted to keep it vanilla and not give Penn State too much info. The O-line returns four starters from last years group. Trust me, they will be fine.

You really have no clue...the line is not overrated but overanalyze please

Unfortunately, you can't have everything and there's a limited amount of time to work on what you want to do I love a run-oriented offense, but Coach Saban wants balance and is willing to let the run game be less than it could be so that we can have enough of a passing game to create balance. I can't argue with that approach, but it's painful sometimes to see the talent we have at running back and on the OL and yet not be able to shove it down someone's throat.

That's because we ran it less than every other play & more than likely sprung a couple of big ones that brought up the average. Not to mention, having JJ to hand the ball off to helped that play be more successful as well.

If the wildcat is our big money play this year, it'll be thanks to the addition of Blake Sims to the playbook. Unless you run block close to the way we did back in 2008, or a WR with size & speed like Julio to possibly have the RB hand the ball off to, or you have a speed demon who can also keep the defense off balance by being able to zip a couple of passes into a small hole to pick up some big time yardage, you probably don't want any part of the wildcat.

The pistol is by far our best running formation.