…we left a lot of points on the board yesterday afternoon.

on the field, i think you mean.

Wife’s friend recently got engaged, so I had little choice. Doesn’t seem like I missed much in terms of scoring, but I’ll watch the replay tonight.

There were a few play call problems (not going for it on that 4th and inches after the fake punt?), but Ole Miss has one of the top Redzone D’s in the nation, and we won by 19 so yeah….. can’t complain too much.

That was one of the top 10 defensive performances I’ve ever seen out of Alabama….. ever.

I am not as big of a critic of the playing call in the red zone as others. We had two big penalties on separate drives that changed what we were able to do. We also had two fumbles, one of which McElroy recovered, the other Ole Miss recovered. I am sure what stands out to most everyone is the two or three passes to Julio when he was double-covered. I think it is fair to say that Alabama’s execution was greatly lacking, and Ole Miss did a pretty good job with some creative blitzes. Still, I thought it came down to more poor execution than anything else.

…has at least as many dropped passes as Peek, and I doubt he has more TDs. Whatever generosity or criticism we’re gonna give to one, I think it’s fair to give the same to the other.

Personally, I’m not down on either one of them. Yesterday made clear that Julio Jones is definitely not playing at 100%, and — as others have mentioned the past few weeks — he still does a tremendous job blocking (yesterday’s hold aside) and playing world’s best decoy for other receivers. And Peek should have made the TD catch after the TD catch that Julio should have made, but it’s not like it was the single-easiest catch in the world for a TE to make. And since we’re all ready to forgive Reamer for his two special teams blunders a couple games back, I’m pretty sure Peek can make up for his yesterday.

I wouldn’t trade either of these guys for another WR or TE in the country.

This is a better team than last year’s in terms of raw talent in my personal opinion. I think it’s frustrating because they could be better because we may see key lapses or petite errors (well dropping passes has to be cut down on), but this is a better team top to bottom. The defense is more dominant and the offense seems to me to have more diversity in terms of passing ability (can call more plays it seems) but yeah, I think you need two receivers on the field at the same time who are catching the stuff thrown their way—that would really make it hard for other teams.

Very happy to see Ingram and the O line getting it done when needed though. I would say, however, that they cannot be so one dimensional at the end of the year when they play Florida. Not saying they are as one dimensional as last year’s team, but sometimes they can rely on that alone to win and I’d hate for them to be in too much a habit when they face UF who has as good a defense.

Is it too early to ask for a #1 #2 rematch in the SEC championship?

The only thing I can figure, having been at the game, is that the coaches were identifying something that the team wasn’t able to execute. Julio matched up favorably against Ole Miss’ corners: I think they were somewhat short. I think the pass rush affected McElroy’s ability to spread the ball.

But some Alabama fans (and the media) have lobbied for more balls to Julio. Despite the McElroy quote from earlier in the week, McElroy tried to give Julio the ball more this time. Julio dropped an easy first pass to start the game.

I just find it a little humorous that after having not thrown the ball towards Julio a lot this season, the game that Julio does get thrown to a lot, people think he’s locking on him, a la JPW. Yes, I will agree that there were a few passes that should not have been thrown to Julio (seems to be a bit of double/triple covered passes), but either we’re going to throw it to him or not.

OTS mentioned the two or three things that I think I held us back. 1) McElroy’s performance was the biggest factor to me. His obsession with throwing to Julio caused him to miss open receivers that could have made 1st downs and possibly even TDs. 2) Playcalling was plain and vanilla. I had just told my son we need to run something outside then we ran a pitch to Ingram. We need a little more variety 3) Penaltys- especially inside the 10. Need to get these things corrected because we still have some tough competition ahead. ROLL TIDE!!!

said about our team when he saw them get off the bus in Oxford: "When Alabama arrived yesterday, they looked like cloned, diciplined, suited warriors. Their whole demeanor is one of order and discipline. They were wearing coats and ties (like Alabama did years ago) and they looked like individual parts of a machine. There was no “individuality” displayed at all. Just a body. A body of soldiers. It was really impressive."

has the ability to make up ground when the ball is the air. I really like all our DB’s except Johnson. How does he get to cover a fast receiver 1 on 1?

Kareem Jackson played like an All American yesterday, so did Reamer. And Nico Johnson looked very good for his first real playing time.

whats your initial thoughts on Nico? I thought he looked preety damn good.

Was because Ole Miss was blowing up our OL, a thing I was concerned about before the game, and getting a ton of pressure on Greg. Therefore, he couldn’t go through his reads like he normally does, and ended up going to his first read, which was normally Julio.