And it clearly shows that McCoy should never have even been running this play. He has not feel for the play and if he had excuted it the way the play was designed he may not have been hit form the side and Texas might have scored. Plus Colt obviously does not know how to position his body for this type of hit from a defender.

However, what the analysis really shows is poor coaching all the way around. Calling a play Colt didn’t feel comfortable running and putting your QB in a potential injury situation that early in the game when you clearly had momentum.

As I said…great break down of this play.

Excellent analysis.

I’m really learning a lot about the X’s and O’s from this.

misguided focus on mccoy’s injury as the “cause” for the longhorn’s loss… it has obscured inquiry into the details of the game itself. once you say losing him is the reason for the loss the question as to what happened stops as well. but there are a hell of a lot of questions for both sides that need to be answered:

gilbert certainly had an atrocious time up to till halftime but why? what broke down in the longhorn offense. and, more importantly, what worked after the intermission? and how was alabama able to victimize the defense with the running game after our passing attack stalled completely?

one of the reasons texas is such a formidable foe is they don’t let setbacks – even major ones like losing their starting quarterback – stop them in their tracks. it was clear after halftime that the coaches had scrambled to find solutions and started to apply them in their gameplan. muschamp saw that mcelwain was exploiting something in his defense and you better believe it wasn’t there come the third quarter.

i, for one, would like to know what those answers were and how we can stop them if we ever face them again.

that was one superior piece of analysis. Nothing fancy, but objective and extremely well illustrated. I had not known the pitch was so open. Given the speed of the Tide D, I doubt it would have been a TD, but no doubt it would have been a positive gain. McCoy should have been coached better and should never have taken the physical risk of heading inside on that play when there were clearly no openings. Even if he had taken a loss, a hit from a CB wouldn’t have the injury potential of a hit from a DT.

You can and should coach with the knowledge that the plays you call and run can result in a greater or lesser injury. The injury was a bit of a fluke, but if you call plays which result in your QB getting hit by a DT, you are going to get your QB injured sooner or later. The fact that it happened sooner might have been a fluke, or it might have said something about McCoy.