[Game Thread] #9 Texas @ #4 Alabama - September 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET - eviltoast
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4 Alabama 9 Texas Sat 9/9, 7:00 PM ET ESPN Bryant-Denny Stadium
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    1 year ago

    Ewers’ development since last year is impressive. I had my doubts he’d amount to much of anything. Looking very good against a supposedly solid D.

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    I was sort of half-heartedly rooting for Bama, but I didn’t feel great about it. I am particularly NOT looking forward to the fans of two-loss Alabama whining that they deserve to be in the playoff against whatever one-loss conference champ beats them out.

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    1 year ago

    Fitting it ends on an offsides penalty. I genuinely don’t know why defenses jump on 4th and short in situations like that where it’s an obvious bait for the penalty

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    1 year ago

    This game has suddenly become like two boxers standing in the middle of the ring and punching each other!

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    1 year ago

    I will maintain that whatever else, using these timeouts is the right move. You guarantee that each one saves the maximum possible amount of time.

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        1 year ago

        Exactly. I guess they don’t want the stress of being on offense without timeouts, but you have multiple clock management tools on offense, from clocking the ball, to throwing past the sticks, to getting out of bounds, to simply doing shit quickly. They’re there, and the more time you have, the less you will need to rely on them.

        You have almost no legitimate equivalents on defense. Every single timeout you use against a team playing four-minute offense saves you 39 seconds of game clock. I’d say that it’s always worthwhile to burn two, and it’s only going to be rarely that keeping the final TO is worth that much time.