I mean... nobody calls a perfect game. Some of Hetherman's calls in the game were bad and predictable too. (I can go down the line) Saban critiqued him as well.
I think this is a very hard balance for Dawson this season with limited QB who he has to protect and a HC who wants to pound rock and then a defense geared to take away..
Hear me out we pay him a 1/3 of his deal to ride the bench for 12 games.. He can earn the rest by playing in the playoffs and causing ints... ( He played in 3 games this year)
Ehhh. They had a chance to close out SMU and failed to. Beck actually played well that game and it should never had gone to OT.
He had 10 catches for 122 yards, brother.
Cot ****
IF he is good and only good for 3 games let him play the ones that matter healthy
I think Dawson is predictable and is not creative. Multiple 3 and outs. Zero first half points...again. I think he's slow to adjust.
This, it's the first time I feel like the moment got to him
I think we should have played more press coverage but we were down a couple guys at CB in the 1st half. We did get caught in that nascar package a few times but credit to Indiana for scheming against it. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap to the other guy. But overall we only gave up 20. Defense gave us a chance to win that game. We aren't having this convo if Beck doesnt throw that pick and we go down and score the game winning TD.
By no means blaming him but I feel like this was his worst coaching job. I'm not hung up on press as much as others are. It's the space we gave the receivers in general. I think Heatherman was trying to make it half to get Lucas back since we were short handed. Which I'm not mad at. Most importantly to clarify and reiterate not blaming Heatherman as he is the main reason we were in the playoffs and nearly won the whole thing. I feel like we coached tight and Indiana didn't. It showed in the final score but we will be back
Idk man I’m not an Xs and Os guy but when your offense is as stagnant as it was the entire first half you’ve gotta try and get your best playmaker the ball in space and get something going. I mean Beck had tons of time to throw. There were multiple times in the first half especially when there wasn’t a single route past 10 yards against 7 guys dropped in zone you gotta have some route concepts to open it up a little when your QBs got all day to throw. Like I said though, not an Xs and Os guyHe had 10 catches for 122 yards, brother.
Not sure what more you wanted to see.
It's always easy to place blame on paycalling, especially using hindsight. Kids need to execute. If Beck doesn't throw into double coverage, and he hits Malachi on the crosser, or Bauman on the seam, we're not even having this conversation.
That's the QB, not the playcalling.