They have the talent to now. Saban was run heavy when he didn’t have the pieces in the pass game
You talk about exception not the rule… what the **** are we doing then. Thought the whole goal of Mario rad zo Ruiz, the staff we hired, was to get to that top 5ish level next to say a Clemson or OU and recruit our asses off
Yes I do believe the optics of this game dictated much of the play calling in terms of making it a competitive game. The number 1 problem on this team is simply talent in a couple of areas. So do take the risk of forcing the pass game so that maybe you get hot maybe you get blown out by 30 points. We just need to get thru the season adequately enough to pull a great recruiting class. Sad reality but state of the program after years of manny recruiting