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Interesting Article in Wall Street Journal - Football
Jan 11, 2018, 8:56 PM
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Article in Jan 9 WSJ entitled "Football's Secret Documents." The Journal requested past game plans from prominent teams under public records laws. They all refused. Here is one interesting excerpt from the article:
"Despite the secrecy, the Journal was able to review Saban's defensive game plan for his most recent game: Alabama's win over Clemson in the College Football Playoff semifinal last week.
The 56-page document is a window into the immense amount of preparation that goes into one college-football game. The first half breaks down Clemson's offensive personnel, formations and plays; the second half is for diagrams of defensive plays Alabama planned to use in the semifinal.
There are also three pages at the end with handwritten notes that match Saban's penmanship. The game plan was the result of analyzing six Clemson games: five against the best teams the Tigers played this year, plus last year's national championship against Alabama.
The most important takeaways are written like this: "WHEN THEY WANT TO GO FAST," The game plan says in big, underlined red font, "THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SNAP THE BALL IN UNDER 15 SECONDS."
Then there was even a page with emojis. Two enormous nose emojis, to be precise. In football, the player who lines up behind or between the tackle is known as the "sniffer back," and Alabama coaches wanted their defense to watch Clemson's sniffer back carefully. They believed his actions could tip the type of play the Tigers were running. So they circled this player and wrote "TRACK THE SNIFFER!!!"
It is a very interesting, long article.
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lol we should get the "sniffer" back
Jan 11, 2018, 9:04 PM
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to make it look like we're gonna throw when
we run and run when we're gonna throw.
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Re: lol we should get the "sniffer" back
Jan 11, 2018, 9:08 PM
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I would love to see what was in the entire 56 pages of Bama's plan against Clemson. Whatever it was, it worked.
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Alabama's 56-Page Game Plan Against Clemson. If
Jan 12, 2018, 12:32 AM
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Wall Street Journal got it, why can't Clemson get it under FOIA!
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Re: Alabama's 56-Page Game Plan Against Clemson. If
Jan 12, 2018, 8:35 AM
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I doubt it was voluntarily submitted to the WSJ. Leaked would be a better descriptor. Someone on the staff who either peddled it for profit, or who isn't happy with Saban.
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Re: Interesting Article in Wall Street Journal - Football
Jan 12, 2018, 12:47 AM
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That’s why you should have about 5 plays you save for the Playoffs and then change your tendencies from the regular season. Do the unexpected.
Some of you may remember when DF’s team beat Penn State in I believe the Gator or Citrus Bowl. All season long we ran the ball, but in the BG Rodney Williams came out throwing on First down and we kept Penn St off balance most of the game. Once we established the passing game it opened up the running game.
That extra week Bama had to prepare for Clemson IMO was huge.
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Re: Interesting Article in Wall Street Journal - Football
Jan 12, 2018, 8:38 AM
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Sounds like UGA's game plan. They threw much more than their tendency.
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Re: Interesting Article in Wall Street Journal - Football
Jan 12, 2018, 8:27 AM
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They probably released it because they know we aren't going to show up with the same garbage offense next season so the plan is useless.
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