Saturday, October 23, 2010

Alabama football: Alfred McCullough goes from right offensive tackle utility man

Red tide focuses on best practice habits

By MICHAEL CASAGRANDE

Special Ledger-Enquirer

TUSCALOOSA, wing.-Missed tackles.

Assignments of blowing.

Expensive fines set.

The broken foundations that large scale for the defense of Alabama. Therefore practice this week has been a mixture of two days and game preparation for the Saturday 9 9 of the PM evening visits Mississippi.

For a program and a drive that prides itself on mastering the basics, have failures contribute in large part to 35-21 in South Carolina last Saturday's loss has players and coaches looking for answers.

Make no mistake: malpractice in weeks habits are a main culprit, said.

"" There are some basic things you can never get away,"said coach Nick Saban."…In spite of not to meet everyone and bring them to the Earth (in practice), you must get into the correct position thud boy and the hips and do all those things.As well, we have towards and towards and envelope our guys long throughout the year to finish, you know, terminar.Thud the corredor.Acabado.Hacer what you are supposed to do. what well, we did that great as a team, what happens in the game? "We started losing tackles."

Aspirations are particularly damaging in the backfield against South Carolina.

Saban noted the fourth-and-2 in the first quarter when Alabama seemed Gamecocks quarterback Stephen Garcia is confined in the backfield.But García break it off the left side of the scrum contain where was blowing, and a first down kept business unit.One suit later, a touchdown pass South Carolina gave a 14-3 lead.

It is more important than any other factor in a tackle body positioning.

"I mean, we get ahead of them, the corridor of squaring and only thud them up instead of just taking them to the ground," nose guard said Josh Chapman.

Since learned how more difficult with the first defeat in 19 games Saban said players are now willing to correct the problems that existed prior to travel to Colombia last week.

Another matter requiring attention involves over-aggressive anticipation of the counts of adjustment.In six games this season, Alabama has been marked 11 times for jump racing.At this point in the season a year ago, Alabama defenders had a single flag set and finished the season with only five in total.

While some of the indicators this year were charged to special teams, most belong to the line of Defense, including three of the four tormented in the four Sur.Dos Carolina arrived in units of touchdown, while the former was rejected because succeeded to first move the Gamecocks touchdown.

"It is disciplined," said defensive end Marcell Dareus, who jumped on the line of scrimmage twice against Florida.""We must work on ello.Es something you do not need to be ocurriendo.Trabajamos that in practice (defensive line) (Bo) coach Davis, is discipline justa.Tenemos work on this."

Now with a team of Mississippi who likes to run the option to arrive at Bryant-Denny Stadium, discipline will be needed more than ever for the defense of such radical marea.Ajustes compete with fundamental reminders in practice.

The rudder is quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, Oregon, which may be the worst nightmare of a tackler unstable transfer.

""The man has a great feeling to run the offense is running now, which is more than one offence of Oregon, style"Saban Masoli said.""Still has a lot of the typical Houston Nutt things that have made - down the Hill, runs the power, but the option of the same, the boy is extremely rápido.Él is physical as a corredor.Es a good lanzador.Él is a good climber and works by launching as a mountaineer, so it is probably the best type of combination we have seen for a while."


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