SIAP Rose Bowl Highlights ALL-22

Submitted by jbibiza on January 4th, 2024 at 10:19 AM

A deeper look at the big plays.   (ALL-22 means wide angle that shows all the players)

reshp1

January 4th, 2024 at 11:26 AM ^

It's nuts how deep we play our safeties compared to Alabama. It's obvious just from the framing of the camera and how much more zoomed out they have to be for our defense. We have a guy at least 15 yards deep and dropping at the snap most plays it seems. It's such a luxury to have a front seven that can hold up so we can play so conservatively on the back end.

Another thing I noticed is how well our guys play their cushions so it looks like guys are open, but they are just close enough to break on the ball and get there while the pass is in the air.

CTSgoblue

January 4th, 2024 at 4:09 PM ^

It's amazing how much more you can see on All-22.  I watched a lot of it and was surprised at how far back the high safety was most of the game. But I can 100% see how it caused some indecisiveness because they did a good time staying over top of the WRs.

I think there was a play 1:30 before halftime where Bama got a big chunk.  Paige was playing 20yds back at the snap and backpeddled to 30 yds.  But he came up and made a great open field tackle that probably saved a TD.  Smarter people than me would know if he could have done that if he played closer, but I think the point was to prevent a big play and he did exactly that.

Also, on the CJ sideline grab, JJ was flushed out of the pocket but he had Morris open on a nice crosser that was an 85yd TD if had 0.5 more seconds to see it. In fact, I saw a few good routes that put the defenders in conflict, even if we didn't pay them off.

On his fumble play, Milroe was scrambling on what looked like an RPO--he had his receiver open if Sainristil hadn't done a good job of disrupting the QB and forcing him out of his plan.

They put a lot of trust on Sabb to make that stick on the Johnson corner blitz.  He slowed down a little to make sure he did it, because that receiver had a lot of room if he didn't.

Lastly, I forgot that we had to run another guy on the field on the last punt during regulation.  Could have contributed to Thaw's jitteryness as the return team didn't look ready.

ProfMurdoc

January 5th, 2024 at 7:53 PM ^

I can delete if this is against rules but I accidentally deleted the alternate ESPN feeds from my DVR. Does anyone have a link or a drive with like the sky cam and the All-22 full games? Are these available on ESPN+? I would like to bask in this for a while in many forms.