College football fans are so utilized to hearing Nick Saban get asked about his winning play calls on the sport’s mostsignificant phase that it’s disconcerting when he has to discuss magnificent failures.
Monday night after the Rose Bowl was one of those uncommon minutes.
With Alabama dealingwith fourth-and-goal to sendout its College Football Playoff semifinal versus Michigan to a 2nd overtime, the Crimson Tide ended up running quarterback Jalen Milroe straight into Michigan’s defensive line where he was stopped well short of the end zone.
It was a complicated scene in genuine time and most fans couldn’t think the play call in that scenario.
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So what occurred? Or rather, what was expected to occur? Here’s how Saban broke it down.
Per Saban:
“We called 3 plays. One they called time-out, one we called [a] timeout, and the last one that didn’t work. The reality that it didn’t work made it a truly bad call. You understand what I indicate? But we called timeout since we had a bad appearance. We had a excellent appearance on the veryfirst one. They needto haveactually understood it. But [offensive coordinator Tommy Rees] simply felt like the finest thing we might do was have a quarterback run, which was one of our two-point plays for this videogame. And the ball was on the three-yard line which is simply like a two-point play. But we didn’t get a block so it didn’t work. We didn’t carryout it