2nd play: McCarron to Norwood for 25

Score is 14-0 Alabama late in the 1Q. ND has punted the ball back to Alabama. On first down, Yeldon cutback on a zone run for 7 yards. It's 2nd & 3 at the AL 28.

Here's the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Zx0TMuJuLxQ#t=1608s

Forward to 26:56 if the direct link doesn't work.

Pre-snap read:

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The play: once again, it's a play-action fake with a McCarron rollout right.

Norwood runs a medium out and the H-back Johnson (31) releases from the backfield and goes underneath. Both seem open.

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McCarron goes to Norwood. It's a shorter route and completion than the last big play, but Jackson misses the tackle and Norwood goes for an extra 12+ yards after the catch.

Jackson actually covered well until the cut, then he got turned around, and also flubbed the tackle badly.

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This one isn't a blown read so much as poor technique and a lapse in fundamentals, I think.

Jackson is 0-2.

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Jackson is much tighter, with his back to the QB. He was pretty lazy with his break as the WR broke back on the comeback route.

Farley picked up the H back out of the backfield in man to man as well. There was a little too much separation on his coverage, too.

A perfectly run comeback route (a route that looks like a go route, with the WR sitting down in his break, sharply coming back and to the sideline anywhere from 12 to 15 yards deep) and a perfectly thrown ball are going to lead to a completion nearly every time. But Jackson should have been there to secure the tackle immediately.

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Am I imagining that?

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* on both of these plays McCarron rolls out and any pressure is negated

* on both of these plays they attack the Jackson/Farley side with hi-lo combos

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Percent of passing plays when rolling to Tuitt's side; and
Percent of running plays toward Shembo's side.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls12/story/_/id/8823941/alabama-crimson-tide-off...

"They're good because they are so simple," Jones said, "but, also, they're simple. We knew if we had certain shifts, they would get into certain formations that we felt like we would have good runs against. We were right -- every play, almost. This is not a flaw in Notre Dame. We watched a lot of film. We had a lot of time to figure out what they did in certain formations."

Nearly every rushing play in the first quarter went to Warmack's side of the field. Offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier loved the matchup that the left side of his line -- Warmack, tackle Cyrus Kouandjio and tight end Michael Williams -- had from the left hash against the Notre Dame 3-4. Williams cleared out Irish linebacker Prince Shembo (one tackle, two assists) at will.

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And Spond bites on the playaction, following the RB (and presumably the inside block of the TE). This left the H-back Johnson wide open on a release, which would have been an even easier 1st down for McCarron.

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had thought that Jackson was generally the boundary CB, with Russell to the field.

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the Polo Grounds

2nd play: McCarron to Norwood for 25

Man to man that time

was Jackson hurt for the BCS game?

I believe he played all last year with his shoulder injury.

He basically played with one arm last year.

couple observations

Which I believe is also the Shembo side, right?

I am curious of some ratio break downs

Spond actually - at least one these two (edit)

That's right. Motta played to the boundary. Though I