The Bomb to Barion Brown
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Still can’t believe Mark Stoops called that play! And we made the accurate throw and catch. So out of character
Needs to roll the dice like that more often. Empty the chamber vs teams like that.
Exactly, it’s obvious BVG has a good and accurate deep throw. He’s made some beautiful passes like that this year. We just seem to call so few of them. We have some WR talent so go for it.
Stoops said post game that he and White were confident Ole Miss would bring the house on a blitz, leaving man coverage on Barrion. He noted that it had been rare until that point.
Oddly, there are reams of posts complaining about how often we targeted B. Brown last year on long passes. I’ll grant that Vandergriff seems more accurate, but had we taken shots and missed, we might not have dominated TOP, and given Dart more opportunities.
That play had a “Stevie got loose” feel to it. Actually glad he didn’t score and allowed us to eat more clock.
Stoops said they saw the defense was in man and that there would be a one-on-one opportunity. Kiffin said Stoops went against his tendencies and reputation there, suggesting that the criticism from the UGA game may have played a role. And suggesting Kiffin played to those tendencies.
The question is how much was the play decision to go deep, rather than to go to Key or Fartier for 8-10 yards (or six and hope they could pick up 2) was a Bush Hamden decision.
Been doing it all year in CFB25. Not sure why it took so long for coaches to understand. LOLOL JK TIC
Brown has dropped some passes this year he normally catches, I’m hoping this kick starts his confidence and he becomes the weapon we have been missing. Brown deep and Key underneath.
It was technically accurate and a good throw, but a bit under thrown, so that Brown slowing and giving a little push was necessary. Whether that is planned or not, it ended up being perfect. Brown refusing to step out of bounds was also huge.
That's the old would could game. It took guts and luck for that to work and like Darell Royal said three things can happen on a pass and two of them are bad. It required a perfect throw, 100% concentration by BB and play makers to pull it off. All three conditions were met.
Kiffin seemed hurt that Stoops had gone out of character and beat him. It just wasn't fair.
Brown is historically awful at this very route. This route and catch was by far his most sound effort to date. Physically he should be dominant but he doesn't focus and doesn't do the little things.
Normally brown doesn't get a good release, runs way too close to the sideline, then tries to backpedal rather than highpoint. Combined with his history of drops, the amount of targets he got was absurd and killed our O. Look how much better we were last few weeks without forcing so many touches.
This time he finally gave his qb a little more room to drop the ball in and it was an incredible throw. Great anticipation by the staff on the press man. What a dice roll.
Hopefully its a corner turning moment for he and kattus with them both making critical plays at the end.
I thought he was impressed. He was right about Stoops’ tendency and those analytics are very important to Kiffin. I think his comments were meant as praise.
Our defense plays with a lot of confidence and strut.
So far, our offense has looked a tad tentative. . . or actually pathetic (as in the USCe game).
This might be the shot in the arm they needed to get their strut on to equal our defense.
Stoops thought they would get man coverage. Bush did a great job by motioning Brown-Stevens over to bring the safety down they were originally in 2 high with man underneath. Once Brown-Stevens motioned over the safety dropped down to cover the inside. That left Brown in a favorable one on one. Brock made a great throw and Brown made the catch. Great play design and execution.
He is such a quirky interview. He was really upset and did not want to be there. His intonation is odd, almost Aspergerish. I think he meant it as a compliment.
Caveman I'm convinced the under thrown deep ball is the number one offensive threat in the game. The analytics on successful outcomes on those vs leading a WR on long throws has to be double when you factor in the PI factor. Its a huge advantage to the offensive side and puts the DB in a terrible situation of trying to react without fouling or grabbing. The WR always sees the pass before the DB who just cant look back until its too late and then the WR has already adjusted.
BAMA and UGA went almost exlusively to this the other day and said go defend it. The pass interence part of it is the big thing. I'd work these throws in a lot more and teach my QB to underthrow them a touch everytime. Much more margin for error that trying to lead a guy perfectly down the field.
Truth is as fast as Brown is he hasnt really run away from guys on these routes much at all the past 3 years and not even on this one but it was underthrown just enough for him to do a soft push off and create the space to make the catch.
After all the flack he took over punting against Georgia with 3 minutes left, I'm thinking his inner voice was telling him (NO not again!)
It was one of those calls that if it works the coach looks like a genius but if it does, he looks like a fool.
