I watched the replay. Several times.
Yes, that is the rule and everything that anyone has said otherwise is incorrect.
Yes.
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the bolded part is correct, imoYes, that is the rule and everything that anyone has said otherwise is incorrect.
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It was a horse collar tackle. It was actually a fairly textbook example with the difference being that Daniels' athleticism in not going down immediately and the speed and momentum of both players carried them both forward and then 90 degrees to their right as the tackle was being made, and finally sent Daniels rolling toward the endzone.
This is NOT to say that he was "slung" down horizontally or sideways. He was pulled abruptly straight backwards to his back on the ground by the nameplate area of his jersey. It happened like this.
The Bama tackler grabbed Daniels with both hands by the nameplate area of the jersey (condition 1 of 2) and pulled abruptly (condition 2 of 2). As the result of Daniels' strength, speed, and momentum, this did not immediately pull him to the ground but jerked him around and they both spun such that they were facing the sideline as opposed to the goal line. The Bama tackler now pulled forcefully again (or in continuation) pulling Daniels by the nameplate area directly backward -- exactly in the manner of the "classic" horse collar -- taking Daniels all the way to the ground. Full stop.
The second tackler momentarily interrupted the abrupt backward fall (together with their momentum) but Daniels hit the ground from the horse collar landing on his back. The people who wish to see Daniels pulled by the designated area abruptly to his back can see it right there.
But again momentum sent Daniels rolling toward the goal line, after he had been pulled flat onto his back and his athleticism, along with a friendly teammate's tug set him upright. One shouldn't be distracted from the essentials by this conclusion.
This is all easy to see at slow speed or simply by toggling the play and pause button on the clip in the tweet. There is no reason the replay booth and the network both should have missed this since they both have the ability to slow and pause and replay until all is clear. I could do it on an iphone.
I made some stills but I am tired. Look at it for yourself and I think you'll see. iirc the moment where you can pause when they are sideways to see to classic horse-collar abrupt backwards pull of Daniels to flat on his back is at 2 seconds on the tweet.
Interesting movement overnight. %money has tipped in Mizzou’s favor, yet the spread has stayed the same, and the morning line favors us more. Hmm, Vegas wanting money to come in on Mizzou it seems. Makes me think they know Burden will be out or very limited, and/or we get a favorable whistle (believe this when I see it).
If you want to make matters worse, #3 came in from the side and launched at Daniels. Luckily for Daniels, he missed. Sure looks like from a multitude of plays that Saban had given the order to knock Daniels out of the game. That’s what eventually happened (and was allowed to by the refs), and the game was over at that point.
Tells me that when we are on the road, Banks goes into a shell and gets too conservative with his game plan. This is when we see the soft zone plan the most. Can you somehow get these numbers to him to show him that he needs to be aggressive on the road, too? Lol!I was curious about some stats around our performances home vs away while Heupel has been here and so I crunched some numbers first on defensive performance. I simply averaged out every teams points allowed while at home and on the road and then looked at the two to see a change in performance over the last 2 and a half seasons. I excluded any neutral site games.
The last column, Performance Change, is the difference in PPG that they average on the road, vs what they do at home. The lower the percentage, the more consistent your defense whether home or away. This is not an indictment on whether or not your defense is good. Look at Ole Miss for example, they have the 2nd best consistency on their defense, but they rank 8th in the SEC in PPG at home. Their defense performs ~10% worse on the road.. so not a huge difference whether home or away. Surprisingly, Vanderbilt and Miss State actually perform better on the road. Or maybe not surprisingly when you figure Vandy averages 15 fans a game and Miss State players probably hate cowbells.
For us, there is a larger difference. We are 8th. When we are on the road the defense performs ~39% worse then it does when we are at home. We are 5th in the SEC over this time period in defensive PPG while at home. We are 9th in the SEC over this time period in defensive PPG on the road. Tomorrow, if I have time, I'm going to look at this same thing but for offense.
Edit: posted the wrong chart when I was at my computer and just realized it. I’m not at my computer now.I’ll respond to this post tomorrow with the chart.
