Posted this missed read yesterday, but I can't get over how HORRIBLY Bama defended this.
3 Corners playing man. The down safety decided to play zone and gave Jalin Hyatt a smooth 15 yards of clean grass to run past him. If he wasn't playing zone, then he was betting Jalin was going to cut inside so he didn't backpedal.
The top LB is spying Hooker. The middle (Po'o Po'o) is on Small.
I'm pretty sure Bru is at the bottom of the screen. He has a corner playing man, and the OLB (Anderson?) Comes off the line and plays zone in the flat. Ends up double covering Bru. The deep safety is on that side too. So he has Bru over the top.
Bama had 3 defenders on 1 receiver running a 10 yard stop.... they had 3 defenders on 3 receivers on the other side, and the safety didn't get the memo to follow Hyatt anywhere.
But what could Bama have possibly done? If the deep safety rolls over to the middle of the field and takes Hyatt, Bru has 1v1 on the left sideline. He's going to bully that CB or get a DPI.
If the safety on Hyatt backpedals for the deep ball, Hyatt cuts to the middle of the field and puts him on skates.
I'm 99% sure that if we look at Hyatt's deep touchdowns after this, he gets one in this same scenario, and gets another cutting across the middle - reacting to the safety.
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