Auburn Tigers DC Ron Roberts Makes Costly Blunder vs. Alabama
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00:02 Who's your number one loser of the weekend that was?
00:06 >> Yeah, it's defensive coordinator for the Auburn Tigers, that's Ron Roberts.
00:10 Now there's no shame in your game for losing a game to Alabama.
00:12 You were favored there to, you know, favored to lose, I should say, at that
00:16 point. But when you have one play as a defensive coordinator to take a look and
00:20 say, we practice these game situations, this is how it should work.
00:24 It's almost like a brain cramp or a brain freeze, because you got the lucky bounce,
00:27 which means the snap that went by Mill Row and he takes his own sack back.
00:30 My goodness, Alabama's gonna blow this football game here.
00:33 I know you play the right defense.
00:35 We call it a six defensive football.
00:37 Everybody line up at the goal line here.
00:38 Let's just make sure nobody gets behind us.
00:40 But that's not with a two man pass rush and a spy.
00:43 That's everybody get back, but we're gonna rush four players to keep the pocket up so
00:46 the quarterback can't stand back there for 15 seconds and wave everybody open.
00:50 And somebody in the secondary makes a mistake.
00:52 And I'm not even asking Ben, let's line up in a, you know, eight man box and
00:56 bring the entire house.
00:57 You can throw it straight up and maybe bond makes a play in one on one coverage.
01:01 But if you just had at least four pass rushes here,
01:03 that play doesn't happen here because no one doesn't have a ton of time and
01:07 probably makes an errant throw probably short of the end zone,
01:09 which is the only guy that probably would have been open.
01:12 The fact that you ran a spy on a play with a quarterback had zero chance of
01:16 rushing told me everything because if that guy even came on a delayed blitz,
01:20 it would have made a difference.
01:21 But he just hung back there 10 yards behind the line in front of the line of
01:24 scrimmage that, hey, I'm gonna mirror you left and right.
01:26 And Milroy's probably looking at the guy going like,
01:28 I don't even know what you're doing here.
01:29 You're not gonna rush me.
01:29 I'll take my time.
01:31 And by the way, end up with one on one coverage like seven guys in the end zone.
01:34 Absolutely hilarious.
01:35 Big time win for Alabama.
01:37 I enjoyed that entire football game, but come on now.
01:39 As a defensive coordinator,
01:40 you're paid to make the right decisions in that spot.
01:42 It was the absolute wrong decision, Ben.
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