Curious about your take on the mock game prep?

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So we take our 1st team O and put it against defensive backups. Same for 1st team D going vs. the O backups.

Well, the 1st teams dominate like you’d really hope they would. But does this really tell us anything? I’ve always been the believer in the 1s vs 1s no matter what. Now granted, this was to prep for stuff that we might encounter in the actual game next week and was NOT just a practice session where you could probably have 1s vs 1s. Do you agree with the approach here? I’m more inclined to think you get a false sense of security/accomplishment doing this and seeing your starters do well vs backups but maybe I’m overreacting? I am glad that our starters looked the part is this the best way to prep for a real game? 1s vs 2s? Your thoughts?

Mock Game Prep

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Scrimmage I agree with you - one vs. one and two vs. two. Game prep I am fine with the offense one’s going against the defense two’s working their offensive game plan while the 1st D working against the 2nd O simulating what the coaches believe they will see from Alabama.

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I like ones vs Ones. Until we get back to great depth where our 2’s are as good as other people’s 1’s. Right now we do not have that.