Bill O’Brien gets roasted following Alabama’s upset loss to Texas A&M

Bill O’Brien and Alabama’s offense struggled at times to Texas A&M. On one hand, the Aggies have a really good defense and coordinator in Mike Elko. On the other hand, the offense moved it into the red zone, but it struggled once it got there.

On one particular drive in the fourth quarter caught Alabama fans’ ire. With Alabama losing 31-27, the Tide meticulously drove the length of the field and looked to score the go-ahead touchdown.

Instead, O’Brien’s offense ran 3 straight passing plays from the Aggies 3-yard-line. John Metchie lost 3 yards on the first play, and Bryce Young then threw it incomplete to Jaleel Billingsly. On third and goal, Young’s pass fell incomplete to Slade Boden.

The Crimson Tide settled for a field goal to cut the Aggies lead to 31-30. However, had Alabama scored a touchdown on that drive, the game’s outcome could have been affected.

Earlier in the first half, Young threw an INT on 3rd and goal from the Aggies 1-yard-line, too.

The red zone issues certainly had an impact on Alabama losing to Texas A&M. The Tide’s offense rolled up 522 total yards, including 153 of them on the ground.

Needless to say, fans weren’t enthused by O’Brien’s play-calls, especially in the red zone.

Hopefully Bill O’Brien is good at flipping burgers because that’s the only future he has

— Jackson Heckert (@jheckert02) October 10, 2021

Not all that shocked that Bill O’Brien lost a football game in Texas pic.twitter.com/asNhd2m0qi

— Space Lawyer (@rrossjd) October 10, 2021

Shoutout to Bill O’Brien. Did us Aggie Texans fans a huge solid 🥰

— Philip Berger (@_philipberger_) October 10, 2021

Bill O’Brien’s decision to throw 3 straight times inside the 5 yard line is up there with the Seahawks not giving the ball to Lynch in the Super Bowl in terms of the dumbest play calling blunders in football history.

— Harrison Holmes (@harryholmes1118) October 10, 2021

Try Bill O’BRIEN and his THREE STRAIGHT FAILED PASS PLAYS from the FOUR YARD LINE instead of handing the ball to Brian Robinson who was averaging 7 yards a carry forcing us to settle for a FIELD GOAL.

This isn’t the NFL, Bill.
Four losses a year are not acceptable.#RollTide

— Jeff Day (@rjeffday) October 10, 2021

Bill O’Brien got handed the keys to a Lambo and is turning it into a Datsun.

— Hunter Johnson (@BurnerLJohnson) October 10, 2021

Fire Bill O’Brien

— Herrmann8er (@Herrmann8er) October 10, 2021

Nick Saban watched Bill O’Brien trade Deandre Hopkins for a bag of chips and thought he should hand him the keys to our offense

— Alex Brehm (@ajbrehm24) October 10, 2021

To be fair, Saban’s assistant coach Bill O’Brien beat him tonight, too.

— wotto (@wotto) October 10, 2021

Thank you Bill O’Brien #BTHObama pic.twitter.com/er7Qd5Tgqy

— Issa Cook (@ipc1221) October 10, 2021

Leave Pete Golding and Bill O’Brien on the tarmac tonight and make them walk home. https://t.co/6EISvFMrcB

— Jon (@JonDeLaShoals) October 10, 2021

I told y’all not to trust Bill O’Brien

— Ephraim Vorzman (@Saints_Jimmy) October 10, 2021

SDS Staff

Saturday Down South reports and comments on the news around the Southeastern Conference as well as larger college football topics.