Alabama OL Chris Owens takes 'full responsibility' for failed fake FG in title game
The Alabama Crimson Tide were blown out in Monday night’s College Football Playoff title game, going down 44-16 to Clemson.
One play in particular drew a lot of criticism, and it came in the third quarter when the Tide ran a horrible fake field goal that didn’t even come close to converting.
As you can see below, this play was doomed from the start, but there was a missed block that led to backup QB Mac Jones being tackled before the first-down line:
Clemson not at all fooled by the fake field goal try by Alabama https://t.co/XvKDmRWj0z
— Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB) January 8, 2019
After the game, Alabama redshirt sophomore OL Chris Owens tweeted that he takes full responsibility for the botched play:
I take full responsibility for that unsuccessful fake FG attempt. You gotta be locked in every play because you never know when a big play is coming. That’s 100% on me.
— Chris Owens (@BGChrisOwens) January 8, 2019
That’s certainly a noble thing to do, and Owens did miss a block, but his teammates and Alabama fans should make sure he doesn’t stay down for too long. You win as a team and you lose as a team.
The play call deserves a lot more scrutiny than Owens’ missed block, as Clemson wasn’t even lined up in a normal field-goal block formation. They were ready for the fake and Alabama ran right into it.
Owens is a class act but it was a bad play… If Bama has a kicker that stood a chance of making the kick then maybe someone would have been caught off guard…When your kicker can’t make an XP nobody is fooled by a fake..
But weren’t yall just clowning us about 4th & kirby??? garbage ahz team
But I’ll admit that Kirby’s call from his on side of the field was more of a boneheaded call and I’m still a dumba$$!!!
It doesn’t change UGAs 4th and 11…. Sorry is when you get the top recruiting class and finish with 3 losses….. Nobody does less with more…
Alabama just lost by 4 touchdowns with the best players in the country…LMAO.
Still finished 14-1…. 3 losses and losing to a 4 loss team after bringing in the top ranked recruiting class is worse then Richt..
4&6 > 4&11
So needing 6 yards is greater than needing 11yards?…. LMAO… Dumba$$
Im talkin’ bout the Playcall “Dumba$$”
BT if you are arguing that Richt is a better coach than Smart, you’re a dumba$$.
Sorry about they Bamatime I meant to say that I am the Dumba$$ and my dawgs suck as usual.
A fake on 4th&11 in a tie game with the back up QB in, is a lot worse then a fake on 4th and 6 down by multiple scores…. Dumba$$
Losing 3 games after bringing in the top recruiting class is doing less with more at a level Richt didn’t even achieve.
That play didn’t have that much to do with Alabama getting blown out. They were beat on both sides of the ball, outcoached, and refs couldn’t bail them out. There’s a new king in college football. Hats off to Clemson and no more lame excuses from the media of how they don’t know anymore about these games then the fans do.The college football media SUCKS!!!!!
Brian Kessler, Problem is as bad as Bama played we had almost as many yards as Clempson did. As far as being a new king in college football I think you may want to rethink that comment. Bama has won 2 Clempson 2 that tells me they’re dead even. We’ll see next year who takes the lead. As for the media sucking I think you may want to take a look in the mirror first. Because your comments definitely suck.
Were we beat on defense? Yes. They moved the ball at will against our defense. We couldn’t stop them to save our lives. Did they beat our offense? Not so much. We were basically able to move the ball at will ourselves (we finished with 39 yards less of total offense), but we had a bad habit of shooting ourselves in the foot with boneheaded mistakes in the first half and our coaching staff making bad decisions in the second half (so yes, they did outcoach us). Ultimately, we beat ourselves on offense. They beat us on one side of the ball and we beat ourselves on the other.
I mean, I respect that he’s willing to take responsibility and all, but him making his block wouldn’t have changed the outcome of that play. There was just no room to run. Clemson was 100% ready for the fake. Plus, in general, running Mac Jones up the middle with Joseph Bulovas as the lead blocker on 4th and 6 isn’t a great idea. It was just a bad call all around.
Nicky with the Iffy.
We always find a way to choke when we play Alabama. Alabama is still the best team in the country but my Dawgs will win it one day.
Definitely the BTG 10 refs gonna screw somebody over just like they did to us last year
But I still love the Big 10 and even their bottom feeders would beat my Dawgs! Roll Tide!
ur just a sad vandy fan trying to be me but im immortal
ur just a sad vandy fan trying to be me but im immortal
BUT BUT NICK SABAN TAKES CALCULATED RISKS I THOUGHT?!!?!?!??!?!?
BUT BUT NICK SABAN IS STILL THE BEST COACH AND HE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO BEAT MY DAWGS. I JUST WISH WE WERE AS GOOD AS ALABAMA!
sad vandy fan just sad.
Vandy sux but nobody sux as bad as Auburn! Talk about irrelevant!