There was a point in Saturday’s Alabama-Mississippi State game that Bulldogs defenders were able to tell what play UA was going to run before the ball was snapped.

Alabama RB Josh Jacobs told AL.com’s Michael Casagrande how this caused the Crimson Tide to make some changes.

“They kinda caught on to what we were doing,” Jacobs said. “Some plays they were calling our plays out so we just had to make adjustments to that.”

“The defense was so they were slanting to the side we were running the ball to,” Jacobs added. “So, once we made adjustments to that, we were fine.”

Jacobs says they were “fine,” but, as Casagrande points out, Alabama’s offense struggled much of the night. While the first two drives (156 yards, 14 points) were what we’ve come to expect from Tua Tagovailoa and company, Alabama’s offense slowed down considerably for the remaining three-plus quarters (146 yards, 10 points).

Certainly no offensive coordinator or head coach wants to hear that the defense is calling out their plays before the snap, but this is, after all, something that happened in a game Alabama still won 24-0.

We shall see if the play-calling gets less predictable against Auburn, Georgia and in the bowl game(s).