Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast, I am Lawrence Holmes. Thank you so much for hanging out here with me today. I don't know how long I'm gonna go.

I know I was sitting in the house and as I'm recording this, so New Year's Day, Happy New Year to everyone. I'm watching a deluge of snow just batter the front of my house and I was like, I'm not really doing anything today and outside of watching Infinity War and playing chess.

Why not do a podcast about the college football playoffs because I spent New Year's Eve consuming football. That was all I was about, well there was the Demar de Rosen thing. I know I keep talking about adding a bull's podcast to House of L. That's going to happen. I just can't figure out if I'm the person who's going to do that.

Where I'm going to get someone else to do a bull's podcast for me here on House of L. But yesterday I finished the show early because the bull's game was a two o'clock tip off, which was great for me. It gave me a chance I was literally home by tip off.

And ordinarily because of transition, we usually go pretty long in our transitions with the afternoon show. It was a whole like hour earlier that I got home. So I got home at two o'clock was able to clean up a little bit and get ready for the game, like order up food, like all that good stuff for watching Alabama versus Cincinnati.

Who knew that that game was the more entertaining game of the two. When I was looking at the two games, I'm like, yeah, you put Bama Cincinnati on early because you expect that Alabama will take care of business versus Cincinnati. Now they did.

I thought Cincinnati played hard. They just did. They don't have enough. When you start looking at how good the players are. And there are some pros on Cincinnati, like Desmond Ritter is going to be a first round pick.

I do think that in watching that game, they're going to be scouts and you are going to see video of some of his deficiencies against Alabama for the next few months.

And one of those things is the Alabama defenders were smart enough to understand that if they couldn't get to Ritter, they had to knock the ball down.

So they got their their hands up, like even when there was decent protection for Ritter, they got their hands up and were knocking down passes.

And I imagine that over the next few months, that is going to be the thing that scouts and probably Ritter, I would imagine that Ritter will probably look at and be like, hey, why am I running into a bunch of passes being broken up at the line of scrimmage.

So give the Alabama defenders credit for doing that in the game. I thought they did an excellent job of that and it made Cincinnati lesser because there were opportunities for those those plays to end up being scoring plays or plays that are converting first down and Alabama did a great job to stop that from being the case.

Will Anderson is amazing. I'm I'm such a fan of his and if you watched him last night, I agreed with the announcers that he should have been invited to New York.

I think that he's just as good as Aiden Hutchinson, his numbers were just as good as Aiden Hutchinson. I think both those guys deserve to be in the highest in conversation, but whatever will get an opportunity to watch Will Anderson and then in a couple of years, we'll see him in the NFL.

I think being in the middle of somebody's defense.

And I think the Desmond Ritter is going to go on and be a decent pro, but what was interesting about Bama versus Cincinnati was the run game for Alabama.

And it might look like when you look at the stats and say, oh, you know, Brian Robinson win 26 for 204, you're like, oh, Alabama just decided they were going to run the ball.

That's yes and no. Yes, they decided that they wanted to control the game through the ground if Cincinnati played in a way that took away the past game.

Cincinnati is going to really good back for, by the way, but what you saw was really RPO stuff. You saw Bryce Young do a great job of reading what the defense was doing.

And instead of at the mesh point, taking the ball out and then passing it, he saw that they had the numbers in the run game.

So Robinson, he took care of that. He had a great day. I mean, Alabama ran the ball for 300 yards in the game.

And they ran it 47 times, but I would say, and I don't have to go back and look at the tape, but I would say that half of Bryce of Brandon Robinson Brandon Brian Robinson's runs were off of RPOs and good decisions by Bryce Young.

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