What Wommack feels teams have done to slow down the Alabama pass rush

Alabama football is not getting after the quarterback like it did early in the season.

The Crimson Tide have sacked opposing quarterbacks only one time in each of its last two games. Both outings resulted in losses for Alabama.

The Tide’s defensive coordinator Kane Wommack addressed the effectiveness of Alabama’s pass rush on Monday.

“We knew these last two weeks that these are teams that were highly efficient in terms of how they were going to disperse the ball offensively,” Wommack said. “I mean, they were going to get the ball out of the quarterback’s hands. That was Georgia’s plan. That was Tennessee’s plan. And so the ball was going to come out. You were going to get opportunities on third down to affect the quarterback. But they certainly had him very well coached up to get the ball out of his hands, even when we did create some pressure. That was just kind of the style of game that they were going to run, and the way the game was in flow, and that they had a lead, they were able to continue to just stay efficient, trying to run the football and not hold on to the football. And so naturally, you’re going to have less of those things, but to me, you’re always trying to find ways to create negative plays and takeaways, and I just didn’t do a good enough job of finding a way to get that done.”

With teh amount of success both Georgia and Tennessee had against the Alabama defense, the Tide should expect to see Texas A&M roll out a similar strategy on Saturday when the Aggies take on Alabama in Tuscaloosa.