The Bill O’Brien experiment at Nick Saban’s coaching rehab has been positive and negative.
Alabama is averaging 42.7 points per game on offense, but there have been several times where O’Brien has not fit what the Crimson Tide is now. After seeing what Lane Kiffin, Brian Daboll, Michael Locksley, and Steve Sarkisian brought, O’Brien was a step down as a play-caller. Alabama never had a game under Sarkisian where it scored less than 30 points. The situation happened twice under O’Brien versus LSU and Auburn. Alabama’s offense got shut out in the first quarter of both games, and it did not score until the fourth quarter against Auburn.