Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines felt a bit slighted by some comments Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson made about their matchup in the College Football Playoff.
Simpson said in a recent appearance on the “Down 2 Business” podcast that nothing about Indiana’s defense had surprised him during the Hoosiers’ 38-3 win in January’s CFP quarterfinal. Simpson suggested Indiana’s defense had not done anything to surprise his team, but simply executed its plan better.
“From my point of view, they don’t do much. They do the same thing every down,” Simpson said. “When I got the ball, I knew exactly what was going to happen. They just didn’t mess up. They were in the exact same spot they were supposed to be. They were so well-coached.”
Simpson’s comments may have been meant as a compliment, but Haines did not take them as such. On X, he dismissed Simpson’s remarks as “adorable.”
“We also, saw everything they were doing, on every single snap… It’s just that we exploited those cues. And didn’t get frozen and crushed by them,” Haines wrote.