I think you make a good point, but you just cant beat bama by shutting them down. You have to be unpredictable on offense. Bama knew if they doubled moncreif enough, OM would grow impatient thinking they needed a homerun and there the interception would be.
Kind of what we did with Troy. If om could have figured out a way to 'decoy' Moncreif to get some bigger plays, they might have made it dangerously close.