A day after Alabama beat South Carolina 47-23, we got a second look at the action in Columbia.

Our weekly Sunday DVR review of the Crimson Tide includes some extra insight from postgame interviews and the stat sheet.

Before moving on to Southern Miss, here are a few thoughts from Round 2 with Alabama-South Carolina:

-- The WR in motion, bending behind the shotgun snap instead of through the lane is something new added this season, Jerry Jeudy confirmed last week. You saw it several times Saturday as Steve Sarkisian expanded the variety of plays used from that look. It keeps defenses off-balance and creates matchup issues. “It just helps us get the ball in our hands faster to make plays,” Jeudy said. You saw it on the first snap with three defenders following Jeudy to the right while DeVonta Smith found a seem to the left. Nine yards to start Smith’s career day.

-- The running game was another talking point with a lack of yardage and attempts. Saban attributed it to South Carolina stacking the box. The Gamecocks had six in there on the second play and Najee Harris ran for 12.

-- With DeVonta Smith, his injury last year somewhat pushed him down the rankings of the four star Alabama receivers. The last two games showed why he took momentum out of his freshman year with arguably the strongest two hands catching the ball.

-- Not real sure what South Carolina was doing on kickoffs. Four times Shi Smith attempted returns when the fair catch was an option. He averaged 15.5 yards with a long of 18 and each time the Gamecocks had a longer field than necessary. Saban had been worried about complacency on the coverage unit with Will Reichard kicking so many touchbacks but that wasn’t an issue at all Saturday.

-- You could see the young middle linebackers looking unsure of the call when the ball was snapped a few times. It was clear South Carolina wanted to exploit that and it was the first of Alabama’s three opponents with the players and scheme to do that.

-- South Carolina had four first downs via Alabama penalties. That included negating the first-drive interception because of an illegal substitution. For the season, seven of Alabama opponents’ 56 first downs resulted from penalties compared to two of the Tide’s 78.

-- The 11 Alabama flags for 92 yards didn’t sit well with Saban postgame.

-- Tagovailoa was sacked twice on the second Tide drive. The first time, center Chris Owens got bowled over but Saban pointed out in the postgame that the second one was on the RBs. Watching back, Najee Harris got beat on the blitz pickup for the third-down takedown.

-- Of the 21 combined possessions for Alabama and South Carolina, only one ended in a punt. It wasn’t a good one. Skyler DeLong’s kick from deep in Alabama territory traveled just 18 yards.

-- D.J. Dale did his best Quinnen Williams impression on his sack. Just manned up the blocker and tossed him aside for the open lane to Hilinski. It helped force the fake field goal attempt that almost worked for the Gamecocks. As noted in the instant analysis, Will Muschamp wasn’t there to keep it close with the gambling play calls.

-- From the press box view, Henry Ruggs III’s 81-yard touchdown on the slant was clearly a score the second he caught it. The lane he had was just enough to spring the track star into the wide-open pasture that made it look easy. On the clock, Ruggs needed 8.65 seconds to run the 63 yards after the catch with some time to ease up at the end. Jeudy had the only block necessary after he said he missed one on Ruggs’ first-play TD last week.

-- Alabama’s defense allowed 459 yards without giving up a true home run. The longest Gamecock play was a 33-yard run by Rico Dowdle.

-- It looked like South Carolina wanted to get the ball on the edge of the formation to force Alabama defenders to make open-field tackles. Alabama had several WR screens too with varying results. One thrown to Jeudy had three DBs to that side and one blocker. He still squeezed through for a decent gain.

-- On the carries before Najee Harris’ insane 42-yard touchdown catch, South Carolina had eight or nine guys dedicated to stopping the running game. Safeties were coming down in support and there just wasn’t anywhere to run.

-- Raekwon Davis had a few impressively athletic plays with four tackles and one QB hurry.

Somebody tell my momma I’m having fun again 💯 https://t.co/acFtCTxKBs — Raekwon Davis (@Raekwondavis_99) September 15, 2019

-- Linebacker Ale Kaho got his first real shot at serious playing time on defense when Saban said they wanted to settle down freshman Christian Harris. Kaho, a former top-recruit who transferred from Washington last August, made four tackles including one for a loss.

-- From the beginning, this felt like a game that could be tight early with the question being South Carolina’s ability to keep pace. The host’s inability to finish drives put them too far behind the pace of an Alabama offense that was just steamrolling with the passing game.

-- South Carolina had the ball for nearly seven minutes over two drives ending the first half and opening the second. It netted 3 points. Alabama needed just 1:34 to score 7 on the next drive (DeVonta Smith’s 42-yard TD) in a demoralizing sequence. The air started to leak from the balloon in the stadium from there.

-- The three sacks of Hilinski were big for Alabama. The other pressures on the young passer made a difference too as the Tide were credited with five QB hurries. Terrell Lewis had two. For the season, Alabama has 13 hurries with Lewis’ four leading the way. After two years of injury, the Washington DC product has an extra burst off the snap. Jennings’ forced fumble midway through the third quarter snuck up on Hilinski with Christopher Allen creeping from the other edge.

-- Slade Bolden, a popular player in the Alabama locker room, had two big plays. First, he had the tackle on the fake punt. Then the former high school QB took his first college shotgun snap as the Wildcat quarterback on 3rd-and-2 late in the third quarter. He got the first down up the gut. “Actually,” Ruggs said in August, “we call Slade Julian Edelman every day.” The Patriots’ WR played quarterback at Kent State.

-- Tight end Major Tennison apparently feels like he didn’t step out before scoring in the third quarter.

-- Hello, upright. Will Reichard’s extra point off the left goal post looked all too familiar. Tagovailoa gave the young kicker a pat on the helmet on the long walk back to the bench after drilling the equipment for a third time this year.

-- Safety Xavier McKinney quieted his teammates joking about missing an interception against Duke. He picked off Hilinski in the end zone in the fourth quarter deep in the end zone. Instead of running it back, the junior took his knee. Asked him about the decision to kneel down afterward. “I thought about it for a little minute when I caught it,” a smiling McKinney said, “but I felt like the better play for me was to take a knee and play it safe. We were up in the game and didn’t need to take it out.”

-- Impressive 1-yard TD run for Mac Jones.

Michael Casagrande is an Alabama beat writer for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.