Help me diagnose?

Alright, so this is Hamelman's Country Bread (50% preferment).

To me these two loaves look really over shaped. The cross sections would be far rounder than I think is appropriate. Also, the scoring to me looks as if it needs to be far deeper (I was trying to get ears and boy this is far from that!).

Can you help me diagnose what went wrong here?

Oh, and the two loaves were unfortunately a little close to each other in the oven and ended up producing that unsightly growth where they bridged together. This was my first time trying to fit two loaves in the oven at the same time with my peel, and the unloading process didn't go completely smoothly.

Some input, please and thank you!