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Who should be more concerned after close Game 1: Bama or LSU?

Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:03 am
Posted by okietiger
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Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:03 am
Both teams obviously have got plenty to figure out on both sides of the ball.
Posted by TheSandman
Notasulga
Member since Nov 2010
19411 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:03 am to
Auburn too high imo
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
Member since May 2009
80196 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:03 am to
LSU our run D is garbage
Posted by BuckheadBetty
Buckhead
Member since Jul 2014
333 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:04 am to
LSU
Posted by Pavoloco83
Acworth Ga. too many damn dawgs
Member since Nov 2013
15347 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:04 am to
A win is a win and neither team was playing FAU. (oh, for bama thats next week.)

Much improvement normally happens from week 1 to week 2.
Posted by craigbiggio
Member since Dec 2009
31805 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:05 am to
Bama didn't look that bad on offense IMO. Sims was accurate just had a couple of bad throws. They can still run the ball down your throat.

LSU, we couldn't run the ball worth a shite until that second LBer went out with an injury. Jennings lofting every pass he throws. Lots of kinks to iron out.
Posted by Patton
Principality of Sealand
Member since Apr 2011
32652 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:05 am to
Neither. Both will still be undefeated when they play each other. Both will win 10 games.
Posted by BAMAisDIESEL09
Member since Jul 2012
2658 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:06 am to
LSU and Bama looked about equal yesterday honestly. Its really too early to tell.
Posted by Mohican
Member since Nov 2012
6179 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:07 am to
I think, from a coaching standpoint, this is a good thing. Both teams will improve. By the end of the year they will be peaking.

They say teams improve the most from Week 1 to Week 2. Week 1 just get the W.
Posted by TriumphTiger
Alpharetta, GA
Member since Sep 2007
10186 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:08 am to
LSU
Posted by AllBamaDoesIsWin
Member since Dec 2011
26725 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:08 am to
Bama doesn't really have much to be concerned about.

Well over 500 yards of offense.

We have a kicker now.

Our punter looks great. (Great Scott!)

Our defense didn't do that bad. The secondary did bad, and mostly Sylve. but someone other than Sylve out there and it looks a lot different. And yeah, they dropped a few passes, but so did Bama. We lost the TO battle and had more penalties than they did.

They only scored 16 points on offense. Don't forget they had a KO return for a TD. We gave up KO returns for TDs in the opener in 08 and 09 as well. They only had 1 offensive TD. We played them a lot better in the second half.

Get Eddie Jackson to 100% and replace Sylve, eventually work TB onto the field, and we'll be fine.
Posted by FightinTiga
Pumpkin Center
Member since Feb 2009
20745 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:09 am to
LSU What was supposed to be the strength of the team was actually the biggest weakness.Both lines were dominated by an inferior team.
Posted by LSUbase13
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Member since Mar 2008
15060 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:11 am to
LSU. I get it's the first game, but I'm not sold on Jennings. The offensive line isn't as great as I thought, LSU's front seven is serviceable at best, and we had to deal with the same old penalties and basic confusion known from a Les Miles team.
Posted by boXerrumble
Member since Sep 2011
52283 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:12 am to
quote:

Who should be more concerned after close Game 1: Bama or LSU?


Both should be equally concerned.

Bama's pass D, and LSU's run D were both terrible.

Posted by Bham4Tide
In a Van down by the River
Member since Feb 2011
22092 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:20 am to
quote:

Both teams obviously have got plenty to figure out on both sides of the ball


Trolling for takers.
Posted by narddogg81
Vancouver
Member since Jan 2012
19711 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:22 am to
Lsu by far. Alabama looked pretty good on o, just need to get a bit more efficient in the red zone, with 2 games to tune up. Of the concerning positions, only cb seems to be real concern, but we are without our best option at that position (jackson). I expect by the meat of the sec schedule the starters at cb will be different. There was some confusing between the lbs and the safeties caused by depriests absence, opened up some holes in the zone. The dline was in 3 man for a large part of the game, couldnt get much pressure against 5 (shockingly). Did much better when we switched to 4 man front. Sims was 100x better than everyone was predicting, accounted for over 300yds, accurate in the short and intermediate game, didnt take many shots downfield. Playcalling was quite good I thought, oline was great aside from some drive killing penalties. All in all I think we are in great shape
Posted by CrimsonTideMD
Member since Dec 2010
6925 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:27 am to
As far as who should be more concerned, I'm not sure.

Both should be very concerned.

Without going into an in depth analysis, Bama really got helped by some dropped passes and questionable penalties, and LSU did not get rolling until 2 Wisconsin defenders went down
Posted by cyde
He gone
Member since Nov 2005
31793 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:29 am to
Push.
Posted by thunderbird1100
GSU Eagles fan
Member since Oct 2007
68420 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:42 am to
Both teams should have worries.

Bama looks like any team with a forward passing game will light them up and our offense is back in the stone age for the moment. Our run D improved drastically in the 2nd half but I do wonder how much having so many DTs out for the game affected the run defense. We only played 3 DTs all night.
Posted by davesdawgs
Georgia - Class of '75
Member since Oct 2008
20307 posts
Posted on 8/31/14 at 10:45 am to
Bama IMHO if they keep playing soft defense. LSU's defense is young but talented and grew up a lot by the end of the game vs Whisky. Their CB's played man-to-man, loaded the box and finally shutdown a potent Badger running game.
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