Cautiously optimistic about playoffs

I have been following the Tide since 58. My high school coach was the co-Captain of that team. Robert Bobby Smith.

It's been a great ride from Coach Bryant to Kalen with mostly really good years and some bad along the way.

I am afraid we're done for 2025. I expect the OU game to go much like the UGA game.

Roll Tide

I see zero reason for optimism with respect to the offense and QB play. Call me crazy I guess.

Oklahoma is going to do the same thing that Georgia did. Nobody can be optimistic after what we witnessed on Saturday. This coaching staff has totally bungled the offense to the point where we needed penalties just to score on Saturday. The last time I saw an Alabama offense this bad was 2004. There was a reason for that unit to struggle. This group has very little. It’s a disaster.

I know this…. When Bama shits the sheets it’s like a Chinese Fire Drill around here. Idk have the first damn clue what’s happened to this team, maybe their just deflated after that five game gauntlet because after that South Carolina game they have played uninspired to say the least.

Some feel Bama don’t deserve to be in the playoff after the uga game. My father gave me some valuable advice about the word deserved, it’s not what you deserve it’s what you negotiate and it’s not what you deserve it’s what you earned.

The good news is, if there's an offense in the playoffs that's as bad as ours, its the OU offense. I don't see any way they score enough points (without their defense scoring 2 scores) for them to get out of reach. We just have to not give them short fields or NOTs (non offensive touchdowns)

I'm more of your mind, PuertoRicanBlaze, but I can add previous DeBoer post-season performance to the analysis for everyone's consideration.

Means Ty Simpson is going to be doing the Carson Beck resort school victory lap

Sport is about money moves now w/r/t roster spots. Why do you think Milroe went pro? In my opinion, our GM/NIL collective either lowballed him based on his current contracts or outright told him the money wasn't going to be there in 2025. He must've seen that the market value in the portal wasn't going to be that great for him after how he ended the season, so he went to the NFL instead. There was no reason for him to go pro with how 2024 ended. Pre-NIL era, he would have returned for 2025.

I believe a similar thing will happen with Ty Simpson but I think he's got enough wise counsel from his FCS-level head coach father that he will go play at Miami or some other school who thinks they have the personnel and scheme to fit him.

No no those guys are all delusional. It's only because Ty is injured! Also because his OL that can't block for 7 seconds! Also his pathetic actually badly injured RB core who can't beat the constant box of 9 players they have to run against because every defense doesn't care to keep anyone back to stop a fade/go route.

Definitely not Ty's fault...


Lol, so glad the number of those truthers completely dwindled and many have seen the light.

Grubb is the problem. The offense is his responsibility. I have never seen a Bama offense regress like this team. He didn't seem to give a crap at Seattle and he doesn't seem to give a crap now. Coming down from the booth didn't solve anything. Maybe, locking him in the restroom for the whole game might improve things. Ty's crash and burn is inexplicable. However, Grubb 's play calling hasn't seemed to help deal with the pressure that Ty is facing. I believe in miracles and it is going to take one for bama not to get embaraased in the CFP.