I’d be fine with a NY6 bowl victory and momentum for next year.

Some have already jumped

Thats where I’ve settled today and im in total agreement. Hope we have a shot at the playoffs, though the odds are long.

But playoffs or no, hope the team doesn’t quit and finishes the year strong. A 12-1 season with a Sugar Bowl win and an Iron Bowl victory would be a great year.

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if we get the sugar bowl, how many players that are going pro leave the team to prepare for the draft? Since there is a lot of 1st round talent and no playoff chances, I could see some going that route, and I would blame them one bit either.

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Hopefully none. Thankfully Bama hasnt really had to deal with that.

We have a shot at the playoff. I’m waiting to see.

I could definitely take a 13-1 season, a Top 5 ranking, and a solid recruiting class. We do all of that, as well as hold onto Bryce Young, I will be INSANELY happy.

We'd be starting over at QB next year. That's the main concern for me

Good for you bro. I hope I am ok with it too but I am extremely spoiled and pretty damn selfish as well so we'll just have to see. I certainly won't rail on the team or staff if it happens because outside of being spoiled I remember the dark ages and I was a student when Mike Dubose was coach. Gonna try to keep optimistic moving forward. Let's see what the playoff committee thinks about us after the loss.

We might not win another national title guys. It's really damn hard.

We can still put teams on the field that compete for it, though. But other programs have made good decisions and are really good now too, and our years of dominating the sport are over. But we are still one of the programs in it every year.

If you go back to fall camp when players started dropping with injuries, the general view was that this was not a championship team. There were too many pups to handle the difficulties coming in the final 3rd of the season and the play-offs.

Coach Bryant contended that for every freshman that started, you would likely lose one game.

The multiples presented by the Saban defense create havoc for the teams we play. In order to manage those multiples on the field you need a QB for the front 7 and a QB for the back end that KNOW the defense and can adjust on the fly while keeping everyone in their group working together.

None of that has changed. We have a good back end QB. We do not have a front seven QB mostly because the guys who should be doing it are watching from the sideline or are pups that are not ready to run the show on the fly.

If the front end is not hitting on all cylinders, it has a huge ripple effect on what the back end is doing. If one person does not do his job in a high level assignment defense, it creates a hole an a chance for a good team to make a good or great play.

The Alabama defense was undressed by a damn good QB and his damn good OC/co-OC.

The defense / system is Saban's. Golding is attempting to coordinate it. But it is still Saban's defense. Golding made a number of attempts and adjustments before and during the game to cover the holes he knew were there. At times the attempts worked and at other times they did not. Moving a rush end/OLB to the inside to help cover a hole is at best a band aid. The problem was not healed but the attempt was made to cover the flaws.

Getting pissed and playing the blame game does not do anyone any good. We are a youth flawed team. LSU ripped the band aid off and beat on the flaws.

Even with everything bad that happened, we still had a chance in the last 15 minutes to win. We came up short. Time to move on, fix what you can. Improve where you can. Play to win every game left on the schedule and hope for the best. The is still a chance to finish strong and be a better team than what most of us thought we would be as August turned into September.