re: The Truth About Saban

My opinion wide receivers did good last game. They were running open and made some very tough catches. Not their fault they have a rb playing qb.

I think the idea is that Bama would play a good non-conference team every year but would usually blow them out, not that Texas specifically.

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I still don't know how Alabama allowed Texas to hang around and make a game of it back in the NCG when Texas had a backup QB.

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Because when you go back and look at the footage from the games we played during our peak years, we weren't perfect then, either. We missed blocks, jumped offside, let people complete long passes, roughed the passer, couldn't pick up key first downs, etc. We couldn't pass the ball for crap in the NCG against Texas. If we were facing an offensive coordinator as good as Sark in that NCG, things might have turned out differently. The old adage is true, you're seldom really as good as you look in a big win, and seldom really as bad as you look in a loss. Having to replace a starting QB, and playing a true freshman LT (even a highly touted one) in the same year is difficult. We've done miraculously well over the last several years, considering the players that have left early to the NFL draft, and the loss of valuable assistants to promotions. Plus those assistants now compete for recruits, and have an intimate knowledge of our program and tendencies. We've been running a clinic for coaches on how to play like us, essentially.

I agree to an extent. The end of dominance did not end when Kirby Smart went to Georgia- like some folks love to claim. That is being ignorant. Tosh was tough as nails. Golding was at Bama for too long but it all runs through Saban right? I don’t think either that our dominance/ stamina/ strength etc. ended when Cochran went to Georgia. It probably stung some from a rah rah standpoint, but it does seem the injuries have slowed, knock on wood. Fact is, we went up against a team with a great coach- it was not his first year, we barely got by them last year and let’s face it, this qb crap dragged out all offseason. We all were guessing how many touchdowns we were gonna win by. Why in the world do you rep 5 guys if you’re only going to play one? Is the playbook that complicated? What happened to expedite Winning the Game? Quinn Ewers balled out against us. Defenses go hurry up against us when they have personnel matchups they like, and we can’t stop it. My issue is what is wrong with calling a timeout when we are gassed? Why let the clock roll?? Just call an TO! And also, I thought this would happen, but Caleb Downs was victimized on a td. I thought it would happen soon, and Sark pulled it off. Caleb will learn from it, but they got him creeping up over aggressively and sark called the right play at the right time. The o-line stuff. How many snaps did McLaughlin put in the dirt? It’s Tuesday now, do we have an official count? Why did we stop running it? Is it because they neutralized our rush? Did they do that because we only lined up under center when we ran it? The lack of screen plays on offense. I don’t think we have a receiver we can throw one too, but how about one of these many backs? Surely Jalen can hit a RB screen right?

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And they had 15 penalties against Texas last year. Is 10 less than 15? They had 2 penalties in the first game against Middle Tennessee. I don't recall a single game last year that Alabama only had two penalties in.

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This is an unbelievable cope.

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We didn't really get manhandled at the LOS, besides in pass protection.

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Most of the plays called were pass plays, so you're saying we didn't get manhandled at the line of scrimmage except on the most common play call.