"I Thought We Were Tight to Start the Game"

I'm more focused on the team walking down the tunnel silently, or "no chanting" as CNS put it.

Every big game we've ever played where they take a camera into the tunnel you can hear the players raising hell.

Hell, I'm fairly certain Notre Dame knew they were about to get beat down in '12 when our boys passed them in the tunnel so hype they sounded like berserkers.

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As Alabama has gone on this crazy run of success I know as a fan I've experienced the phenomenon of the fear of losing being greater than the joy of winning. Basically if Alabama wins nobody really talks about it or cares. If Alabama loses it's all of the sudden the best, biggest game of the college football season and it's talked about non-stop.

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Wow! This is me exactly. I hate the feeling too. I have to tell myself that this is the greatest run in the entire college football existence and that I just need to relax and enjoy it while it lasts. I think that the age of social media and sites like this with fan interactions with other fanbases certainly does not help. It's great when you win and you enjoy the misery of the other fans, but man it really sucks when we are on the losing end and the non-stop trolls come out in full force.

Growing up in the 90's we didn't have such lofty expectations so when we'd lose it wasn't such a huge deal and there weren't highlights of the loss for the rest of the week. Of course I would much rather be in the position now than we were in the 90s

I don't know if it's this generation of kids, or NIL, or the transfer portal, or rat poison, or some other bullshite, but somewhere along the way we lost our willingness to be hard. Not play hard, BE hard.

The entire staff needs get back to the rhetoric in the first 20 seconds of this video. (And notice the physicality there, even from the offensive players who initiate contact.)

We need some dogs to enforce this mentality. I'm tired of hearing about this, especially from the team leaders.

When you bust your arse in the Spring and practice all week in the Fall, you don't do all that to come out and worry or be anxious.

You take all the work you've already done, all the effort you've put in, and you trust it to free you to attack, together as a team.

Somebody in that locker room needs to tell these kids to get their mind right before they walk out on that field, or get back on the fricking bus if they're scared.

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Coming out of the locker room our players always chant... they weren't chanting, I said why aren't yall chanting ? What's up with that ?"

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100k people screaming because they wanna see somebody in orange take your head off, and you come out the tunnel silent ?

I simply cant understand whats happening inside the program.

Somebody asked Jon Allen one time if he was scared to play LSU because of their night game environment and Jon Allen said, "Man I'll play them in the parking lot on concrete."

Jon Allen was THE MAN- We dont have a lineman on the DL or the OL that has any nasty

I'm tired of trying to figure it out.

As soon as this team finds its identity a lot of that will go away. They are second guessing themselves, listening to the media, watching social media religiously. As the saying goes in these moments, delete Facebook, hit the gym, and read a book.

Ro killed that receiver