What Trent Richardson said earlier this year was very telling.
He went to a practice & basically said the defense is not hitting & tackling as hard as they did when he played. So what we have is much softer practices which translates to how horrible our tackling is on gameday. Look no further than the Auburn game. Thank goodness we had Bryce. I bet Kirby has their De still hitting hard & working on tackling in practice.

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Posted by Shocco

Member since Nov 2015

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 7:46 pm to Magnum73

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He went to a practice & basically said the defense is not hitting & tackling as hard as they did when he played.

Saban's standards have dropped from himself, his coaches, and his team. This is why if he keeps the coordinators, Saban's status will start to need evaluating because the decline is definitely real at that point…. The sad part is if this is true, Saban cannot truly evaluate himself honestly and understand when it’s time to step away from the game. I'd bet he goes through a decline similar to Bowden with several declining seasons. Bowden averaged 5 losses his last 5 years. I don't think Saban would wait that long, but unless changes are made, we could several season similar to this one. Maybe worse. This off season is critical.

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Posted by Ten Bears

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Posted on 11/30/22 at 10:06 am to Magnum73

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He went to a practice & basically said the defense is not hitting & tackling as hard as they did when he played.

I wonder if the rash of injuries we had a few years ago (the year we lost every LB, it seemed) changed the way we practice. Strength and conditioning was also blamed and we made a change there, but one has to wonder if CNS decided that intense tackling in practice was dialed down to more thumping.

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