re: Why are Saban coached teams incapable of playing with the lead?

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Here's what I mean, it appeared to me that the guys came out defeated, kinda like "Dang we just played the half of the season and he's still not happy." Yeah we should have been up 42-7 or so but had some unlucky bounces, poor decisions, and mental errors that caused it to be 24-7. It seemed to me that they were screamed at and berated for it and caused them to come out defeated and disappointed. Maybe, if this is what happened, Saban should look at praising the guys for working hard every once in a while. Don't know, just me and what I think.

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Yea that was what I was talking about when I said that Saban teams with a lead play scared instead of instinctively. Ingram knew he fricked up by fumbling. Richardson knew he fricked up with the dropped pass. Yelling all damn day and harping about what you are doing wrong without equally building you up for doing something right will wear you down and destroy the natural instincts that great players rely on.

When a shark smells blood, does it start thinking about the process and all the things that could go wrong? Hell no, it fricking goes into attack mode and finishes the kill. It doesn't think at all. It does what it instinctively knows to do. Auburn was bleeding and needed one more bite to be finished, but Alabama is a team of robots, not sharks.