So I just re watched the game...TL;DR

Yes I am a glutton for punishment.



That being said, I feel a lot better about things, and about the rest of the season.


I'm not one to sunshine pump, and taking a moral victory from this would be pretty lame, but after this game I feel pretty much the same confidence for the rest of the season as I did before.



Let's go ahead and get the offense out of the way. As many have said, we desperately need a power back (and I think we should line RN at FB in short yardage and goal line situations), but I don't think that fact will become nearly as glaring for the remainder of the season. Alabama had the perfect gameplan, but I don't think any of our remaining opponents have the horses that can pull it off the way they did. LSU possibly, but they have shown weakness. The main thing is the Alabama D played very inspired ball, feeding off an amazing crowd atmosphere, and showed what we all knew they had the potential to do. They wanted to make a statement, and they brought it. It was just one of those nights for us. They happen sometimes. We put ourselves in good opportunities but were unable to execute. I think we were overwhelmed to a degree, and I think this game will do a lot for our guy's perspective on things, namely Bo.


I don't have much to say about the 4th downs, I don't really care about losing by less. You could see the agonizing frustration in Freeze's eyes. He wanted this game badly, and was willing to take risks. I am personally proud of his attitude and spirit.


Now the Defense. That was the best performance since at least 2009, probably 2008. I don't care what the score says, or statistically. Those boys showed up and put us in a prime opportunity to take that game. Idk if y'all realize, but Alabama's time of possession was 39 fricking minutes, and other than mainly two busted plays they were superb. The open field tackling, especially from Bryant and Conner, is a thing of beauty. The only really badly missed tackle of the night was Marry's on the Yeldon run. The DL was abusing Bama's O line for most of the game. The DBs were actually in good position for the most part, and several of Alabama's catches came from great plays by their receivers in spite of great coverage. I am very proud of how they played after having to spend the whole night on the field.


So where do we go from here? Was the D fired up and we won't see that again? Was our O a fluke earlier in the season? We will find out soon enough. But I think we're gonna go into Jordan Hare and hit Auburn in the mouth. I honestly feel more confident about that game than I did last week. I have a feeling this young team is going to do a lot of growing up this week. And you know that Freeze has to be embarrassed about what happened, to the point where he will have this team more ready than we have seen any time previously. I expect this week's game plan to to be perfect.


So in essence, I expect to make that bitch Malzahn rethink his whole philosophy after Saturday. I expect whoever the frick their shitty arse quarterback is to be so demoralized after this game that they have to start Frazier again for the rest of the season. I expect Tre Mason to loathe the day he signed the wrong papers. And I expect a great rest of the season. We're almost to the home stretch, an awesome season is still in our grasp, one that we can build off of for even greater things next year. The future is bright.