re: I miss the days of Alabama just lining up and dominating the other team

I think Saban saw how the game is changing and knew that he had to get more out of his offense. I always thought we weren't getting the full potential out of our offense relative to the talent that we had coming in.

The problem is we threw the baby out with the bathwater. Kiffin is a great OC but his flaw is trying to treat short yardage downs as opportunities to trick the defense. Lost in all of the highlights were the UT-LSU-Miss State game stretch where our offense could not stay on the field because we became way too pass happy.

On defenses, the third and long problem is in our heads now. Its like we have the shanks. Teams get confidence against us on 3rd Down and you can tell we tighten up.