re: Saban's comments on the defense post-South Carolina

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If you want to panick and blame Golding's and Saban's defensive acumen and schemes and throw Golding under the bus that's your perogative. And it's also my perogative to not worry excessively about things I can't control or influence. I'm content to watch, wait and see how Bama's 2019 defense performs and progresses over the course of the season. So, I won't waste any more time and energy trying to talk you off the ledge.

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If you're not worried about it, why address it with me? I was very specific about my concerns not being about just the Oklahoma's and Clemson's of the football world. Those are Jimmy's and Joe's not just Xs and Os. In a fair gunfight, you can expect ebb and flows. It's watching a lot less talented teams keeping our defense on the field all day. That, we may not survive, even with a great, great offense.

Here is the deal with me and these HUNH RPO teams, We can get walked down vs Arkansas and then go into Baton Rouge and completely shut them down. An LSU that curb-stomped an outstanding Georgia team and a QB, Joe Burrows who threw for 400 yards vs UCF. How did we do it? Talent, but it can't just be talent or we wouldn't be discussing all this leakage.

It's because when we go against pro-set teams we have the defensive scheme to let our talent eat. When we play pro-set teams we are like Barnacles on a pirate ship. We are glue and they are in trouble. Same team, same players, same talent, just put in a defensive scheme that works.

Golding just has not got this thing figured out.