Game time.

Lol at Jordan Wilkins I feel no pity for him anymore.

When you bumble the hand off go to the ground immediately. Staring at the ground
Play Blue rest of game sit him for effort

Shea is frickin great. He's our saving grace. I love that play action to AJ Brown!!!!

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AJ is a monster

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FIFY

Not a significant impact but was around some plays...

Zed Woods is seeming like he is turning into the player I thought he would be

AJ Brown is a problem.... for every other team


Honestly, I'm not the biggest conductor on the Matt Luke train, but you have to at least feel good for him because he has to be the happiest man in that entire stadium... I hope he ends up being better than I think he will because I want to see him succeed. He's the type of coach that players can buy into, and he's damn near unimpeachable PR-wise (so we know... see how the last one played out for us)

I like Longo and McGriff... I think they could at least make the conference take a second look at us... our defense needs work though

Luke definitely looked the part as a head coach and didn't even feel the need to preach! Isn't it also nice to sit back and watch a coach take the points early in the game vs going for it on that early 4th and short? Last point, defense definitely needed some work, but loved how they played man and attacked. It was South Alabama, but I feel like we finally have some coaches willing to correct the mistakes we've made over the past few years...repeatedly.

Pennamon and Swinney both averaged over 4.5 YPC. That's good to move the chains every time. We will never be Auburn or LSU when it comes to running the ball.

Granted, the balance was still awful. We only got 100 yds rushing as a TEAM.

I don't understand why DBs in general don't turn their heads and play the ball better. And we are certainly as bad as any at this after one game. It must be a very difficult thing to do indeed.

I sure wanted to see Shea get out of there at least half way through the 4th Q. It was also quite evident our defensive depth is quite lacking. They went through us with ease once we took out several starters. However, I'm of the opinion we can get much better still on defense. No reason to give up yet and think we won't improve at all as the season progresses.

The positive: One thing we are forgetting is the starting MLB and DE we're not playing. So we had 2nd stringers in there to start the game and when we had the B team in we really had C team players in that position. The difference is in general we were in the right positions unlike last year.

The Negative: arm tackling, arm tackling and more arm tackling. That won't cut it against a power run team which we will see plenty of. DBs have to get eyes on the ball in the air. Our DL penetrated like Nkemdiche at times past the RB. Gates was getting owned on the edge at times and Bless Polk's Heart!