re: 2 New Saban Rules

Greg Robinson wasn't starting by the end of the year, although he really should have been. AJ Greene and John Sullen were utterly pathetic in any blocking scheme and only started because they were seniors.

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Dumbass, AU was moving people around by the end of the year trying to find a combination. Only idiots go by the lineup in a program.

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Okay looks like I'm going to have to literally show you tape of the starting lineups from the game you taint biscuit.

I literally cannot make it any simpler for you.

10:39 in the full game tape.
LINK

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Yeah but you don't beat teams by making new rules to favor you. You find a new strategy to beat it on the field. And it can be done. It just takes more work than throwing a bunch of 5* on the field and saying make a play

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He is doing both campaigning and preparing.

Part of preparing is recruiting. Thanks to AU for giving us a fast twitch guy like Rashaan Evans. I hope AU keeps pitching the Star position to linebackers who have first round potential, so they will keep choosing Bama.

If you look at the weaknesses of our team this year, they were addressed by recruiting. We got two potential shut down corners (I still have nightmares of Cyrus Jones being left on an island.) which are key to Saban's defense being successful. We also have several dline that can collapse the pocket and play the run.

See, it is entirely possible for Saban to campaign against the HUNH while also preparing for the inevitable, which is that the rule won't pass. It's great that his campaigning has got into your head. Why wasn't Gus at the meeting? Where was Sumlin? Freeze? I am sure that they would have been afforded an opportunity to speak if they showed up.

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Part of preparing is recruiting. Thanks to AU for giving us a fast twitch guy like Rashaan Evans. I hope AU keeps pitching the Star position to linebackers who have first round potential, so they will keep choosing Bama. If you look at the weaknesses of our team this year, they were addressed by recruiting. We got two potential shut down corners (I still have nightmares of Cyrus Jones being left on an island.) which are key to Saban's defense being successful. We also have several dline that can collapse the pocket and play the run. See, it is entirely possible for Saban to campaign against the HUNH while also preparing for the inevitable, which is that the rule won't pass. It's great that his campaigning has got into your head. Why wasn't Gus at the meeting? Where was Sumlin? Freeze? I am sure that they would have been afforded an opportunity to speak if they showed up.

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Your two best defenders (Mosley and Collins) looked foolish on many of those plays. Are your new recruits better than those two ?

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Ironspuppet

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I would have ignored direct video evidence that I was wrong too.

I'm under the impression that you expect Tony Brown and Marlon Humphrey to be "great" as soon as they walk on Alabama's campus... These two haven't even seen the practice field yet.

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Point being is that to defend Gus's gameplan that relies primarily on run plays it is important to trust your corners on an island so you can dedicate your safeties to stopping the run and playing the middle. We saw what happened when our corners were on islands. Two touchdown passes because of poor cornerback play (and good offense play, but I'm focusing on what could be different if we had better corners last year). (dang it, Cyrus Jones). While we won't have a linebacker as good as Mosley, we have decent replacements for him. Once again, not as good as him, but not terrible either. Having two great cornerbacks and an above average linebacker is better than having one great linebacker with two terrible corners.

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These are the same corners that everyone was singing their praise two weeks earlier. We kept hearing how great the true Freshman was and how Collins was such an upgrade at Safety over Vinny S. We hear it every year, how the new guys are so much better, but when they play a team that can expose their real play, we see what happens. The SEC has had very few QBs that can challenge average corner over the last two years. Alabama played two of them in Murray and JFF, and we saw what happened in those games. This year Marshall did not pass very well against them, I look for that to change this year.

He ignores it again

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These are the same corners that everyone was singing their praise two weeks earlier.

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No one was singing the praises of Cyrus Jones.

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Isn't it his job to campaign for what he believes is the most beneficial for his team?

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Which is why I generally roll my eyes at the Sumlin/Malzahn whining.