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re: Bama looks pedestrian this year
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:21 am to 3down10
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:21 am to 3down10
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The new format is stupid. We should go back to the BCS where Alabama and any other team with losses and multiple losses isn't even in the discussion. But to answer your question, this team could win it all. While some of you may be downgrading Alabama over the Oklahoma loss, I personally upgraded them. Aside from the costly turnovers and the missed FG, we played pretty well. We moved the ball much better against the Oklahoma defense than I thought we would, and in reality our defense held Oklahoma to only 1 semi-successful drive(resulted in a FG) the entire game outside the ones where we gave them the ball on their side of the field. You may say Oklahoma didn't need a bunch of yards to win, and that's true due to Alabama mistakes. But on the 6 or 7 drives when they needed to drive the field, they couldn't. If we played Oklahoma again next week, I'd be even more confident in us to win than I was last weekend. Special teams is lacking is our biggest weakness. It's not just a down week.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:35 am to FAT SEXY
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Bama looks pedestrian this year
Maybe, compared to what is normally Bama.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:39 am to 3down10
Let it go … you have beaten us in the last 5 regular season games but you would beat us next week lol ??
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:40 am to FAT SEXY
Please don't use a word like "pedestrian" on those people. 50% of them don't even have a GED..... another 25% have no idea whether you are praising or insulting them.
Try to keep it at "average", "not as good", or even better "needs to get gooder"
Please don't make things more difficult on those people.... they struggle enough in life as it is
Try to keep it at "average", "not as good", or even better "needs to get gooder"
Please don't make things more difficult on those people.... they struggle enough in life as it is
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:44 am to FAT SEXY
quote:You mean like watching #4 walking up your back like you were a couch cushion? Or do you mean like Williams walking around his defender like 6 times before he finally gets to make a one hand grab of an overthrown pass. Pedestrian like that, you mean?
Bama looks pedestrian this year
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:56 am to junkyarddawg3
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Bama looks pedestrian this year
Don’t agree with this at all, but strange the Bama run game isn’t better.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:57 am to FAT SEXY
Bama looks pedestrian this year
The team that got beat last Saturday looked a whole lot less pedestrian than the one that got it handed to them in Norman, OK last year.
The team that got beat last Saturday looked a whole lot less pedestrian than the one that got it handed to them in Norman, OK last year.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:05 am to Gman84
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Don’t agree with this at all, but strange the Bama run game isn’t better.
They sure didn’t need it much against us. But they kept the ball away from us and beat us on 3rd down. But that’s not the topic of this conversation.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:08 am to FAT SEXY
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Tide fans, take the crimson sunglasses off and tell me honestly what you believe the ceiling is for this squad
I think semi finals is the ceiling. We are a talented, but flawed team. Capable of beating anyone, but can’t just show up and expect to win like we did the first game of the season.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:16 am to junkyarddawg3
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But they kept the ball away from us and beat us on 3rd down
Yea, they were like 300 for 300 on 3rd down conversions. Painful.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:19 am to Gman84
I mean OU didn't have as many yards as Bama due to the short fields on turnovers the defense madd. Sooners didn't have to make long drives on those points off turnovers.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 10:20 am
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:22 am to windsor1977
quote:Well, he has a problem with subject/verb disagreement so don't expect much better from him (or maybe you since you didn't catch it).
Please don't use a word like "pedestrian" on those people. 50% of them don't even have a GED..... another 25% have no idea whether you are praising or insulting them.
Try to keep it at "average", "not as good", or even better "needs to get gooder"
Please don't make things more difficult on those people.... they struggle enough in life as it is
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BCS where Alabama and any other team with losses and multiple losses isn't even in the discussion.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:29 am to Boomer65
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Whatever helps you sleep at night.
The spread would be even bigger if there was a rematch.
Does that also help Vegas sleep at night? Or does pretending otherwise help you sleep at night?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:41 am to 3down10
Bama had 130 yards in the second half once Venables adjusted, most of y’all’s yards came in the first half from taking advantage of empty space where pressure was coming from. Once our D realized this and changed up looks, Bama couldn’t really do much—there were also a LOT of 3rd downs where Bama extended the drive by the skin of their teeth, so it could have been even worse.
I’d feel more confident in a rematch, OU isn’t giving up 400 yards to Bama again.
Edit: forgot to mention this—if Bama were confident in moving the ball against OU, they wouldn’t have had to resort to silly trick plays like the direct snap with Simpson walking toward the sideline or Simpson pretending to trip and then throwing downfield. They knew they were having to scratch and claw for everything, and that ran out for them in the second half.
I’d feel more confident in a rematch, OU isn’t giving up 400 yards to Bama again.
Edit: forgot to mention this—if Bama were confident in moving the ball against OU, they wouldn’t have had to resort to silly trick plays like the direct snap with Simpson walking toward the sideline or Simpson pretending to trip and then throwing downfield. They knew they were having to scratch and claw for everything, and that ran out for them in the second half.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 10:44 am
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:43 am to ronricks
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You can’t be serious with this? It’s literally all that matters.
Your ignorance on a topic is my not my problem.
It's what matters for games played, it's not what matters when you are talking about the actual strength of a team and what the future holds, which was the question I was answering in the OP.
If you can't understand how a team can lose and still come out looking better than you expected them to, then that's your ignorance. That's because you can't analyze the game further than the scoreboard. Wins and losses is all your brain is capable of taking in at a time.
If you want to look at team strength then you look at how well a team moved the ball, and you look at how well they prevented the other team from moving the ball.
Learn the difference between power ratings and season rankings then get back to me.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:49 am to Yokelhoma
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Bama had 130 yards in the second half once Venables adjusted, most of y’all’s yards came in the first half from taking advantage of empty space where pressure was coming from. Once our D realized this and changed up looks, Bama couldn’t really do much—there were also a LOT of 3rd downs where Bama extended the drive by the skin of their teeth, so it could have been even worse.
I’d feel more confident in a rematch, OU isn’t giving up 400 yards to Bama again.
Edit: forgot to mention this—if Bama were confident in moving the ball against OU, they wouldn’t have had to resort to silly trick plays like the direct snap with Simpson walking toward the sideline or Simpson pretending to trip and then throwing downfield. They knew they were having to scratch and claw for everything, and that ran out for them in the second half.
Alabama had drives of 72, 78 and 75 yards for TDs in the game. 2 of them in the 1st half, the 3rd in the 2nd half.
Oklahoma managed a single drive of 41 yards which resulted in a FG. Every other drive that didn't start inside the Alabama 30 ended in a punt.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:52 am to 3down10
quote:Lord knows only Bama can beat Bama
The new format is stupid. We should go back to the BCS where Alabama and any other team with losses and multiple losses isn't even in the discussion.
But to answer your question, this team could win it all. While some of you may be downgrading Alabama over the Oklahoma loss, I personally upgraded them.
Aside from the costly turnovers and the missed FG, we played pretty well.
We moved the ball much better against the Oklahoma defense than I thought we would, and in reality our defense held Oklahoma to only 1 semi-successful drive(resulted in a FG) the entire game outside the ones where we gave them the ball on their side of the field.
You may say Oklahoma didn't need a bunch of yards to win, and that's true due to Alabama mistakes. But on the 6 or 7 drives when they needed to drive the field, they couldn't.
If we played Oklahoma again next week, I'd be even more confident in us to win than I was last weekend.
Special teams is lacking is our biggest weakness. It's not just a down week.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 10:53 am
Posted on 11/19/25 at 11:06 am to dhuck20
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Lord knows only Bama can beat Bama
You can't lose the turnover battle 3-0 and expect to win against good teams.
You also can't expect a team to lose the turnover battle 3-0 every game. Especially when it's a team that doesn't normally lose the turnover battle. Alabama was previously in the top10 for turnover margin with +10 on the year. Even after this game, Alabama is still in the top20 with +7. And that is while playing one of the more difficult schedules in the country. Oklahoma isn't in the top50 in turnover margin.
That was Ty's 2nd interception of the year, and the 1st one was an arm punt. And in most cases, the DPI gets called.
Is it really that difficult for you guys to dissect games/teams beyond the scoreboard?
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 11:09 am
Posted on 11/19/25 at 12:06 pm to 3down10
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The spread would be even bigger if there was a rematch. Does that also help Vegas sleep at night? Or does pretending otherwise help you sleep at night?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 12:10 pm to 3down10
Agree. Though 1 loss is fine..2..no..SOS has to be in the top 30 though should be in rules..4 teams seems good..any larger to me is crazy
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 12:11 pm
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