Nick Saban = Dream Killer

It's taken me a while to get on here and post about the game this weekend. That's mainly because I only scored one day off of work to make the trip. For those that don't know, I live and work a little south of Baton Rouge. So this leads to me getting to Oxford about 3:45 on Saturday morning for the game. That's just the start.

Anyway, Elisha and I hit the Grove around 11 in the morning, because he's too poor to have a tent and apparently no one wants him at their tent. It was more the Grove was so packed it was impossible to find anyone. It was like trying to navigate at Mardi Gras roaming around the Grove this past weekend. The energy was incredible. A long suffering fan base had hope for the first time in years, and damn it if they weren't going to make the most of it. I end up downing some Maker's to kill my nerves and get me in the right state of mind to yell myself stupid. Stuff worked like a charm.

You know though, for fans so excited for the game, it would be nice if they got off their asses and yelled. The students were into it like I've never witnessed at an Ole Miss game. Jumping up and down, yelling on first and second down even. The students did their part to support the Rebels, the old people did not. frick the blue hairs. We may have a HS stadium, but if everyone in that stadium behaved like a drunk 20-something, it'd be a very tough place to play.

Onto the actual game. The Rebel Defense is stout. The rest of the SEC is on notice. Our undersized DBs made McElroy and the Alabama passing game work for every single play. Julio got four catches and was thrown to at least 10 times. They were throwing fades against 3'10" Marshay Green, right call to make. Our DBs just shut it down. The pass rush was everything we thought it was too. McElroy had a tough game back there. Took some licks. To his credit, he came back firing and didn't make any mistakes. Which was all he needed to do.

Jevan Snead is fricking garbage. I don't care if you just broke up with your girlfriend, you're getting paid to go to school here to play football. That means, you probably should at least look like an SEC football player. He's got the physical tools in spades, but the mental part of the game wasn't there. The playcalling was designed to help him as well. So many missed (and wide open) dump offs to the backs in the flats. Really missed passes all over the place. The reason we went -4 in turnovers against the best team in the country. Jevan...wtf happened?

That's just a basic rundown, I'll post more later or something. Alabama...congrats on the win and crushing all hope of the Rebels going to Atlanta. Right now, I'm just looking to see a pulse from the offense. So far, they've been DOA.