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Good: Defense has the chance to be elite if they can stay healthy.

LB play. Metz and Woodson are thumpers. Great to see great fundamental tackling at the LB position again. They get their hands on you, you're going to the ground.

DB play is special. Great to see Edwards get in. He has a knack of just being where the ball is.

DL is flat nasty.

Hill/Crowell/Brown can get the job done. Hill is finally running like a 230# back. Crowell when completely 100% and learns the blocking packages will be special. Brown has great vision and shiftiness.

Good day for RW and Scott. Still has a tendancy to jump when he doesn't have to.

Talty. Bruh finally figured it out.

Another good is they just kept fighting despite playing the worst half of football since the FSU game last year. Kentucky is mediocre at best. Play to the standard.

Bad:

Pre-snap bullshite. Simply put, there's WAAAAAAAY too much shifting and late substituting going on. We cannot even do the simple shite like get lined up on time with the right personnel on the field. You have a QB only in his second start. Get the best 11 players on the field, line up and play fricking football. This is 100% on the offensive coaching staff.

Finally getting the play in with 5 seconds on the clock and shifting 1/4 of th e players on the field with 5 seconds on the clock does NOTHING but create a sense of panic and hurry on the players, this leads to half of our offensive penalties.

SIMPLIFY THE DAMN OFFENSE UNTIL KR figures it out.

Play calling. Grubb tries to get too cute, especially on 3rd and 4th and short. This issue is compounded by the previously mentioned pre snap nonsense. You have a 230# running back and MULTIPLE TEs that are great blockers. When you need 2 yds line up and run the fricking football instead of trying some late shift jet sweep that hasn't worked at the University of Alabama since Marquiz fricking Maze was running it.

OL. Yes, I know we were down two starters but we're still getting too many wiffs on blocking. This is being compounded by the late shifting.

Delgatty gets a demerit for the shite on the first 2 point conversion. They knew they were going to go for two on the play before they scored. Have your arse where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there.

Officiating. I've never seen a more concerted effort to disrupt the flow of the game when momemtum was shifting in 56 years of watching football.

The TD that was called back was damn sure NOT beyond a reasonable doubt. Defensive holding on a clear running playl??? Bitch please. And, how the frick do you call ineligible receiver downfield when the offense is on the damn 5 yard line???

That crew needs to stick to high school football.

Over-all a B- effort.

So, 1/8 of an inch.

Damn, how will they deal with such a drastic change?

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You guys are over-reacting. Let the man work. For "AD" type duties, GB has been on fire. Bama doesn't have a Mark Cuban type alum so we're going to have to get creative. I do agree with the thought that he may hire a "marketing" type assistand AD that can think outside of the box.

And as far at Saban's involvement, let the man enjoy his retirement. He damn sure earned it. Alabama has to figure out life after Saban and the sooner we do that, the better.

The Learfield contract thing is interesting. There are enough major manufacturers in Alabama to sink our teeth into a major contribution for a patch. Surely someone out there knows the meat and potatoes of that deal. And, that would have had to had multiple layers of administration eyes on it, not just Byrne's.

Whoever is head of Ford Racing is a fool if they let him get away. He's shown he can content in decent equipment.

Except for a few pockets like Hungary and Poland, western culture is forever dead in Europe.

And I'll add it was quite intentional.

You guys do not get the schtick of this. They choose big girls on purpose. An OT 8-10 wouldn't even get a second look at getting selected.

Y'all let these big girls have their fun.

Good:

No injuries. Run game looks improved. Hill finally running like he weighs 230. EJ as good as advertised. Trae'shawn is a nice change of pace. Need more runs to the outside when EJ is 100% and Dear is back.

Russell will be special with more experience. He tried to force a few, that will cost us against SEC secondaries. He has to slide or get out of bounds more. As mentioned earlier, needs more touch on short passes. A couple of misses were simply due to him firing bullets when they weren't needed.

OL looks better but needs more consistency. TEs need to be more involved in the passing game

Meadows is going to be a problem.

Defense can be elite. They are very physical which is a great improvement. Take away the one busted coverage and Im not sure they have over 100 yds and I don't think they converted a 3rd down.

Bad:

Agree that the play calling needs to be more consistent and taking into mind the flow of the game.

RCW - DAMN son stop letting the ball hit your body!!!!!! Catch it with your fricking hands. Insanely frustrating but as someome mentioned you have to take the good with the bad because when he does haul it in he makes special shite happen.

Still way too sloppy just getting lined up and getting the plays in. Wasted several time outs just getting people in the right place and a play called. That's pee wee level shite. It goes back to Saban's last few years and makes me want to throw shite at the TV. When players are panicked and hurried, that's when they move early and miss simple assignments. THIS IS 100% ON GRUBB AND THE OFFENSIVE STAFF.

I was very curious in the first half why CDM didn't play any more than he did. When he finally did I see why. Dude can't block worth a shite. He's too damn big not to be able to block any better than that.

Trying to be far too cute on playcalling. Like Cig mentioned in the off season. We have a tendancy to default to trick plays in critical down and distance instead of just lining up and busting someone in the mouth. The fumble on the jet sweep just seemed to be bad communication between Kee and RCW and will get cleaned up.

Overall, I give us a B-. We won and no one got hurt. We'll know more next week going on the road against an SEC opponent.

I been studying on this as well. We keep two feeders pretty active and the cardinals and doves love them.

By boys tell me I'm getting soft in my old age. :lol:

Roll Tide fellas.

May your beer be cold, your wings hot, and no damn injuries today.

I give Andy one more fight. His career has been such a shame. Completely wasted his prime years because he was fat and lazy. He could have been mainstay at HW for a few years with more discipline.

Unbelievable hand speed and decent power for a big man. You could tell on his face before the fight even started he didn't want to be there.

On another note, in the co-main Vito is finally looking like the phenom he been billed as since he was 17. He really looked good and is gonnna be a problem at SMW.

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You misspelled "being kidnapped and thrown in a van" to be shipped to the front line to be killed in about 48 minutes.