CrimsonCrusade

I'm tired of this outside narrative that Bama just has impossible expectations. DeBoer just got extended after back-to-back four loss seasons.

"Oh, they want him fired after just one loss!" No. We want him fired after going just 19-10 against power conference opposition midway through year three. That includes just 7-5 in his last 12 games against power conference teams.

And we're not the ones inventing the idea that Bama should be winning at a higher level. Professional oddsmakers keep picking the Tide by multiple scores, only to see them lose, often in blowout fashion. They were favored by 8.5 in this game.

Lastly, what exactly has DeBoer accomplished that we should be remembering in times like this? No bowl victories. You'll see them say "They were in the conference championship game." But Bama backed in to that game on a weird tiebreaker due to the lack of divisions, then was completely uncompetitive. Ole Miss clearly should have gone instead.

"But he made the playoff!" As a marginal seed. They needed a very mediocre Oklahoma squad to implode through some unforced errors to get the first round win. Then he took the worst margin of defeat Alabama has had this century in the Rose Bowl.

At 12 teams, making the playoff just means the season was okay. At 24 next year, making the playoff is the bare minimum at Alabama. That's not a crazy expectation. It's basically just asking for a ranked finish.

It's tiresome to repeatedly hear the media say "Maybe Alabama fans will finally be won over" after every little fleeting success. You win the fans over with consistent winning and competitiveness even in losses.

Barring a just apocalyptic hire like Chad Morris or something, what we've gotten under DeBoer is what I would consider the realistic worst case scenario immediately post Saban. People had a preconception that Alabama fans would unfairly criticize Saban's successor, then it became a self-fulfilling prophecy any time anyone criticizes DeBoer.

Don't discount as well that part of why fans of other teams love defending DeBoer is because they know he will never make this team a legitimate contender. It's easy to like the coach of a hated program when he sucks. Bryan Harsin is my favorite Auburn coach of all time. Derek Dooley for Tennessee.

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Milroe had better accuracy

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When throwing to the other team, you mean?

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So they won't take callers that take the crimson glasses off and ask tough questions?

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Pretty much. This is how these shows are at every school. Coaches likely wouldn't show up if they were getting raked over the coals.

The one exception I can think of is that Clemson caller who challenged Dabo like ten years ago.

The offense had four turnovers. They had under 150 yards before Tennessee started conceding the underneath routes to bleed the clock in the last two minutes.

There are times when the defense looked weak, but this is overwhelmingly on the offense, i.e. on DeBoer and Grubb.

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We come out to the awesome Thunderstruck playing

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Thunderstruck, like every AC/DC song, is horrible. It also has absolutely nothing to do with Alabama. There's no reason they should be playing that garbage.

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The Tenner one was the worst ever but this one was pretty bad.

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This was worse. On that pass interference call against Tennessee in 2022, there was some contact. It was a tough call, but there was some discernible reason the mistake might have been made. On this play, you have the Bama receiver tackled in the end zone with an official looking directly at it. I can't think of a benign reason for that no call.

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I also remember a pick play ran by Clemson to win a natty against us zooming out too

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Two. They ran pick plays on each of their last two touchdowns in that game.

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you have to suck it up and get over it or else you become like some LSU fans on here

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The difference is LSU has never had a call that egregious go against them. The origin of their bitching about the refs is the missed Patrick Peterson interception in 2009, but that was a game they lost by multiple scores and it wasn't even close to as blatant as this. Go back and watch what happened the next time LSU had the ball in that game and tell me they don't just go three and out if they get that call.

Ironically, the last time Bama had a no call PI go this blatantly against them it was in favor of LSU in 2004. But that was the first half and Bama likely wouldn't have been able to hold onto their lead anyway. I'm struggling to think of a time I've seen a game of this magnitude be so influenced by a call like this.

No one will ever care.

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When I saw that throw, I might have said a bad word because there’s no way anyone with a brain could tell me that Ty Simpson is better than this kid. It had the same feel as when Tua came in for Hurts.

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Mack hit that nice 34 yard pass and then hit a 16 yard pass to wide open Cuevas. Those two passes gave him 50 yards. Then he had 53 yards on his remaining nine completions with an average length of under 6 yards. Comparing that to Tua in 2017 is head spinning.