AeroAg2012

Did you watch ASU's QB get drilled all game and keep fighting? Or that aggressive defense? That team is no South Carolina. They may have some struggles at OT during the year but I can guarantee you they won't see a better pair of pass rushers than Myles Garrett and Daeshon Hall the rest of the season.

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If you watch Evans closely he runs horrible routes.

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Many, many NFL scouts disagree with you. Evans uses his strength and hands to get a clean release and is excellent about leveraging defenders and using the sideline, particularly on vertical routes. He's a much better route-runner than most college WRs and to state otherwise is delusional.

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Your defense is absolute shite and will be picked apart accordingly.

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I seem to remember this line from the morning of November 10th too. How did that work out for ya?

Gump Nation - Look at our clean little non-douche of a QB AJ McCarron!

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My problem with A&M being so cocky over that game, is the fact they were having the game of their life, while Alabama was extremely Ill prepared. They had a 20-0 lead and let Alabama tie the game by halftime. Score ended up being 29-24. That game may have been an arse whipping in the first quarter, but the rest of the game until the last few drives, he was pretty much quiet.

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This is absolutely retarded. A&M left a lot of points on the field in that game and still won. Missed FG, Missed XPA, missed a 4th down conversion by about an inch in the 2nd Quarter.

This was in a season that A&M had no bye weeks that year due to the first game being postponed by Hurricane Isaac. Was at the end of a streak of 5/6 road games with the 1 home game being against LSU.

After the game next to no one, including Finebaum, said it was a fluke. Now that we're 6 months later, the revisionist history starts to roll in looking forward to this year's matchup.

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My limos over there.

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"Go away, Getaway. Stay away, Getaway."

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I love how you Gumps didn't even address my post about defensive schemes.

Read a book on football once in a while.

The problem with trying to stop the Hurry-Up No Huddle is that you honestly have to out-talent and out-execute teams rather than out-scheme them.

Traditionally, your best athletes are on offense. That makes it tough to do. Saban's challenge will be developing players that can play pattern-match coverage without giving up tons of yards on mental mistakes and running/option plays. Oh, and get pressure on the QB while containing a potential dual-threat.

There's a reason he's paying Kirby Smart >$1 million/year.

But Saban helped develop the pattern-match defense with the Browns based on the weaknesses of the initial Dick Lebeau Zone Blitz schemes, so he'll have to innovate further. The problem is that it's not just one scheme you have to stop. The Air Raid and other versions of the Spread offense have completely different tendencies, plays, and route trees. You can't just stop the West Coast and be golden.

If Saban sticks to his general system scheme, he'll always be vulnerable. The mental stress associated with playing pattern-match defense is what made the transition of hurry-up, no huddle so popular in the NFL, particularly with the emergence of quality passers that can also run effectively.

Time will tell, but to crown Saban immediately is a mistake in my opinion.

Kyle Martin

It really depends. If Johnny stays for his Junior year, we should be a vastly improved team overall in 2014. But there is no reason we shouldn't be ready to play in 2013 except for tripping over ourselves (injury bug, suspensions, etc.).