Bama players sitting out of the bowl game - a running list
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Outside of those two bad throws by Mac the offense played about as well as anyone could have ever hoped. Scoring that many points on the road at Auburn is incredible. Even with the pick sixes I'd give the offense an A that game.
Defense gets a D.
Special teams gets a C+.
The D didn't throw a pair of pick-6s, one of which came when we should have scored. 21 point swing is a lot.
No, the D wasn't great, and no one is saying they were. No one knows how API would have changed their play calling, if they had to overcome that 21 point swing without our help. They may have taken more risks, that could have paid off in our favor. Or maybe torched us worse. We'll never know.
No, they lost as a team. All phases of the game had issues. And pretty much the same issues that have plagued our other recent losses.
The Bama Factor.
There was none. It cost us. CNS wanted to see more of it, and it never materialized. Not sure where it went, when (if ever) it will come back, but without it we are going to continue to struggle in tough situations.
Like our biennial trip into the Portal to Hades. At least we have 2 years to fix that problem.
Bama only played good competition twice this year and gave up 47ppg in those games.
So...never?
LOL - Seriously, asking the offense to only throw 1 pick 6 instead of two would have sufficed - far from perfect. Stop buying into the garbage that the pessimists are selling.
Actually great point. 2nd year in a row our offense has absolutely shredded an AU defense that hadn't let up anywhere close to the amount of points we scored vs them.
That is vs AU what does that have to do with the LSU game. Read my other post you may have an argument for that Auburn game but not the LSU game. (still scored more than enough to win vs Auburn though and the defense can't say the same about stopping their offense)
Yep, which is why I keep coming back to this thread for updates. I wish all of our football players who committed to play football for UA would play in this game but for those who don't opportunities abound for others.
I’m not being a pessimist. I’m being a dispassionate realist. I have a positive outlook on 2020 if we get some guys back from injuries and the draft.
Yes the reason we lost to LSWho was because of our defense and I'm not arguing otherwise but we could have won if our offense had not thrown the pick before halftime. I am not talking about stats but what could have happened if we did not make these mistakes. They did have a pretty good offense
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The season did not end with the LSU game - it ended with the Auburn game. Somehow Alabama played the worst game in Saban's tenure in that game. Every aspect of the team failed. That is what needs to get fixed - not just the defense.
I mean our back up QB making his first road start vs one of the better defenses he will likely face in his career had 2 bad throws? We put up 45 points on a team that hadn't allowed more than 24 all year including to LSU. Sure both sides failed but one failed a good bit more than the other.
And IMO the worst played game in Saban's tenure was vs Clemson.
Maybe I'm kind of lost in what the argument here is but my worry moving forward is the defense.
I selfishly wish that Najee would stay although I know he won't, he really started to hit his stride later in the season, a full year of the Najee we saw against LSU and Auburn would put him in Henry, Ingram, Richardson territory imo. He was a big part of us staying in those games.
Clemson had a championship team. Auburn was a 4 loss team. But both were terrible losses.
Cool, sums up 17 pages real quick
1. I'm beginning to think a lot of the players are starting to realize they left a lot on the table this season. So with that in mind I hope as many play as possible and just destroy Michigan in all phases of the game.
2. On a side note, I understand the arguements about the offense vs the defense and vice versa. This is one of those seasons where the team just came up short on both sides of the ball unfortunately. We've been fortunate in the past not to have to deal with many of the situations we have this year.
2. On a side note, I understand the arguements about the offense vs the defense and vice versa. This is one of those seasons where the team just came up short on both sides of the ball unfortunately. We've been fortunate in the past not to have to deal with many of the situations we have this year.
DJ Dale's knee injury must be fairly serious if he isn't playing in the bowl game and is still not responding well to treatment. He was really good as a freshman. Hope he is 100 percent for all next year.
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