A-Day wrap-up: Not about stats, but about how the game is played
What to get for the man who has everything? If you’re buying for Nick Saban right now, try to find one of those fancy laser pens Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith hold up in “Men In Black” that, when flashing, erases the memory of the person looking at them.
Spring practice: 10 positions, 10 questions
March 9, 2019 Comments Off on Spring practice: 10 positions, 10 questions
Alabama’s first spring practice is in the books. Given the way the 2018 season ended, there will probably be greater fan scrutiny on 2019 spring practices than in recent years.
Here’s our look at 10 key positions headed into spring, which could see more shuffling of personnel than expected given the turnover in position assistant jobs and the new perspective first-year assistants might bring to their evaluations.
Continue reading …Georgia preview: A rematch in name only, as so much has changed
November 29, 2018 Comments Off on Georgia preview: A rematch in name only, as so much has changed
The last time we saw the Georgia Bulldogs, they – like everyone else in the college football world – were staring, dumbfounded, at an Atlanta scoreboard trying to make sense of what they had just witnessed.
Continue reading …Auburn wrap-up: Necessary or not, Bama makes its statement
November 25, 2018 Comments Off on Auburn wrap-up: Necessary or not, Bama makes its statement
Auburn’s strategy was obviously to survive the Alabama first-half storm, keep the game close, then do something heroic in the second half. Such a strategy, though, oversamples early-season results and fails to account for the Alabama of the recent. Alabama may have started the year running up huge numbers and then sitting on the leads, which led to some artificial second-half statistics that implied the Tide couldn’t play after the half.
These days? Ask LSU. Ask The Citadel. And now, ask Auburn.
Continue reading …Auburn preview: Tigers will be tough, but upset chances are low
November 21, 2018 Comments Off on Auburn preview: Tigers will be tough, but upset chances are low
Auburn has a solid quarterback, but not one that would threaten to take over a game against a secondary many believe to be elite. The game isn’t in Auburn, where weirdness is born, fertilized and cultivated into something so bizarre it begins to appear as if it should have been scripted by William S. Burroughs. And Alabama, most certainly, doesn’t have an explosiveness problem. The Tide has been as combustible as a sack of nitroglycerin in 2018.
Continue reading …LSU wrap-up: Bama dominates in every way in thrashing of Tigers
November 3, 2018 Comments Off on LSU wrap-up: Bama dominates in every way in thrashing of Tigers
Alabama came into this game with no question marks on offense. It displayed no question marks on defense in this game, either. As long as kickers aren’t involved, this looks like a team without a weakness.
Continue reading …Missouri wrap-up: When it came time for a gut check, Tide responded
October 14, 2018 Comments Off on Missouri wrap-up: When it came time for a gut check, Tide responded
The way Alabama’s offense can score points may mean the 2018 season goes by without a truly close shave, margin-wise, but don’t for one second think Alabama’s victory over Missouri wasn’t an epic gut check.
Continue reading …Texas A&M Wrap-up: Tua Shows Out, Bama Shows Up Aggies
September 23, 2018 Comments Off on Texas A&M Wrap-up: Tua Shows Out, Bama Shows Up Aggies
Alabama is killing people through the air right now thanks to Tua Tagovailoa, a peerless wide receiver corps, and an offensive line that has perfected the art of pass protection. Tagovailoa was not sacked a single time against Texas A&M, and was left mostly clean besides.
Continue reading …Louisville Preview: Cardinals in transition as Alabama begins title defense
August 30, 2018 Comments Off on Louisville Preview: Cardinals in transition as Alabama begins title defense
If Louisville gets hot offensively, it’s not completely impossible that this game would turn into a shootout. But if Alabama can slow the Cardinal offense at all, a defense that was already bad and then lost nine starters to graduation would seem to have little chance of stopping what figures to be the most explosive Alabama offense perhaps in all of school history.
Continue reading …Georgia preview: Tide plays for a title against team it was built to defend
January 6, 2018 Comments Off on Georgia preview: Tide plays for a title against team it was built to defend
Alabama will face off against a team that was more or less built to mirror Alabama. And Alabama’s attack plan is more or less designed to attack teams like this.
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