Taking off Crimson Glasses tonight&reflecting back on our season! whats your thought
First off I don't have that many post on here because I don't have a lot of time to be able to sit down and write an article due to work but, with a day off and time to think about our season I wanted to give my 2 cents on our season without sugar coating everything from a Crimson Shade of Glasses I always wear.
I know a lot of you are going to write that I am spoiled fan due to our recent success and part of that is true because we did win 11 games this year but, lets break it down in a non bias look from the outside. This was the easy schedule we have ever had compared to the championship seasons. We did not play a team a top 10 team realistically the whole season until the iron bowl. A&M was at the time of the game just to hype the game for better ratings but their D was one of the top 10 worst in the country and they almost beat us with 2 players! Coach Saban is without a doubt one of the greatest recruiters/coaches/development of talent ever in college football. But, this year the development part was left out. Some due to players and some due to the coaching staff. I am going to break it down it sections to prove my point.
First our defense as bad as its ever been under Saban and comparable to D's before CNS. They say numbers never lie, but no case ever have numbers lied more than our defense stats this yr. We were in the top 5 in so many categories defensively and didn't belong in the top 20. We were a top 5 scoring defense the entire yr and could not stop no one unless they played exactly into our hands. The only 2 defensive performances the entire yr was against a #21 Ole Miss & #13 Lswho. Other than that take a look at our schedule and the scoring offenses the 11 wins came from. Besides Johnny fball who put up 42. Our statistics came from these 8 powerhouses.
Oh i forgot Chattanooga @ home 49-0
So whenever you take 8 games against not one opponent with a D-1 offense, except for Coach Mac's Off and they total 43 points. Boy 5.375 pts per game looks great. Point is our defense was just plain awful the entire season. And left us all believing in fools gold, including myself. So I changed my New Years revolution to HA HA coming back for his senior yr like CJ did because our secondary was definitely the worst unit of our team. So Either our 4&5 star DB from three straight #1 recruiting classes either can't figure our scheme out or our coaches got complacence also this year. But, even as bad as they were I can't lay all the blame on them. I can't remember the last dominate pass rusher we had to come off the edge, I guess Curry and Copeland was just once in a lifetime players even though it seems I watch 15 other schools that all have them, hell oklahoma had 2 that we couldn't block. Our Lb's, I mean only CJ was a stud for us the entire yr. The rest looked completely lost unless it consistent of running straight dive plays at them and then we would need a team to allow us to substitute and give us 10 more sec to line up.
Now I will give my opinion of our offense. AJ unreal year and career, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. Complete stud and whatever other adjective you can say about one of the greatest players, not only just QB, but complete player and person. I don't know who is going to fill his shoes but I do know its not Blake Sims unless we can hire an offensive mind to put Oregon or the freaking barns offense in during the off season. Will have to wait and see. I think our WR had good years and I am surely going to miss NORWOOD, MR.CLUTCH... Now the rest of offense, I think TJ was either injured or something, he was just not the same player towards the end of the season, Drake was having a good year before he did something to land him in Coach's doghouse.. Henry looked great in the bowl game and we look to be in good position at RB for years to come. Oh I forgot, we may be in good position but I forgot you have to have an O-Line in front of them for us to be ok and that could be a problem. After watching the O-lines from first undefeated team CNS had before we lost to tebow in the SECCG up until last years O-Line, this one just was absolute embarrassing the last 2 games. When we can't get inches against the barn to end the game, to whatever you want to call those 5 against oklahoma none of them looked like an Bama O-line. From both tackles in and also speaking of OT CK YOU ARE NOT READY FOR THE NFL, I don't care what any scout tells you. If you can't put a man that you have 100lbs on face down on the ground every snap I promise you can't block the speed rushers in the league that is close to your size. And after watching AK, people can say what they want about us not doing passage deals but AK is def not at the capstone without a brother named Cryus, unless he is the best OG we have and that is scary. I think Kelly will be ok though for us next yr and become more of a leader as long as he stays healthy, STEEN, just like the other seniors THANKS and you could honestly see who the anchor of our O-Line without you on the field, watch sugar bowl replay a few times like I have if you disagree. I don't want to cuss tonight so we won't mention the kicking game. But, I will just say one thing about it, how does the greatest program in the country just like pass rushers, not have a kicker who kicks a touchback every time he kicks off? Again I see at least 20 schools that never have a kick return against them unless its a fluke. And I will leave kicking at that, forget fg's. I am sorry if people don't agree with everything or anything I have said but I just needed to get it off my chest. I love this site and respect everyone that keeps me updated the majority of time with any info. Just wanted to write this and again its JMO and yeah CNS has definitely spoiled a lot of us because so many fans would give anything if their team won 11 games so a lot of it is just being picky and blowing of steam and glad Tidefans allow you to express your opinion. Hopefully its deju vu from the sugar bowl against Utah. One last thing, I know HA HA is probably gone but CK,Hubbard & Pagan learn from CJ and look what this yr has done for him. RTR Cooper Bateman its your time!
First off I don't have that many post on here because I don't have a lot of time to be able to sit down and write an article due to work but, with a day off and time to think about our season I wanted to give my 2 cents on our season without sugar coating everything from a Crimson Shade of Glasses I always wear.
I know a lot of you are going to write that I am spoiled fan due to our recent success and part of that is true because we did win 11 games this year but, lets break it down in a non bias look from the outside. This was the easy schedule we have ever had compared to the championship seasons. We did not play a team a top 10 team realistically the whole season until the iron bowl. A&M was at the time of the game just to hype the game for better ratings but their D was one of the top 10 worst in the country and they almost beat us with 2 players! Coach Saban is without a doubt one of the greatest recruiters/coaches/development of talent ever in college football. But, this year the development part was left out. Some due to players and some due to the coaching staff. I am going to break it down it sections to prove my point.
First our defense as bad as its ever been under Saban and comparable to D's before CNS. They say numbers never lie, but no case ever have numbers lied more than our defense stats this yr. We were in the top 5 in so many categories defensively and didn't belong in the top 20. We were a top 5 scoring defense the entire yr and could not stop no one unless they played exactly into our hands. The only 2 defensive performances the entire yr was against a #21 Ole Miss & #13 Lswho. Other than that take a look at our schedule and the scoring offenses the 11 wins came from. Besides Johnny fball who put up 42. Our statistics came from these 8 powerhouses.
| |||
| 08/31/13 | vs. Virginia Tech
| Atlanta, Ga. | W, 35-10 |
| 09/21/13 | vs. Colorado State
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. | W, 31-6 |
| 10/05/13 | vs. Georgia State
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. | W, 45-3 |
| 10/12/13 | at Kentucky *
| Lexington, Ky. | W, 48-7 |
| 10/19/13 | vs. Arkansas *
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. | W, 52-0 |
| 10/26/13 | vs. Tennessee *
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. | W, 45-10 |
| 11/16/13 | at Mississippi State *
| Starkville, Miss. | W, 20-7 |
Oh i forgot Chattanooga @ home 49-0
Now I will give my opinion of our offense. AJ unreal year and career, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. Complete stud and whatever other adjective you can say about one of the greatest players, not only just QB, but complete player and person. I don't know who is going to fill his shoes but I do know its not Blake Sims unless we can hire an offensive mind to put Oregon or the freaking barns offense in during the off season. Will have to wait and see. I think our WR had good years and I am surely going to miss NORWOOD, MR.CLUTCH... Now the rest of offense, I think TJ was either injured or something, he was just not the same player towards the end of the season, Drake was having a good year before he did something to land him in Coach's doghouse.. Henry looked great in the bowl game and we look to be in good position at RB for years to come. Oh I forgot, we may be in good position but I forgot you have to have an O-Line in front of them for us to be ok and that could be a problem. After watching the O-lines from first undefeated team CNS had before we lost to tebow in the SECCG up until last years O-Line, this one just was absolute embarrassing the last 2 games. When we can't get inches against the barn to end the game, to whatever you want to call those 5 against oklahoma none of them looked like an Bama O-line. From both tackles in and also speaking of OT CK YOU ARE NOT READY FOR THE NFL, I don't care what any scout tells you. If you can't put a man that you have 100lbs on face down on the ground every snap I promise you can't block the speed rushers in the league that is close to your size. And after watching AK, people can say what they want about us not doing passage deals but AK is def not at the capstone without a brother named Cryus, unless he is the best OG we have and that is scary. I think Kelly will be ok though for us next yr and become more of a leader as long as he stays healthy, STEEN, just like the other seniors THANKS and you could honestly see who the anchor of our O-Line without you on the field, watch sugar bowl replay a few times like I have if you disagree. I don't want to cuss tonight so we won't mention the kicking game. But, I will just say one thing about it, how does the greatest program in the country just like pass rushers, not have a kicker who kicks a touchback every time he kicks off? Again I see at least 20 schools that never have a kick return against them unless its a fluke. And I will leave kicking at that, forget fg's. I am sorry if people don't agree with everything or anything I have said but I just needed to get it off my chest. I love this site and respect everyone that keeps me updated the majority of time with any info. Just wanted to write this and again its JMO and yeah CNS has definitely spoiled a lot of us because so many fans would give anything if their team won 11 games so a lot of it is just being picky and blowing of steam and glad Tidefans allow you to express your opinion. Hopefully its deju vu from the sugar bowl against Utah. One last thing, I know HA HA is probably gone but CK,Hubbard & Pagan learn from CJ and look what this yr has done for him. RTR Cooper Bateman its your time!
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