****Bama vs. WVU - Postgame Thread****

My post game celebration. Just pulled these off the WSM after a 6 hour smoke.

I think the problem is that the 2012 team that had a bunch of returning starters coming off a title - and that plowed Michigan, 41-14 - set the bar of expectation so high that anything short of that is disappointment.

1) It was the first game of the season. I'd rather be a tad bit rusty and make mistakes now that are corrected than play awesome into October and lose to someone we should beat because of our own stupidity.

2) Kudos to Blake Sims - the most important thing to me was his response AFTER the pick. The D bailed him out and he led a great drive.

3) Guys probably a tad bit gunshy - the returning players - after ending with two losses. And playing another HUNH. The defense only gave up ONE TOUCHDOWN to a HUNH team that was in the red zone most of their possessions. Made them settle for field goals and won the game.

4) Kudos to Adam Griffith. If any evidence were necessary that he has shaken off the Auburn kick return, we got it today.

I would remind you all of something: in 2009, we were coming off a great season that ended with consecutive losses. Brandon Deatrick got shot just a few days before the game. We were breaking in a new quarterback.

And we trailed that game entering the fourth quarter.


None of us would mind the year ending up the same way.


Work to do across the middle, the secondary. O-line will improve (it was better than last year's opener, which we won by an easier margin).

Special teams? Good Lord. Well, kick returns anyway.

TideMom2Boys said:

yeah a good one...UGA and Clemson in the fourth

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yeah i tried watching okie lite and FSU but it is not looking good for okie lite

Gonna have to give Humphrey and Brown a shot at starting if we're going to win any kind of championship this year. Corner is our one glaring deficiency right now.

TideMom2Boys said:

yeah a good one...UGA and Clemson in the fourth

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Gurley is in BEAST MODE tonight as usual.

I'm marking two areas of concern off my list. Kicking game looks like is going to be fine. Also I think the o-line played pretty well. It's a W and I'll take it! RTR!

TideMom2Boys said:

I am not being negative...you know me. I was agreeing with you on leaving points off the board. Which means..we could of had a blowout.

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Not you just overall.


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tusks_n_raider said:

Gurley is in BEAST MODE tonight as usual.

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Their running backs are fun to watch. They can flat out fly.

Tidefan1 said:

Gonna have to give Humphrey and Brown a shot at starting if we're going to win any kind of championship this year. Corner is our one glaring deficiency right now.

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I doubt that. It's the first game and we made mistake that we aren't accustomed to. They are correctable. WVU was ready for us and I think Bama believed the hype. We will be fine.


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crimsonaudio said:

Sims was 1:5 on passes > 15 yards - two of which were perfect passes uncharacteristically dropped by CJones. If he were 3:5, he would have had a TD on one of them and no one would be complaining.

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Yep, and over 300 yards passing in first start ever.

crimsonaudio said:

For comparison:
Blake Sims' first game (West Virginia): 24-33, 250, 0 TD, 1 INT (130.3 QBR)
AJ McCarron's first game (Kent State): 14-23, 226, 1 TD, 2 INT (82.4 QBR)
Greg McElroy's first game (Virginia Tech): 15-30, 230, 1 TD, 1 INT (58.8 QBR)

Anyone still wanna complain about Blake Sims?

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You forgot to include John David Phillips' stats.

:drool5: Mmm!

rolltide_21 said:

My post game celebration. Just pulled these off the WSM after a 6 hour smoke.

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How about J.K. Scott's only punt? Kid has a cannon!!

Tidefan1 said:

Gonna have to give Humphrey and Brown a shot at starting if we're going to win any kind of championship this year. Corner is our one glaring deficiency right now.

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I agree. I'd rather see us get burnt with Brown and Humphrey than two older kids who make the same mistakes. Sylve was horrid.

I like how this will take that spotlight off of us. It will let us do what we do and get better.

DzynKingRTR said:

yeah i tried watching okie lite and FSU but it is not looking good for okie lite

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That QB okie state has is fiesty.

TideMom2Boys said:

I like how this will take that spotlight off of us. It will let us do what we do and get better.

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This X1000.

crimsonaudio said:

LOL, I've never seen so many folks upset after a season-opening win in my life.

It's hilarious - offense scores 33, defense allows only 16 (only 1 TD) to a team coached by what many consider to be one of the offensive geniuses in the game, and people are complaining. Sims sets a record (and plays better than the past two new starters - both of which who led us to NCs their first year) and people complain.

It blows my mind.

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dude looks like gene wilder as willy wonka.

TideMom2Boys said:

I like how this will take that spotlight off of us. It will let us do what we do and get better.

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I hope it knocks us down the polls a little