Players ONLY Meeting (Last Week after OM Loss)
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I mentioned in another thread if this would take place (a players only meeting). Glad to see that it has. Sometimes that's the spark that is needed to ignite the fire.
Roll Tide!!
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I mentioned in another thread if this would take place (a players only meeting). Glad to see that it has. Sometimes that's the spark that is needed to ignite the fire.
Roll Tide!!
ChattTide
Re: Players ONLY Meeting This Week
looks like the meeting was early last week, after the ole miss loss.
looks like the meeting was early last week, after the ole miss loss.
Re: Players ONLY Meeting This Week
Mods, please fix the title to just Players Only Meeting. Thanks for catching my error. RTR.
Mods, please fix the title to just Players Only Meeting. Thanks for catching my error. RTR.
They seem to have these a couple times every year. Seems like it would be more prudent to have a players only meeting before a big game to make sure everyone is focused and that they understand the magnitude of the situation..
Not only do we scrutinize every play on the field... now we are questioning the timing of their meetings ... we truly are an obsessive fanbase .... Not that there's anything wrong with that!
During the meeting, several team members made their voices heard, most notably senior linebacker and emotional leader Reggie Ragland, who reminded his teammates of the power of keeping the opposition off the scoreboard. “I said, ‘If teams can’t score, they can’t win,’ ” Ragland said Monday. “So we have to come out and just prevent teams from scoring. You can’t score; you can’t win. That’s a motto for us.”
I love this quote from Ragland, but realistically we're not gonna keep UGA from scoring. In the past our defense won championships. I just don't see that happening currently without a little more offensive firepower. Defense can't do it alone in this age of fast paced offenses. I read this article and saw quotes from Ragland and Jones from the defense and Kelly from the offense. I hope the entire offense was in that meeting. Defense, I gotcha. Offense, your turn. Please please please answer the call in Athens on Saturday.
I love this quote from Ragland, but realistically we're not gonna keep UGA from scoring. In the past our defense won championships. I just don't see that happening currently without a little more offensive firepower. Defense can't do it alone in this age of fast paced offenses. I read this article and saw quotes from Ragland and Jones from the defense and Kelly from the offense. I hope the entire offense was in that meeting. Defense, I gotcha. Offense, your turn. Please please please answer the call in Athens on Saturday.
Something Krazy posted last week got me to studying the stats. The average Offensive and Defensive ranking for Alabama's four BCS foes is 59 & 38. The average for Georgia's three BCS foes is 91 & 51. That is a pretty big difference in SOS if you ask me. Now, if we don't fumble and throw interceptions we will win the game.
It would be ideal if they would focus and listen to the coaches. It would be acceptable if they would focus and listen to their peers. Neither here nor there. Either way, same result. I would just applaud their focus.
Truth is every championship team needs team leaders. It's hard to get the ring without a few of those. Glad to see that there are some players who are at least trying to fill that role.
Glad to see the vets are getting the younger ones in line. Seems to have been our issue lately with these younger 5-stars, they think we automatically get a W for just showing up but in the SEC they don't realize we get everyone's best game it seems. We have a playoff team if these kids stay on track. There will be a lot of teams dropped ahead of us, that you CAN bank on.
Anyone note the comments from Kelly? Sounds like the team realizes that the fans didn't have their backs after that loss. I like the us vs. the world mentality. I just hope that the reason that the o-line was handed its lunch by ULM was as Saban suggested - vanilla blocking schemes vs. stunts and blitz packages. We will find out soon enough.
I don't buy the vanilla blocking scheme by the o-line. What does that even mean? Do we have some exotic o-line blocking scheme that will be unveiled vs UGA? Maybe Alabama just played down to the level of their opponent. I could buy that. BTW, I fully expect for Bama to put forth their best effort in all phases vs UGA. I just don't think the o-line playing any better has anything to do with blocking scheme. Maybe a little on run blocking (but again, it's not like Alabama is going to unveil a blocking scheme that hasn't been seen before) but pass blocking by the o-line is very straight forward..
Yes. Go back and watch the Wisconsin game and then watch the ULM game. You'll see lots of combo blocks, pulling guards etc. against Wisconsin and very little if any of that against ULM. On Saturday I think we'll see an Alabama team that looks much more like the one that played Wisconsin than the one that played the last three games.
He didn't mention fans at all. I took it to mean he was referring to the media. That's who those kids hear more than anything else is the talking heads, who are definitely down on Bama now.
I think he's referencing both. The media is down on us and there are lots of articles to support this. But lots of the players are on social media and have fans as "followers". Sometimes those followers get down on Bama as well and I'd imagine these guys are probably more tuned into that than they are traditional media outlets.
So if all those schemes are already on film from when Bama played Wisconsin what's the harm in running them vs ULM or Middle Tennessee so the team can work on gelling and getting better chemistry? It's always this time of year when folks think that Alabama is "hiding" something or waiting to unveil something that will be unstoppable. Last year it was the Tight Ends. The year before that it was the wildcat package. The year before that it was something else..
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