One thing Herbie said today on Gameday sort of stuck with me through the game. He commented that we were completely changed on offense from a year ago. Well, we are, but we are very similar to where we were with Blake, season before last. As Jalen develops more touch with his deep ball, we will resemble it even more. It's almost as if Herbie suddenly woke up and realized something which has been evolving but was interrupted because we needed to take advantage of Coker's strong suites. Saban basically caused the college game to change and, then, the changes in the college game caused him to have to change. And he was up to it.
People had already noticed our changing defenses. He put the best defenses on the field to counter the traditional types of attacks and, when we could no longer counter the spread attacks on the edge, he recruited the right people and directed their coaching-up to counter the new styles. I remember one of the reasons Coach Bryant gave for retiring, that he didn't want to teach pass-blocking again. He wasn't really much older then than Coach Saban is today. So these thoughts put me to musing, part-time of course, when the action allowed it, on how lucky we are to have a coach who is so willing and able to adapt to changes, radical changes in the form of the game...
People had already noticed our changing defenses. He put the best defenses on the field to counter the traditional types of attacks and, when we could no longer counter the spread attacks on the edge, he recruited the right people and directed their coaching-up to counter the new styles. I remember one of the reasons Coach Bryant gave for retiring, that he didn't want to teach pass-blocking again. He wasn't really much older then than Coach Saban is today. So these thoughts put me to musing, part-time of course, when the action allowed it, on how lucky we are to have a coach who is so willing and able to adapt to changes, radical changes in the form of the game...