Will this be a "statement" game?

Professor · Oct 31, 2018

All season long we have been bombarded with the old "Alabama hasn't played anybody" or "weak schedule." Well, we are playing somebody this Saturday.
It would be fantastic if we could run up a really good score, say 57-7 or something like that, to shut up the naysayers?

bamaga · Oct 31, 2018

Yes , 53 jazillion -14.

RT27 · Oct 31, 2018

The statement is one Nick said when he arrived in Tuscaloosa. We want to be the team NO ONE wants to play.After this game, no one will want to play us. This is the game that tells the nation, we have been really good, but with a GREAT QB we are unstoppable. This is our SEASON of Seasons. This is the perfect storm in college football. When we beat LSU down, a number 3 team with a great defense, all others will look and realize, it is over this year.

B1GTide · Oct 31, 2018

We already have a score thread so I won't go there, but I do believe that this will be a statement game for Alabama. Right now there are doubters because of your schedule. Win by more than 2 scores and you put the college football world on notice, and the official countdown to #18 begins. Lose and it becomes a statement game for LSU.

uafan4life · Oct 31, 2018

Yes. Regardless of the outcome.

But I'm pretty sure I know what the outcome's going to be and only Bama fans are going to be happy about it. :biggrin2:

Everyone can see the product Bama's putting onto the field. We haven't played our best game - haven't needed anything close to it, yet - and have been blowing everyone off the field. All the naysayers know what they are seeing from this Bama team but are just afraid to admit it.

CrimsonNagus · Oct 31, 2018

It is impossible for Bama to have a statement game. If Bama wins by 4 TDs, then everyone will say LSU was overrated and we still haven't played anybody. If Bama wins or loses a nail-biter then everyone will say Bama was overrated because we haven't played anybody.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Oct 31, 2018

Perhaps

MN-Tide · Oct 31, 2018

CrimsonNagus said:
It is impossible for Bama to have a statement game. If Bama wins by 4 TDs, then everyone will say LSU was overrated and we still haven't played anybody. If Bama wins or loses a nail-biter then everyone will say Bama was overrated because we haven't played anybody.

I know you are intending sarcasm, but Alabama really can't have a "statement" game. They have been the dominant program for over a decade. If they win big, the only "statement" that can be made is Alabama is still Alabama until further notice. There is nothing for them to prove.

Tideflyer · Oct 31, 2018

B1GTide said:
We already have a score thread so I won't go there, but I do believe that this will be a statement game for Alabama. Right now there are doubters because of your schedule. Win by more than 2 scores and you put the college football world on notice, and the official countdown to #18 begins. Lose and it becomes a statement game for LSU.

Right. The answer to the original question is " Yes ". The unknown is for whom (?).

RollTide_HTTR · Oct 31, 2018

Tideflyer said:
Right. The answer to the original question is " Yes ". The unknown is for whom (?).

I don't think its a statement game if we win a close one.

ALA2262 · Oct 31, 2018

MN-Tide said:
I know you are intending sarcasm, but Alabama really can't have a "statement" game. They have been the dominant program for over a decade. If they win big, the only "statement" that can be made is Alabama is still Alabama until further notice. There is nothing for them to prove.

But Alabama is not just Alabama. Pete Fiutak said it best, "basically Alabama is Alabama with Drew Brees at QB".

Tenntiderman · Oct 31, 2018

MN-Tide said:
I know you are intending sarcasm, but Alabama really can't have a "statement" game. They have been the dominant program for over a decade. If they win big, the only "statement" that can be made is Alabama is still Alabama until further notice. There is nothing for them to prove.

Yep. How many times since 2008 have I heard "ANYBODY but Bama!!" So every game is a statement game to me. But at least I haven't heard this game billed "Game of the Century" just yet. Hope I don't.

T Bone · Oct 31, 2018

I agree that when we win it will start the naysayers with the whos were over rated.....hope we curb stomp them.

Tenntiderman · Oct 31, 2018

T Bone said:
I agree that when we win it will start the naysayers with the whos were over rated.....hope we curb stomp them.

I am still worried about our fans after the game no matter who wins.

RT27 · Oct 31, 2018

The only statement will be, well DANG there goes 18. Expand the trophy case and that darn Tua will be back another yr, so most will be looking to 2020 as their next best hope LOL

Probius · Oct 31, 2018

Beating a top 5 team on the road will certainly be a statement win, and that's regardless of the score.

RT27 · Oct 31, 2018

Probius said:
Beating a top 5 team on the road will certainly be a statement win, and that's regardless of the score.

Not to poo poo the post, that is a statement game for most teams, for Bama, well it is just another day at the office. We have beat most every top 5 team we played for a decade now. Bama can beat the #2 team(as we are usually #1) and no one blinks. At this point it is expected. YES it will be big win, but the statement game now boils down to one game and one game only, The National Title game. Everything else is just another game.

BamaMoon · Oct 31, 2018

Tenntiderman said:
I am still worried about our fans after the game no matter who wins.

If it's a first half beatdown they'll be long gone by then.

My only experience with LSU fans was in 2012 BCSNCG in NOLA. They were loud and obnoxious before the game. They didn't say a word afterward. BR may be different, but a beatdown will likely keep 'em quiet.

CoolBreeze · Oct 31, 2018

The only statement I am interested in is "Alabama Wins" as the clock strikes 0:00. I really think we are in for a heck of a ballgame.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Oct 31, 2018

Every game from here on out will be, even The Citadel.

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