Poll: We win the toss vs. LSU - offense or defense first and why?
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Just to be contrary, offense. See the way they are going to attack Tua so the staff can begin to counter.
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I am torn - on the one hand you want as many possessions as possible in the first half without their best player on the field, on the other hand you want the ball first in the second half after you have made adjustments. I took the later, but could easily be swayed.
Im on this train. Take the ball and score a TD like we have done all year. This deflated the crowd. Either a methodical drive or Tua bomb deflates that whole place. If Bama can shell shock them a couple of times in the first quarter the crowd is out of it and the emotion is gone. Then it becomes a meat grinder for them. “Make that #%* quit”.
No one is worried about White. But White is the best defensive player in this entire game with the possible exception of Q Williams. He is a difference maker. It would be great if the game was already over when he takes the field.
I'd take the ball and set the tone early. I'd want to see Tua & company get out to a quick lead and force LSU to try to play catch up, which they are not built to do.
I elect to take the ball first. The whole thing has been our offense versus their defense. They will have studied our opening script tendencies and have a plan for what they think we are going to do.
But there's no way in heaven we will run our usual plays to start the game. If we can knock them off-balance to start the game with then tremors will run through that stadium straight up James Carville's spine.
If you take their biggest strength and succeed against it on the first drive of the game then that's really going to help out with the crowd and their confidence going forward. I say we take the ball and run a script of plays they've never seen before. I want them with an urgent warning in the back of their mind the entire game that they need to play catch up. After the 1st possession I want their defense questioning their film study and I want their offense to feel the pressure of NEEDING to score.
That needs to happen from the word go.
But there's no way in heaven we will run our usual plays to start the game. If we can knock them off-balance to start the game with then tremors will run through that stadium straight up James Carville's spine.
If you take their biggest strength and succeed against it on the first drive of the game then that's really going to help out with the crowd and their confidence going forward. I say we take the ball and run a script of plays they've never seen before. I want them with an urgent warning in the back of their mind the entire game that they need to play catch up. After the 1st possession I want their defense questioning their film study and I want their offense to feel the pressure of NEEDING to score.
That needs to happen from the word go.
I'd take the ball first but I don't think Saban will. I can't remember when he has ever taken the ball first. Maybe he has before the deferral option was available but probably not since.
I have mixed ideas about it. I think I would rather our defense be out there first. They will be fired up. Also, Bama would get the ball to start the 3rd quarter.
It will be interesting to see what Saban does. I think he may put the offense on the field first.
It will be interesting to see what Saban does. I think he may put the offense on the field first.
I usually say "defer."
I say take the ball this time because LSU hasn't scored more than 17 points on us since 2010. If Tua takes us right down the field for yet another score (esp with White out of the game), it numbs the crowd very quickly.
If we get the quick turnover (a la Tennessee) as well, we can make it funereal quite early.
I say take the ball this time because LSU hasn't scored more than 17 points on us since 2010. If Tua takes us right down the field for yet another score (esp with White out of the game), it numbs the crowd very quickly.
If we get the quick turnover (a la Tennessee) as well, we can make it funereal quite early.
In a perfect world we kick and get a turnover fast, score fast and show we are balanced defense and offense. Send a fast message, we will score and you will not. OR we get ball score fast then kick it and get turnover and score again fast. 14-0 before they can breathe LOL
We took the ball first quite a bit in 2014 and we've got an even better offense now.
They know our defense is good, even if it isn't 2016-2017 good. We have to prove to them right out of the gate that the thing you hang your hat on, your defense, is not as good as our offense. They expect their defense to keep them in this game and their offense not to just completely ruin it for them. I'm not sure either is going to happen. I can see Burrow getting a lot of heat early and eventually making a critical error or getting the ball knocked away.
That's odd. My memory was that we'd deferred only once when winning the toss. I'll try to dig it out...
Take the ball first. We want to set the tone to where we can go into 1st half knowing we have a lead and we cna play comfortable
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