I just watched the game again and every time they showed CNS, I never saw him angry, getting on players etc. He looked frustrated for sure but did not look like he did vs OU etc. Any thoughts?
He tends to be calmer the closer the game is or when we are behind. He gets the maddest when dumb penalties or we are way ahead and not performing to the standard.
agreed but he does it most of the time if we are not playing well...at least 1 time during a game like this...If anyone needs Saban to fire them up or call them out to play for a national title, then we need to be looking at replacements.
This is the answer, IMOHe tends to be calmer the closer the game is or when we are behind. He gets the maddest when dumb penalties or we are way ahead and not performing to the standard.
Is this your "stay calm" drink of choice?Maybe he had some JD and Fireball before the game like I did. I was unusually calm also.
I think that pretty well describes it. CNS gets upset when we are playing poorly against a team he thinks we should beat. OU was a team he felt we should beat so therefore he was very upset at times. He knew Clemson was different. After Dabo upgraded his QB position Saban knew this game would be like the first two where Deshaun Watson gave us all we could handle. I wonder how many of our players picked up on the fact that he was uncomfortable either before or during the game and thus made them uncomfortable as well.He said in the post game that he was not comfortable with what we needed to do to cover their receivers. Not a direct quote but "comfortable" was the word used to describe the situation. Take that and then see how the game began and I honestly think he knew very early on that we were not the better team that night. He knew Clemson was more prepared, more fired up. I am not saying he threw the towel in, just that he knew any amount of yelling or anything else was not going to make up for the lack of focus and preparation.
i saw a quote in one of the news articles that leading up to the game he had worried about the depth/experience on the back end of the d and if they would be able to tcbThe man's been coaching for a long time and he knows when it's not gonna happen. Sometimes, you just have to accept you're taking a beating that night.
I also assume he realized (sounds like he recognized it even at half time) that they (the staff) had failed in preparing the guys.
Just what my gut is telling me. But I could be misinterpreting everything.