If they don't lose to Aggy (its in Clemson this year), I don't think they're gonna lose before the playoffs.
I'm not so sure - A&M will be better in year two under Jimbo. A&M might be the surprise team in the W this season.Clemson will beat the breaks off Texas AM. I think they are more vulnerable to an upset loss like Pitt several years ago.
I haven't read every reply yet so if this has been said already I'm sorry. If your like me and approaching 50 years old then the answer is a definite NO! I started becoming a fan in about 1983 at the age of 13, and there was always doubt about the start to a season for me. The doubting slowly diminished for me in 2009. By the way, if anybody can answer a question for me I would appreciate it. Was Alabama football on TV every week when I started watching Bama games (1983)? I live in Florence so I'm sure it could have been a regional TV audience, and we had a TV antenna on top of the house and only got 4 channels. For some reason I don't remember much about being 13. Anyway it's just a silly question that I'm throwing out there, Thanks.
I'm a decade older, and my recollection was that fewer than half the games were available on TV until about 20 years ago. But I lived outside the south for much of that time, and Bama wasn't the national brand that it is today, so there were probably a lot of regionally broadcast games that I missed.I haven't read every reply yet so if this has been said already I'm sorry. If your like me and approaching 50 years old then the answer is a definite NO! I started becoming a fan in about 1983 at the age of 13, and there was always doubt about the start to a season for me. The doubting slowly diminished for me in 2009. By the way, if anybody can answer a question for me I would appreciate it. Was Alabama football on TV every week when I started watching Bama games (1983)? I live in Florence so I'm sure it could have been a regional TV audience, and we had a TV antenna on top of the house and only got 4 channels. For some reason I don't remember much about being 13. Anyway it's just a silly question that I'm throwing out there, Thanks.
As long as some people are posting stuff like this for the players and coaches to read, I feel very, very good about 2019. Stay thirsty my friends.It's the most preseason doubt I've had since 2007....sure.
We just got skulldrug in a National Championship game. No built in go to excuse this time like 'It was a consolation bowl'.
It was THE GAME for THE TITLE and we got whipped, mudholed and walked dry, bludgeoned, destroyed etc etc.
On Paper the 2019 team will certainly be talented enough to go 15-0 but there are too many X factors for me to be confident.
Will ANYONE step up on the Defensive side and be THE LEADER?? What will team chemistry be like in general? Can we navigate the landmine that is playing AU in JH??
Will the Defense be better or worse? What will fuel them if they make the Playoffs and Clemson isn't there? What will fuel them if Clemson IS there?
Will the players actually properly prepare themselves this time for both Playoff games or will Key guys be more preoccupied with the NFL Draft and Twitter??
Can they even beat Clemson with both teams on almost equal footing (Talent) because Clemson definitely had the better coaching staff last year?
Can our Coaching Staff hold their own vs. Clemson? It's a huge unknown.
I feel I posed several valid questions.As long as some people are posting stuff like this for the players and coaches to read, I feel very, very good about 2019. Stay thirsty my friends.
I don't remember it being discussed too much, but their QB, after a slow start, just had "one of those games" that Gary Danielson used to say a QB needed to beat Bama. Obviously, he's better than Stephen Garcia, but he had a Stephen Garcia game too where he was putting the ball in the perfect places. And he and Ross were connecting telapathicly, or so it seemed, with those back shoulder throws.The championship game was hard to take and does need to serve as a focus on getting better, but Clemson in addition to being a better "team" got a few breaks. For instance after the fake punt our corner chooses that moment to get hurt allowing their receiver to house the short pass. The whole game was like that. I don't want to call it luck, but let's just say that infrequently is a team able to take advantage of every opportunity so effectively, even when they are better. They also had that defensive line, when in today's college football do a bunch of NFL eligible all stars choose to stay in school? Certainly we have not been so lucky and I don't know if Clemson will again unless Dabo has some power of persuasion that is beyond the rest of us.
This season in my opinion we just have to get better on defense. Every time we faced a good offense last season we just got tore up. This has to end, I know nobody's going to stop good offenses under the current rule set but allowing points is one thing, allowing 40 points is something else.
Up to mid- to late-70's, the NCAA owned TV rights to college football games, and had control over which games were broadcast on national TV (as I recall). Then, some of the major conferences formed the College Football Association to negotiate TV contracts and the number of games per week increased from 1 or 2 to 5 or 6 as I recall. Then ESPN rose to prominence and in late 80's / early 90's Notre Dame withdrew from the CFA and entered into a contract with NBC, which led to what we have today.By the way, if anybody can answer a question for me I would appreciate it. Was Alabama football on TV every week when I started watching Bama games (1983)? I live in Florence so I'm sure it could have been a regional TV audience, and we had a TV antenna on top of the house and only got 4 channels. For some reason I don't remember much about being 13. Anyway it's just a silly question that I'm throwing out there, Thanks.
A "Stephen Garcia" game refers to a mediocre quarterback becoming an elite quarterback for one day. Lawerence is probably THE BEST qb in the country, and we just didn't have the horses to put up a fight against him. So I don't think passing it off as a "Stephen Garcia" game is accurate. Its more like Lawerence had a "Deshaun Watson" kinda gameI don't remember it being discussed too much, but their QB, after a slow start, just had "one of those games" that Gary Danielson used to say a QB needed to beat Bama. Obviously, he's better than Stephen Garcia, but he had a Stephen Garcia game too where he was putting the ball in the perfect places. And he and Ross were connecting telapathicly, or so it seemed, with those back shoulder throws.
Make no mistake about it, we gave them plenty of openings to take advantage of but they played a great, opportunistic game.
I think there were about 10-15 more.Lawrence made maybe two impressive throws all game. .
Maybe, but at some point you have to give the man the credit he deserves. We destroyed that same Clemson team a year prior when they had Kelly Bryant.I'm not bashing him but I think we were awful more than he was "best.".
Maybe, but Trevor Lawerence is more willing to make safe reads instead of always going for the home run ball than Tua... That much was certainI still think Tua is the best QB in the country. .
Trevor's height gives him an almost unfair advantage in a RPO system. It also doesn't help that our best cornerback, and our two best linebackers were out. Trevor's vision and accuracy were the death of us along with the worst offensive playcalling since the 2013 Iron Bowl.What happened is exactly what happens when your defense has no ability to rush the passer and your secondary can't cover for even 3 seconds. .
Yet the majority of the average fanbase thought the Clemson game was going to be the easiest of the three. Clemson and Lawerence are elite commodities.A QB with a good arm and a quality WR corp will do what he did to our defense every time. Hell, it happened the previous game two games leading up to the CFPCG against two future 1st round QBs.
Agreed. Watson was a great QB playing at an elite level against some great defenses. Lawrence was a true freshman QB made to look like a veteran by a pretty mediocre Alabama defenseLawrence is a great QB. Alabama played poor enough to make him look excellent that night.
This!!!!I feel very confident. Clemson was better prepared than Bama because they had been practicing for that game for a year and Bama was worn down by a tougher schedule. I fully expect the defense to be much better this year and the offense will be the best in the country. Injuries can change anything, but if our team stays healthy, enjoy the show.