Here's Everything Nick Saban Said About LSU On Monday

Nick is full of shite. He is pumping sunshine to the opposing team as he does every game. Hell he would say Kansas is the best team bama has played just to keep his team from not preparing before the game.

He said that so he can give them “Hope” because they gonna need prayers later.

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This is why Canada is paid the big bucks, he needs to do his best job of the year in this game. Let it loose, the problem is our QB. You can see a huge difference in the way Myles B runs the offense and the way Danny does. It's just a faster more efficient offense with Myles in bc he understands what the offense is trying to do and has the physical ability to get it done. What he doesn't have is the experience to go with it which sucks but is what it is. Danny will have to play the game of his life in this game, and our WRs will have to step up big, as will the OL. If all that happens and Canada is willing to change up our tendencies, LSU will have a decent game. If we play not to lose then we might get run out the stadium. I'm honestly excited to see what a great QB can do in this offense though. LSU can beat bama with these schemes, we simply need to upgrade the personell across the roster's 2 deep. We do that and we'll start beating bama again.

Saban is just talking out his arse. Same bullshite every week. I promise you he takes these shits seriously.

Better than just lining up in the I- formation and waiting for the entire Bama defense to be in our backfield when the RB gets the ball. At least they will have to play honest this time. Play action on first downs. Swing passes to the RB’s. And 3rd down passes to the TE are all very effective at slowing down the pass rush, provided the QB gets rid of the ball quickly. Mix in jet sweeps with the running game and, Bam! Take a deep shot to Chark or Gage! A punt or kickoff return would be nice as well! Piece of cake!

Canada is really banking on 18-22 yr old kids making mistakes. We did the same thing at Boise under Petersen. Nothing we did was very complicated but we "formation'd" people to death and often times the pre-snap shifts were enough to get 1-2 players confused on D, opening up someone to run free.

Yeah the shifting is simply there to force the defense to quickly adjust assignments prior to the snap and keep defenders "honest." You can't ignore the jet sweep action and keep an extra defender in the box or they'll hand it off, but you also can't always blitz into the jet sweep because LSU will gain an advantage between the tackles. You can't always roll a safety toward the jet sweep action or you may expose one of your corners to LSU to go over the top. So Saban is right in the sense that if you establish coverage/assignments, all of the motioning doesn't really have an effect on your call. If your players are as well coached and talented as Bama's, then I could see why he'd call it eye candy. But of course Saban understands its purpose and will make sure his players are adjusting pre-snap as needed to prevent those personnel advantages Canada is trying to create.

Agree with UGA tiger. You can not just not react to it. Because the moment you don't then probably built in is to take advantage of not adjusting. Eye candy or not- there is a reason he does it. I like the offense.

No one ever accused Saban of giving the other team any bulletin board material.

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Nick Saban called Matt Canada's pre-snap shifts "eye candy." Totally agree... it's shifting for the sake of shifting 90% of the time. Defenses just learn not to react to it and not to show their hand