re: Effect of Trent Richardson's absence in the Alabama Game

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I try to be as non-biased as possible but that just isn't correct. In my opinion, Lacy is even better than Richardson. Richardson was kind of overrated.

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Having seen Lacy in high school and college, he is a hoss, but nowhere near the beast richardson was.

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Only reason he scored was you couls see the quit in them knowing the game was over!

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True. Defense played great. Held them to 5 FG's for the majority of the game. Their morale was crushed by how the offense was playing.

Richardson overrated? Please, hes bulldozing nfl players now.

It doesnt even matter. They got stud RBs in Lacy, Fowler, Yeldon. They got maulers up front. They have a nasty D. This will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future.

Biggest difference in Alabama's offense compared to last year is drastic improvement in red zone efficiency, which I HOPE pays big dividends against LSU. Chavis has been giving Bama fits when they get near the red zone. So far this season, we are 12 of 12 with 11 being touchdowns and one being a field goal.

You'll also notice Bama hasn't really been forcing the issue in the running game and has been focusing on improving down field passing. I'm not sure how it's going to look if and when they need a run heavy approach.

Eddie looked much more hard nosed in the last game. He looked a little tentative in the first two. I'm hoping he's starting to get warmed up.

I don't think Eddie can put us on his back like Richardson. But trying to have Trent do that on Nov. 5 didn't work out too great anyway. That's why he wasn't the focal point of the offense on Jan. 9. Bama Knew LSU was going to take him away, so they gave AJ a bigger role in the game plan.

Trent couldn't carry us to victory and I doubt we expect Eddie too. Expect our RB's to be good enough and utilized enough to keep the D honest. But AJ and red zone performance will be the key to offensive success or failure against LSU.

As for Yeldon, he has the potential to be the best Bama RB of all time, IMO. He's got all the talent needed. But he's got a long way to go.

As for whether Bama is overrated? The offense is awesome. But It's tough to tell how good the defense would be without all the turnovers they have been getting. I hope we keep getting them.

What are you worry about Kingpin? You got LSU in the bag, just remember what happen when you guys played us prepared. 21- 0 remember? You shouldn't even worry about LSU.

What nobody is talking about is McCarron. He is given a bigger workload and they are trying to make him the focal point and the run game second. If we can disrupt Mccarron(don't even have to sack him) we could have him make mistakes and Ronald Martin, Jalen Mills, and Jalen Collins, can ball hawk all game.

That OL was beat last game so it can be beat, and IMO Bama doesn't have a back as good as TR was.

trent richardson is a bad bitch. that is me being unbiased.

Richardson > Ingram > Lacy

Yeldon is a different type of back and he will be dangerous in the open field and on passes out of the backfield. He may prove to be the most dangerous all around back of the bunch. But hard to beat the shear brute strength of Richardson head to head.

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If North Texas and Idaho have been able to dink and dunk and get rid of the football fast why do you think Alabama couldn't do the same?

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Completely different, Tigercoop. Those two teams threw short underneath passes to receivers underneath the zone defense as LSU sat in basic coverages. LSU's strategy was they'll make a mistake every 6 plays or so. Bama threw against a defense that was stacking to stop the run.