Losing is understandable, but making Bama look better than they are is not

It was execution before the half and right after with the INT

We ALWAYS attack Bama's strength, not their weakness. Les Miles doesn't study film, he watches film.

Nobody in the country brings their A game every week. Bama has brought it twice, arguably 3 times this year, it's not a coincidence that those games came against what were perceived to be at the time a very tough and formidable opponent (Georgia, A&M, LSU) These are college kids after all, it's hard to expect their very best performance every week, that's just human nature. I don't think anyway would expect for lsu to play with the same intensity against eastern Michigan for four quarters as they would against a formidable sec opponent. That's human nature

Those teams were ranked in the top 10 and they got our best shot because of it. What happened at the line of scrimmage though, there's no other explanation for that than one group was flat out better. There isn't a scheme for blowing a guy off the line, that's just a man vs another man. Strength and will are the only things at play there, not a scheme

Y'all got our best shot. I don't expect it to be replicated again in the regular season. I think a lot of it had to do with how much they heard about Fournette, and they were visibly and vocally sick of it. They were challenged for two weeks and came out and played with something to prove. The state game will probably be a dog fight. Doesn't mean they're better than lsu, doesn't mean Bama isn't really a good team. Saturday is what Alabama is capable of, doesn't mean they're going to play like it every week

Damn son you post on this board more than I do.

I agree, but everybody with any brains knew Bama was going to be that way. Les just has no idea how to take advantage of it. He likes to talk about want and chest and all this karma bullshite. Saban insists that players do what they have to do mentally and physically to do their job one play at a time and he harps on it over and over and over until it sinks in.

We now get to watch Bama get slaughtered in the first game of the playoffs, though. It will be beautiful.

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Total yards: LSU 182 Bama 434

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Rushing: LSU 54 Bama 250

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I said this early. LSU was not in that game mentally. No way in hell Bama was THAT good. It's like the OL bought into the notion that people said that they'd get run out the stadium. That then put us at a disadvantage on defense. We do not have the depth on the front 7 to defend a power run game that runs a middle linebacker with 4.5 speed at RB and then his 4.4 speed backup as changup for 50 carries.

Bama also played like men possessed that night.

The fact that there seemingly were not adjustments made at halftime is hard for me to grasp. The heavy weight boxer analogy above is perfect. One would think when your OL is being physically dominated so badly that your TOP is virtually non existent, a coach would try to think of other ways to get 10 yards at a time. Iirc LSU didn't have more than 1 first down in the first quarter. That's absurd and Bama may be good, but LSU was clearly out coached.

I get that their guys were sick of hearing about Fournette. I get that they were out to prove something. I get that LSU lost. What I don't get is how this team couldn't find a single way to move the ball, without even trying other options. Everyone knows what the definition of insanity is nowadays.

This game was awful on so many levels:

1) We were embarrassed by Alabama, our despised SEC division foe, led by our former coach

2) LF looked like a kid amongst men out there. His Heisman chances were severely tarnished

3) Henry had a monster game and is now the heisman favorite