re: the 800 pound gorilla with a chainsaw for a penis

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Everything about your post was spot on except for this observation. Miles simply did not make adjustments. It was the most frustrating 60 minutes of football I’ve ever watched. ZERO adjustments. Astonishing.

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At some point in the 3rd I picked up one of my dining room chairs like Pete Townshend with a guitar and smashed the frick out of it. And these were VERY expensive chairs, so I understand your frustration, I really really do, but the more you think about this...

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Kirby Smart says Gregg Williams of Saints helped w plan to contain option plays

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the more insane you realize it is. We didnt lose, bama cheated.

1. As I already said, Williams is an NFL lifer, it's likely he had never even seen the option in a game he was coaching, what possible new insight could he have to stop it?

2. But let's pretend he did have some ideas. Does nick saban seem like the kind of guy to take that advice? Williams has never worked with saban. Or Kirby Smart. Or Bill Belichick, for that matter. I cant find any professional connection between them, yet saban is gonna build his NCG game plan around the advice of a stranger? Does that seriously sound like nick saban?

3. Oh, and by the way, he didn't need any advice. I think we can all agree that Jordan Jefferson wasn't exactly Tommie Frazier, and saban already knew him very well. By the NCG, he had seen Jordan in 2009, 2010, and 2011. In those three games he ran for 86 yards, combined.

saban didn't need help with the option, and Williams couldn't provide help with the option, but as DC for the Saints, Williams was able to watch LSU practice in the dome, so he did have something saban could use.

Our signals.

Look at every other Miles vs Saban game at the time and there is nothing even close to the 2011 NCG. The games were always tight, LSU always moved the ball and always scored.

2007 - LSU wins 41-34. LSU has 407 yards passing, 87 rushing.

2008 - bama wins 27-21. LSU has 184 yards passing, 201 rushing

2009 - bama wins 24-15. LSU has 185 yards passing, 95 rushing.

2010 - LSU wins 24-21. LSU has 220 yards passing, 225 rushing.

2011 - LSU wins 9-6. LSU has 91 yards passing, 148 rushing.

2011 NCG - bama wins 21-0. LSU had 39 yards passing, 53 rushing.

2012 - bama wins 21-17. LSU had 296 yards passing, 139 rushing.

2013 - bama wins 38-17. LSU had 241 yards passing, 43 yards rushing.

2014 - bama wins 20-13 in OT. LSU had 76 yards passing, 183 rushing.

There's one obvious outlier there. One game. The NCG.

Kirby Smart, by his own admission, met with a guy who had watched us practice, and that guy told him how to stop us. The result was the one and only game where LSU suddenly couldn't even breath on offense.

It was a complete shutdown. You know, as if bama knew exactly what was coming.

and despite the score, our defense was essentially just as good as it was in the first game.

in the regular season game, bama missed FGs because they were a mile away. they missed from 44, 50, 49, and 52.

in the NCG, they were much closer. thats what stealing signals does, when the other offense cant move, you get the ball back at midfield. this time they made FGs from 23, 34, 41, 35, and 44.

with 5 minutes to go in the game it was 15-0 and they still had nothing but FGs. field position was everything.

But is Gregg Williams the kind of guy who would do such a thing?

Well he's the same guy who brought HIS bounty system to the Saints, the same one he had in DC and Buffalo, and then INSTANTLY rolled over and told the NFL everything they wanted to hear so he could get off light. As a side note, helping saban would definitely be a good way to get in tight with Belichick, a huge plus for any NFL defensive coach.

And how about saban? Is he the kind of guy who would take signals? You know, the exact thing his mentor Belechik did in Spygate when he recorded the Jets practice? The same nick saban who, by shocking coincidence, reportedly recorded Oklahoma when they practiced in the Dome before the 2003 NCG? The same nick saban who hired an GA from Ole Miss and then had him him in the booth scouting the other teams signals for exactly one game (try and guess what game it was).

Is he the kind of guy to steal signals?

The answer to all these questions are "frick" and "yes".

If all you see is "LSU lost the NC because bama stole their signals", yes, it sounds like obvious pouting, but once you understand what Williams did and why it makes no sense on any level, it's not pouting, we got fricked.

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he simply wanted to try the NFL, and when that didnt work,

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He dismissed the questions that always came up about this by mentioning how difficult the NFL professionals would be to coach his way.

That’s what made the whole thing infuriating

Honestly if the way Saban runs his program is what it takes to win at the highest level now, I’m not that interested anymore

Definitely some bad luck involved in the Bama series, but they didn't make us fire les and hire O

And I'm no conspiracy theorist, but your breakdown of the Gregg Williams tweet is interesting and well thought out

Another one caught up in the August Hype.

SSDY

I probably could have dug it if I could have read it all.

Jimbo wasn't very good with his backup qbs last year was he?

This is a really well thought out post. And nothing against you, but the fact that 1/9/12 hangs over this program all these years later is just stunning. EVERYONE NEEDS TO MOVE ON. They have beaten us every year since. It is a hump we will never get over.

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no one in America can even come close to the embarrassing level of talent that we have

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bad luck and the rock-hard head of Les Miles refusing to advance the team into modern offensive philosophies.