In the back of my mind as well. I’m no expert, but I’m guessing anything said in the media in any manner probably has about .5% of an effect of what happens between the sidelines on Saturday. Still, how bout we just do it, and quit harping on how we plan to do it.

Ive been thinking the same thing. Is all this talk about going deep just a set up? It would make sense. If the coaching staff has little confidence in Gmac to actually do it, why not make people think we will..I don’t know. It kinda feels like when you were in middle school and you liked a girl but where to afraid to ask her out yourself, so you sent a friend to find out if she’s interested…wait…im not sure if that analogy fits at all..

 Does Saban think he can get inside of Miles head? I don’t think normal psychological games work on people like Les Miles who are oblivious to the obvious. Miles would hear Saban talking about “guns-a-blazing” and think he is saying Alabama is going to run from “the pistol” and not “the shot gun.”

I think we will mainly run it mixing in the safe pass to keep them honest. Kinda like we have been doing only hopefully finish drives with better play calling in the red zone. I’d be shocked if we went deep more than once or twice in this game.

I don’t expect us to go all Texas Tech on them, but we have got to find a way to effectively stretch the field in the passing game. Right now we are putting so much on Ingram that, God forbid he goes down, we are in a bind. Anyone can see that the passing game has got to improve back to what it was in the first 6 games for us to have any shot at winning a championship.

It’s going to be tough to break any kind of long runs without at least a successful shot or two down field and consistent 10-20 yard production from our QB and receivers. I think with LSU’s front 7 we should be able to buy enough time passing wise for Greg to get the ball out to our receivers. We haven’t seen much of Maze, McCoy, or Alexander lately, so getting them involved will be key. Spreading the field. Let them load the box up to stop Ingram, I’ll take our starting four receivers in one on one matchups with their secondary all day. When they spread out, it’s heisman time for #22. Certainly the bread and butter of our offense is Ingram, but without the mid-to-deep ball, we will be in trouble.

Further, Greg was doing a phenomenal job of making reads early in the year. The past few games, however, he is locking on to Julio too much; I don’t know if it is him feeling pressured too soon and not taking time to make those reads, or if he was still, as was suggested on this site, suffering from the hip pointer at the end of the Arkansas game. Either way, we need a big game from him Saturday. 250 yards +.

He would neverrrr do something like that! That just goes against everything we know about him… ;-)

I can’t wait for Saturday, Les Miles is in trouble whether we air it out or not. Personally, I hope we stick to what we’re good at and do take a few more aggressive shots downfield. As long as those are not careless shots and we limit turnovers and LSU field position we should be rockin’.

Coach Saban believes that we are simply better than LSU. We have better players and better coaches. And if we go out and execute the way we should, it doesn’t matter what Les Miles knows, doesn’t know or thinks he knows. We will win no matter what they do.

I can’t see CNS trying to get into a battle of wits with a crazy man like the mad hatter. How many of us actually even thought that we would see Bama run the wildcat formation at all this fall, lets be honest here now, NOT a single one of us. So what makes anyone think that CNS won’t open it up and go with no backs and no huddle and push the ball down the field.
I have listened to this man for 3 years now, and one thing he’s does not do is waste time or words. If he says it, he will do it. Go get’em coach, aight!

I can’t believe he hasn’t found another OC job. (sarcasm)

he don’t shiv. He tells you what he’s done, why we did it and sometimes what we’re going to do…it’s up to the other team to stop it.