We Need To Take Ga. Southern Seriously

Last year was an entirely different animal, playing a 1st year program. Georgia Southern has a long tradition of playing good football. Certainly, its not at our level, but if our guys don’t excute and play with focus and intensity, they will give us a game. I am actually sort of excited to see a triple option attack, and see how well our defense plays it. Frankly, thats one of the only types of schemes this group hasn’t seen. While we should win this one with relative ease, never forget that guys on the Georgia Southern side are looking at this like a super bowl, and aren’t going to roll over and die with ease.

Recipe for disaster is always similar: uninspired play, a turnover or 3, etc. i expect this year’s team is mature and well-schooled enough to handle it. I want to see a good strong half, then rest as many as we can… But we will see.

emphasis on should. You never know.

That will be if Ole Miss beats LSU next week.

Though I’ve never heard of Georgia Southern, I was surprised to see their 9-1 record. At the very least that means they are beating their division teams. However, I had no idea they ran the option. While I see their attack defended well by the Bama D, I always hate how watching a team run such a scheme puts me on edge.

Naturally, my hope is for a healthy crew by the final whistle and a dominating performance on both sides of the ball. I am really hoping to see AJ regain his confidence and get back on track. I was pleasantly surprised with his progress after the Kent State interception-fest. I look for him to do well enough that Phil Sims gets the nod for the entire second half.

Stay healthy, Bama and get those bench players in there early.

That’s what this will be.

or that we’re not going to annihilate Auburn.

But I am somewhat worried about a poor showing. Didn’t I hear that their coach is a Paul Johnson disciple? As dominant as our run D has been this year, going run heavy would seem to be a recipe for disaster. But the fact that we haven’t seen an option attack since I don’t know when scares me a little. I also wonder about our mental state; sometimes you don’t see the letdown after a big game until two games later. And I could see a few players starting to look ahead to Iron Bowl payback this week. We’ll also be resting a lot of guys trying to get healthy. I could see us only being up 14-17 or even less at the half, especially if we use this as an opportunity to work on the passing game and it still isn’t clicking. We’ll turn to the run in the second half though and wear them down.

If by chance, Arkansas beats LSU, the SEC West tiebreaker goes to the BCS ranking.

Therefore, Alabama needs to look good in the Georgia Southern game and the game needs to be a blow out. A shutout would help too.

The Tide cannot put it in cruise control for this game if they want to finish the regular season in the Top 2.

taking this post seriously.

…the last time you made one of these posts, we lost to LSU. Take a break next week, aight?

this is what I was screaming last week. You can’t take any of these last two games lightly because we will get our asses beat. Bama’s offense looked as inept as I have ever seen it look against MSU and if someone doesn’t do some serious ass kicking and get it into these boys minds that no one is going to roll over for them then they will get beat this weekend. IMO AJ has lost all the confidence that he had built up at the very worst time. Some serious coaching needs to happen and it needs to happen now.

In a way we should never have scheduled these guys at this point in our schedule. We need to have a true aptsy which Ga. So, is not so that we can rest guys for AU. Unfortuantely the exact opposite happened and now Barron, Maze, and others have major bruises. Get well Chapman, Jones, etc.