🏈 🏈 Pre-Game 🏈 ~ Alabama visits LSU Saturday Night.

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This game is All Risk to Bama and not much Reward since everybody that is somebody has already beaten the Shrimp Boat Captain. I expect LSU will play their best game of the year. They still have some very talented and physical players on defense. I am hopeful their OC will continue to ask as much as he does from his young QB. The 1st QTR will tell the tale.

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The truth… Really good news coming out of practice and Auburn game in regard to injuries. All players are back full speed other than Waddle, Sanders, and Quick. The Auburn game was not as physical from their side as in the past.

The team is really loose and focused on LSU. Saban will not allow them to look past them. Lots of zoom meetings. Players have even more time to prepare with classes all online the rest of semester.

The Sark offense is really clicking. Mac is really making reads quick and destroying scout team. C Harris stands out more and more and becoming the leader on defense. What a difference a year makes. Secondary improving every game and practice.

In many peoples opinion this is Saban’s best coaching staff ever from top to bottom. I agree!! As predicted, we have some issues with covid, but under control so far. We'll be without some coaches this week but should have Saban back and both coordinators are good. We don't have any starters out.
 
Korey Foreman, #1 recuit in the country by a few services, consensus Top 5, is visiting LSU this weekend. I would love nothing more than to whip their tails so bad he goes elsewhere. Wouldn't be shocked if his buddy and Louisiana boy Maason Smith comes too.
 
My buddy tried to get me to head to Baton Rouge for the game, but I've already committed to a weekend with the grandkids at Point Clear, Fairhope and Bellingrath Gardens. There are tickets cheap, I saw some lower level going for under $100 including fees. What a great trip that would be.
 


The first priority for Nick Saban, now that his first remote win has been secured, is to get back on the sideline.

If everything goes well with his testing for the week, Alabama's football coach should be ready to travel to Baton Rouge, La., where he has to serve his roles as both motivator and moderator.

The motivation part will be easy. LSU stacked up more than enough fuel with its postgame dancing and crowing in Tuscaloosa last season to burn in memories for a year. To the victors belong the spoils, and the Tigers have every right to rejoice in breaking a long losing streak against Alabama in a win that set them up for a dominant national title run.

The thing is, this year’s LSU team is not the same one that was great in 2019. What might be worse, Alabama isn’t the same team that it was even a month ago. The most striking thing in the 42-13 win over Auburn wasn’t that Alabama was clearly the better team. Alabama was also a better team than it had been.

The statistics were solid, not overwhelming, but you could sense it by the eye test. On defense, the tackling was more sound. There were more Crimson Tide defenders in the backfield, disrupting things, than in any other game thus far. Third down seemed more like an opportunity to get off the field and less like an opportunity for the opposing offense. It’s fair to say that Auburn had some offensive issues, from injuries to an inconsistent passing day by Bo Nix to a mortifying drop of the best ball Nix threw all day. Meanwhile, the Alabama offensive line continued to give Mac Jones ample time, for the most part, and to pave the way for Najee Harris.

Now comes LSU, which may have even more profound offensive issues than Auburn had. The Tigers knew they wouldn’t have Joe Burrow, but now they don’t even have the quarterback they thought they would have. Against Texas A&M, LSU alternated quarterbacks and managed only a late consolation touchdown. Between that, defensive issues in the secondary and the revenge motive for the Crimson Tide, Ed Orgeron has a full plate of problems with little room for lagniappe.

Saban’s keyword will still be patience. Not the sort of patience it took to sit at home and watch the Auburn game, but the kind that saves a little something for a high-stakes stretch run.

“Look, this would normally have been the 12th game of the season,” Saban said Saturday night in his postgame Zoom call. “We’re still gonna have two games left and, if we’re fortunate enough to have success in those games, a third game in the SEC championship and maybe more after that. So, I think we really got to try to take care of our team a little bit in terms of how we practice and how they recover and how we move forward with our team.

“This is gonna be a big game for us at LSU. It always is. They have a lot of really good players. And I don’t care what their record is, they have a lot of talented guys.”

This isn’t just gaslighting. LSU has been stockpiling athletes for all of Orgeron’s tenure. Its defensive line is solid and played well enough against Texas A&M to have a chance with a little more offensive support. So while it’s easy to expect a bill from last year’s game to come due in Tiger Stadium, it’s best for Saban to keep things low-key.
 

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