🏈 Game week previewing Louisville.

[the Bookie]

This thread is for the general discussion of the event Louisville (+2250) vs Alabama -25.5 (-4500). Please add to the discussion here.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Welp, we're a good week into fall camp, and only 23 days out from the KO vs Louisville. Although we have fall camp and KO countdown threads, I figured we needed a pregame/lead-up analysis/news thread since that's going to be the prominent topic starting pretty much now.

And what better way to kick this thing off than with CNS and staff working on early gameplanning...

 

[TerryP]

I read an article over the last few weeks about Orgeron being embarrassed by the amount of research Bama had on LSU last season. It was too the point he went to Alleva and asked to hire more analyst.

I wonder how thick the book is on LSU.

 

[TerryP]

I figured we needed a pregame/lead-up analysis/news thread since that's going to be the prominent topic starting pretty much now.

I've got more than a few thoughts on this game I've been 'compiling' over the last month.

Here's one for you to chew on before we get down to some nitty-gritty.

Given the choice, are you taking the receiving corps at Ole Miss or Louisville? Both teams have lost their QB from last year but both are returning their production with the WR's. Right now it looks like the best WR's Bama will face for '18's regular season.

 

[ColAngus]

I guess this game looked good on paper when it was scheduled. Looks like a dud now though.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

I actually would have loved to see this game with Jackson at QB for Louisville. JMO

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I'm nervous about them all. We could get torched, or give up just enough passing to give the QB some running room. He's big and fast.

 

[TerryP]

I guess this game looked good on paper when it was scheduled. Looks like a dud now though.

I look at this as a perfect game for Bama to open the season. The final score may give the impression it was a 'dud,' but the fact a young and inexperienced secondary is going against a veteran and experienced receiving corps sets this game up perfectly for learning and teaching.

And that's not even bringing in Petrino and his passing attack schemes.

I actually would have loved to see this game with Jackson at QB for Louisville. JMO

The interesting thing about that is we've seen offenses improve when their Heisman type quarterbacks leave. A glaring example would be UT when Peyton left.

I'm nervous about them all. We could get torched, or give up just enough passing to give the QB some running room. He's big and fast.

Let's not forget Juwan Pass was very high on Bama's recruiting board. He was ranked very close to where Jalen was and even visited after Jalen had committed--two days prior to his verbal to Louisville.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

The interesting thing about that is we've seen offenses improve when their Heisman type quarterbacks leave. A glaring example would be UT when Peyton left.

Don't disagree with that at all. I think this will be a tougher game than some others seem to think. I liked watching Jackson play and would have liked to see him play against a CNS gameplan

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I srsly dredged the 1st 3 pages, @TerryP and didn't see the Bookie pregame thread. My B.

 

[TerryP]

I srsly dredged the 1st 3 pages, @TerryP and didn't see the Bookie pregame thread. My B.

It wasn't on this forum...I just copied it over from the Sportsbook's node yesterday.

 

[rick4bama]

Welp, we're a good week into fall camp, and only 23 days out from the KO vs Louisville. Although we have fall camp and KO countdown threads, I figured we needed a pregame/lead-up analysis/news thread since that's going to be the prominent topic starting pretty much now.

And what better way to kick this thing off than with CNS and staff working on early gameplanning...

I would love to see the one he got on Barner!

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I srsly dredged the 1st 3 pages, @TerryP and didn't see the Bookie pregame thread. My B.

It wasn't on this forum...I just copied it over from the Sportsbook's node yesterday.

OHHHHHHH


Lol..

So I'm in the clear then.

Kinda felt like a noob there for a bit.

 

[TerryP]

@Sgt. Lincoln Osiris, Some of the latest bells and whistles launched when we moved to XF2. It's an editors utopia when it comes to controlling content. I'm impressed every time I look over what's new for this platform. It's also a bit of a bitch--I've never seen such a change in core coding as we have from XF1.X.X to XF2.X.X (and it's time to upgrade the core.)

 

[alagator]

@Sgt. Lincoln Osiris, I see him pulling strings all the time. I swear to you I read that post of yours on Foster and his closing speed last night. I know I did. I log on and it says today, just now. I don't think that is a hiccup.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

@Sgt. Lincoln Osiris, I see him pulling strings all the time. I swear to you I read that post of yours on Foster and his closing speed last night. I know I did. I log on and it says today, just now. I don't think that is a hiccup.

 

[TerryP]

Here's we go.

Louisville in a glance.

I'm looking at Petrino somewhat in the same mental image as I did when he was here. Is it coincidental that that image we have seen of the analysis on Arkansas is include in the ESPN coverage? That's how I'm looking at them.

Here's where I'm intrigued. I remember how he was with his defensive coordinators. Enter the name Brian Van Gorder in his first year. He's throwing his version of 'the bear' at the Tide offense. They've got a few linebacks that a hole plugger types so it's easy for me to see more than a handful of two to three yard runs. Once a UARB can get past that first line of four, five, six players within a few yards of the LOS--I've seen BVG put seven with two yards--Bam will get a few runs. His defenses have always been susceptible to those bursts.

Seeing BP and BVG both on the other sidelines?

 

[Michael Casagrande | mcasagrande@al.com]

Alabama plays Louisville on Sept. 1.

Three Saturdays from game day in Orlando, some confidence is spilling over from Alabama's first opponent.

Louisville receiver Dez Fitzpatrick didn't hesitate meeting with local media on the matchup he anticipates with the Crimson Tide secondary Sept. 1 in Orlando.

"Every receiver in our receiver corps can honestly beat every one of their DBs one-on-one in coverage," Fitzpatrick said in a video tweeted by WLKY-TV. "It ties into the other stuff, if the blocks are right, if the quarterback's drop is right, we ran eight-yard routes instead of a 10-yard route, that's the kind of stuff I feel like we need to sharpen up.

"But I feel like straight talent-wise, I feel like we have the upper edge against their secondary, 1,000 percent."


Michael Casagrande | mcasagrande@al.com
Louisville WRs '1,000 percent' have talent edge over Alabama DBs, Louisville WR says

 

[TerryP]

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I figured we needed a pregame/lead-up analysis/news thread since that's going to be the prominent topic starting pretty much now.

I've got more than a few thoughts on this game I've been 'compiling' over the last month.

Here's one for you to chew on before we get down to some nitty-gritty.

Given the choice, are you taking the receiving corps at Ole Miss or Louisville? Both teams have lost their QB from last year but both are returning their production with the WR's. Right now it looks like the best WR's Bama will face for '18's regular season.

Notsomuch personnel as x' s/o's, but I remember our DBs/OLBs were burnt a few times in 11 with BP's go-to... Y sweep-action across formation while X, Z, and H ran clear-out routes for the Y catch on the wheel route behind them.

Y-sweep-wheel, as it were.