🏈 If auburn is so freaking great

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Why did it take another "miracle" play for them to win the Iron bowl? I am so freaking tired of hearing how good the barn is. No, win didn't win the game and no, we didn't play up to our potential. BUT, we went into their house and didn't play our best, like we know we can, and they barely won on a fluke play. How are they so much better than us? I still say we are better than them and so do some of the computers and some of the pollsters. I don't mind going to the sugar bowl, but you all know that if we had won the way they won we would be pissed at the team that it took something like this to win and those assholes are crowing like they did something. It's not what they did, it's what we didn't do. Rant off now. Thanks, I feel better.
 
We are the better team, but they won. Doesn't really matter how or why at this point, but they did, and they snowballed their momentum into what is basically a monster right now. Go ahead and prepare yourself, because they are going to beat FSU too and they will be national champions. If the playoffs were starting this year, we'd get another shot, and I'd like our chances, but they don't, so we won't. We'll just have to live with it.
 
Exactly. Technically the Iron Bowl should have been a blowout in Bama's favor when you consider the mistakes the good guys made (penalties that erased points, missed fg's, dropped passes, etc). Alabama is a far better team than Auburn but unfortunately the guys beat themselves. In my opinion the pressure to three-peat got to them. Whoever said Auburn is riding a unicorn was right on the money.
 
I think our Defense is better, and we are every bit as good as Auburn. We wrapped that one up with a bow on top, especially punting the ball to them with one second on the clock.
 
Brother, ya gotta let it go. There was no miracle per se. We failed to stop their return after a missed field goal. That's what we didn't do. It happens. And as it happens, many Barners are using this chart (in case you didn't see it on the other post) to bolstering their claim to fame this year. If one takes stats at face value, there's a substantial argument in the Barn that they are as good as they think. But i will agree with you.... on our best day this year... no one could touch us. The Iron Bowl sadly wasn't that day.

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I gotta say it is those wonderful Crimson Goggles we all wear. It is close to Christmas time and St Nick and Coach Nick usually deliver wonderful presents for us all. We have been spoiled with such a great program. There will always be someone somewhere riding that unicorn to try and stop us. Allbarn did slow us down and make us take off those goggles and focus on the bigger picture. We will heal from that lucky punch and recover. The process will win in the end.

RollllTide!
 
I wish the tougher games were all played on the team's best day. Sadly, that's not the way things have been in November for Saban's teams. To me, and it's an opinion which we all have and which will buy you a cup of coffee if you've got a few bucks to go with it, the Tide has been demoralized physically and mentally by November (late October if you count 2009) every season of Saban's tenure. Everything can't be perfect every time and every second for 18-22 year olds. Until that changes, the Tide will always have a letdown late in the year. After a long prep time and down time for the holidays, it's the reason Saban coached teams rarely lose in December. The prep is also why they lose so seldom early. As Saban would say, "It is what it is." I wouldn't trade him for any other coach. I guess I'll take that one loss practically every year and enjoy. It's better than what my favorite team had in the past.
 
I may get flamed for this but so be it. I have felt for a good part of this season that there was a disconnect on the team. Don't know if there were "chemistry issues" or "cliques" but something has felt off for much of the year. I feel like we saw a product of superior athletes and coaching but not total "buy in".
 
I disagree. I really think FSU will win by about 20. Hurrying up to the line and running the same play over and over again may have caught teams off-guard in the regular season, but I don’t see how that will work against a defense with 5 weeks to prepare. I didn’t learn much about Pruitt and Sunseri while they were here, but I gotta think they are competent enough to put together a winning attack plan over the next few weeks.
 
An outsiders opinion.

Porter, and others, are right. Time to move on. I don't blame you for being disappointed. Sometime the better team loses. That's why they play the game. If they were to play it again tomorrow, Bama would once more be a huge favorite, and would, more than likely, win. But they're not playing tomorrow.

Once you can move on, look at the bigger picture. As an outsider, I see the Crimson Tide as the NY Yankees. Tons of tradition, lore, and championships. They have an unrelenting commitment to excellence that's truly American.

The Auburn Tigers are just like their orange and blue crosstown rival, the NY Mets, a perenial second banana. But don't try to tell them, because they're not buying into being second best. They fight till the end. You'll have to beat them. They won't quit or capitulate. That's also truly American. And once in a blue moon, they'll triumph. The miracle Mets of '69 needed a ton of unlikely breaks to become champions, and when those breaks came their way they made the most of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
 
Dearg Doom said:
An outsiders opinion.

Porter, and others, are right. Time to move on. I don't blame you for being disappointed. Sometime the better team loses. That's why they play the game. If they were to play it again tomorrow, Bama would once more be a huge favorite, and would, more than likely, win. But they're not playing tomorrow.

Once you can move on, look at the bigger picture. As an outsider, I see the Crimson Tide as the NY Yankees. Tons of tradition, lore, and championships. They have an unrelenting commitment to excellence that's truly American.

The Auburn Tigers are just like their orange and blue crosstown rival, the NY Mets, a perenial second banana. But don't try to tell them, because they're not buying into being second best. They fight till the end. You'll have to beat them. They won't quit or capitulate. That's also truly American. And once in a blue moon, they'll triumph. The miracle Mets of '69 needed a ton of unlikely breaks to become champions, and when those breaks came their way they made the most of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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I also think it's worth noting that a strong rival makes your team stronger. We never saw Rocky fight a weakling and they don't make movies about our war with Grenada. Losing a game every so often is a necessity. It culls the weakness from the roster. It reinforces the message of the coaching staff. Ultimately it reduces expectations on an outcome to expectations based on effort and work.

Your Sr. class accomplished something unreal. It's enviable. It really is but your program is not so much better than the rest of the SEC that you should expect to win every year. That's unrealistic.

Although I am sure this particular loss stings a little, you are still going to get to beat the poop out of OU in the Sugar Bowl. And you'll likely finish the season ranked second. That ain't a bad floor.
 
XXL TideFan said:
I may get flamed for this but so be it. I have felt for a good part of this season that there was a disconnect on the team. Don't know if there were "chemistry issues" or "cliques" but something has felt off for much of the year. I feel like we saw a product of superior athletes and coaching but not total "buy in".
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I believe it was Rodney Orr that said on TI TV the other night that this was Saban's best coaching job, and he's right. With everything that they've had to deal with... off the field issues in the off-season, OL issues early on, no depth at corner, etc... for this team to be in position to possibly end up #2 is pretty damn good. And you have to keep on mind, Saban is the best there is at helping them deal with it, but the pressure on this team to win 3 in a row was extraordinary.
 
XXL TideFan said:
I may get flamed for this but so be it. I have felt for a good part of this season that there was a disconnect on the team. Don't know if there were "chemistry issues" or "cliques" but something has felt off for much of the year. I feel like we saw a product of superior athletes and coaching but not total "buy in".
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I agree 100%. I was looking for a word, but just couldn't think of it. You nailed it. Disconnect is exactly right. 2013 has just been a weird season. First, there was Trey Depriest's suspension about 2-3 weeks before the season started. The, there was Geno Smith's DUI. Then there was the story about DJ Fluker, and things that allegedly "went on" while he was at Bama. Now, that turned out to be a whole lot of nothing, but still, it was a distraction nonetheless. Then, Ha Ha got benched for a few games due to off the field/possible NCAA issues. Then, Vinnie suffered a season ending injury. That one REALLY came back to bite us on 11/30, if you ask me. I have never been so ready to bring a football season to a close like I am this year.
 
foshman said:
Clubber Lang was no weakling. And I did forget about Heartbreak Ridge, finally. And now you have reminded me of the worst movie of Clint Eastwood's career. That's cold man. Even for this rivalry. HR was that horrible.
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You'll need to re-screen Rocky III. The whole setup for the movie is that Rocky had been getting handpicked opponents and his handlers were dodging Clubbah...

I would watch HB Ridge a hundred times over a single dose of Every which way but loose or Any which way you can.
 
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foshman said:
Clubber Lang was no weakling. And I did forget about Heartbreak Ridge, finally. And now you have reminded me of the worst movie of Clint Eastwood's career. That's cold man. Even for this rivalry. HR was that horrible.
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Clubber Lang was the main villain but the movie started off with him beating the shit out of a bunch of has beens that Micky set up for him to take out cause they were over the hill and Rocky wouldnt have to risk getting hurt. Then came the hungry young contender that was calling Rocky out for fighting bums, Clubber Lang.
 

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