🏈 If auburn is so freaking great

['65 Cobra]

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 have to agree. It was strange - it just didn't quite feel right all season...almost like we were missing prominent leadership and/or stand-out "superstars" or something. I know we have tons of talent, but it just FELT like with other seasons we had dominating stand-outs on both sides of the ball and especially in the trenches. One caveat there... I think Robinson will be a beast as he develops.

 

[bama alum]

Hahahahaha!! I love these Hollyweird comparisons! Good stuff!

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.

This! ^^^ And like Foshman said, we'll end up finishing #2. The barn is going to hang a few points on F$U, but they are stoppable. The barner D, however, isn't exactly...invincible. Shameis Winston will light them up. By 20? Yeah...Maybe more.

 

[JoshB]

I would be astonished if Winston doesnt drop at least 3 bills and 4 TDs on them.

 

[Bamabww]

The really sad thing to me is we could have prevented both of their BCS NC appearances and failed to do so. And both times they knocked us out of an opportunity as well. Bummer big time.

 

[JoshB]

The really sad thing to me is we could have prevented both of their BCS NC appearances and failed to do so. And both times they knocked us out of an opportunity as well. Bummer big time.

They didn't knock us out of a NC opportunity in 2010.

 

[silvermetalflake]

They didn't knock us out of a NC opportunity in 2010.

Rats... beat me to it.

 

[Bamabww]

They didn't knock us out of a NC opportunity in 2010.

Didn't say a NC opportunity. They knocked us out of a BCS bowl opportunity. I believe we were either 8 or 9 that year when we played the barn.

And it's still sad whatever or whenever they beat us.

 

[TheChief]

Hahahahaha!! I love these Hollyweird comparisons! Good stuff!



This! ^^^ And like Foshman said, we'll end up finishing #2. The barn is going to hang a few points on F$U, but they are stoppable. The barner D, however, isn't exactly...invincible. Shameis Winston will light them up. By 20? Yeah...Maybe more.

I though the loser of the championship game was automatically number 2.

 

[TheChief]

What's really sad is that the loss probably cost Bama FOUR championshis in a row.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

On that last, ill-fated play, did our guys relax, thinking "Well, we missed the FG. On to overtime."? Just seemed like there weren't but two or three of our guys even close to Chris Davis on his return.

 

[JoshB]

I though the loser of the championship game was automatically number 2.

It depends, pretty sure Oregon was #2 after the bowl games last year.

 

[MunchyOs]

On that last, ill-fated play, did our guys relax, thinking "Well, we missed the FG. On to overtime."? Just seemed like there weren't but two or three of our guys even close to Chris Davis on his return.

I have been wondering that same thing. The whole thing unfolded so fast, it was unreal. After the missed kick, I turned to somebody and said "okay, it is to our advantage if we go on defense first". Before I could say anything else, I turned and saw Davis cross the goal line. My first reaction was "wait, they didn't not block that kick, we missed it, what the hell is going on?". It was a blink and you miss it moment.

 

[TheChief]

AP and Coaches did indeed have Oregon number two after the bowl games last season.

 

[foshman]

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.

Those apes were awesome. Those are some of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies just because I like the juxtaposition of Eastwood starring opposite a group of primates. I can't imagine what that set was like.

HB Ridge was a lazy script with bad acting and a really contrived story that Eastwood did his best to make entertaining. It was so absurd I didn't care who lived or died or what the stakes were. It's sort of encompasses what I hate about the movie industry. Black Hawk Down is a war movie done right.

But Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven are his two best IMO. I could watch them in a loop for eternity.