🏈 I'm nervous about this game

[bamaledge]

What with the barns sneak attack offense and our young QB, I don't know how this game will go. We have the better talent,no doubt. But they have had more than their share of luck, in past games.
I think we win but we have to be patient at the beginning and outlast their emotion, execute to near perfection on offense and relentless on defense. I feel we can make their ass quit again.

 

[TUSKtimes]

What with the barns sneak attack offense and our young QB, I don't know how this game will go. We have the better talent,no doubt. But they have had more than their share of luck, in past games.
I think we win but we have to be patient at the beginning and outlast their emotion, execute to near perfection on offense and relentless on defense. I feel we can make their ass quit again.

I'm mostly happy we have the barners at home. We figured it out in Baton Rogue and I think we will do the same with the barn. If Alabama comes out in the mindset to do what we do best, not sure Kiffin gets this part, we can lean on them until we break the ice. If we come out in our offense that tries to become all things to all defenses, we'll be there a while longer.

 

[alabamajack]

We've just got to hang on to the ball and our kicker needs to NOT be a head case. If those 2 things happen, it should be a relatively easy victory.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

We've just got to hang on to the ball and our kicker needs to NOT be a head case. If those 2 things happen, it should be a relatively easy victory.

This.

LSWho was, by far, the best D we've faced or will face all season.

I'll be nervous if it comes down to some voodoo witchcraft bullshit chance of the game being tied with 1 second and we've got the ball for a kick on their 39 yard line.

Then, and ONLY then, will I be nervous.

 

[Destiny's Child]

I gotta be real here. I think this is the kind of game we have been known to not show up for. Our offense got exposed last week and we have deep down known all year that we can't throw it... at all. Auburn's defensive line is better than Chattanooga and will be fired up as they can be because this would save their season. They are getting back Pettway and probably their quarterback too.

We on the other hand got a little banged up this past week and our d struggled against Chattanooga's misdirection at times which is nothing compared to the window dressing we will see this week. The other factor is we don't have to win this game to go to the playoffs, go the sec championship or even maintain our number 1 seed. This game besides for rivalry really does nothing for us one way or another.

In the past when we have had nothing to play for like Utah and Oklahoma we have come out flat and lost to a team whose season would be considered a win if they beat us.

I hope we beat them into submission and have cooper bateman in by the second drive of the 3rd quarter to ice the game but that isn't what we have done in the past when faced with the senario we are looking at on Saturday.

Somebody, quick, go tell the players that we will be left out of the playoffs if we don't win, or that Auburn wins the west if we lose....

 

[PhillyGirl]

I am very nervous. Haven't felt this nervous about a game since 3 years ago when, well, you know.

Hoping we win 384924737590121 - 0.

 

[rammerjammer]

For some odd reason, I have not been too anxious.

One of my docs played for the Bear back in the early 70's. He said that the week before Auburn they always had a patsy, much like we do today. He said they never practiced for the patsy. Said they studied film for 2 weeks on Auburn. Played base offense and base defense for the patsy. I have no idea if that is done now, but it would not surprise me. We didn't seem too aggressive on defense against Chattanooga and I don't think we sacked the starting QB at all. He fell on a bad snap and hurt his shoulder. That would explain "playing down" to certain opponents.

 

[Bama Guy]

I am always nervous. But if you forced me to bet real money on the game, I'd pick BAMA!

 

[#80]

You need an elite QB having a great game passing to bet this team. Do they have an elite QB ? No. They will not run the ball on us. Gus's mickey mouse offense is in trouble we will be ready to play. The barn goes down.

 

[sean]

i tell you, i'm about ready to be down there on that campus RIGHT NOW!!!

i don't wanna wait.

i'm ready!

Let's Go!!

LET'S DO THIS!!!



of course this feeling may just be from the fact that i have a ticket to this year's game and i'm going with a very good friend.

 

[alabama mike]

@bamaledge, you get nervous for every game but I understand how you feel on this one. Auburn has an excellent defense.

 

[JoshB]

I gotta be real here. I think this is the kind of game we have been known to not show up for. Our offense got exposed last week and we have deep down known all year that we can't throw it... at all. Auburn's defensive line is better than Chattanooga and will be fired up as they can be because this would save their season. They are getting back Pettway and probably their quarterback too.

We on the other hand got a little banged up this past week and our d struggled against Chattanooga's misdirection at times which is nothing compared to the window dressing we will see this week. The other factor is we don't have to win this game to go to the playoffs, go the sec championship or even maintain our number 1 seed. This game besides for rivalry really does nothing for us one way or another.

In the past when we have had nothing to play for like Utah and Oklahoma we have come out flat and lost to a team whose season would be considered a win if they beat us.

I hope we beat them into submission and have cooper bateman in by the second drive of the 3rd quarter to ice the game but that isn't what we have done in the past when faced with the senario we are looking at on Saturday.

Somebody, quick, go tell the players that we will be left out of the playoffs if we don't win, or that Auburn wins the west if we lose....

So what you're saying is that our offense was "exposed" against a defense that is probably the 10 or 11th worst defense we will see this season (lets not forget its an FCS defense) because the entire team came out and played uninspired and flat... so THAT exposed it. Not the 10 other games in which Alabama has put 40+ points how many times? Over 600 yards just the week previous? Man you are too much...

 

[rick4bama]

The only thing I'm worry about, is it, my wife birthday!! She know with being married to me for 43 and half years. If she ask I would skid the game to take her out, but it being over sometime around 6-6:30 pm I'm safe on watching the game.

 

[rick4bama]

Allen: 'They took a national championship away from us'
I don't think we as fans will have to worry!!
Allen: 'They took a national championship away from us'
TUSCALOOSA -- The last time Alabama was undefeated heading into the Iron Bowl, things did not end the way the crimson helmet-clad contingent wanted inside Jordan-Hare Stadium.

You remember the scene. Auburn won the game on a last-second return via a missed field goal try, ending the Crimson Tide’s hopes of competing for a third straight national championship. But you’re not alone in remembering the wild finish. It still sits with the Alabama players, too.

“I think about it every time we play Auburn,” senior defensive end Jonathan Allen said Monday. “It kind of sucks. I feel like they took a national championship away from us. That’s something that I definitely remember.”

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Around the Tide facility, there’s a lot of praise for this year’s Auburn team. The Iron Bowl won’t be a de facto playoff game like it was in 2013, as the Tigers’ loss to Georgia this season handed Alabama the SEC West crown, but the players know their in-state rival is much-improved at 8-3 (5-2 SEC).

There’s also an immense amount of respect for the rivalry game, itself.

“I think when you get out there you just kind of feel it on the field,” cornerback Marlon Humphrey said. “It’s that rivalry, it makes you just want to play to your best just knowing that there’s going to be a play in the game that people will remember for that whole year, that will define that game.”

Alabama and Auburn will meet for the 81st time Saturday inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, with UA leading the series 44-35-1. And for a lot of the in-state players, it won’t be their first taste of the hatred between the two fan bases -- something that begins at youth.

Humphrey remembers eating lunch with only Alabama fans at Hoover’s Gwin Elementary and being separated in P.E. class -- a normal practice around the state. He was decked out in a red wig and his father Bobby Humphrey’s jacket and cheering for the Tide.

Redshirt senior linebacker Ryan Anderson experienced some of the same things.

“Just going to school, the other kids holding up their thumb for six in a row, all that stuff, I hated it, man,” Anderson said. “I said if I ever had a chance to play here, play against them, I just don’t want to lose to them.

“… I kicked one dude. I think I was in fifth grade, fourth or fifth grade.”

As much as Anderson remembers growing up as a fan and rooting for his cousin, Wallace Gilberry, the memory of 2013’s loss in the regular-season finale sticks with him a bit more.

“It’s tough,” Anderson said. “You don’t forget stuff like that.”

The Tide (11-0, 7-0 SEC) will look to not allow history to repeat itself Saturday when it hosts the Tigers at 2:30 p.m. CT. And even though a trip to Atlanta for the conference title game is inevitable, Alabama isn’t looking ahead to its Dec. 3 matchup with Florida.

“We’re ready,” Anderson said. “Everybody knows what this week means right here, man. It’s big.”

 

[RollllTide!]

Reminds me of this

 

[mhardiman]

^^^ Gang it; now I want to go home and watch Patton. My wife's going to be pissed.

 

[bamaledge]

The only thing I'm worry about, is it, my wife birthday!! She know with being married to me for 43 and half years. If she ask I would skid the game to take her out, but it being over sometime around 6-6:30 pm I'm safe on watching the game.

Ricky, you better be good to that woman. Any woman that would put up with us and our Alabama sports fetish, especially football, is a keeper. Happy birthday special lady.

 

[rick4bama]

Ricky, you better be good to that woman. Any woman that would put up with us and our Alabama sports fetish, especially football, is a keeper. Happy birthday special lady.

I think I'm safe this year and another as long Minkah Fitzpatrick and Anthony Averett both play, these guys are from New Jersey same as my wife. But, Averett and she both graduated from the same school, Woodbury High School, Woodbury, NJ. GO Thundering Herd!! She will want to see how well he plays Saturday.

 

[UAgrad93]

I'm not really nervous about this game. I have that level of comfort that I had prior to walking in the stadium in Miami before the '12 National Title game against ND.
Just looking at what the Barn will be bringing to T'town, they are limping in with a crippled QB, a crippled RB, a limping backup RB, a limping blocking back, and 2 QBs that couldn't hit the ocean if they were already knee deep in it!! They are good defensively in their front. Their back 7 is banged up coming in, down a LB, 2-3 DBs gimpy as well. Some Barners are grasping at the '02 game and how they were gimpy coming in but pulled the upset. Problem is, Francione isn't nor hasn't been on our sideline since that time. Saban warned the team last week about being focused and prepared and they slept walk through the game. This bunch wants 15-0! They will be focused!! I think Harris and Jacobs have big games in the run game and Kiffin will limit the number of carries for Jalen. Stewart and Howard will have big games receiving.
Bama rolls 35-9!

 

[94 Grad]

I'll be an interesting game. I think their front 4 are better than LSU for sure, but then at the LB and DB I don't think they compare at all. If we can run the ball, we'll be just fine... if we end up having to pass the ball we could have issues with Lawson and Adams putting pressure on a young QB...

On the other end of the ball, I had heard their QB was out for the season, so if that is the case I think they'll have to toss the ball deep and hope for the best.