🏈 OLE MISS: Barring a complete meltdown

[BAMAFSTBACK]

How do we lose this game? Jevan threw three picks against Vandy! McCluster on the edge concerns me. Hardy is a concern. I think this game will be telling for the rest of the way.

 

[TerryP]

We win by allowing Houston Nutt to coach.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

I know Houston is good for one upset a year but I just don't see our boys letting down on this one. They've got to know this one is big.

 

[Bama Bard]

You lose this game like you lose any SEC game. Come out flat, turn the ball over and get whipped at the line of scrimmage. This is going to be a brawl and a last possession game decider.

 

[TerryP]

I know Houston is good for one upset a year but I just don't see our boys letting down on this one. They've got to know this one is big.

Notice...

We win by allowing Houston Nutt to coach.

 

[shiloh]

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day"

BTW Bard Kenneth Brannagh's finest moment and one of the writer's best as well.

I think Nutt does the best with what he has as Saban once said. Then again, boy do they find a way to lose sometimes.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Notice...

We win by allowing Houston Nutt to coach.

:word:

 

[ExiledTidefan]

It was well said earlier this year, when that person said that Ole Miss is a better underdog than they are favorite.

I'm growing a little concerned that the pressure is going to start to build on Bama. Not a concern yet, and we aren't playing like there's a problem, but let's say UF goes down to LSU, Bama becomes either #2 or higher, then we have to start playing like every play is life. Tough schedule upcoming. Tennessee won't lie down, South Carolina has enough spunk in them to make life tough, and we know LSU will bring it. Now it looks like Auburn is going to be a major factor as well. Hell, don't even think you aren't going to get hit by Miss State.

 

[Bama Born&Bred]

I think you forget one thing. Bama always has a target on it's back, no matter their rankings or their opponent. Like it or not, we are a barometer by which other teams measure themselves, and by which others measure them as well. As a result, the pressure is always on us.

There's only one way to get through a tough SEC schedule - one game at a time.

 

[ghice]

We win by allowing Houston Nutt to coach.

Terry, don't you think he's got something stored in the many faces of Nutt?

 

[Kozlowski]

Im thinking Ole Miss plays our balls off this week:fight:

 

[ElephantStomp]

I think if we play like we did yesterday we lose. But, I haven't been impressed by Ole Miss so far this year. So, I think unless we fall on our faces we don't lose this one. I have a friend that lives in Oxford and she said there are a lot of people down there that think this won't be a contest in the sense that Bama will smash them, but I'm not about to say we'll smash them, but I think we will win.

Cory

 

[TerryP]

Im thinking Ole Miss plays our balls off this week:fight:

Koz, I'm going to pull from this thread in response...

I'd agree with that, but only half of it. I think we'll see their defense play tough, but only half of the time. In other words, .500 of the game.

Just as an example, I've got all the respect in the world for how Greg Hardy can disrupt the flow of an offense. But, I've never seen him play an entire game with the intensity he's capable of.

I think if we play like we did yesterday we lose. But, I haven't been impressed by Ole Miss so far this year. So, I think unless we fall on our faces we don't lose this one. I have a friend that lives in Oxford and she said there are a lot of people down there that think this won't be a contest in the sense that Bama will smash them, but I'm not about to say we'll smash them, but I think we will win.

Cory

The UK game "worried" me more than the game this weekend does.

Last year's game is something I'll use as example. I see us doing the same thing this year as we did last year. We'll stop their running game, and force the game to be decided by Snead. Last season he threw two picks in the second quarter alone. I suspect he's going to toss a couple in this game as well.

We have to remember, this Bama team isn't the same team as the one who faced Ole Miss last year—in this regard.

We had a team last year that was good for a half, and then coasted. The first "full game" we played was against UT. If we had continued with the same effort and intensity in the second half last year as we put forth in the first half, the game would have been won by 21-24+ points. But, we coasted.

Now, in some ways the game is similar. We are basically returning the same defense...versus, the huge changes they've had on offense. In last years game, 70% of their success running came over the left side of their line. That's gone.

I feel more comfortable with our offense this year than I did last year. Sure, they'll get their penetration, but that's going to fit into our scheme better than a lot expect.

 

[BamaDelta]

Someone please hand this man a cell phone just before game time. Then all will be good.

 

[cartag]

Have you ever noticed how Nutt rubs his hands together on the sidelines like the bug in Metamorphosis?

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Alls I know is we need to contain McCluster. And for the love of football EXPECT Nutt to fake the punt/field goal in this game!

 

[jdpas29]

it seems that they've been running McCluster around the right side more this year i guess to their new strong side of the o-line.

if we don't get their receivers covered well man to man, this game could turn into a real (Mc)Cluster.

 

[Kozlowski]

Have you ever noticed how Nutt rubs his hands together on the sidelines like the bug in Metamorphosis?

Metamorphosis:rofl:

 

[TerryP]

it seems that they've been running McCluster around the right side more this year i guess to their new strong side of the o-line.

if we don't get their receivers covered well man to man, this game could turn into a real (Mc)Cluster.

They've done so in one quarter—against the Gamecocks.

They are intent with getting him the ball in the slot / flat. Right now, they are trying to ride the coat tails of Cordera Eason and Brandon Bolden.

If you take McClusters carries in the 4th qtr against USCe out, he's barely got 25, if that, on the season.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

another tid bit would be if Snead puts pressure on himself to win this game. If we get in his head early they will crumble.