That is a great point. Under Coach Bryant the players played with this kind of intensity because they bought in to Coach when he taught them that only a few big plays decided a close game and you never knew when they would be, so you played every play like that one might be it. I think the players, and us fans for that matter, have heard so many platitudes about the opening of the game, the last past of the first half and the first part of the second half being the key that we bought in to that malarky. No more, though. It is back to the old way of all out every play, and I love it.
Pluck and grit is back, as evidenced by our D sucking it up and getting the ball back for us.