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11-05-2011, 09:14 PM | #1 | |
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Just a stupid, stupid play. |
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11-05-2011, 06:27 PM | #2 |
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Geez 3 first downs and I can hardly hear the crowd, lol. Cmon man, there's 101 thousand people on hand.
Three more and they will be sitting on their hands. Especially after another Bama punt. |
11-05-2011, 06:41 PM | #3 |
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So any thoughts on Missouri joining the SEC? Announcement is coming Monday. I know the big game is on now but I have a few thoughts.
SEC is going to be tougher. Going to be nice to see MIZZOU play some new teams. |
11-05-2011, 09:19 PM | #4 |
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I really don't think anyone can beat LSU or Alabama right now... besides LSU or Alabama
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11-05-2011, 10:01 PM | #7 |
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LSU and Alabama game of the year or what?
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11-05-2011, 10:16 PM | #8 |
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That wildcat pass from Maze was a catch! Williams had it in his hands and landed on his back. BS call of the year, IMO. That was the difference in the game (it's tough to rely on 40+ yard field goals with any kicker). It was a horrible job coaching by Bama in the OT possession.
At least Carolina lost! Just saying.
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11-06-2011, 07:05 AM | #9 | |
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Hard to know where to start or what is wrongest. A catch has one definitive characteristic. You hit the ground and maintain possession of the football. Basically you stand up to demonstrate possession and are then free to drop the ball. A.) who had the ball when the players got up?, and B.) What do you think instant replay and coaches challenges are for? It's not like a run, where you hit the ground and you are down. In THAT case, it would have been Bama ball on the one yard line. It's not like the refs didn't look at the play over and over. It was not the difference in the game. The difference in the game might well be three missed field goals by Bama. That is three good drives wasted in non-scoring endings. You can't do that in what has to be the tightest game in the SEC we'll ever see. On the surface, the overtime MIGHT have been poor coaching, but it is more about poor execution. DUMB penalties. However, you are driving from 25 yeards out. It doesn't have to be rocket science. Why make your players execute complicated or slow developing plays? Just run the ball til you have to pass and kick a field goal if you can't score a TD. But you are right in one way. After Saban decided to complicate the most basic part of the game to that point, his attempt to outcoach Les Miles led to Les Miles only having to do it RIGHT in order to walk out with the win. But the players incurred the penalties, not Nick Saban. And kickers are on the team for one reason, to kick a field goal from any reasonable point on the field. It would seem to the uneducated of us that Nick focused too hard on finding the most rugged horses he could get to the detriment of the kicking game. Sure he has two tough lines, amazing backs and a couple of great receivers, but his kicking game is apalling. LSU is a complete football team, as I have argued here many times. Opportunistic on SPECIAL TEAMS and highly capable in the kicking game. There has been lot of justifiable homerism in this thread prior to this game. I am a little surprised that none of them have come back in to admit they were all wrong. If LSU had lost in OT last night, I would have posted my congratulations within minutes, because it is important when I was so adamant about us winning. OT wins are no way to win a game, but LSU got to the NCG in 03 with TWO OT LOSSES. There is no s hame in Bama losing this game in OT. They made a few more mistakes than LSU and paid the price. But let's be honest. They LOST the game not by the bad luck in the end, but because they are inferior to the LSU Tigers in terms of DEPTH, and BALANCE. Our two interceptions and Mathieu's stupid flagrant foul could have opened the door to Bama beating LSU but they did not get it done. The Tigers beat the Tide with the kicking game. Before the game I warned you that Brad Wing would keep you in your own end ALL NIGHT. There are three phases of football, and special teams is one of them. Ignore it at your peril. ----------------- Les Miles said it best, and classy I might add. EVEN IF you guys do not get to the SECCG, you might YET play LSU in the final game of the year. If you do , we would be HONORED to play you guys again. Just don't expect a different result. With 101,000 tickets for sale, Bama made available an embarassingly pitiful number of visitor tickets. That is shameful, but it happened. In the Superdome, there will be much better balance amongst patron fans. Last edited by OLS; 11-06-2011 at 07:16 AM. |
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11-06-2011, 09:10 AM | #10 | |
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11-06-2011, 09:18 AM | #11 | |
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receptions. You have to get up in possession of the ball, the ground cannot cause a fumble. That's the rule. If it was as you say the replay official would have overturned the call. The very fact that the LSU player was actively in the process of gaining possession of the ball as they hit the turf together means that the the ball was NOT under the control of the receiver. IN BOUNDS and IN CONTROL. Look at Tyrann Mathieu in that clip, the receiver is inches from hitting the ground and he is already throwing his arms up in celebration of the interception. In a no replay world, I would think you had a right to call it a ripoff. But it was clear enough, that claim has no merit by the rules of the game. |
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11-07-2011, 08:35 AM | #12 | |
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Now you may continue your incessant, incoherent, ill-informed rambling. |
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11-07-2011, 10:27 AM | #13 | |
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going to come into play? It's easy. Your team lost. Missing 4 field goals is not "Should have won", it's we think we thought of everything, but we forgot to get a kicker. You know how many high school kickers would kill to come and kick for Alabama? I bet a ton. But Nick Saban in his divine wisdom didn't save any scholarships for THAT I guess. I reiterate, who needs a kicking game when you have Trent Richardson? Should have won is a bull5hi+ response. Your team got beat, in your own stadium in front of your own crowd. Nick Saban was out-coached. Your team was out-played, and by a kicker besides. You can't say, "We shoulda won", because you didn't have the PLAYERS to WIN, that's why I told you for three weeks that you were not GOING to win. You can't say 'we have the best team except for a kicker'. Our kicker MAKES us the better team. How do I know? Because the score was 9-6, all field goals. Duh. Our punter did exactly what I thought he would, handicap you deep in your own end. THAT'S BALANCE, man. Inferior depth and balance wasn't a good enough description for you?? We rotated defensive linemen all night long and got a sack in OVERTIME because of it. We have more tailbacks ready to play than Alabama, we have more quarterbacks ready to play than Alabama. That's depth. I love Barrett Jones, he is from Memphis and a great kid, I've met him. But if you had better balance, he wouldn't have had to play hurt. He gutted it out, and I am not sure he hurt the team, but again, we just have more players ready to play than UA. We have better balance than Alabama. You doubt that? You ever hear of something called the kicking game? You should have, since it's how we BEAT YOU GUYS. If you had better balance, you would have won the freaking GAME. Oh, we have Trent Richardson, yay. You think teams are going to just roll over and concede because of Richardson and Lacey? You have a great offensive line and linebackers. Should we just wave the cape and let you charge on through? No, we found your weakness and used it to beat you in front of the largest TV audience ever to watch a regular season game. OF COURSE LSU has better balance than Alabama. That's how we WON THE GAME. By the way, we're still friends, right?? |
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11-05-2011, 10:19 PM | #14 |
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Wow what a game! Both teams deserve to be where they are in the rankings and honestly shouldnt really change places even though bama lost.
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11-06-2011, 07:27 AM | #15 | |
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Sadly though, Bama might fall as low as 5th, (prob 4th) it's the only fair thing to do. If LSU had lost they would have dropped even lower than that probably, because nearly no one in the football universe thought they could or would win. Andre' Ware on the SEC game of the week was talking at 11 am about how Oklahoma was going to leap over LSU when they lost tonight, and this team was going to be below Alabama and this other team was going to do this and that. Hey people are wrong all the time, but that particular one stuck in my craw all day long. The nerve of it, lol. But as the game was basically a stalemate....I am thinking 3rd. |
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11-06-2011, 08:59 AM | #16 | |
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I'll admit though last night i was pulling for Bama, but regardless it was a great game all the way around and had 4 AU fans on the edge of their seats the whole time.
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11-06-2011, 07:15 AM | #17 |
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Well crappy weekend of ball for me. SC lost and Bama lost. That was one boring Bama/LSU game.
To make things a bit worse, Connor Shaw is out with a concussion. No news yet as to how long..... |
11-06-2011, 08:17 AM | #18 |
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Really enjoyed watching that one last night, awesome defenses on both sides. My buddy said it best: "People who think this is boring also hate a complete game shutout in baseball"
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11-06-2011, 08:50 AM | #19 |
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Being a lifetime Saints fan, and I guess lately my 35 year LSU fandom as well, I have a finely tuned twisting stomach.
I know full well how to endure a game where no amount of points is ever enough, the game can still be lost by one dumb thing or another. EVEN with as much skill in that regard as I HAVE, that game was nearly intolerable. I was crawling out of my skin all night long. I would not have been surprised to see it lost, and thrilled that it came out as a win. But that kind of football is TOUGH to watch. It's like a slow motion train wreck. But all of that aside, I am hated most in this thread for my JOY in the long faces in the stands when a game is in the bag and LSU comes storming back on a 80-yard drive to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. I had to wait an awfully long time last night to se the faces. There was this one girl that looked like she was asking her boyfriend, "Don't we get another chance? This isn't OVER, is it?" Sad for them, great for me, times 2. I got the win AND the faces. NOW we get to see who in the hell wants the SEC east bad enough to meet us in Atlanta. |
11-06-2011, 09:09 AM | #20 |
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Pulling for bama in that situation doesn't make you a bad Auburn fan, it makes you a good Alabama resident.
What makes me scratch my head is all these diehard bama fans who didn't have a thing to say last night, much less this morning. All week I had to hear them brag about how wrong I was. I understand that I WAS bragging, too, but for the most part, I am the only LSU fan in the thread. Not one of em has said 5hi+...lame. |