Honestly, if this is the kind of reaction you get merely suggesting Alabama could lose five games this season…
“Are you an idiot?” one caller said. “Our second string is deep enough to roll with the boys in the SEC.”
Burns’ favorite response questioned if he was “high on fart bubbles.”
… I’d pay good money to sit down and listen to PAWWWLLL for a day if it really did come to pass.
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Unlikely it will happen imho. But it is plausible. This is one of the least known commodity teams of the Saban era. They could go undefeated…they could lose 5…they could meet somewhere in between. It’s all possible. I am with you Senator. If Bama lost 4 or 5 games, not only am I listening to PAWWWLLL all day, but I am recording every second so I can go back and experience its glory over and over again.
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ahhhhh……schadenfreude at its best.
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EDSBS does a live blog for PAWWWWLLLL the Monday after any Tide loss. It is comical, to say the least.
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What radio station and time is he on in Atlanta?
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790am, I don’t know exact time, but they are on during my drive home between 4 and 5pm
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Jamie Newburg says it would be impossible for Bama to lose five games, Bama has too many players Newburg and his confreres have ranked highly.
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Bama has the same question we have. Do they have a QB that will be able to win a game if/when they have problems in their running game? Teams are going to make Junior beat them down the field by making them run against 8+ man fronts. If they can run against a loaded box and use play action, the Tide will be tough to beat. If their QB can’t take advantage of 1-on-1 situations downfield, there are a number of games that are losable (UGA, AU, LSU, Miss State, Wisky, Arky). That’s life in the SEC.
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Bama basically would have to lose every losable game on its schedule for that to happen. Statistically that would be highly unlikely.
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I agree because even in the “losable” games, they can outathlete everyone (maybe with the exception of us).
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I think they have too much raw talent to lose 5, but I could see 3 losses. I don’t follow Bama closely but I expect their D to be very good again and the D will make sure they always have a chance to win the game. A good running game with a deep offensive line and a strong defense make for a team that’s not going to lose too many games.
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JC, good post. They have the talent level to out athlete almost everyone they play. Saban is going to put a good defense together. They will be able to run the ball against most of their schedule. Can they find a QB who can manage the game like McCarron or Jay Barker? Will Junior be able to resist the temptation to finesse when power is Alabama football?
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Junior could have the Bobo disease where he can’t resist the temptation to get cute and fancy when power running is working just fine. I grew to like Bobo, a lot, but he never got over the tendency to get tricky when he didn’t need to.
I think if we see that with Junior this season, Saban will tell him to hit the bricks. Bama became great by running the ball over teams and playing shut down defense, not by having a flashy, quick strike offense.
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There was one high profile example of that this year when we had a chance to steal one and didn’t. Junior had one of those as well. Derrick Henry is a bad man (not as bad as Nick Chubb). Feed the beast when they had the Bucks on the ropes.
The game hasn’t changed much even with the spread of the spread. RTDB and stop the run. Everything good comes off those two.
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When Saban leaves it’s going to be fun to watch that fanbase come back to earth. I hope they hire a coach named Mike to really get them going
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They probably won’t be down for long. Football is too important to the Bama fan base for them to limp along with a so-so coach for very long.
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You’re right about the fan base being impatient (see “Bill Curry..dodging bricks), but they haven’t always had a “plug in” instant winner either. Replacing a coach is tough. If usually is a long, difficult road back to where the last successful one left you. Bama finally made it back, but after what OSU did to them, I’m not sure they’re going to maintain their success. I know lots of Bama fans that were absolutely dreading playing UGA in Atl last year and were celebrating when Mizzo won out.
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They only took 8 coaches to replace The Bear. I know Stallings won a NC but he really didn’t have a great record overall. Yes they ran through several but it was ~25 years between “great” coaches even for Bama.
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Stallings would have had at least one more NC if his health and his family issues hadn’t pushed him to retire. I think he would have had a long tenure and been a pretty legendary coach himself. They did run through several, but they found the man they wanted and it paid off for them.
They may not get the next Saban right away, but they would spend whatever it took to get the guy they wanted and they don’t hesitate to yank a guy if he doesn’t look like he is going to get a NC any time soon.
I don’t want to be a program exactly like them and don’t want our fan base to be like theirs, but you can’t deny their commitment and demand for excellence.
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They are committed no disagreement here.
I honestly can’t remember Stallings that much, i do feel he is well thought of in CFB. I just did a quick look at his overall record.
But to be a fevered as they are and as for where many feel UGA is with Richt (I feel like Richt is a good coach with some very poor luck and sometimes questionable game management skills) is a hard place to be without looking one way or another.
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Let me tell you what is going to happen when Saban leaves: impatient Alabama fans and administration are going to hire somebody with a pulse. And he’ll probably do well. But he won’t do as well as Saban did. And those 10 and 11 win seasons will turn into 9 and 10 win seasons. And they ‘ll give him three years of that and fire him. And then they’ll do it again. And again. And again. And then, after 25 years in the wilderness – including multiple losing seasons and embarrassing scandals – when they finally find someone who wins them another championship, they’ll tell everybody, “See how committed we are to winning?” Where have we seen this before? Oh, and the lunatic UGA fringe will say “DAMMIT WHY CANT WE BE MORE LIKE BAMA????”
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Come on…. ya gotta love ol mean Gene !!
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“we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:”
Tennyson
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“girl who fly upside down have crack-up”
Confuscious
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“Fuck you” –Tennessee Williams 🙂
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My question is this. Shouldn’t they be scientifically, quantifiably unbeatable? They currently own the last four top-rated recruiting classes. And don’t tell me that this means nothing. It’s been proven again and again, recruit well and you’ll play well. Not only have they easily won that February tournament–they have then coldly, relentlessly pruned the results with Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest methodology. Four years of that–and there’s even a remote chance somebody can beat then on a given Saturday? Couldn’t you hand Einstein the Saban formula for The Process and have him demonstrate in an equation that Bama has harnessed the limits of the time and space continuum?
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I think their loss ceiling is 4 this year, and 2 in the minimum. Three losses looks pretty reasonable to me for them. I respect Alabama, but do not put them on a pedestal or fear them. I think they got a break by missing us in last year’s SECCG. People forget they were in bad enough shape a few years ago that Rich Rod, or his wife, turned them down.
Think about this: if we win against them in October, we will be 4-2 against the Tide in the Richt era, could get our sixth straight against TN, win in JAX and be 4-2 in the last six against FU, 4-2 against Aubie, could move to 3-1 against Mizzou, is 3-1 against Clemson, and will be 5-1 against Tech. (Didn’t check all those, but it is close.) Yet, 15% of our fan base either wants our head coach fired, or runs him down every chance they get because he doesn’t meet their expectations. Now we may not do ALL that this year but for the “realists” out there, who is delusional?
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While I agree with you in principle, the Munson in me is really uncomfortable with an argument that includes assuming all of those wins this year….
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I know, I just like to enjoy the carefree summer days before getting tied in knots during game weeks in the fall. Directionally, we can lose a couple of those and the point is still the same.
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I am concerned that they actually have a good DB coach this year. Saban coached the DBs last year, and those 5 and 4 stars looked horrible. A good coach might have them ready.
Our game with them seems a little more formidable after I learned that.
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I have no idea what our record will be this year, or who (if anyone) will beat us. I have no idea who our QB will be, although my preference is Ramsey. And I have no idea if one of those inexplicable, stroke-inducing games will raise its ugly head and cost us a trip to the Dome. But what I do feel good about is the Bama game. I could see us playing the game of the year against those guys, one for the ages much like LSU two years ago. Athens rocking, Chubb rolling, the D swarming, and Herbie reluctantly giving us a little backhanded love (which carries the approximate same level of importance to me as if he were a Kardashian). No gimmicks, just lining up and giving them a well-deserved and thorough thrashing.
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“Kardashian love” has lexicon potential.
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