You Could Tell From The First Series We Were Going To Lose

USCMBA77 said:

We get the ball in great scoring position on the opening drive and immediately get two penalties. That's what I call "Beamer Ball."
I watched Nick Saban on the Pat McAfee Show and he basically said you are not going to win games if the coach is just a cheerleader.
We have no discipline and our secondary seems lost out there. They were torched two games in a row.
I don't know how anybody can defend Shane Beamer at this point. He is way over his head for a coach at an SEC school.

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first 2 drives down to the Bama 20 and we come away with ZERO points........the game was over at that point.

You crack off a 56 yard run on the first play and then the sidelines is yuck yucking over which play to run next. Pure idiocy. Hurry up and run the same play as fast as possible or quick call a QB run. Anything while the D is trying to get reset. Instead they get the linemen set and make them sit there for 30 + seconds and one twitches...5 yards backwards. So dumb. That was a very surprising sequence from Briles.

Two PLays Standout reflecting the lack of leadership win mentality of both QB and Coach. #1. One early in Q1 on the second or third drive, we were moving the ball but faced with a 3rd a 4 situation. Alabama had 12 guys clearly on the field and were scrambling to determine which player to pull off. There struggle to figure it out went on for a long time. Any QB with half a brain or coach with insight would have snapped the ball thus drawing the automatic first down. instead, we f around and finally AL calls a time out. Right as I stopped screaming the commentator said, "why would they not snap the ball there?". #2. The other occurred later when Beamer appropriately advised the official that the clock did not stop after a first down on the drive right before half. they stopped play and took almost a full minute to reset the clock back to .56 seconds I believe it was. Great, good catch Coach. pan back to the field and Lanorass is no where near ready and proceeds to burn about .15 seconds off the clock before he snaps the stupid ball. Bush league BS. Yank him for that lack of fortitude. lack of leadership. Stupidity. CLuster f of a ugh im done. fundamentals missing all over the place

That first play was the start we were looking for and nobody was prepared to take advantage of it.
What does that tell you? We did not plan or expect to win that game! All we did was show up as scheduled.

USCMBA77 said:

We get the ball in great scoring position on the opening drive and immediately get two penalties. That's what I call "Beamer Ball."
I watched Nick Saban on the Pat McAfee Show and he basically said you are not going to win games if the coach is just a cheerleader.
We have no discipline and our secondary seems lost out there. They were torched two games in a row.
I don't know how anybody can defend Shane Beamer at this point. He is way over his head for a coach at an SEC school.

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Maybe because he remains the 2nd best coach we've had in modern day history (SEC) dealing with a tougher situation than previous coaches? Beamer is not the problem. It starts with talent and then the assistant coaches after that. New OC seems solild. White has been solid for most of his tenure. We got beat by a team with 4x the talent.

I agree those opening drives were killers. However, we were playing a vastly superior team from a talent perspective in their home stadium. You have to take chances. If you recall, we took chances their in 2024 when we lost the heartbreaker. Some work out. Some don't.

rockingamecock said:

first 2 drives down to the Bama 20 and we come away with ZERO points........the game was over at that point.

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Game was over when it was scheduled. Beamer is never winning anything. This is the 2nd year in a row where that fool basically said we'd be in the CFP. Donati really has no choice; however, unlike his idiot predecessor, I'm confident he already has a preliminary list and their agents. Probably on speed dial.

BAMA -- 119-6 at Denny Bryant since 2008. We came within a hair in 2024 and hung with them statistically last night even though the scoreboard didn't indicate. It's not as doom and gloom as it may appear.