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I just caught the part of Saban's press conference talking about whether he was pleased with anything he saw yesterday. I'm paraphrasing here, but he felt the team played well, and really fought hard in the game. He seems to think they tried their hardest and never gave up...it just didn't work out as a win.

I'm not calling for his head or anything, but that is just straight up wrong. We had a chance in this game, and when we needed it most, we put together the most frustrating example of "urgency" I have ever seen. Six minutes left and needing two scores, our team took it's sweet time getting to the line. Guys were casually strolling to their positions. I even commented to my Dad who was watching with me that you could see they knew they couldn't win the game, and just wanted to get off the field and into the locker room. It was the moment for me that actually made me question whether or not this team cared anymore, and whether or not Saban could stop the bleeding....

How can this be "fierce competitiveness"? I understand taking the hit for the team, but surely he doesn't expect us to buy that line of garbage???
 
I agree with you. But in the teams defense, they did AGAIN struggle with turnovers, and when you have a defense that is unable to force turnovers (like ours), especially interceptions then thats something you just cant do. The Dolphin defense dropped several possible interceptions yesterday, and even had a chance to recover another Brett Favre fumble forced by Jason Taylor. So in that aspect the defense had more CHANCES to get turnovers. Which i guess means they played better. Though Overall and in the clutch they choked as usual.....

Offensively we had 3 interceptions, two of which i wouldn't consider Joey Harrington's fault since they were tipped off of the hands of Randy McMichael. Either way a turnover is a turnover and when you do THAT, no matter how well you play in other aspects of the game, you just cant win games.
 
volk said:
I just caught the part of Saban's press conference talking about whether he was pleased with anything he saw yesterday. I'm paraphrasing here, but he felt the team played well, and really fought hard in the game. He seems to think they tried their hardest and never gave up...it just didn't work out as a win.

I'm not calling for his head or anything, but that is just straight up wrong. We had a chance in this game, and when we needed it most, we put together the most frustrating example of "urgency" I have ever seen. Six minutes left and needing two scores, our team took it's sweet time getting to the line. Guys were casually strolling to their positions. I even commented to my Dad who was watching with me that you could see they knew they couldn't win the game, and just wanted to get off the field and into the locker room. It was the moment for me that actually made me question whether or not this team cared anymore, and whether or not Saban could stop the bleeding....

How can this be "fierce competitiveness"? I understand taking the hit for the team, but surely he doesn't expect us to buy that line of garbage???
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I don't know what Saban says behind closed doors, but it would be nice to hear him admit publically how much this team sucks. I'm sick of the crap he's been spewing to the media this season.
 
TheJetsBlow said:
I don't know what Saban says behind closed doors, but it would be nice to hear him admit publically how much this team sucks. I'm sick of the crap he's been spewing to the media this season.
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Besides confirming your observations, Saban saying "we suck" at a press conference would accomplish what?
 
Desides said:
Besides confirming your observations, Saban saying "we suck" at a press conference would accomplish what?
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It would show me he wasn't delusional, for one.
 
Hmm, scored the most points this season, overcame 3 turnovers and 13 points to possibly win the game and you disagree they tried hard?
 
the more pathetic thing was our defense giving up that long TD run to Green, we stopped him all day but gave up that huge play. our defense gives up 3 or 4 big plays a game. this loss is on them, you should win if you score 24 points
 
bigmiamifan said:
Hmm, scored the most points this season, overcame 3 turnovers and 13 points to possibly win the game and you disagree they tried hard?
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None of that matters if you get the LOSS.

It just doesn't.

Other fans will say we shouldn't have put ourselves in that position in the first place.

I say this game is like all others...Deja vu every Sunday.
 
bigmiamifan said:
Hmm, scored the most points this season, overcame 3 turnovers and 13 points to possibly win the game and you disagree they tried hard?
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No, I think they tried hard...until the game was on the line with 6 minutes left in the fourth. The offense finally had a chance to make a stand, and they acted like there was 45 minutes left on the clock. Watch the tape...it ain't pretty. Everyone was in zombie slow motion mode. There just wasn't any urgency...at all. It's like they had resigned themselves to the loss. What's sad is I never really saw that last year, and hadn't up until this game. It was a defining moment for me in determining this team's heart.
 
volk said:
I just caught the part of Saban's press conference talking about whether he was pleased with anything he saw yesterday. I'm paraphrasing here, but he felt the team played well, and really fought hard in the game. He seems to think they tried their hardest and never gave up...it just didn't work out as a win.

I'm not calling for his head or anything, but that is just straight up wrong. We had a chance in this game, and when we needed it most, we put together the most frustrating example of "urgency" I have ever seen. Six minutes left and needing two scores, our team took it's sweet time getting to the line. Guys were casually strolling to their positions. I even commented to my Dad who was watching with me that you could see they knew they couldn't win the game, and just wanted to get off the field and into the locker room. It was the moment for me that actually made me question whether or not this team cared anymore, and whether or not Saban could stop the bleeding....

How can this be "fierce competitiveness"? I understand taking the hit for the team, but surely he doesn't expect us to buy that line of garbage???
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I completely agree. Just thinking about it frustrates me. How could they NOT move with urgency. AND HOW DO WE GET A DELAY OF GAME ON A FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT????
 
Superself said:
None of that matters if you get the LOSS.

It just doesn't.

Other fans will say we shouldn't have put ourselves in that position in the first place.

I say this game is like all others...Deja vu every Sunday.
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Out played....out coached.:shakeno:
 
bigmiamifan said:
Hmm, scored the most points this season, overcame 3 turnovers and 13 points to possibly win the game and you disagree they tried hard?
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I try hard at my job, but I'm pretty sure my boss doesn't give a **** if the results suck. These guys get paid to WIN GAMES, not try hard. This isn't Pop Warner.
 
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