- Rex Hadnot had like 2 or 3 days work at Center before the game. Not near long enough to have them gel.
- New head coach trying to get to know ALL his players just not the new draftee's not to mention this is his first year as a NFL head coach. There has to be some sort of learning curve.
- New offensive system and we have had around 2 weeks to practice it. I assume you can't put in a new NFL offense in that time span and it be really effective.
- New Defensive scheme, same as above for O
- Saban doesn't have 'his' players for his system. He has some great players but we will see how they fit his system or how he can adjust his sytem to them.
- Bears were a veteran defense that wanted to practice more than vanilla defense, aka the brought allot of blitzes. We didnt game plan for them, and did I mention our Offensive system has been in place for 2 weeks. Hell we would be lucky if everyone knew who to pick up on blitz if the entire Offense knew what blitz was coming.
.. So yea the product on the field should be about as bad as it gets this year...... I pray.. not that it could look much worse :)