Tide Fans –
First off, I would like to apologize profusely for the delay in this week’s post. I have been in the fine city of Mobile, and unable to get a post up until now. I was once again watching my daughters gymnastics meet, this time in Mobile and on a Sunday evening…nice! This is normally when I am writing my analysis, but on this Sunday evening my wife and I were hanging out chasing an extremely tired 2 year old around a somewhat warm gym, trying to watch our daughter compete. Good times…good times! Actually, the Sunday meet worked out fine because there was no interference with the game…and that is huge. It was a great trip and we got to see some of our dear friends while we were there. A big shout out to the Carter Family, Ed’s Seafood Shed, The Battle House Hotel, and The Battleship USS Alabama!
On to the game…
It was a beautiful day in Tuscaloosa – a great day filled with Homecoming festivities, parades, lawn decorations, and of course football! The Tide gets back on track with a win against a struggling Ole Miss team. It was hardly a great game by The Tide, but a win is a win, and we must move on and continue to improve. An overall impressive performance by our defense, but we are still not clicking on all cylinders on offense. We must improve here, or we will not be heading to Atlanta!
My lovely wife told me today in the car ride home from Mobile, that I am sometimes too hard on our team. This stemmed from me being completely irritated throughout most of the game about our lack of offense. Yes, we had some good plays, but in my opinion overall we just did not look very good. At one point, and yes I will admit this, I was actually questioning whether we should take McElroy out. I just didn’t think he was playing well, and taking too many sacks or missing too many passes. It was wrong for me to think like this, as I know he can run the offense better than any of our backups right now. I guess I was just frustrated with field goals, and I wanted to crush our opponent. Anyway, I know Greg is the man for the job, I just want him to be the old Greg, and play like a champion. I am sure the team will work hard to make improvements, and I still have a lot of faith in McElroy, and the entire offense!
Our defense played well. Massolli was running around like a wild man out there trying to avoid getting crushed on just about every play. That dude is fast! It almost looked as if you were watching him on fast forward 1 arrow (you TiVo users know what I’m talking about!) Massolli ran fast, and could sling that ball really fast…thankfully he just wasn’t very accurate, or his receivers just suck. The Tide defense did a great job pressuring him all night – it was night and day compared to last week’s game.
I came away from this game a little nervous, thinking we have a lot of work to do if we are going to get to Atlanta. Now that I have had time to calm down a little, and look at it more objectively, I am glad we got the win. No, Ole Miss is not great, but they were well rested and could have been a real pain. We were never really in doubt of losing that one, and it is an SEC West victory, so let’s be glad that one is over.
It’s Tennessee week now – time to head up to Rocky Top and beat some ass! Most of you know – I absolutely despise Tennessee, and want to crush them every year! I will not be attending this game …as I have never witnessed a victory in person there. I cannot stand going up there and cramming myself in a tiny 6 inch space that is supposed to be my seat. You have to sit sideways in that stadium because they put the numbers so close together…it is ridiculous. The Tide better bring their A game this week, because it is another SEC road game, and you never know what you’re going to get when you play Tennessee. No, they do not have a very good team this year, but this is one of those games where you throw the record book out. Need I remind everyone of what they almost pulled off last season against us? Defense better show up, and for the love of God please take some offense too! Let’s run that ball all over Rocky Top!!!
We have a lot of football to go fans, and we need to win every game! We got a little help from some teams this weekend for our championship hopes, but we cannot stumble again. Let’s concentrate on the Vols, and then enjoy that week off to rest up for the brutal November schedule. We can do this…have faith!
Until next week…Roll Tide!
Jason
