BOL Round Table

The only game that I am somewhat worried about is Tennessee. If they can find a running game this year it would help Tyler Bray out a lot. The receiving corps is kinda scary. They can cause a lot of match-up problems. But if Fulton, Dixon, and Belue play well early my worry will go away.

THIS plus at Arky--they have a lot of talent, and while they lack depth, they get us early and at home...

I agree about Arky and lsu will be a war. lsu is built on a good OL and DL as well and with any pass game at all their run game becomes harder to stop just like ours. They also are at home with a week off to prepare while we play MSU which is normally a very physical game every year. We also have a new offensive coordinator although he looks like a great hire

Man I hope you all are right but how many losses did you all predict before 2010? Zero right? No one predicted USCe or the barn and certainly LSU was not nearly the team we faced last year or this year.

The thing about cfb is you never know. We should win them all and i hope we win them all but we are also capable of dropping a game or two.

To the ones who are predicting TN giving us trouble I hope you are wrong. We tend to hammer them in Neyland of late with the closer ones in BDS like 2009 or the first half of last years game. Frankly I'm not buying any stock in UT in Dooley's farewell season.

Isn't weed plentiful and potent in the pacific northwest?

you obviously didn't read Travis' article about "why UA won't repeat".

I've been down ever since reading him but you just picked me up (of really confused me).

Roll Tide- here comes 15!

I will take a wait and see approach.

I feel fine on the offensive side of the ball with AJ, our RBs and the OL. I am concered about the WRs because they seem to be talanted but I want to see on the field production. But it doesn't worry me much because we had very average WRs last year and in 2009 we didn't have great WR play with Julio having an off year.

Yet I go back to 2010 but not for the motivation reason. I think the guys probably learned from that. But we made a lot of mistakes because we had young guys that hadn't been tested in live SEC play. The experience factor concerns me a lot, especially in the secondary. We have Milner and Lester so I am fine with those guys.

But we are going to have a new safety who is going to be relied on. Vinnie or Ha-Ha will be there and they won't get to have the benefit of arguably the best defense ever hiding them. Mistakes will happen. Barron was great for us but he still had busted coverages the 1st year he was a starter in 2009 or biting on fakes like in that 2009 AU game. We also have 1 new CB which will likely be a JUCO or Fulton. And then we will have a new star player back there in our 5 DB sets. That is a lot of guys that don't have experience to fall back on. In the secondary if you make a mistake a big play can happen fast. We didn't really give up big plays last year except for a small, small few. So we have to overcome that. And we have a very new LB corp that I think is big on talent but again small on experience outside of Nico and CJ.

I put a lot of stock in experience playing. I think you need that in Saban's defense.

So as far as losses I could see us losing to Arkansas and LSU. Arkansas has the tools to beat us with a QB that will make plays. I think we lose to LSU because I like the mix of new and old they have coming back and because it is on the road.

I hope you are right though. But it is foolish IMO to think there is no way we can lose a game, because we can. Hopefully though in those games where we can lose, we don't.