1. Tua fumbled at the 8 yard line. We normally celebrate if we down a punt inside the 10. Our defense let LSU drive the ball 92 yards for the score. That's on the defense, not Tua 2. Bad throw for sure. Bama o-lineman getting a 15-yard penalty is what made it even worse. Again, our defense couldn't stop them 3. Another bad play but again our defense couldn't stop them
If it wasn't for Tua we wouldn't have even been in the game period. Our defense sucks beyond belief and that's why we lost. The Saban teams of old had good enough defenses that they could hold the opponent to a field goal or even force them to punt if we gave up a turnover. Not tonight. That defense that was on the field tonight for Bama was the worst I've seen since Saban arrived. No tackling, no intensity, very little pass rush, and it seemed like LSU gained 3-5 extra yards every play by falling forward because our defense wasn't tough enough to wrap up and take them down immediately.
My perception of Bama is the same as it's been all year: Tua and those WR's cover up a lot of deficiencies, but our defense and special teams is garbage. And it caught up with us tonight. We're still the best 1-loss team in the country and the season ain't over tonight, don't count us out [/quote]
Those turnovers that led to scores by LSU were most definitely on Tua. You can't keep putting your defense on the field with its back against the wall against that type of offense and expect them to get stops over and over. If Tua doesn't throw the inexcusable interception and drop the ball, for an unknown reason in the wide open, we are in that game. For some reason, Tua, still makes a boneheaded throw into 5 opposing players at the worse moment. He did it against Tennessee. Saban put trust in Tua and he let the team down with a poor decision. He walked around after the game cheesing it up with the LSU players. He looked way to happy to of lost a ball game.
IMO, I wouldn't doubt if he sits out the next game and starts getting his ankle "ready" for the NFl draft. Alabama likely wont get into the playoffs without a miracle. So I don't see Tua risking millions for some meaningless bowl game.
All in all we got beat by a team that was better than us last night. It didn't help that Alabama played the worst half of football that they've played in 10 years, but they showed up not ready for the moment and the moment owned them.[/quote]
No way the first one was. It was the first drive of the game and our defense hasn’t even been on the field. We wouldn’t have been in the game period without Tua. Our defense was just that pathetic [/quote]
Tua dropped the ball. No one touched him. He is great at most times, but that was on him. Yes, our defense was fresh at that point, but so was the most prolific offense in the nation.
We wouldn't have made it back into the game without the performance he put together in the second half, but his first half was BAD...and there's no way around it.
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